⚛️🦾 Portable Quantum Computers, Lots of AI Chips, LLM Memory and Scaling Laws

This week has been busy, so there are no interviews and just news :-)

Future of Computing News

🤖 o1: Smarter than we think (2024) (Life Architect)

🤖 World Labs: a spatial intelligence AI company by visionary AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li (World Labs)

🤖 Welcome to the party of Qwen2.5 foundation models! This time, we have the biggest release ever in the history of Qwen (X)

⚛️ Conductor Quantum: List of Relevant Publications from YC’s new Quantum Startup (Conductor Quantum)

⚛️ Germany picks 4 startups to deliver world’s first quantum computer for ‘mobile defence’ (TheNextWeb)

⚛️ Oxford Ionics and Infineon Technologies to deliver portable quantum computer to Cyberagentur as part of €35M investment (Oxford Ionics)

⚛️ IQM Quantum Computers reaches production milestone of 30 quantum computers (IQM)

🦾 Intel postpones building chip factory in Germany's Magdeburg (Yahoo! Finance)

🦾 Intel secures $3.5bn military semiconductor grant despite ongoing CHIPS Act funding dispute (DCD)

🦾 Amazon's Secret Weapon in Chip Design Is Amazon: A vertical integration between Annapurna Labs and Amazon Web Services is paying off (IEEE Spectrum)

🦾 Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown: In AI’s game of thrones, don’t count out the upstarts (IEEE Spectrum)

🦾 TikTok's owner wants to design its own AI chips (Quartz)

🦾 Chip Startup Groq Backs Saudi AI Ambitions With Aramco Deal (Yahoo! Finance)

Factory Network x {Tech: Berlin} AI Hackathon

Mark your calendar for the 1st AI Hackathon by {Tech: Berlin} X Factory Network on September 28, 2024

Whether you're an AI enthusiast or a coding wizard – this is your chance to explore a technology stack, detect cat images like a YOLO pro, and flex your prompting skills with cutting-edge language models.

Funding News

⚛️ Finland-based QMill Raises $4.5 Million in Seed Funding (The Quantum Insider)

🤖 Announcing Our Series A (Sakana AI)

🤖 Llumo AI Raises $1 Mn In Seed Round From Sense AI, Venture Catalysts, Others (BWDisrupt)

⚡️ Photonics startup Lightium raises $7M to mass-produce thin-film lithium niobate data center interconnects (Silicon Angle)

🦾 Cybord Secures $8.7M in Series A Funding to Revolutionize Electronics Manufacturing with Traceability (Unite AI)

🦾 SweGaN raises nearly €12M of equity (Compound Semiconductor)

🦾 LiquidStack secures $20M in fresh funding for liquid cooling for AI data centers

Good Reads

ZML (GitHub)

“High-performance AI inference stack. Built for production.”

OpenAI technical goals (OpenAI)

Old one but gold: “Defining a metric for intelligence is tricky, but we need one to measure our progress and focus our research. We’re thus building a living metric which measures how well an agent can achieve its user’s intended goal in a wide range of environments.”

Schrodinger's Memory: Large Language Models (arXiv)

“We argue that LLM memory operates like Schrödinger's memory, meaning that it only becomes observable when a specific memory is queried.”

AI can't cross this line and we don't know why (Welch Labs, YouTube)

Are scaling laws like an ideal gas law for AI? Find out more about the relationship between compute and model’s accuracy.

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