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Expect a drive towards efficiencies in AI in 2026, says Chris Kelly
CNBC Television· 2025-12-23 13:58
Market Trends & Industry Dynamics - AI and tech industry consolidation may occur in the new year [1] - There will be a war for talent among the biggest AI players, with potential new entrants [3] - A drive towards efficiency in AI model training is expected, moving away from constant expansion of data centers and GPUs [3] - Open source AI models, particularly from China and the US, will provide basic levels of compute and access [9][10] Investment Opportunities & Potential Risks - Breakthroughs in AI efficiency will lead to the rise of certain players, potentially acquired by larger companies [8] - Some believe there is a bubble around the constant upward spiral of more GPUs, power consumption, and data centers [8] - Major transactions in the large language model space are possible, especially for more efficient players [12] - Anthropic's valuation could potentially reach hundreds of billions of dollars, though this is viewed as unlikely [13] Company Strategy & Financial Performance - Meta is investing extensively in building a larger team focused on AI [6] - Apple has a significant cash hoard and stock to deploy for potential acquisitions in the AI space [11] - Companies with nine-figure (hundreds of millions) to twelve-figure (trillions) valuations are considering operating independently [13] - The resource intensity of operating AI models can be a cash drain [14]
Building Hyperscaler Engineered for AI with AI Workload Diversity
DDN· 2025-12-22 23:03
Company Overview - Nscale is a vertically integrated AI stack provider, offering end-to-end solutions from infrastructure to cloud [1] - The company customizes data centers for customers, optimizing for specific workloads, similar to a hyperscaler approach for private clouds [2][3] - Nscale is building the largest supercomputer cluster with Microsoft in Europe, comprising approximately 23,000 nodes [4] Technology and Services - Nscale supports diverse AI workloads including model training, fine-tuning, and inference, accommodating various parameters [5] - The company embraces Kubernetes and SLURM for orchestration, providing managed services and bare metal as a service [9][10] - Nscale offers an open AI API compatible interface, enabling scaling and deployment of open source or proprietary models, along with fine-tuning services [12] - The platform supports both Nvidia and AMD GPUs, catering to different customer requirements [13] Future Directions - Nscale aims to provide a global fleet management solution, integrating on-premise and public/private cloud solutions for a consistent customer experience [14] - The company plans to further diversify its AI services, focusing on open source systems and enterprise features like fine-grained access controls [15] - Nscale supports the open-source community through Hugging Face, acting as an inference provider [16]
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vitalik.eth· 2025-12-20 11:29
Ethereum Open Source Funding - Seeks volunteers with Ethereum Name Service (ENS) names for evaluating open source repositories' contributions to Ethereum [1] - Task involves evaluating the contribution of open source repos to Ethereum [1] - Aims to move away from quadratic funding towards an algorithmic approach leveraging expert insight [2] Evaluation Process - Volunteers authenticate with their ENS name to access the app [1] - Volunteers choose the top 3 repos and are assigned another 7 at random for comparison [1] - Volunteers make comparisons between 2 repos at a time & provide good reasoning [3] - Volunteers gauge originality for 3 of the 10 repos, scoring their dependency on dependencies [2] - AI suggested judgments are available for review [2] Funding Distribution - Accepted comparisons & scores will help resolve deep funding markets for public goods [2] - Comparisons then select winning AI models that distribute funding to repos [3] - Scores on dependency are used to determine funding staying with repos vs the share passed down to dependencies [2]
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Tesla Owners Silicon Valley· 2025-12-19 16:04
OpenAI 的创立与定位 - OpenAI 最初被创建为一个开源非营利组织 [1] - 公司章程明确规定,任何管理人员或家庭成员不得从 OpenAI 中获得经济利益 [1] OpenAI 的转变 - OpenAI 违反了最初的非营利承诺 [1] - OpenAI 开始收费 [1] - OpenAI 试图将“开放”的定义从“开源”改为“对所有人开放” [1]
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Avi Chawla· 2025-12-16 19:39
RT Avi Chawla (@_avichawla)Big update for ChatGPT/Claude Desktop users!MCP servers in Claude/Cursor don't offer UI any experience yet, like charts. It's just text/JSON, like below:{“symbol”: “AAPL”,“price”: 178.23,“change”: “+2.45%”}Displaying this as a visual element isn’t impossible, but most MCP servers make you write the same boilerplate twice, once for the React component and again to register it as an MCP tool.So you end up with duplicate schemas, manual prop mapping, and a bunch of registration code. ...
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Avi Chawla· 2025-12-16 06:53
Big update for ChatGPT/Claude Desktop users!MCP servers in Claude/Cursor don't offer UI any experience yet, like charts. It's just text/JSON, like below:{“symbol”: “AAPL”,“price”: 178.23,“change”: “+2.45%”}Displaying this as a visual element isn’t impossible, but most MCP servers make you write the same boilerplate twice, once for the React component and again to register it as an MCP tool.So you end up with duplicate schemas, manual prop mapping, and a bunch of registration code.A simplified approach is ac ...
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Avi Chawla· 2025-12-16 06:31
Big update for ChatGPT/Claude Desktop users!MCP servers in Claude/Cursor don't offer UI any experience yet, like charts. It's just text/JSON, like below:```{“symbol”: “AAPL”,“price”: 178.23,“change”: “+2.45%”}```Displaying this as a visual element isn’t impossible, but most MCP servers make you write the same boilerplate twice, once for the React component and again to register it as an MCP tool.So you end up with duplicate schemas, manual prop mapping, and a bunch of registration code.A simplified approach ...
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TechCrunch· 2025-12-15 22:03
Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models https://t.co/EUQzRTRIGF ...
小米语音首席科学家:AI发展的本质就像生物进化,不开源要慢1000倍 | MEET2026
量子位· 2025-12-15 08:05
Core Insights - The evolution of AI closely mirrors the biological evolution process, characterized by trial and error to identify superior solutions for specific tasks [7][10] - AI development is not linear but follows a pattern of "long-term stagnation + sudden leaps," similar to the concept of "punctuated equilibrium" in biology [7][25] Group 1: AI Evolution and Open Source - Open source is deemed a crucial accelerator for AI evolution; without it, the research speed could decrease to one-thousandth of its current pace [3][34][35] - The design process of AI "recipes" involves experimenting with different variants and selecting effective ones for publication, which others can then replicate [12][13] - The time required to replicate a new idea in AI, akin to the "generation time" in biology, has decreased from approximately two years to about six months [18][20] Group 2: Strategies for Survival in AI Competition - Large companies should adopt a dual strategy: leveraging current leading technologies while also exploring unknown territories to find the next disruptive opportunity [5][13][45] - Maintaining a balance between "generalists" and "specialists" in AI models is essential, as different evolutionary strategies can adapt to varying environments [44][45] - Companies should preserve a diversity of model architectures to increase the chances of discovering practical new technologies [45][46] Group 3: Future Directions and Innovations - The AI field must continuously explore new ideas across various tasks, as breakthroughs can emerge from unexpected areas [39][42] - The current focus on Transformer technology is likened to a "musical chairs" scenario, where companies must keep up with the prevailing trends while preparing for future shifts [46][47] - The company is developing a new model architecture called Zapformer, which aims to enhance voice recognition accuracy by 10%-15% and improve general robustness [53][54][56]