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The SpaceX Super Heavy booster had five engines out as it flew. 4 engines were mostly on one side and this led to an imbalance which became critical during the flip move for stage separation. They were likely trying various thrust vectoring and other adjustments. This was a huge success. Looks like went up to ... Read more

The First Orbital SpaceX Starship did not reach orbit but there was the guaranteed excitement that Elon promised. The rocket did lift off and flew for two to three minutes before it lost control and blew up. SpaceX likely triggered a self destruct. It reached about three times the speed of sound and about 39 ... Read more

Taiwan, Taiwan, April 20th, 2023, Chainwire Decentralized Perpetual Exchange PairEx Announces Beta Trading Competition with Up to 8,888 USD ARB & PEX Tokens PairEx.io, a decentralized perpetual exchange built on the Arbitrum network, is excited to announce its beta trading competition with a prize pool of up to 8,888 USD equivalent in ARB and PEX ... Read more

RedPajama is a project to create a set of leading, fully open-source models. Today, they announced the completion of the first step of this project: the reproduction of the LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens. AI is having its Linux moment. Stable Diffusion showed that open-source can not only rival the quality of ... Read more

Tesla released its first quarter 2023 financial report and had 19.3% auto gross margin. Energy storage increased to 3.9 Gigawatt hours which is about 1000 megapacks in a quarter. The Energy revenue increased to $1.5 billion in the quarter. Tesla’s near-term pricing strategy means having less current profits for more a long-term profits given the ... Read more

Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties (like Cambridge Analytica) and there is now a legal settlement for $725 million. You and about 200 million other Americans can get a piece of that settlement. If almost everyone who is a US user of Facebook applies then each applicant will get about ... Read more

Seattle, United States, April 19th, 2023, Chainwire Space and Time and Microsoft announce that developers can now deploy the Space and Time data warehouse directly from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. The one-click deployment provides customers with an accelerated on-ramp to easily access, manage and ... Read more

London, UK, April 19th, 2023, Chainwire After selling out their $16.4m presale, Metacade is now set to list its token MCADE on the well-known centralised exchange BitMart, which boasts over 9 million users. The listing is scheduled to take place on Friday, 20th April, 9 am UTC, at which point registered users of BitMart will ... Read more

Central, Singapore, April 19th, 2023, Chainwire HeartX, an artwork marketplace and community platform, just announced that its app product starts the Close Beta Test today. It’s available now on both App Store and HeartX official website, but only people with the limited invitation code can register as community members and start earning by voting. The Close ... Read more

ChatGPT, GPT-4 are Large Language Models (LLM). There are four major aspects of LLMs pre-training, adaptation tuning, utilization, and capacity evaluation. Here is one of the new summaries of the available resources for developing LLMs and issues for future directions. Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is an improved prompting strategy to boost the performance of LLMs on complex ... Read more

Researchers have created spiking neural nets with thousands of memristors (that mimic how neurons operate) by using atomically thin layer of material. Spiking neural networks should be better than regular neural networks where there is the need for intelligence to react to real-time inputs. Regular neural networks are better for more static information. Exploiting the ... Read more

The US has adjusted its list of which car models and companies get the full $7500 EV tax credit. Kia, Hyundai, GM and VW lost the $7500 US EV Tax Credits (until they adjust their car batteries sourcing and other issues). They can still sell their EV car models but they cost about 10-20% more ... Read more

The SpaceX Starship launch has been scrubbed due to Stage 1 pressurization issue. There will be a minimum of 48 hours until the launch can be attempted again. Elon said SpaceX learned a lot today and they are offloading the propellant. Learned a lot today, now offloading propellant, retrying in a few days … — ... Read more

PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, the three major California utilities whose services include electricity, have filed a joint proposal so that customers will be force to pay up to $92 every month fixed charge even if no energy is used. Here’s how the fixed charges would work in the PG&E ... Read more

Martial Art Legence and Philosopher, Bruce Lee, famously said, I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. Many now fear the AI, ChatGPT-4. ChatGPT grew from the original task of guessing the next word in a sentence, but it has ... Read more

Nvidia is working with many companies and research institutions to apply AI to medicine and biotechnology. Nvidia has the Monai Model Zoo (Medical Open Network for AI Imaging models) hosts a collection of medical imaging models in the MONAI Bundle format. MONAI is an open-source project. It is built on top of PyTorch and is ... Read more

Many forecasters, like Peter Zeihan, were predicting economic disaster, disruption and shortages from the Russia-Ukraine war. The over $1 trillion semiconductor chip industry would be wrecked from a shortage of neon gas. 70% of the gas is made by Ukraine and Russia. The prices did shoot up but now have come back down and semiconductor ... Read more

Toronto, Canada, April 14th, 2023, Chainwire Conflux, the only regulatory-compliant blockchain in China, has proposed deploying Uniswap v3 on its network alongside CNH (offshore Chinese Yuan) stable currency, and joining the Curve Wars with its mainnet token CFX bridged to Ethereum mainnet, known as eCFX. This proposal comes after Binance’s announcement that it will support ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, April 14th, 2023, Chainwire HashKey Group, a leading digital asset financial services provider in Asia, is pleased to announce the upgrade of its Over-the-Counter (“OTC”) trading business, as well as the launch of a new wealth management business line, HashKey Wealth. Since its inception, HashKey Group has always been committed to provide its ... Read more

AI is accelerating computer hardware improvement and software improvement. This was the core of the case for the Technological Singularity. AI is also accelerating the improvement speed of science. AI technology that enables the faster improvement of AI. ChatGPT, CoPilot and other Generative AI improves programming productivity by ten times. Nvidia accelerates Computational Lithography by ... Read more

Jason Calcanis talks about the new thing this week, AutoGPT, in the AI transformation. Autocomplete coding makes programmers 5-10X productivity. A programmer replicated the Floppy Bird game in one hour. Describing the anxiety and pain points for artists and other jobs that are immediately at risk. Prompt Engineering – Making the Right Wishes of the ... Read more

Emergent capabilities are abilities that are not present in smaller models but are present in larger models. This is discussed in the video below by Jason Wei, a Google AI researcher. I had a prior article that discussed the summary from Alan Thompson on what capabilities emerged at what point for the large language models. ... Read more

The Russian-Ukraine has mainly become a war of attrition. The questions for such a war are which side has more endurance and can either side make breakthroughs that accelerate the collapse of the opponent. Russia and Ukraine will both attempt knockout blows and major offensives in this Spring and Summer. If there is no knockout ... Read more

AutoGPT is part of a wave of multi-step ChatGPT systems that can handle more complicated tasks and planning. AutoGPT is the top trending hashtag on Twitter and the most active in Github. Planning, memory and scaling were the main things missing from making ChatGPT-4 into an AGI. These are primitive AGI but rapid improvement will ... Read more

More accurate counts of tanks in Russian storage tell us when Russia’s ability to replace destroyed tanks will drop. This will be a further drop in Russia’s military capability. The other key take away is that traditional military assessment sources like the International Institute for Strategic Studies (British research institute) are likely less accurate than ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, had a greath talk with Warren Redlich about Tesla production and deliveries in 2023, the future of Model 3 and Model Y, Cybertruck Semi, the next-generation vehicle platform, megapack and more. I think Tesla will trend to 90% of actual production capacity (production being demonstrated sustained over weeks. In Q1 2023, Tesla ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, April 12th, 2023, Chainwire Famed Developers of Iconic Game Franchises, Mega Man and Tekken to Serve as Inaugural Legends DAO Partners with Their Original IPs, BEASTROID and BRAIN FIGHTER, on a New Platform Minnapad, a create-to-earn DAO launchpad and NFT marketplace that provides access to renowned Japanese creators, announced the first two DAOs ... Read more

SpaceX described the plan for the Starship orbital test. This will be the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket, a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, help humanity return to the Moon, and travel to Mars and beyond. With a test ... Read more

Felix at What About It reports that the FAA advisory notice has April 17 as the primary launch date for the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy orbital launch attempt. There are back dates from April 18-21. If the final approvals come in as expected and SpaceX goes on schedule it will be morning launch on Monday. ... Read more

China is expected to add 95 to 120 gigawatts (GW) of solar power in 2023. China added 87 GW of new solar power into operation in 2022 making the total installed capacity to 392.6 GW at the end of 2022. China probably already added 30-40 GW in 2023 to bring its total installed solar to ... Read more

Tesla has committed over $10 billion for Semi truck factories, megapack factories for megacharging and for the research and development of Semi trucks. Tesla is targeting the production of 50,000 Semi trucks in 2024. Daimler Trucks owns Freightliner and makes over 500,000 large trucks every year. Daimler has about $1 billion in research and development ... Read more

Potomac Falls, United States, April 11th, 2023, Chainwire Ash Environmental DAO has announced the dates of its token sale. The event will run from April 17 to May 7, giving participants the chance to purchase the Ash token and become part of a global ecosystem committed to funding high-impact innovations to address real-world challenges. The ... Read more

The lithium-air battery has the highest projected energy density of any battery technology being considered for the next generation of batteries beyond lithium-ion. The Argonne Lab team’s lithium-air design is the first lithium-air battery that has achieved a four-electron reaction at room temperature. It also operates with oxygen supplied by air from the surrounding environment. ... Read more

Purdue researchers have demonstrated that low concentration ether-based electrolyte can successfully endure the long-term high voltage (4.3 V) operation of practical LMB (lithium Metal Battery) under industry viable configurations, when using the highly nonpolar dipropyl ether as the electrolyte solvent. From the perspective of fundamental research on new LMB technologies, it is critical to meticulously develop ... Read more

CALB, a Chinese battery manufacturer China Aviation Lithium Battery, claims its “U-type” battery structure offers higher energy density and faster charging speeds than regular cylindrical cells like the Tesla 4680. CALB has a 4% global market share for batteries in 2022. This places them seventh among the biggest Li-Ion cell manufacturers. CALB introduced a new ... Read more

Stanford Researchers have used Generative AI to simulate believable human behavior in a simulated world. Generative agents wake up, cook breakfast, and head to work; artists paint, while authors write; they form opinions, notice each other, and initiate conversations; they remember and reflect on days past as they plan the next day. To enable generative ... Read more

Tesla Master Plan 3 analyzes the total world demand for megapack factory capacity will be 2.3 TWh/year which is equal to about sixty 40 GWh/year Lathrop Megapack factories. This would be about 600,000 3.9 MWh megapacks each year. Tesla is completed last year and will have the Lathrop megapack factory ramped this year. Tesla just ... Read more

China’s PLA’s Eastern Theater Command announced the end of a large military exercise today. Taiwan’s R.O.C. Armed Forces will continue to keep a close watch on PLA’s movements 24/7 and act accordingly. On Monday, China’s Navy had 11 ships and 70 PLA aircraft near Taiwan and about 35 of the planes crossed the median line ... Read more

Goldman Sachs has an analysis that ChatGPT and other generative AI could spark a productivity boom that could automate 25% of jobs in North America and Europe and raise annual global GDP by 7% over a 10-year period. The new AI could lift productivity growth by 1.5 percentage points over a 10-year period. This is ... Read more

New York, US, April 10th, 2023, Chainwire Babylon x NYC, an exhibition of more than 100 physical and digital artworks, will take place in New York City on April 12-13, 2023. The exhibition, set up by Babylon — a Web3 gallery specializing in primary sales of NFT editions — will showcase works by the project’s ... Read more

Tesla announced a new megapack factory in Shanghai. Nextbigfuture has noted that the large electric truck market is about five times bigger in China than in the USA. Megapacks are needed to buffer the grid for megacharging for large electric trucks. I think this is the first step to getting Semi trucks into China and ... Read more

Vicuna is a new, powerful model based on LLaMa, and trained with GPT-4. Vicuna boasts “90%* quality of OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Bard”. This is unseen quality and performance, all on your computer and offline. Oobabooga is a UI for running Large Language Models for Vicuna and many other models like LLaMA, llama.cpp, GPT-J, Pythia, ... Read more

There are six major AI projects in the race beyond 2 trillion parameter models. There is OpenAI, Anthropic, Google/Deepmind, Meta, a UK government project and a stealth project. It takes $1-2 billion per year of resources to be in the game. There is $1 billion needed for hardware and that hardware will need to be ... Read more

Sebastien Bubeck makes the case that intelligence has emerged with the trillion parameter generative AIs. He says there are internal representations and learning algorithms inside the systems. Sebastien is a Sr. Principal Research Manager in the Machine Learning Foundations group at Microsoft Research (MSR). He says the generative systems can be used to explain itself. ... Read more

There are many electric car and truck analysts who project Tesla only capturing 20% of the electric Semi truck market and pickup truck market, SUV, Bus and Van markets. Tesla provided their estimate of the scale of those markets in their detailed Master Plan part 3. Electric trucks and vans will take making a large ... Read more

Elon Musk says Starship is stacked and ready to launch next week, pending regulatory approval. SpaceX says there is a wet rehearsal this coming week and then there will be the need to destack and arm for the real launch. Booster 7 will land in the Gulf of Mexico and will simulate a chopstick Mechazilla ... Read more

Vicuna-13B, an open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLaMA on user-shared conversations collected from ShareGPT. Preliminary evaluation using GPT-4 as a judge shows Vicuna-13B achieves more than 90%* quality of OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Bard while outperforming other models like LLaMA and Stanford Alpaca in more than 90%* of cases. The cost of training Vicuna-13B is ... Read more

A slightly improved Reflexion-based GPT-4 agent achieves state-of-the-art pass@1 results (88%) on HumanEval, outperforming GPT-4 (67.0%) and CodeT: Code Generation with Generated Tests (65.8%), which were the previous state-of-the-art standards. Relaxing Success Evaluation By using Reflexion to iteratively refine the current implementation, researchers are shifting the “accuracy bottleneck” from correct syntactic and semantic code generation ... Read more

The current best large language models that you can install on your computers are GPT4ALL and the Cerebus open-source models. There are several videos that guide you through the installation of the models. Some of the open-source AI models have all of the code in one place and others require you to put the pieces ... Read more

An online survey of 1000 business leaders suggest that ChatGPT and AI systems will often be involved in the future interview process after companies use the AI to remove workers from some jobs in codewriting, customer support, research and content creation. The level of employment impact is still small as commpanies also got rid of ... Read more