Meet the most powerful AI GPU

Happy Sunday! Welcome to another edition of Lightway.

Here’s what we have for you this week:

→ Nvidia releases the most powerful AI chip
→ Google’s new Vlogger AI
→ Apple might use Google’s Gemini AI in iPhones
→ X open sourced Grok AI model
and 10 more Tech & AI news

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Highlights of the week

NVIDIA releases the most powerful AI chip ever

NVIDIA released the next generation AI GPU that is 4X faster than the current Hopper GPU.

The new Blackwell B00 GPU comes with 208 billion transistors capable of 20 PetaFlops of compute, while saving up to 25x energy consumption.

The GPU might cost $40,000 and is geared towards enterprise data centers.

Additionally, 2 B200 GPUs and 1 Grace GPU can be combined to form a GB200 superchip, capable of 30x performance gain for AI inference! (Read More)

Google’s “VLOGGER” AI creates vlog from an image

Google researchers unveiled “VLOGGER” AI, capable to transforming a single input image into realistic videos with audio and face movement.

Under the hood, Vlogger AI uses diffusion models to animate diverse individuals with speech and gestures.

The model can be used to dub a video into another language and in creating better interactions in virtual reality. (read more)

Apple might use Google’s Gemini AI in iPhones

Apple and Google are discussing a partnership to integrate Google's Gemini AI into iPhone features.

This collaboration could expand their existing relationship, with Google currently paying Apple $20 billion annually to be the default search engine on iOS devices.

This potential partnership, expected to be announced by June, might face regulatory scrutiny due to existing antitrust investigations. (read more)

X open sources Grok AI model

Elon Musk's xAI open-sourced the base model of Grok AI. Under the hood, Grok is a Mixture-of-Expert model with 314 billion parameters.

Grok is available under Apache License 2.0, allowing anyone to use it, even for commercial use. (Read More)

 Tech Roundup

→ Control computer using brain implant: Elon Musk’s Brain implant startup, Neuralink, showed a patient controlling computer to play chess and other games using brain implants. (link)

→ Videos from images: Stability AI launches new model that turns images into 3D videos. (link)

→ Microsoft AI: Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Suleyman to head new consumer AI organization. (link)

→ Foldable iPhone?: Apple’s foldable iPhone might debut as soon as in 2026 (link)

→AGI 5 years away?: NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang predicts Artificial General Intelligence could be achieved within 5 years (link)

→ Super computers to discover medicines: Ozempic creator plans AI supercomputer to discover new medicines and treatments (link)

→ Reddit IPO: Reddit went public this week, with price jumping 48% at open (link)

→ Apple acquires AI startup: Apple acquires Canada-based DarwinAI, an AI startup focusing on vision-based technology to improve manufacturing component efficiency. (link)

→ United States vs Apple: The US Department of Justice is suing Apple for illegally monopolizing the smartphone market (link)

→ Stability AI CEO resigns: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI to focus on decentralize AI (link)

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