Nvidia launches Blackwell, Gemini on iPhones, Meta Quest 3S + more! - TechLinked March 18, 2024

RILEYISMYNAME · March 19

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BLACKWELL-DONE

Nvidia announces Blackwell GB200, the “world’s most powerful chip for AI”

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-blackwell-platform-arrives-to-power-a-new-era-of-computing

GTC 2024 Keynote https://youtu.be/Y2F8yisiS6E

https://www.pcmag.com/news/meet-nvidias-blackwell-gpu-a-chip-to-supercharge-ai-training

DGX NVL72 - Blackwell DGX.mp4 - @0:05

up to 30X the inference performance of Hopper @14:40

Not just chatbots: talked up Digital Twins a lot @50:45

Even made a Digital Twin of EARTH (for weather) https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-earth-climate-digital-twin

https://youtu.be/9vEaImsSCrw?t=4 - @0:04

https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/18/with-blackwell-gpus-ai-gets-cheaper-and-easier-competing-with-nvidia-gets-harder/

Nvidia competitors all lined up to kiss the ring @16:42, 17:25, 17:57, 18:13

Jensen looked confident https://twitter.com/ryanshrout/status/1769827573188465087

Then tried to explain the ratio of tokens to words and said “this is not going well” @8:53

APPLE TRIES TO MAKE FRIENDS

Apple in discussions with Google/OpenAI to use Gemini for gen AI on iPhones

https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1769596923013747014

Speculation Apple is falling behind https://gizmodo.com/apple-cant-build-ai-asking-google-gemini-power-siri-1851343967

Tim Cook promised big AI announcements this year, tipped for WWDC https://lmg.gg/MkwS1 (Gizmodo)

Google paused Gemini’s image generation after controversy https://www.axios.com/2024/02/23/google-gemini-images-stereotypes-controversy

BUT Apple just revealed MM1, an AI family which apparently competes with Gemini and GPT-4 https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1769509530776338895

Pre-print paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09611

Paper seems to focus more on pre-training than the resultant models

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/apple-reveals-mm1-ai-model-and-it-could-power-the-new-siri-20

“The researchers behind MM1 claim their new method speeds up performance and reduces the number of follow up prompts to get a desired result.” https://lmg.gg/dYEJc (Tom’s Guide)

Taking their time, NOT staying indoors for 4 months to push out an AI like X

xAI open-sources Grok-1 weights and architecture under Apache 2.0 license

https://x.ai/blog/grok-os

https://huggingface.co/xai-org/grok-1

Gemini’s image generation https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/28/google-chief-ai-tools-photo-diversity-offended-users

VENTURA GUESS

Meta Quest 3 lite leaks in renders

https://www.androidcentral.com/gaming/virtual-reality/meta-quest-3s-leak-presentation

in now-deleted reddit thread, reposted on Twitter https://twitter.com/Lunayian/status/1769104387702460616

Lines up with The Verge article from last year https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23619730/meta-vr-oculus-ar-glasses-smartwatch-plans

Meta VR vice president Mark Rabkin discussed “accessible” headset for 2024 https://lmg.gg/LcLM2 (The Verge)

Earlier leaked render doesn’t have pass-through https://twitter.com/ZGFTECH/status/1768529195586773124

Whereas new leak allegedly from Meta User Research Zoom meeting seems to feature pass-through

Presentation says “Discover Mixed reality” in French (EDITOR: click on rightmost photo and zoom in on the left side of the image where it says “découvrez la réalité mixte”) https://twitter.com/Lunayian/status/1769104387702460616/photo/2

QUICK BITS

KNOW WHEN TO FOLD ‘EM

Leaked price for Samsung’s rumored Z Fold 6 FE budget foldable

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-6-fe-may-drop-this-key-feature-to-bring-the-price-down

New report from Korean outlet SisaJournal-e suggests price of 1.05 million won, or about $800 US dollars https://www.sisajournal-e.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=401313

Foldable will have lesser chip https://9to5google.com/2024/03/18/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-6-price-report/

No S Pen support, worse display, smaller battery https://lmg.gg/4QV65 (9to5Google)

Apple product roadmap allegedly leaks https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-roadmap-reveals-exciting-information-foldable-iphone-ar-glasses_id156372

leaked by @Tech_Reve on Twitter https://twitter.com/Tech_Reve/status/1768935856004563368

Lines up with reporting from The Elec https://lmg.gg/aXu2r

“Researcher Kang Min-soo said, “Apple is predicted to release a 7-8 inch foldable iPhone in 2026.”” (EDITOR: scroll down to highlighted quote) https://lmg.gg/OjDT5

WE’RE #2!

Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset as a cheaper option for premium phones

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/24101903/qualcomm-snapdragon-8s-gen-3-chipset-on-device-ai

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21307/qualcomm-announces-snapdragon-8s-gen-3

https://www.engadget.com/qualcomms-snapdragon-8s-gen-3-chip-is-a-notch-below-its-flagship-processor-075258397.html

SMALL DISK ENERGY

Huawei develops new archival storage tech

https://www.techradar.com/pro/huawei-may-have-used-a-very-clever-trick-to-make-hard-disks-use-less-power-spin-on-demand-disk-drives-may-well-compete-with-tape-on-performance-but-at-what-cost

Story broken by Blocks and Files https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/03/12/huawei-med-drive-information-emerging-slowly/

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/huaweis-new-magneto-electrical-disks-promise-90-lower-power-consumption-than-hdds-ability-to-store-tons-of-archival-data

THEY CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE

SpaceX building spy satellites