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Kif Leswing / CNBC: Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU -
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Nvidia announces NIM, a set of microservices designed to streamline the deployment of custom and pre-trained AI models into production environments -
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Nvidia unveils the Earth-2 platform, letting users create AI-powered climate simulations ranging from global atmospheric conditions to local weather phenomena -
Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Nvidia unveils Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots, and Jetson Thor, a new computer designed specifically for humanoid robots -
Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: Nvidia announces a software framework built with its Omniverse Cloud APIs to let enterprise developers stream interactive 3D experiences into Apple Vision Pro -
Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: Nvidia launches Quantum Cloud, a service that simulates a quantum computer and allows researchers to test out their quantum computing software -
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt -
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Solana memecoin SLERF raised $10M in a presale, hitting $1.7B in trading volume, but the developer claims to have “burned” tokens set aside for an airdrop -
Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central: Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more -
Lex Fridman: Q&A with Sam Altman on the OpenAI board saga, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk's lawsuit, Sora, Q*, GPT-5, raising $7T, Google and Gemini, AGI, aliens, and more -
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Lagos-based Moove, which offers car financing to ride-hailing drivers, raised a $100M Series B led by Uber at a $750M valuation, up from $550M in August 2023 -
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Searches for “As of my last knowledge update”, a phrase used by ChatGPT, return 115 results on Google Scholar, suggesting the use of AI-generated text in papers -
Sean Hollister / The Verge: A look at Playtron, which raised a $10M seed to build a Linux-based, platform-agnostic gaming OS to replace Windows or SteamOS, starting with handheld consoles -
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Q&A with Lila Tretikov, who just joined NEA as a partner and head of AI strategy; Tretikov was previously Microsoft's deputy CTO and Wikimedia Foundation CEO -
Just Lunning / New York Times: Hollywood actors like Megan Fox, Idris Elba, and Keanu Reeves are leaping into video games, a once stigmatized medium now seen as a unique platform for stories -
George Hammond / Financial Times: Hippocratic AI, which is building an LLM for health care, raised a $53M Series A co-led by Premji Invest and General Catalyst at a $500M valuation -
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other changes to its Search team -
Reuters: After hearing oral arguments, SCOTUS appeared wary of curbing US government contacts with social media platforms to remove posts deemed misinformation -
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Crypto trading platform Bakkt names Andy Main as CEO and president, as the company faces being dropped by the NYSE for failing to maintain listing requirements -
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Unity's 2024 Gaming Report: the number of multiplatform games rose 40% since 2021, in-app ad revenue rose 26.7% YoY, 62% of studios are using AI, and more