🤖🦾 One Week Till the Future of Computing Conference 2024, Mega AI Clusters, and Probabilistic Photonic Computing

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Happy Friday!

Just one week to go till the Future of Computing Conference 2024 – and your chance to get one of the last tickets 👇

We'll have two keynotes:

- Keith Witek, COO at Tenstorrent, on Open vs Close: The Beauty of Open Source and RISC-V as the Next CPU Solution of Choice
- Anastasiia Nosova, running the YouTube channel Anastasi in Tech with 200K+ subscribers, on The Future of AI Computing

We'll have pitches from plenty of computing startups whom we’ve interviewed in the past on the Future of Computing blog (or shortlisted for an interview 😇):

Axelera AI, Ubitium, ZeroPoint Technologies, SpiNNcloud Systems, Synthara, anabrid, Innatera, SEMRON, Starflight Dynamics, Linque, Akhetonics, Lumai, NcodiN, Enlightra, Q.ANT, Qruise, SimBricks, LUBIS EDA, planqc, ZuriQ, Quandela, Qoro Quantum, SemiQon, Peak Quantum, ORCA Computing, Haiqu, and quantum grade materials @ BTU

And plenty of networking opportunities with startup founders, investors, industry experts, and decision-makers shaping the future of computing – from quantum computing and AI chips all the way to novel semiconductor materials and chip interconnects 🤖⚛️⚡️🧠🌐

Huge thanks to our sponsors and partners, Lunar Ventures, UVC Partners, Aloniq, Runa Capital, Tensor Ventures, Matterwave Ventures, Tenstorrent, Munich Quantum Valley, and Infineon

And thanks to our co-organizers Tobias Wölfel, Christopher Trummer from TUM Venture Labs, and Oliver Hasse from INAM

Future of Computing News

🦾 Ranked: Top Countries by Computing Power (Visual Capitalist)

🦾 Why the World’s Powers Are Locked in a Battle Over Computer Chips (Bloomberg)

💥 Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Resigns After Struggling to Turn Around Chip Maker (WSJ)

🦾 I often get asked about how the TPU chip came to be at Google? by Jonathan Ross, CEO of Groq (LinkedIn)

🦾 The Furious Contest to Unseat Nvidia as King of A.I. Chips: Amazon, Advanced Micro Devices and several start-ups are beginning to offer credible alternatives to Nvidia’s chips, especially for a phase of A.I. development known as “inferencing.” (NYT)

🦾 Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic (WIRED)

🦾 Musk's xAI plans massive expansion of AI supercomputer in Memphis (Yahoo!finance)

🦾🌐 AI at the Edge, the next computing revolution: By embracing on-device AI, Europe can boost its competitiveness and ability to innovate … (The Parliament Magazine)

🦾 Liquid computing and cybernetics for robotics and computer science (Open Access Government)

⚛️ UK’s SparQ Program Supports 12 Quantum Computing Proof-of-Concept Projects (Quantum Computing Report)

⚛️🤖 The Intersection of AI and Quantum Computing: A New Era of Innovation (HPCWire)

⚛️⚡️ Next-Gen Quantum Computing: The Fusion of Atoms and Photonic Innovation (SciTechDaily)

⚛️ 4 top quantum computing companies in Israel’s increasingly robust market (Israel21c)

🤖 OpenAI Poaches 3 Top Engineers From DeepMind … all of whom will work in a newly opened OpenAI office in Zurich, Switzerland. (WIRED)

🤖 Nous Research announces the pre-training of a 15B parameter language model over the internet (X)

🤖 Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models (TechCrunch)

🤖 First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Funding News

🤖 Female-founded Pathway raises $10M to power future of live AI systems (TechFundingNews)

🤖 How /dev/agents Secured a $56M Seed Round at a $500M Valuation (autogpt)

🦾 Germany is Betting Big on Chips with a €2 Billion Subsidy Plan (msn)

🦾 Bezos Backs AI Chipmaker Tenstorrent at $2.6 Billion Value (yahoo!finance)

P.S. We’ll have Keith Witek, COO at Tenstorrent, as a keynote speaker at the Future of Computing Conference next week

⚡️ Akhetonics gets fresh funding for a contrarian bet on all-optical chips (TechCrunch)

⚛️ Italian VC Operator CDP Venture Capital Invests in Multiverse Computing as Part of Series A Round (Quantum Insider)

⚛️ SDT Secures $14.1M Pre-IPO Investment to Advance Korea’s Quantum Technology Leadership (Quantum Insider)

Good Reads

🤖 Late Takes on OpenAI o1 (Sorta Insightful)

“OpenAI o1 is a model release widely believed (but not confirmed) to be a post-trained version of GPT-4o. It is directly trained to spend more time generating and exploring long, internal chains of thought before responding.”

🦾 Amazon’s AI Self Sufficiency | Trainium2 Architecture & Networking (Semianalysis)

“Amazon is currently conducting one of the largest build-out of AI clusters globally, deploying a considerable number of Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. In addition to a massive Capex invested into Nvidia based clusters, AWS is also investing many billions’ dollars worth of capex into Trainium2 AI clusters.”

🦾 How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas) (ACQ2 Podcast)

“ARM is an incredibly unlikely story. They were founded in Cambridge, England in 1990 to design a new chip architecture just for low-power devices (like the Apple Newton!), leaving the “serious computing” on desktop and servers to Intel’s x86. Now, nearly three decades later, ARM is the dominant architecture in all of computing today.”

Also, check out our interview with Arm founder Hermann Hauser: From Microprocessors to Modern AI

❄️ Cubits in a Fridge: Make Quantum Great Again (State of the Future)

“I spoke with Himadri, CEO of SemiQon, a portfolio company, taking the Silicon Spin path. They say, look, the other approaches have merit but silicon spin will win because it is the only way to get cheap and scalable computers.”

⚛️ Combining quantum processors with real-time classical communication (Nature)

“Here we experimentally realize error-mitigated dynamic circuits and circuit cutting to create quantum states requiring periodic connectivity using up to 142 qubits spanning two QPUs with 127 qubits each connected in real time with a classical link.”

⚡️ Probabilistic photonic computing with chaotic light (Nature Communications)

“Here, we use chaotic light in combination with incoherent photonic data processing to enable high-speed probabilistic computation and uncertainty quantification. We exploit the photonic probabilistic architecture to simultaneously perform image classification and uncertainty prediction via a Bayesian neural network.”

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