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Up until late 2024, no one has been able to massively increase the amount of compute dedicated to a single model beyond the OpenAI GPT 4 model level. This information is from semianalysis and EIA. Google's Gemini Ultra, Nvidia Nemotron 340B, and Meta LLAMA 3 405B had similar or slightly more compute than GPT-4, but ... Read more

There is progress to precisely placing silicon atoms to create qubits for quantum computers. The Kane quantum computer is a proposal for a scalable quantum computer proposed by Bruce Kane in 1998 who was then at the University of New South Wales. Often thought of as a hybrid between quantum dot and nuclear magnetic resonance ... Read more

Tesla's humanoid robot is able to walk up and down hills and mostly maintain balance. Daily walks help clear your mind pic.twitter.com/dUsW58trS6 - Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) December 9, 2024

I updated my Tesla Share Price Predictions. Tesla has hit $394 per share. In October, Brian predicted that Tesla will reach $1000 by the end of 2025 and would reach $2500 by the end of 2027. In November, Brian predicted that Tesla will reach $450 by Feb 8, 2025. This is not and was not ... Read more

Neil DeGrasse Tyson compared gender to weight classes in wrestling and suggested sports should be divided by hormone levels. The records for strength, speed and jumping are clear. Men are about 50% stronger, 10% faster and jump 15-20% higher in the same weight class. A women's lifting record is about 70% of men. Men also ... Read more

Gavin Baker, an xAI investor and hedge fund manager, explains the main problems that OpenAI and the others has was they believed they could not make more than 32000 h100s share the same memory and work coherently using current networking.Elon and then xAI team went to first principles and figured out scaling to 100k chips ... Read more

Tesla has hit $390 per share. In October, I predicted that Tesla will reach $1000 by the end of 2025 and would reach $2500 by the end of 2027. In November, I predicted that Tesla will reach $450 by Feb 8, 2025. This is not and was not financial advice. I wrote on October 23, ... Read more

Researcher Jiang Biao of the Green Chemical Engineering Technology Research and Development Center of the Shanghai Advanced Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his team developed a nanofiber functional membrane, which successfully extracted kilogram-level uranium from seawater and reduced the cost from US$560 per kilogram It reaches US$150 per kilogram, which is very ... Read more

Intel was the leader with computer chips but lost the elad by failing to move from 10nm to nm. The Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel in 2021, he outlined an ambitious plan to restore Intel's manufacturing leadership with a goal to achieve five nodes in four years, aiming to catch up with TSMC ... Read more

Tesla is achieving huge success with cars, trucks, megapacks and soon robotaxi and teslabot. All of the products are made by Gigafactories. NO matter how successful robotaxi and teslabot become they will be made by the factories. The Teslabots are and will work in the factories. The unboxed process of building cars like giant legos ... Read more

OpenAI o1 Pro and OpenAI o1 are much better at math. OpenAI o1 Pro mode seems to be using OpenAI o1 but running questions multiple times to get better answers. OpenAI GPT 5 training has not gone smoothly according to Kai-fu Lee. Dr Kai-Fu Lee, founder of 01.AI, co-founder of Microsoft Research Asia, former VP ... Read more

Alisa Viejo, California, 5th December 2024, CyberNewsWire

EUV roadmap updated with up to 250wph and 280 wph (wafers per hour) throughput and better overlay (alignment accuracy); probably higher ASPs as productivity improves with each version. Chips will get to 0.5 Nanometer features in 2030-2032. - EUV roadmap updated with up to 250wph and 280 wph throughput and better overlay (alignment accuracy); probably ... Read more

xAI, is expanding the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee from 100,000 to over 1 million GPUs. This expansion, which has already started, involves a substantial financial commitment, potentially in the tens of billions, and includes collaborations with Nvidia, Dell, and Supermicro for GPU supply and server assembly. xAI's strategy is to lead in the AI ... Read more

SpaceX has completed 24 planes of 13 sats per plane at a 53 deg inclination for the Direct to Cell constellation. Once raised to 360 km, it will be plugged in to service. Direct to Cell is open for business for any telco in the world that wants to eliminate dead zones for text and ... Read more

President Trump has announced that he has selected Jared Isaacman as the next NASA Administrator. Jared was the commander of Inspiration4, a private spaceflight using @SpaceX's Crew Dragon. Also, earlier this year he completed the first private spacewalk. Jared is the founder of Draken International, a private air force provider, and the founder and CEO ... Read more

Tel Aviv, ISRAEL, 2nd December 2024, CyberNewsWire

There have been two studies disprove the hypothesis infinite monkeys could eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. For number-crunching purposes, the researchers assumed that a keyboard contains 30 keys including all the letters of the English language plus common punctuation marks. As well as a single monkey, they also did the calculations using the current ... Read more

Journey through Star Trek's history and lore with John de Lancie (Star Trek's beloved character Q"), on a deep dive of the Roddenberry Archive's recreations of historic ships, locations and settings across the final frontier.

OTOY unveiled an all new non-commercial documentary that explores the making ofA 2001: A Space Odyssey and its lasting impact in the history of space exploration, artificial intelligence, and visual effects. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Roger Lay, Jr., 2001: Creating Kubrick's Space Odyssey" immerses viewers into the making of the visual universe in Stanley Kubrick ... Read more

Tesla FSD 13.2 can reverse, park and unpark itself. This means far more complete no intervention drives. It does three point turns. The Tesla fleet can talk to each other. FSD improvements over the last ~60 days: FSD v13 with ~5-6x improvement in miles between necessary interventions Unpark, Park, and Reverse in FSD ... Read more

Trump says he wants the Ukraine war and the Israel war over before he takes office. Vlodymr Zelensky said he is willing to cede territory to Russia to end the war for the first time. The Ukrainian president said his country could give up land temporarily in exchange for a Nato umbrella' over the territory ... Read more

The Space Entanglement and Annealing Quantum Experiment (SEAQUE) on the space station tests two technologies that could advance the field of quantum communications. The first technology is a novel method to transmit quantum data. This method could make way for a scalable quantum information network and provide the foundation of quantum cloud computing, a technology ... Read more

Brian Wang had an interview with Tesla Youtuber Herbert Ong. Herbert interviews dozens of experts about Tesla robotaxi and full self driving every month and publishes about 60 videos a month on Tesla. Brian gave two major insights about robotaxi and Tesla full self driving that literally left Herbert speechless. One is xAI will help ... Read more

Renault is selling its 36% share of Nissan and without a new major investor Nissan will go bankrupt in 12-14 months. At its news conference, Nissan's Chief Monozukuri Officer (Head of Manufacturing) Hideyuki Sakamoto described major cost cutting moves. Nissan's current plan is to reduce the operational maximum capacity of these 25 production lines by ... Read more

Cebu, Philippines, 27th November 2024, CyberNewsWire

The SpaceX Starship 33 will be the first block 2 design. Block 2 will have more payload mass capacity. It will have a lower launch cost than the block 1 design. SpaceX Starship 33 should fly around January 11, 2025. There are approvals for up to 25 launches of SpaceX Starship in 2025. SLS: ... Read more

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the feasibility of a mission concept called SWIM, short for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers. The project envisions a swarm of dozens of self-propelled, cellphone-size robots looking for signs of life on ocean worlds. SWIM is funded by NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program under the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate. NASA ... Read more

Rep. Kiley has introduced legislation to make the Office of Commercial Space Transportation report directly to the Secretary of Transportation. This comes after Rep. Kiley questioned Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Whitaker before the Aviation Subcommittee with respect to the FAA's decisions with SpaceX launches in September. The bill streamlines the oversight process by ... Read more

Firefly Aerospace successfully completed environmental testing on Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander ahead of its first mission to the Moon supporting NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Firefly is now preparing to ship the lander to Cape Canaveral, Florida, in mid-December for launch on Following launch and vehicle separation, Blue Ghost will begin its ... Read more

Eric Berger expects NASA and the public support for the SpaceX Mars city will surge with the first unmanned landings on Mars. Erc X rendered an Earth Orbit SpaceX Refueling depot. Elon has talked about sending a fleet of five Starships to Mars in October-December 2026. Refueling and orbital propellant transfer is key to this ... Read more

Eric Berger is the Ars Technica, senior space editor and author of Reentry, a book about the behind the scenes SpaceX development of Falcon 9. Berger's primary focus is on NASA and private aerospace companies. He authored Liftoff, which was published by William Morrow and Company and released in March 2021. The book chronicles the ... Read more

On September 29, 2013, SpaceX performed the first supersonic retropropulsion (SRP) maneuver to decelerate the reentry of the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket. NASA asked if their EDL (entry, descent, and landing) engineers could watch and study SpaceX's data, and SpaceX agreed. Beginning in 2014, NASA and SpaceX worked together for three years. ... Read more

Centrifugal Magnetic Mirrors could enable commercial nuclear fusion reactors on Earth and are also promising for next level propulsion in space. There is funded near term work for both goals. An early Centrifugal Magnetic Mirror propulsion concept could achieve 1 to 10 newtons of thrust with 10,000 to 30000 ISP. This would be propulsion that ... Read more

There has been huge progress on laser pushed sails. Laser pushed sails appear to be a path to sending probes up to 20% of the speed of light when we can make 1 gram sails that are one to two meters on a side. There is still work needed to make the sail area about ... Read more

Elon Musk has said that SpaceX will send five unmanned Starships to Mars in 2026. The launch window is about October 2024 to January 2025. The 1000 tons of payload will include thousands of Teslabots and dozens of cybertrucks. What will this mean for Tesla, SpaceX and the future. What will the Teslabots build on ... Read more

Smart money is selling Uber and buying Tesla for the bet that 2025 will be the year of Tesla robotaxi. Brad Gerstner sold over $1 billion of Uber in his Altimeter Capital fund and bought Tesla in the last weeks. Altimeter reported over $1 billion in Uber as of September 30, 2024 in their 13F ... Read more

OTOY has recreated scenes recapturing 2001 a Space Odyssey. They are doing next level rendering.

A great Kirk, Spock and Saavik Star Trek fan film. It is made by OTOY.

Altimeter Capital ($20 Billion Venture Capital company) thinks Tesla FSD 13 has caught up to Waymo, one critical disengagement every 15000 miles and will reach one critical disengagement every 100,000 miles in Q1 2025. Altimeter Capital has sold all of its Uber holdings to buy Tesla. Brad Gerstner explained the sale of Uber by the ... Read more

Super Venture Capitalists Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner analyze the future of AI. The rate of improvement of large language models is slowing for pre-training. However, it is still improving and AI intelligence is improving with post-training and test time training. OpenAI and Microsoft announced a major AI advancement for 2025, featuring models with infinite ... Read more

HeyGen offers some the best and easiest to use AI video cloning. You can upload a picture and it will create animations of the person in the picture. There are many other systems for cloning voices from audio clips. Vasa-1 is an unreleased Microsoft AI for near realtime mimicking of voices and video faces from ... Read more

MIAMI, Florida, 21st November 2024, CyberNewsWire

The FAA has indicated that it will grant SpaceX permission have 25 Starship launches in South Texas in 2025 versus the current limit of five launches. SpaceX will be allowed to continue increasing the size and power of the Super Heavy booster stage and Starship upper stage. The approvals for SpaceX and Tesla seem to ... Read more

Elon Musk is confident of unmanned SpaceX Starships going to Mars in the 2026 launch window. The Starships will bring Teslabots and Cybertrucks to Mars as part of the payload. SpaceX will need to bring systems to make methane fuel and liquid oxygen out of the Mars atmosphere. It would be ideal to have the ... Read more

Aligning the quantum property known as spin for fusion fuels could make it easier to generate electricity economically. Above - An artist's interpretation of spin-aligned atoms during the process of fusion. (Illustration credit: Kyle Palmer / PPPL Communications Department) A different mix of fuels with enhanced properties could overcome some of the major barriers to ... Read more

Plasmonic structures exhibit a wide range of physical characteristics, which are benefited by the localized and intensified light-matter interaction. There have been many recent advancements with ultrafast plasmonics. Ultrafast plasmonic properties are exploited in numerous applications, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, sensors, and optical feedback in lasers. In addition to these applications, the ultrafast ... Read more

OORT, a pioneer decentralized cloud computing platform for AI applications, today reported that its customized AI solution (OORT AI) has significantly improved Githon Technology's customer service standards. The integration of OORT AI has seen Githon Technology (formerly Lenovo Image) cut its customer support cost by 40% while also increasing the customer satisfaction rate to 95%. ... Read more

Palo Alto, California, 20th November 2024, CyberNewsWire

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