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Jensen Huang the CEO of Nvidia described how xAI built a 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPU AI cluster in 19 days. Other customers need a year (365 days or about 20 times as long) to install the same size AI cluster. Jensen called the xAI achievement superhuman. The customers of Nvidia GPUs have to work with ... Read more

Elon Musk said the SpaceX starship achieved a precise, soft landing in the ocean, paving the way for return to launch site and being caught by the tower arms, like the booster. Full and rapid reusability improves the cost of access to orbit and beyond by over 10,000%. The cost per kilogram to space will ... Read more

Sandy Munro is a car expert whose company has taken apart thousands of cars to analyze how to improve the manufacturing and design. Sandy was super-impressed by the Tesla robotaxi, robovan and teslabots. He thinks the robovan will dominate and grow the limousine market. The All-in-podcast guys think the robovan will open up new markets ... Read more

xAI completed its 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI data center before Meta and OpenAI despite the Meta and OpenAI getting chips delivered first. xAi completed the main chip installation and build in 19 days and the overall project in 122 days. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this scale of build can take a year for many ... Read more

SpaceX has applied to the FCC to make changes to Starlink to increase communication speed from 200-300 Mbps to about 1 gigabit per second or more. SpaceX will get the Starship flying and will launch new Starlink satellites that are about three times bigger than the Starlink version 2 mini. SpaceX wants to lower the ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang knows exactly how long it takes most companies to build an AI data center using Nvidia GPUs. He describes how his Nvidia team worked with xAI and Elon Musk to build a complete AI Data Center with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in 19 days. Elon Musk has said it took 122 ... Read more

Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) batteries are ramping up to serious scale and could offer a 20% boost in energy density over LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) batteries. LMFP operates at a higher voltage than LFP, its theoretical energy density can reach up to 230 Wh/kg, which is 15% to 20% greater than that of LFP ... Read more

A paper by Chinese researchers, “Quantum Annealing Public Key Cryptographic Attack Algorithm Based on D-Wave Advantage”, described how D-Wave’s machines can optimize problem-solving in ways that made it possible to decode tiny version of a military grade public key cryptography. Wang Chao from Shanghai University, used a D-Wave machine to attack Substitution-Permutation Network (SPN) structured ... Read more

Google has a corporate agreement to buy energy (starting with 7 small nuclear reactors) from Kairos Power. Kairos Power FHR (KP-FHR) is a novel advanced reactor technology that leverages TRISO fuel in pebble form combined with a low-pressure fluoride salt coolant. The technology uses an efficient and flexible steam cycle to convert heat from fission ... Read more

Many people believe that Tesla robotaxi will not happen for years. However, the CEO of Uber Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber would love to partner with Tesla on the Robotaxi platform. NEWS: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says competing with Elon Musk is 'no easy matter' — and would love to partner with @Tesla to get Robotaxis ... Read more

Nvidia says that machine learning and agents will take over computer programming. Jensen says distributed AI inference will have to work in order to meet the demand for inference. AI inference will reflect upon getting the answer 10,000 times. Chain of reasoning and reflection and other intensification of compute for the answers. This will make ... Read more

Much like artificial intelligence, Big Data is becoming an increasing threat as much as it is an opportunity. The more data we gather, the more analysis that can be performed. And the more accurate and sensitive that data, the more validity those findings will have. Unfortunately, this also directly increases what’s at stake in the ... Read more

Vast Space, the aerospace startup founded by former crypto tycoon Jed McCaleb, plans to replace the International Space Station. Haven-2 would serve as a specialized lab in low-Earth orbit, where visitors can conduct microgravity research. The Vast Haven-1 space station is targeting August 2025. They will start with four cylindrical modules that can dock to ... Read more

The most important things about the booster catch and the simulated Starship catches is that the accuracy of positioning is in the centimeters or less. They will be able to repeat. The burnthroughs on the heat shield around one of the fins was minor. This is a new age. Now saving boosters and 33 Raptor ... Read more

SpaceX has ablative heat shield underneath the 18,000+ heat shield tiles. SpaceX Starship is going through peak heating and looks good and undamaged for the orbital re-entry and return. Now about ten minutes from the landing burn and the simulated tower catch and then a soft landing into the Indian Ocean. Starship has slowed to ... Read more

The SpaceX Starship launched and was caught. This is a new age for space with the booster catch. Fully resuable starship booser. If there is no incident with the orbital starship which should have no reentry damage with a massively improved heat shield then flight 6 should be in weeks and flight 7 could reuse ... Read more

SpaceX is preparing for what could be a launch and catch of the booster tomorrow. Ryan Hansen has an excellent video with renderings of all mechanisms and processes that will be used on the Mechazilla launch tower. A successful catch will mean recovery of the 33 engines in the booster and the entire super heavy ... Read more

The FAA has given SpaceX Starship the license to fly flight 5 and flight 6. The FAA has granted SpaceX the license to launch Starship 5 as early as tomorrow from Boca Chica, Texas. This approval, ahead of schedule, confirms all safety, environmental, and licensing requirements have been met. SpaceX’s “Mechazilla” launch tower will attempt ... Read more

Tesla robovan fits 20 people in it. It will get the cost down to 5 to 10 cents per mile. The Teslabots will mingle with the crowd and serve drinks.

Tesla has started the Robotaxi we robot event. There are twenty Tesla cybercabs at the Robotaxi Event. There are thirty other autonomous Model 3 and Y at the event. The cybercabs have no steering wheel.

Demis Hassabis (CEO of Deep Mind) and John M. Jumper have useed artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins. David Baker has learned how to master life’s building blocks and create entirely new proteins. The potential of their discoveries is enormous. They have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ... Read more

There have been reports of more problems getting gas at gas stations in hurricane impacted areas. While Tesla superchargers continued to function. Gas price tracking service GasBuddy reported that as of 2:43 pm ET Wednesday afternoon, 24.3% of gas stations statewide – or nearly one in four – were without fuel, a dramatic spike from ... Read more