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Altimeter Capital ($20 Billion Venture Capital company) thinks Tesla FSD 13 has caught up to Waymo, one critical disengagement every 15000 miles and will reach one critical disengagement every 100,000 miles in Q1 2025. Altimeter Capital has sold all of its Uber holdings to buy Tesla. Brad Gerstner explained the sale of Uber by the ... Read more

Super Venture Capitalists Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner analyze the future of AI. The rate of improvement of large language models is slowing for pre-training. However, it is still improving and AI intelligence is improving with post-training and test time training. OpenAI and Microsoft announced a major AI advancement for 2025, featuring models with infinite ... Read more

HeyGen offers some the best and easiest to use AI video cloning. You can upload a picture and it will create animations of the person in the picture. There are many other systems for cloning voices from audio clips. Vasa-1 is an unreleased Microsoft AI for near realtime mimicking of voices and video faces from ... Read more

The FAA has indicated that it will grant SpaceX permission have 25 Starship launches in South Texas in 2025 versus the current limit of five launches. SpaceX will be allowed to continue increasing the size and power of the Super Heavy booster stage and Starship upper stage. The approvals for SpaceX and Tesla seem to ... Read more

Elon Musk is confident of unmanned SpaceX Starships going to Mars in the 2026 launch window. The Starships will bring Teslabots and Cybertrucks to Mars as part of the payload. SpaceX will need to bring systems to make methane fuel and liquid oxygen out of the Mars atmosphere. It would be ideal to have the ... Read more

Aligning the quantum property known as spin for fusion fuels could make it easier to generate electricity economically. Above – An artist’s interpretation of spin-aligned atoms during the process of fusion. (Illustration credit: Kyle Palmer / PPPL Communications Department) A different mix of fuels with enhanced properties could overcome some of the major barriers to ... Read more

Plasmonic structures exhibit a wide range of physical characteristics, which are benefited by the localized and intensified light–matter interaction. There have been many recent advancements with ultrafast plasmonics. Ultrafast plasmonic properties are exploited in numerous applications, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, sensors, and optical feedback in lasers. In addition to these applications, the ultrafast ... Read more

OORT, a pioneer decentralized cloud computing platform for AI applications, today reported that its customized AI solution (OORT AI) has significantly improved Githon Technology’s customer service standards. The integration of OORT AI has seen Githon Technology (formerly Lenovo Image) cut its customer support cost by 40% while also increasing the customer satisfaction rate to 95%. ... Read more

Quantum Circuits recently raised $60 million in a new funding round and they have just announced a new unique superconducting hardware system drives more efficiency with error-detecting dual-rail qubits. They have new software, simulator, and cloud service for full-stack enterprise solution that corrects first, then will be able to scale. Quantum Circuits, Inc., announced highly ... Read more

The sixth SpaceX Starship flight will be in a few minutes. The rocket and starship are almost fully fueled and we are about five minutes from launch. This should have another booster catch landing and an orbital Starship engine relight. The engine relight will set the stage for orbital flights in the next missions. SpaceX ... Read more

SpaceX Starship will have its sixth launch tomorrow. This will hopefully be the second successful catch of the booster. SpaceX COO Gwynn Shotwell describes how SpaceX Starship will be even more valuable than Starlink. Starlink could capture 30% of the global communication industry. SpaceX Starship can take over long range global air cargo and generate ... Read more

There is a new type of EUV lithography using only four reflective mirrors overturns conventional technology and will contribute to advanced semiconductors at 7nm and below. Professor Tsumoru Shintake of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that surpasses the standard in semiconductor manufacturing. EUV lithography based ... Read more

Ohysicists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison produced a tokamak plasma that is stable at 10 times the [old] Greenwald limit. The findings may have implications for tokamak fusion reactors, though the researchers caution that their plasma is not directly comparable to that in a fusion reactor. Nearly 40 years ago, Martin Greenwald identified a density ... Read more

New experiments by swiss researchers have show that industrial-relevant temperatures of 1,050°C can be generated from solar concentrators. Solar power for industrial heat would be able to decarbonize power as much as converting electricity generation to stop using fossil fuel. Current solar converters are expensive and inefficient when generating temperatures above 1,000°C for industrial processes. ... Read more

MIT researchers achieved 61.9% on ARC tasks by updating model parameters during inference. Is this key to AGI? We might reach the 85% AGI doorstep by scaling and integrating it with COT (Chain of thought) next year. Test-time training (TTT) for large language models typically requires additional compute resources during inference compared to standard inference. ... Read more

Elon posted that Tesla FSD (full self driving) V13.X will be another 5 to 10 times better in miles between intervention. Cool. V13 will be another 5 to 10 times better in miles between interventions. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2024

Unnamed OpenAI researchers told The Information that Orion (aka GPT 5), the next OpenAI full-fledged model release, is showing a smaller performance jump than the one seen between GPT-3 and GPT-4 in recent years. On certain tasks, the Orion model is not reliably better than its predecessor according to unnamed OpenAI researchers. eX-OpenAI co-founder Ilya ... Read more

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been named to head a department of government efficiency. Elon Musk has said at least $2 trillions per year could be removed from the $6.5 trillion annual federal government budget. The US budget in 1998 was $1.65 trillion. the 1998 budget inflation-adjusted to 2024 value is $3.2 trillion. = ... Read more