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Tesla and xAI have been to scale coherent GPU AI clusters beyond the 33,000 GPU limit by NOT synchronize all nodes simultaneously. Synchronizing all nodes becomes increasingly challenging at scale - the system implements a partition-based architecture with coordinated timing offsets. They communicate with an ethernet based network using a transport layer without software control ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, interviewed Andrei Petrenko, Head of Product at Quantum Circuits and Neil Wu Becker, Head of Marketing for Quantum Circuits. Quantum Circuits presented at Q2B 2024 Silicon Valley at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Q2B was hosted by QCWare. This is the second interview and article on Quantum Circuits by Brian Wang of ... Read more

Tesla China has officially announced the launch of Actually Smart Summon (ASS) in China. The announcement says Actual Smart Summon is available with Enhanced Autopilot and FSD (Full Self Driving). Full Self Driving has not been authorized in China...yet. However, FSD will be available in China very soon. NEWS: Tesla China has officially announced the ... Read more

Today, Tesla has the V4 Cabinet which solves fast 500kW for cars and 1.2MW for Semi. This is HUGE. It solves getting Tesla Semi charging out to thousands of locations quickly. This is needed so that 50,000 Semi per year will be able charge and enable nationwide electric trucking. Tesla Supercharging first opening in 2012 ... Read more

The next NASA administrator Jared Isaacman talks about using Space to make the United States more economically competitive. Hiss vision and priorities for the space agency: Space Economy and Exploration: Isaacman emphasized the potential for a thriving space economy, suggesting that space holds significant potential for breakthroughs in manufacturing, biotechnology, mining, and new energy sources. ... Read more

IBM is using the largest quantum computers with the largest supercomputers. They have already use these hybrid systems to advance science like larger accurate quantum simulations. They are building even larger quantum systems and larger supercomputers.

IBM is using supercomputers together with quantum computers to advanced the frontier of science. They have pushed the quantum computers to beyond the level of chemistry simulation that supercomputers could do alone.

Preskill's has made major contributions to quantum computing including the concept of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum" (NISQ) technology. This term describes the current state of quantum computers, which, despite not being fully error-corrected or fault-tolerant, can perform tasks beyond the capabilities of classical machines. The NISQ concept has revolutionized the approach to quantum computing, opening new ... Read more

Nvidia has a broad effort to use Artificial Intelligence for Quantum Computing. AI can play a role in everything from designing qubits, preparing efficient quantum algorithms, controlling and calibrating the device, correcting errors in realtime, and interpreting the output from QC. Most importantly, each aspect of QC needs to scale, and AI might be the ... Read more

Los Angeles, USA, 11th December 2024, CyberNewsWire

Vienna, Austria, 11th December 2024, CyberNewsWire

Panel discussion: Yuval Boger, QuEra Computing (Chief Commercial Officer) Michael Newman, google Quantum AI (Research Scientist) Jeremy Stevens, Alice and Bob (Tech Dev Lead) Pshemek Bienias AWS research Scientist Jin-Sung Kim, Nvidia. Nvidia and Infleqtion have announced new breakthrough. Infleqtion, a world leader in neutral atom quantum computing, used the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform to first ... Read more

Quantinuum, $5 B quantum computer company, announced its latest hardware milestone: the largest ever GHZ state created with logical qubits with a greater than 98% fidelity. Quantinuum is the world's largest integrated quantum company ($5B valuation), Quantinuum is leading the development of the most powerful quantum computers and the most advanced quantum software solutions. With ... Read more

Quantinuum, a quantum computing company, was valued at $5 billion after a $300 million equity funding round in January 2024. They are considering a $10 billion IPO. They have the only commercial quantum computer system in the quantum advantage domain.

Google quantum Willow system (105 qubits superconducting chip with 100 ms coherence times) is error mitigation and improved coherence times. They improved coherence times by 5X. There is random sampling improvement but the random sampling is not a useful problem. This shows that quantum computing can clearly beat classical systems for this not useful problem. ... Read more

The Air Force Research Lab has more funding than DARPA (the Defense Advance Research Programs.) AFRL thinks quantum sensing and timing are applying now. Better quantum clocks are here today. We are very close to useful quantum networking. They have made 5-10 kilometer length fiber quantum networks.

Oliver Dial, IBM Fellow, is giving the keynote for Q2B 2024. He describes what is needed for practical quantum computers. IBM achieved the minimum of more accurate answers than classical (regular computers). However, they are not yet to the scale needed for practically useful problems. How much scaling? Things start getting useful with about 100 ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, am attending the quantum technologies conference at the Q2B 2024 conference at the Santa Clara convention. There is a lot of emerging quantum technologies. These are sensors and other devices. There is a list of featured speakers. The Agenda is here. Funding for quantum technologies has grown into the billions.

Jeremy Barton is creating an institute to create basic molecular machines. A primary focus is to create basic motors. We need design tools, motors and more. He previously created an group that combined chemistry, physics, surface science to work on positional chemistry. $150 million was not enough. Here are patents related to mechanosynthesis and direct ... Read more

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