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Bitcoin Miners Flush With Chips Are Pivoting to AI in Search of New Riches
Posted in Hardware, Software on 11th Feb, 2025
by Alexander Muller
Another industry with a voracious appetite for computing has arrived just in time. The rush to train massive generative AI models has left companies scrabbling for chips, datacenter space, and reliable access to large amounts of cheap power, things many miners already have in abundance.
Is 2025 the Year AI Agents Take Over?
Posted in Hardware, Software on 11th Feb, 2025
by Alexander Muller
It seems certain that agents will be the major preoccupation of the AI industry in 2025. If it pays off, the world of work could look very different by the end of the year.
Meta’s New AI Translates Speech in Real Time Across More Than 100 Languages
Posted in Science, Software on 11th Feb, 2025
by Alexander Muller
It's accurate and nearly as fast as expert human interpreters.
OpenAI’s GPT-4o Makes AI Clones of Real People With Surprising Ease
Posted in Software on 11th Feb, 2025
by Alexander Muller
New research suggests its powers of mimicry go a lot further, making it possible to replicate specific people’s personalities.
Niantic Is Training a Giant ‘Geospatial’ AI on Pokémon Go Data
Posted in Online, Software on 29th Dec, 2024
by Alexander Muller
The result could be an internet-like dataset of physical spaces, supporting AI that’s as fluent in the real world as today’s large language models are with text, fundamentally expanding how we interact with digital content, robots, and each other.