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In today's Techpresso:
💥 Nvidia unveils the most powerful AI chip ever
🤖 Nvidia unveils Project GR00T, an AI platform to power humanoids of the future
🚿 SEC charges investment advisors for ‘AI washing’
💶 Meta offers to make ad-free Facebook and Instagram subscription cheaper
📹 Stability AI launches new model that turns images into 3D videos
🙃 Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion
🎁 + 11 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
💥 Nvidia unveils the most powerful AI chip everLINK
Nvidia unveils the Blackwell B200 GPU, labeled as the "world's most powerful chip" for AI, capable of delivering up to 20 petaflops of FP4 horsepower.
The GB200 superchip, combining two B200 GPUs and a single Grace CPU, can provide 30 times the performance for LLM inference workloads compared to the H100, with a reduction in cost and energy consumption by up to 25x.
Nvidia introduced a new network switch chip to enhance connectivity between multiple GPUs, enabling 576 GPUs to communicate with 1.8 terabytes per second of bidirectional bandwidth.
🤖 Nvidia unveils Project GR00T, an AI platform to power humanoids of the futureLINK
Nvidia has announced Project GROOT, aiming to advance the development of humanoid robots for industrial use cases by making them smarter and more functional.
Project GROOT is designed to enable robots to understand natural language and learn actions by observing humans, enhancing their ability to adapt and interact with the real world.
The initiative is supported by Nvidia's new Jetson Thor computing system, featuring a GPU based on the Nvidia Blackwell architecture, to power these advanced humanoid robots.
🚿 SEC charges investment advisors for ‘AI washing’LINK
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Delphia and Global Predictions for making misleading claims about their use of artificial intelligence (AI) in investment advising, a practice known as "AI washing."
The companies settled the charges by agreeing to cease-and-desist orders and paying a combined total of $400,000 in civil penalties.
SEC Chair Gary Gensler emphasized the importance of truthfulness in marketing AI capabilities, warning against the damages of "AI washing" in investor advisement and financial practices.
💶 Meta offers to make ad-free Facebook and Instagram subscription cheaperLINK
Meta proposes lowering the subscription price for an ad-free Instagram and Facebook in Europe to €5.99 for a single account to address regulatory concerns.
The adjustment aims to resolve issues raised by the EU over the legality of Meta's data collection practices under GDPR and the Digital Markets Act.
Consumer groups criticize the paid tier as insufficient, highlighting ongoing concerns about data collection, consent, and the overall implementation of the subscription service.
📹 Stability AI launches new model that turns images into 3D videosLINK
Stability AI introduces two versions of Stable Video 3D (SV3D), enabling the creation of 3D video "meshes" from image prompts, with advanced features like "specified camera paths".
The SV3D model, building on Stable Video Diffusion, can generate 3D model videos of various objects without needing images from all angles, following training on extensive datasets.
Available for both commercial and non-commercial uses, SV3D is seen as valuable for generating 3D assets in gaming and creating immersive 360-degree videos for e-commerce.
🙃 Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotionLINK
Dell has implemented a new policy where remote employees will not be considered for promotions, requiring employees to work from an office at least three days a week to be eligible.
The policy change contradicts previous statements by CEO Michael Dell and Dell's chief human resources officer, who advocated for the benefits and fairness of remote work.
This shift aligns Dell with other tech companies pulling back on remote work policies, despite past affirmations of remote work's effectiveness and equal opportunities for career advancement.
Other news you might like
Edify: Nvidia and Shutterstock launch text-to-3D service.LINK
Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Suleyman to head new consumer AI organization.LINK
Apple's foldable iPhone might debut as soon as in 2026.LINK
NVIDIA launches Earth-2 cloud platform to tackle climate change.LINK
‘Miracle material’ solar panels close to commercialisation after breakthrough.LINK
Nvidia launches NIM to make it smoother to deploy AI models into production.LINK
Sam Altman is over GPT-4: 'It kind of sucks' relative to where it needs to be, he says.LINK
Google has a new head of Search — and she’s all in on AI.LINK
Valve introduces new Steam Family, allowing for limited game sharing between linked accounts.LINK
Google is trying to reduce its food waste without irritating employees.LINK
World's largest pension fund explores bitcoin as an investment.LINK
Latest research and tools
Garnet: a new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research that uses the RESP wire protocol for easy integration with existing Redis clients, offers high throughput and scalability, displays exceptionally low latency on cloud VMs, and is built on modern .NET technology for cross-platform support, extensibility, and state-of-the-art performance on both Linux and Windows.LINK
BootLogo: a small interpreter tool for the Logo language that runs on the original IBM PC with a VGA-compatible card, assembled with NASM, and works in virtual environments like VirtualBox and DOSBox.LINK
SubmitList: a curated directory for submitting your startup or side project, featuring the top 100 places to do so.LINK
LLM-RLHF-Tuning with PPO and DPO: a project that implements Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) with detailed documentation, supporting fine-tuning of the Alpaca model, and offering comprehensive training using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and Deterministic Policy Optimization (DPO) algorithms.LINK
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