If you think 2022 is the year for AI, I guess youâre wrong. Iâd say itâs 2024 because one of the interesting news this week is how manufacturers are making AI accessible as ever.
I have a friend who is currently writing his final year project in school and one of the things he does complain about is how supervisors are always telling students to add as much of AI as possible in their projects. I think thatâs where we are pivoting towards and considering how most AI models are free for non-commercial usage.
About three days ago, Meta just released the biggest and best open-source AI model âLlama 3.1â. What intrigues me the most is how committed Mark and Meta are to this. They are using about 16,000 of Nvidiaâs H100 GPUâs with each costing about $38,000. Yeah you can do the math to know thatâs a lot of money for an open-source project. There is still no clear way of them making back this money and with a lot of competition in the market, I think that will take a lot of time before itâs feasible.
Mistral AI also introduced a new open-source model to compete with Meta and OpenAIâs GPT-4o but took an approach at monetization. It will only be free for non-commercial usage â similar to OpenAI.
But the most interesting part of this is actually from X (formerly Twitter). Elon Musk is gearing the company up to use about 100,000 of Nvidiaâs H100 GPUâs to develop a more competitive model of Grok AI. In comparison, this is about 6 times the amount Meta used. At the moment, it seems only Jensen Huang (CEO of Nvidia) is smiling at the top. By the way, Nvidia is still sitting among the top boys Alphabet and Microsoft at a market value of $ 2.78 trillion.
I hope this is not late but âHappy blue screen day to all Windows usersâ. Although I wasnât affected by the error on my computer, that was massive with airports shutting down and some having to write boarding passes by hand. How was the day for you let me know in your reply to this?
I foresee an anniversary to this. You know maybe in a yearâs time âmaybe just a notification thoughâ. An interesting update to this is the responsible company âCrowdStrikeâ offering a $10 credit to affected users.
Also, it may not be evident but rumour has it that the iPhone foldable is coming soon. Yeah, I know this rumour has been for a while but itâs gained a big discussion in major online forums.
The major thing driving this aside of the smartphone market pivoting towards foldables is that they have gotten better over the years is China. Apple is losing a ton of market shares in the country due to citizens being loyal to local brands and having a preference for foldable phones.
There is a guess for the iPhone plus models to be the one to be replaced and the first version of the foldable phones being in the Samsung Galaxy Flip form factor.
Also, whatâs your thought on self-driving? Alphabet (the parent company of Google) just invested another $5billion in Waymo (self-driving car company) extending the services of the robotaxi to many cities in the US. Will your trust this car with your life?
Fun in Tech
X (formerly Twitter) is a good place to be. You get everything from the latest news to rib cracking jokes and statements of debate.
I guess Joshua is right on this for many people into tech considering the most valuable companies in the world have the same drive.
If you wind back to about a decade ago, Tech YouTube is majorly filled with How-tos. Here Luke is trying to disprove that. đ
Not only is this absurd-looking, but this take is not correct. Every iPhone user huh? I donât even see 10% switching over. Stay tuned to next year thoughâŚ.
What I found interesting
This week, I have been having some fun playing mind bugging games on this site: Neal fun
https://neal.fun/
If you do check it out, let me know if youâre able to finish the password guessing game.