AI Weekend Edition – Saturday, February 22, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Today’s Brief Commentary: Microsoft made a lot of news this week in the quantum space via its giant marketing and communication machine with the introduction of its Majorana-1 chip. (All the big corporations have giant marketing and communication machines. Cf. Google, IBM, and NVIDIA.) On the same day, they introduced Muse, a generative AI “World…

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Futuristic HPS data center

AI – Monday, January 27, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary The first link today is to an update from The Futurum Group about the advanced semiconductor AI accelerator market. Everything else is about Generative AI. It’s easy to say that GenAI is over-hyped (it is), dominates the…

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An AI chipset

AI – Saturday, December 7, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary Some of you have asked how I build this newsletter with the links and categorization. During the days before publishing an edition, I collect links to articles, papers, newsletters, and web pages on AI and quantum technologies…

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AI – Friday, November 8, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary As I’ve mentioned before, discussions about agentic AI are accelerating rapidly. Generative AI still dominates, but the combination of GenAI with orchestrated agent roles is becoming more widely understood. I’ve included tutorials by IBM and NVIDIA in…

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Advanced AI data center

AI – Monday, October 28, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links provide several points of view on topics related to Generative AI. Are open source LLMs (large language models) better than proprietary ones? In fact, is “open source” the right way of making these models available…

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An advanced quantum computer

Quantum – Thursday, September 12, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Kipu Quantum Team Says New Quantum Algorithm Outshines Existing Techniques https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/09/09/kipu-quantum-team-says-new-quantum-algorithm-outshines-existing-techniques/ Author: Matt Swayne (Monday, September 9, 2024) “Kipu Quantum-led team of researchers announced the successful testing of what they’re labeling the largest quantum optimization problem…

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Advanced AI data center

AI – Tuesday, August 27, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses What is ‘model collapse’? An expert explains the rumours about an impending AI doom https://theconversation.com/what-is-model-collapse-an-expert-explains-the-rumours-about-an-impending-ai-doom-236415 Author: Aaron J. Snoswell (Monday, August 19, 2024) “Generative AI needs tons of data to learn. It also generates new data. So,…

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Advanced AI data center

AI – Friday, August 09, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses NVIDIA Announces Generative AI Models and NIM Microservices for OpenUSD Language, Geometry, Physics and Materials | NVIDIA Newsroom https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-generative-ai-models-and-nim-microservices-for-openusd (Monday, July 29, 2024) “SIGGRAPH—NVIDIA today announced major advancements to Universal Scene Description, or OpenUSD, that will expand adoption…

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