OpenAI is planning a donut-shaped smart speaker for 2027, priced above $300. The screenless device has a camera, microphones, and moving parts. It’s…
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AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon
AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips. That makes them extremely fast but locks each chip to…
China’s Largest AI Model Is Being Developed at Bytedance
Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters, according to the Financial Times. That’s three times the size of Moonshot’s Kimi K3,…
Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used AI to design new viruses that killed bacteria in the lab
A research team in California has used artificial intelligence to design working viruses that kill bacteria, in what they describe as the “first…
OpenAI’s hockey-puck-sized smart speaker with moving parts is set to ship in 2027
OpenAI’s planned smart speaker is taking shape. The company’s first hardware device will be donut-shaped, roughly the size of a hockey puck, and priced…