Google AltUp 💽 NVIDIA HGX H200 ⚡ 3D Xray Breakthrough ☢️

AI 🤖 

Humane's much-anticipated Ai Pin wearable, touted as a smartphone alternative, lacks water resistance, according to a support page. The device, featuring laser projection and AI capabilities, may be damaged by water exposure, including condensation and perspiration, potentially voiding the warranty. The absence of an IP rating suggests limited protection against liquids or moisture, limiting its usability in various environments. Priced at $699, the Ai Pin's shortcomings, including the inability to transfer phone numbers and AI inaccuracies, raise concerns, making its appeal questionable compared to water-resistant smartphones in the same price range.
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NVIDIA has unveiled the HGX H200, a GPU based on the Hopper architecture, featuring the H200 Tensor Core GPU with HBM3e memory for generative AI and high-performance computing tasks. With 141GB of memory at 4.8 terabytes per second, the H200 provides double the capacity and 2.4 times more bandwidth than its predecessor, the A100. Expected to ship in Q2 2024, the H200 supports various form factors, including HGX H200 server boards and the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip. Cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are set to deploy H200-based instances in 2024.
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Tech 🧑‍💻 

A non-invasive 3D X-ray scan was invented to help unveil fragile scrolls' contents, safeguarding them from physical harm. Over six months, Farritor, leveraging artificial intelligence, decoded a pivotal word, "purple," opening a historical window. Dr. Jeanne Reames from UNO underscored the breakthrough's importance, foreseeing revelations on Macedonian culture by Marsyas and insights into the Roman Republic's decline by Seneca the Elder. These texts promise invaluable perspectives on governance, resonating with modern discussions on democracy and republics.
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Tim Hockin, a Kubernetes veteran at Google, reflects on the Kubernetes success and cautions against complacency in the rapidly evolving IT landscape. With Kubernetes celebrating a decade, Hockin acknowledges the uncertainty of its future dominance. He discusses the transformative impact of AI, distinguishing it from fleeting tech trends. Expressing skepticism about AI claims in the industry, he compares it to the enduring nature of dial-up modems. Addressing licensing concerns, he pragmatically acknowledges the need for companies like HashiCorp to sustain themselves.
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Business 💵 

Should you buy the iPhone 15 Apple's upcoming iOS 18 is expected to feature generative AI capabilities as the company aims to compete with Google and OpenAI. This strategic move comes amid predictions of minimal hardware advancements in the iPhone 16 series. Despite rumored improvements in processors, cameras, and connectivity, users might not find compelling reasons to upgrade. The article suggests that now is an opportune time to purchase the iPhone 15, highlighting its enhanced design, camera upgrades, and improved battery life. The Pro models, featuring titanium construction and advanced camera technology, are also praised. The advice encourages users to consider upgrading to enjoy a high-end iPhone experience.
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Web Summit 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, is set to feature 2,600 start-ups, with a record number founded by women from over 85 countries. Despite controversies leading to tech giants like Meta and Amazon withdrawing. AI takes center stage with discussions on its impact, featuring speakers like Jimmy Wales and Meredith Whittaker. The event emphasizes sustainability, using reusable materials for stages and providing 200,000 recyclable cardboard water cups for the 70,000 expected attendees.
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Tools ⚒️ 

LogoPicture AI is a tool that allows users to create optical illusion art with their logo in a matter of minutes. By uploading their logo in either PNG or JPEG format and selecting a predefined style or creating their own, users can generate 50+ pictures in a few minutes which will be delivered to their email. The tool offers multiple styles and high-resolution output formats. It also provides a 7-day money-back guarantee for the Starter plan. (Free)

Charmed AI The UV-unwrapped Texture Generator is a free beta tool designed to help game developers create bigger and richer 3D games by removing content production bottlenecks. It allows users to quickly and efficiently create 3D textures. (Free)

Research 🧠 

S-LoRA - an approach that enables the scalable serving of many LoRA adapters; it stores all adapters in main memory and fetches adapters of currently running queries to the GPU memory; employs novel tensor parallelism strategy and highly optimized custom CUDA kernels for heterogenous batching of LoRA computation; improves throughput by 4x, when compared to other solutions, and increases the number of served adapters by several orders of magnitude.
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AltUp - a method that makes it possible to take advantage of increasing scale and capacity in Transformer models without increasing the computational cost; achieved by working on a subblock of the widened representation at each layer and using a predict-and-correct mechanism to update the inactivated blocks; it widens the learn representation while only incurring a negligible increase in latency.
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Tip of the day 💡 

Python Tip: Use Counter for Element Occurrences

The Counter class from the collections module is a powerful tool for counting occurrences of elements in a sequence. Here's how to use it:

from collections import Counter

my_list = [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 5, 4]
counter = Counter(my_list)
print(counter)  

# Output: Counter({1: 3, 2: 2, 4: 2, 3: 1, 5: 1})

When to use Counter:

• Use Counter when you need to analyze the frequency of elements in a sequence.

• It's helpful for tasks like finding the most common elements or identifying duplicates efficiently.