WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.040 AI chip startup, Dematrix, has created an AI accelerator 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:07.120 that blows NVIDIA's GPUs out of the water, 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:11.280 at least according to the startup's own charts. NVIDIA says the cannonball missed entirely. 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:16.440 I'm Riley Murdoch, this is TechLinked, and this is the Dematrix Corsair C8. 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:21.320 No, Corsair, the company is involved, just... And it's allegedly nine times faster 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:26.080 than NVIDIA's flagship H100 GPU in generative AI workloads, 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:29.720 and 27 times faster than the A100. 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:34.720 It was actually created by asking an AI to design the perfect chip, that's a lie. 00:00:34.720 --> 00:00:38.160 The C8 Secret Sauce is its digital in-memory computer, 00:00:38.160 --> 00:00:41.720 or DIMC architecture, designed to mitigate issues 00:00:41.720 --> 00:00:44.720 that arise with LLMs running on normal GPUs, 00:00:44.720 --> 00:00:49.560 as well as its 256 gigabytes of LPDDR5 RAM, 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:53.160 enough to hold an entire AI model in memory. 00:00:53.160 --> 00:00:59.280 Their technology was apparently impressive enough to earn Dematrix $110 million in funding last week, 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:03.760 which sounds like nothing to me, because I'm desensitized. From companies like Microsoft, 00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:07.800 who are willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money to watch NVIDIA win the blue ribbon 00:01:07.800 --> 00:01:12.360 at a humble pie eating contest. The funding Dematrix has been able to raise 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:17.800 is doubly impressive, since NVIDIA's massive success in the AI chip market has been starving, 00:01:17.800 --> 00:01:24.040 competing startups of potential funding. As VCs have been seeing young startups as a riskier bet, 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:29.480 than simply making a mint for merely the price of increasing Jensen Wong's leather jacket allowance. 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:32.480 But I don't know, it seems like Jensen may have to downgrade to, 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:36.240 oh, pleather? They might be pleather already. 00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:41.560 It's so good now. It got even brilliant guys. Google will face the start of a four month long trial 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:46.020 in the US tomorrow over their position as the dominant search engine in the country. 00:01:46.020 --> 00:01:49.080 This lawsuit is a combination of two separate complaints, 00:01:49.080 --> 00:01:54.480 one filed by the Department of Justice, and another filed by the Attorney's General of 35 States, 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:57.600 the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:03.280 that have merged together, like a Voltron, formed by combining a bunch of boring text heavy papers 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:07.760 collated by overworked paralegals. It's not a very good Voltron. 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:11.720 According to Bill Bayer, who used to head the DOJ's antitrust division, 00:02:11.720 --> 00:02:15.040 the result of this trial will have significant implications 00:02:15.040 --> 00:02:21.140 for other powerful tech firms, who may have to now deal with, oh, so many more emails. 00:02:21.140 --> 00:02:26.040 Companies like Apple and Mozilla, who are paid to set Google as the default search engine 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:30.680 in their products, could also be harmed for the crime of helping out a friend 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:34.400 for massive sums of money. Even worse for Apple, three of their executives 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:37.640 may have to miss the launch of the iPhone 15 00:02:37.640 --> 00:02:41.160 to act as key witnesses in the trial, which is just inhumane. 00:02:41.160 --> 00:02:45.000 That's like their comic con. WhatsApp is preparing to add the capability 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:50.960 to send and receive messages from other chat apps, thanks to the European Union's Digital Markets Act, 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:57.080 which puts strong regulations on companies large enough to meet the law's definition of gatekeeper. 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:00.920 And this may seem counterintuitive, but meta fits the bill. 00:03:00.920 --> 00:03:04.200 As a gatekeeper, meta will be subject to many requirements, 00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:07.800 such as having to make out with Rick Moranis to release Gozer. 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:11.920 That is a Ghostbusters reference that Jacob wrote that I do not understand. 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:16.000 Deep cut. More relevant, however, is the requirement that any company with a messaging app 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.880 that has over 45 million active users, or about 10% of the EU's population, 00:03:20.880 --> 00:03:24.760 must make said messaging app interoperable with other apps. 00:03:24.760 --> 00:03:29.760 WA Beta Info, a apparently WhatsApp-specific news site, 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:35.640 uncovered evidence of WhatsApp's future compatibility in their newest update in the Google Play Beta program, 00:03:35.640 --> 00:03:39.600 which shows a dedicated section of the app for third-party chats. 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:44.960 Meanwhile, Apple is claiming that iMessage doesn't have the required 45 million active users, 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:50.160 and thus does not need to be interoperable. They claim further that now is a great time 00:03:50.160 --> 00:03:55.200 to buy beachfront properties in Idaho to escape the US's flying pig epidemic. 00:03:55.200 --> 00:03:58.640 No, really, guys, we suck. We wish more people loved us, 00:03:58.640 --> 00:04:03.440 but we're just, we're not that cool. Okay, and next, we'll add the quick bits to the batter. 00:04:03.440 --> 00:04:07.960 Remember, if you don't have time to quicken your own bits, then store-bought is fine. 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:12.960 LG has unveiled a massive 118-inch micro-LED TV. 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:16.200 That's a whole 1.6 Riley Murdoch's long. 00:04:16.200 --> 00:04:20.280 Jacob wrote that, I don't know if it's true. It's a new standard unit. 00:04:20.280 --> 00:04:23.960 Did he measure me? The new magnet with an i-television 00:04:23.960 --> 00:04:27.600 has a 120 Hertz refresh rate and a level of power consumption 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:33.240 meant to show polar bears who's boss. When you turn it on, the lights in the neighbor's house flicker. 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.320 Not that it matters because none of us plebs are likely to buy one, 00:04:36.320 --> 00:04:39.600 if only because it costs nearly a quarter million dollars, 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:44.960 which around here is a down payment on a house. That's, that story got depressing. 00:04:44.960 --> 00:04:46.960 In a bad part of town. Yeah. 00:04:48.840 --> 00:04:52.280 Help. Apple's plan to rely entirely on itself 00:04:52.280 --> 00:04:56.480 for its own device's chips apparently isn't going so well. As Qualcomm just announced, 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:01.200 it would continue supplying the iPhone maker with 5G modems into 2026 00:05:01.200 --> 00:05:06.120 because no cultish tech giant with a gigantic circular headquarters is an island. 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:10.640 Qualcomm CEO said he expected Apple to make their own modems by 2024. 00:05:10.640 --> 00:05:15.520 So I'm sure he's thankful for the extra revenue, especially as Qualcomm also just announced, 00:05:15.520 --> 00:05:20.800 they'd be heavily investing in risk five, an alternative CPU architecture to ARM 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:23.800 the company who is currently suing Qualcomm. 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:27.080 It's never a good thing when tech industry news sounds like a gossip grow column, 00:05:27.080 --> 00:05:31.120 which is actually very often. Patent company, an occasional game publisher, 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:35.080 Nintendo has filed another patent this time for joysticks 00:05:35.080 --> 00:05:38.800 that hopefully don't suck harder than your dad's prized vacuum cleaner. 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:44.520 For harder than your dad. Accessibility consultant and thrice first named person, 00:05:44.520 --> 00:05:50.040 Laura Kate Dale, claimed on Twitter, the proposed joysticks should end analog stick drift 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:54.880 in Nintendo's next console. Instead of using Hall effect joysticks like everyone wants, 00:05:54.880 --> 00:06:01.240 Nintendo has come up with their own solution using magnetoreological fluid 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:05.660 that varies in viscosity as magnetic field intensity changes. 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:12.960 That sounds amazing. I mean, of course, why use a successful preexisting technology when you can own a technology 00:06:12.960 --> 00:06:17.360 that relies on magic goo. Dale has teamed up with the University of Limerick 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:20.840 in Ireland to research cancer treatments using AI, 00:06:20.840 --> 00:06:24.680 despite warnings from experts about the risk of creating robot cancer. 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:28.880 I lost my room but a robot cancer. The project will use digital twin technology, 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:34.960 which creates digital models of physical things, like in this case, tumors, to improve biomarker testing 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:39.400 and better predict treatment outcomes. Meanwhile, Microsoft has also partnered 00:06:39.400 --> 00:06:44.640 with medical tech company Page to build the world's largest image based AI model 00:06:44.640 --> 00:06:49.320 for faster diagnosis. Because I mean, the least AI could do is help cure cancer 00:06:49.320 --> 00:06:52.440 while it's transforming the internet into hot garbage soup. 00:06:52.440 --> 00:06:55.760 And Sony is launching a foster care program 00:06:55.760 --> 00:07:01.240 for its aging robo dogs. The program will allow users who've canceled the cloud plan 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:06.240 for their ERS 1000 IBO robots to donate them for rehoming 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:10.240 as patient companions at medical facilities and nursing homes. 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:14.600 The robots simulate the love of an actual animal by responding to voice and touch 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:18.360 and even recognizing specific people. It's just like adopting a real dog, 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:22.280 except that some of them will be gutted for spare parts and used to repair the others. 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:27.520 And we'll be equally gutted if you don't come back on Wednesday for more TechLinked.