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AI Hardware and Infrastructure
NVIDIA unveiled its Blackwell AI chip, a game-changer for computational power in training and deploying advanced AI models, raising the bar for hardware efficiency in AI infrastructure.
Apple ’s partnership with Broadcom to develop its first custom AI server chip, internally codenamed "Baltra," which aims to enhance AI processing capabilities and reduce reliance on external suppliers like NVIDIA.
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If 2024 was the year of artificial intelligence chatbots becoming more useful, 2025 will be the year AI agents begin to take over. You can think of agents as super-powered AI bots that can take actions on your behalf, such as pulling data from incoming emails and importing it into different apps.
We’re really going to see agents of AI – we saw it a bit in research, but now we’re seeing it a lot in research and industry. Essentially, how do you put these agents together to actually do things for you? And we’re now seeing interfaces. For example, there’s some API with Anthropic’s Claude where it can actually operate your computer to do things like put a meeting on your calendar or help you buy a plane ticket. Obviously, it has some risks – if they’re actually able to use your computer, they can do damage, they can make mistakes. So there are concerns with how this is done. But while the first versions of these kinds of tools weren’t successful, we’re now seeing more potential.
The recently published NTT DATA’s GenAI report reveals how companies plan to leverage the potential of the technology in the New Year 2025. According to the report, companies now want to move from the experimental phase to strategic adoption and real utilization. They are making necessary changes across domains and investing heavily to adapt to GenAI era.
To understand what the o3 result means, you need to understand what the ARC-AGI test is all about. In technical terms, it’s a test of an AI system’s “sample efficiency” in adapting to something new – how many examples of a novel situation the system needs to see to figure out how it works.
An AI system like ChatGPT (GPT-4) is not very sample efficient. It was “trained” on millions of examples of human text, constructing probabilistic “rules” about which combinations of words are most likely.
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI research lab backed by High-Flyer Capital Management has released DeepSeek-V3, the latest version of their frontier model. The Mixture-of-Experts model features a total of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated for each token. The model has been trained on 14.8 trillion tokens. DeepSeek has released the model on GitHub and a detailed technical paper outlining its capabilities.
DeepSeek AI also released the benchmark scores, and it outperformed Meta’s flagship Llama 3.1 405B parameter model, among many other closed-source models. It is also three times faster than its predecessor, the DeepSeek V2.
The Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman shares insights on artificial intelligence (AI) agents' growing impact heading into 2025 on Market Domination.
Newman projects that AI agents represent a $4 trillion annual global market opportunity over the next five years, describing it as "a massive opportunity" for companies. He explains that these AI solutions can provide organizations with thousands of "people-like workers" to handle automated tasks.
Throughout 2024, CNBC’s Jim Cramer discussed the seemingly boundless rise of artificial intelligence with dozens of CEOs across the tech world. Here is how five top enterprise leaders characterized AI’s meteoric rise this year.
Professor Geoffrey Hinton, a British-Canadian computer scientist who is popularly known as ‘Godfather of AI’, has issued a warning against artificial intelligence (AI).
While the concept of AI-powered PCs emerged in 2023, 2024 marked a significant influx of computers capable of handling real-world artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Not limited to PCs, Apple joined the movement with Apple Intelligence, offering enhanced options for users seeking portable laptops with AI capabilities.
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This Week's Summary
In 2024, the AI landscape saw remarkable improvements in hardware infrastructure; NVIDIA's Blackwell chip and Apple's reported development of a custom AI server chip led the charge. The industry is now moving towards AI agents, with even big players like Microsoft and NVIDIA gearing up for large-scale deployment in 2025. Companies are shifting from experimental phases to strategic AI adoption, while breakthrough developments like DeepSeek-V3's superior performance and OpenAI's achievements in general intelligence testing demonstrate the rapid evolution of the technology. This transformation comes with both promise and caution, with experts including the 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton raising important considerations about the technology's future impact.
