Author: Zach_Wilson
Most formidable supercomputer ever is warming up for ChatGPT 5 — thousands of ‘old’ AMD GPU accelerators crunched 1-trillion parameter models
The most powerful supercomputer in the world has used just over 8% of the GPUs it’s fitted with to train a large language model (LLM) containing one trillion parameters – comparable to OpenAI‘s GPT-4. Frontier, based in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, used 3,072 of its AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs…
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Exclusive: First 2TB MicroSD card is now on sale and no, it is not expensive at all — Taiwanese company makes my dream of building a petabyte-in-a-shoebox project become true
Almost one year after the first 1.5TB microSD card went on sale, a little known company called AGI has piped Kioxia to the post by putting the first ever 2TB microSD card on sale, a candidate for our best microSD card buying guide. At only $229 plus delivery (that’s about…
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Ayaneo’s Next Lite is a $299 Steam Deck competitor with unofficial SteamOS
Ayaneo’s attempt to launch a bargain-price competitor to the Steam Deck has been confusing, to say the least, but the company has now published a product page that clears most things up. The Ayaneo Next Lite will cost $299, will not ship with an official build of SteamOS but rather…
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Substack keeps the Nazis, loses Platformer
Platformer, the tech newsletter started by Verge alum Casey Newton, is leaving Substack over its policies around and response to pro-Nazi publications using the platform. Newton notes that after identifying seven Substack publications “that conveyed explicit support for 1930s German Nazis and called for violence against Jews, among other groups,”…
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The Peregrine lunar lander didn’t land, but it’s still collecting data
Astrobotic’s ill-fated Peregrine moon lander may soon be tumbling through space, but in the meantime, it’s collecting data for science. In an update on Thursday, NASA disclosed that payloads aboard the lander successfully collecting data. Astrobotic shared a similar update on X (formerly Twitter) earlier in the day. NASA says…
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Rabbit sells out two batches of 10,000 R1 pocket AI companions over two days
In a Wednesday post on X (formerly Twitter), the startup Rabbit announced that it sold through its first 10,000-unit production run in just one day. “When we started building r1, we said internally that we’d be happy if we sold 500 devices on launch day,” Rabbit writes. “In 24 hours,…
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