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Deepseek is freely available online for simple chat interface and charges far lower costs for heavy million+ token usage. The huge increase in capability with a team of just over 100 developers is causing panic at Meta and other AI companies. All AI competitors will have to rethink and rework what they are doing. Everyone ... Read more

SpaceX Starlink direct from satellite to cell phone Internet connection starts beta test in 3 days. Starlink direct from satellite to cell phone Internet connection starts beta test in 3 days https://t.co/ygAjtTN8SY — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 24, 2025 T-Mobile is offering Starlink texting to cellphones, but it’s currently in a limited beta phase: T-Mobile ... Read more

xAI Grok 3 will out in about two weeks. It is good at writing code and modelling the physics of the real world. It made code in python for ball bouncing inside a square and inside a tesseract. The big financial impact will be if it can seamlessly handle conversations and verbal instructions and questions. ... Read more

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. Demis thinks new agent type systems will be able to perform additional tree of knowledge search to achieve breakthrough insights like the move 37 in the Go system game. In this conversation, he talks about the path to artificial general intelligence. How long it will take to ... Read more

Experimenters have had overnight tests confirming they have OPEN SOURCE DeepSeek R1 running at 200 tokens per second on a NON-INTERNET connected Raspberry Pi. This is a distilled smaller model than the OPenAI O1 class model. Folks, I think we have done it! If overnight tests are confirmed we have OPEN SOURCE DeepSeek R1 running ... Read more

There has been the controversial announcement what is called a $500 billion AI project in the USA. There is controversy about how much funding is in the project. The announcement did talk about building this out over years. Altimeter Capital has an analysis of the financials for the $100 billion per year of the Softbank, ... Read more

Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will review that the nuclear thermal rocket program is taking and will take far longer. Also, triple the ISP does not cut the travel time by one third. There is no ... Read more

The fundamental change for Tesla needs to happen in 2025 to transform financials of the company. The Nvidia Chatgpt moment led to a surge of over 10X in Nvidia’s share price. There was also a surge in revenues, earnings and margin. This is the potential for Tesla if all of the growing AI related capabilities ... Read more