AI & Robotics

Nvidia has become one of the most valuable companies in the world in recent years thanks to the stock market noticing how much demand there is for graphics processing units (GPUs), the powerful chips Nvidia makes that are used to render graphics in video games but also, increasingly, train AI large language and diffusion models. But Nvidia does far more than just make hardware, of course, and the…

David Silver and Richard Sutton, two renowned AI scientists, argue in a new paper that artificial intelligence is about to enter a new phase, the “Era of Experience.” This is where AI systems rely increasingly less on human-provided data and improve themselves by gathering data from and interacting with the world. While the paper is conceptual and forward-looking, it has direct implications…

Meta announced today a partnership with Cerebras Systems to power its new Llama API, offering developers access to inference speeds up to 18 times faster than traditional GPU-based solutions. The announcement, made at Meta’s inaugural LlamaCon developer conference in Menlo Park, positions the company to compete directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the rapidly growing AI inference…