SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas
… The Texas plant will be run by SpaceX and Tesla and make chips for both companies, which Musk has said will be used for AI, robotics, and space-based data centers. …
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Meta lost 20 million users last quarter
… If I wanted to obscure that a leading social platform was potentially hemorrhaging daily users, that’s certainly what I would do. …
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
… That may look like “thinking through” a lot of different potential paths, launching sub-agents to do portions of a task, or verifying the accuracy of different steps of the process. “You put in your one-sentence prompt… and it’ll talk out loud to itself for thousands and thousands of tokens, thousa… …
Energy
… NAACP threatens to sue Musk’s xAI over Mississippi gas turbines powering data center The Hill Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs Justine Calma Feb 11 How an ‘icepocalypse’ raises more questions about Meta’s biggest data center project Justine Calma Feb … …
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
… The thing that’s driving up OpenAI’s costs is inference, the very thing Ellison is betting on. This is probably a positive sign for Ellison’s intuitions about AI use, but it might not be the best thing for his partner. OpenAI has promised $1.4 trillion in its contracts. …
Nvidia
… OpenAI : ChatGPT has 6x the monthly web visits and mobile sessions than the next largest AI app, while total AI time spent is 4x the next largest AI app and 4x all others combined. …
Science
… Joshua Dzieza May 15 Latest In Science Anker fixes the two worst things about power stations Thomas Ricker 1:56 PM UTC Lauren Feiner May 18 A new bill aims to shield energy consumers from AI data center-related costs. …
Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure
… The Xbox team was interested in “exploring collaboration opportunities,” but couldn’t commit to the research costs by itself. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott then weighed in on the debate over whether to give OpenAI more Azure credits for its research in an email to Nadella in January 2018. …
Intel
… Di Benedetto Mar 25 Intel’s long-awaited big GPU is just for AI and starts at nearly $1,000. Intel is announcing its new Arc Pro B70 “Big Battlemage” desktop GPU with 32GB of VRAM and up to 32 Xe2 cores. It costs $949 for an Intel reference design, while partner designed cards will vary in price. …
Cryptocurrency
… The hardware wallet costs $250 and is available to preorder now. …