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In today's Techpresso:
🤖 Why Zuckerberg wants to give away a $10B AI model
🚫 TikTok to fight US ban or forced sale after bill passes
📉 Tesla cuts price of its 'Full Self Driving' system by a third
🤐 Sundar Pichai tells Google staff he doesn’t want any more political debates in the office
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Why Zuckerberg wants to give away a $10B AI modelLINK
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, said in a podcast he would be willing to open source a $10 billion AI model under certain conditions if it was safe and beneficial for all involved. Zuckerberg believes that open sourcing can mitigate dependency on a few companies controlling AI technology, fostering innovation and competition. He also points to Meta's strong open-source legacy with projects like PyTorch and the Open Compute Project, which have significantly reduced costs and expanded supply chains by making their designs available to the public.
🚫 TikTok to fight US ban or forced sale after bill passesLINK
TikTok plans to legally challenge any US ban or forced sale of its operations, following a bill passed by the House of Representatives targeting the platform.
The legislation, which requires TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to divest its stake in the US business to prevent a ban, was passed as part of a foreign aid package.
Michael Beckerman, TikTok's head of public policy for the Americas, stated the company would contest the bill in court, claiming it violates the First Amendment rights of Americans.
📉 Tesla cuts price of its 'Full Self Driving' system by a thirdLINK
Elon Musk reduced the price of Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) software by one third in the United States, bringing it down to $8,000, the same price as when it was first introduced in 2020.
Despite previous price increases based on the promise of improved capabilities and autonomy, FSD price cuts come amid falling demand and unsuccessful efforts to license the technology to other manufacturers.
The decision to label the software as "supervised FSD" rather than continuing the beta test could help Tesla recognize nearly $926 million in deferred revenue, impacting the company's first-quarter earnings.
🤐 Sundar Pichai tells Google staff he doesn’t want any more political debates in the officeLINK
Google CEO Sundar Pichai directed employees to stop bringing political debates into the workplace, emphasizing the company as a business focused on being an objective information provider. The directive came after 28 employees were fired for protesting against a controversial cloud computing contract. Pichai's stance reflects a broader trend in tech companies to restrict political discourse at work to maintain focus and avoid internal conflicts, with companies like Coinbase and Meta implementing similar policies.
Other news you might like
GitHub abused to host malware and create download links seemingly affiliated with Microsoft.LINK
Apple acquires Paris-based AI company Datakalab to bolster its AI technology.LINK
Discord CEO Jason Citron makes the case for a smaller, more private internet.LINK
China's AI data centers to outpace Korea's human water consumption.LINK
Google Gemini app on Android may soon let you read ‘real-time responses'.LINK
Bitcoin miners upgrade power centers and get into AI to brace for slashed revenue post halving.LINK
Earth Day: Ecosia launches world’s first energy-generating browser.LINK
Latest research and tools
Pico.sh: allows users to publish content effortlessly using common SSH tools like rsync, scp, or sftp without the need for additional installations.LINK
Lossless Acceleration of LLM via Adaptive N-Gram Parallel Decoding: the paper describes a method for speeding up large language models without sacrificing accuracy by using adaptive n-gram parallel processing.LINK
Many-Shot In-Context Learning: the paper presents a method that improves machine learning models' ability to learn from a larger number of examples.LINK
Multiple runtime version manager: a cross-platform tool that simplifies switching between different runtime versions or libraries for developers working on various projects by offering a consistent command set, an easily extendable plugin system, and automatic runtime version switching.LINK
RecurrentGemma: this research introduces a novel architecture surpassing transformers in efficiency for open language model tasks.LINK
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