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🔮 Apple’s new M4 chip is focused on AI
🍏 Apple announces new iPad Pro with M4, new iPad Air tablets
🍪 Apple is developing custom AI chip for data centers
💥 Microsoft is developing new AI model to rival GPT-4 and Google Gemini
🤝 Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI
🚗 Tesla announces fourth round of layoffs in four weeks
🎁 + 11 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
🔮 Apple’s new M4 chip is focused on AILINK
Apple's next-generation M4 chip, focused on AI, boasts improved performance with a new neural engine capable of 38 trillion operations per second, targeted for use in the new OLED iPad Pro models.
The M4 chip utilizes second-generation 3nm technology, featuring a 10-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, enhancing computing power and rendering speed while emphasizing AI capabilities.
Despite the M4's impressive AI performance, comparisons are drawn to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processors, highlighting the competitive landscape ahead of a Microsoft event that may challenge Apple's position in AI-accelerated tasks.
🍏 Apple announces new iPad Pro with M4, new iPad Air tabletsLINK
Apple announced new versions of its iPad Air and iPad Pro, featuring OLED technology and branded as the Ultra Retina XDR display.
The iPad Pro will be available in two sizes and is equipped with the new M4 chip, described as a significant improvement over the current M3 chips for AI applications.
Apple highlighted the thin design of the new iPad Pro, measuring only 5.1mm in thickness, making it Apple's thinnest product to date.
🍪 Apple is developing custom AI chip for data centersLINK
Apple has been developing new AI chips for data centers, known under the codename Project ACDC, for several years, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The project's objective focuses on designing chips for inference tasks within AI models rather than for training purposes, with possibilities that these chips might not be publicly announced.
The development of these AI chips aligns with Apple's broader commitment to AI, as evidenced by CEO Tim Cook's remarks and the company's acquisition of around two dozen AI startups.
💥 Microsoft is developing new AI model to rival GPT-4 and Google GeminiLINK
Microsoft is reportedly developing its own AI model named MAI-1, aiming to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4, according to information from insiders and the tech company's actions.
The MAI-1 model, led by Mustafa Suleyman and internally developed by Microsoft, is based on technology and training data from the acquired startup Inflection, featuring around 500 billion parameters.
This initiative reflects Microsoft’s ambitions for greater independence in AI technology, moving beyond their extensive collaborations with OpenAI, amidst potential antitrust investigations into their partnership.
🤝 Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAILINK
Stack Overflow and OpenAI have entered into a partnership aimed at improving each other's products by leveraging Stack Overflow's community-generated data for OpenAI's language models.
The collaboration is seen as a means to enhance OpenAI's large language models and potentially boost Stack Overflow's business by formalizing data sharing arrangements.
Despite the partnership, Stack Overflow maintains a stance against the use of generative AI for creating user-submitted posts, amid concerns about the quality and authenticity of AI-generated content.
🚗 Tesla announces fourth round of layoffs in four weeksLINK
Tesla has conducted a fourth round of employee layoffs, as announced on a Sunday night, marking a continuing trend affecting various company roles.
The layoffs began last month, influenced by Tesla's Q1 2024 financial results which showed a significant drop in profits, amidst Musk's announcement of reducing the company's global headcount by more than 10%.
This latest round targeted service advisers, engineers, and HR staff, following previous layoffs of recruiters, a 500-member Supercharger team, and a new vehicle development team.
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Latest research and tools
Refactor gem: a tool for refactoring and upgrading Ruby code based on Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) that is experimental and focuses on minimalistic AST manipulations for Ruby developers.LINK
Async Channels for Swift Concurrency: a library that models its functionality after go's channel behaviors, offering a typed conduit for sending and receiving values across Swift async tasks.LINK
Cyperful: an addon for Ruby Capybara system tests enhancing developer experience with features like viewing test steps live, pausing tests, auto-restarting on code modification, experimental video recording, and future capabilities for running any test suite from UI and recording browser interactions as Ruby code.LINK
Kan: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: the study introduces a novel neural network architecture inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem.LINK
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