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xAI Grok is available at no extra cost to about ten million Telegram Premium users. Tracking the website and download activity, xAI Grok 3 appears to moving into second place behind OpenAI and ChatGPT. Telegram just hit 1 billion monthly active users—and now, it’s getting Grok AI. 𝕏 to Telegram – Grok’s first major expansion ... Read more

RogueSpaceCorp launched the OTP-2 satellite with the @ivo_ltd Quantum Drive as a payload. Another IVO quantum inertia drive is in orbit now and will be turned on within a few to ten weeks and then operated for many weeks or months. The previous satellite had communications failure and the IVO drive was not activated. The ... Read more

Yann LeCun is an AI expert that claims that generative AI and the current approaches to AI need to be abandoned. He says that the failure to achieve level 5 self driving cars and very capable humanoid bots shows that LLM are a failure. Tesla has again stated that they will have unsupervised robotaxi starting ... Read more

I will review the AI chips made by AMD, Google and Tesla. It is possible that Tesla with a strong Dojo 3 chip could pass AMD as second best AI chip performance and volume of chips. The top line of Tesla Abundance slide has AI compute along with Optimus, Robotaxi and FSD. This could indicate ... Read more

Two weeks ago, D-Wave System announced a scientific breakthrough using their quantum annealing computers systems. They published in the esteemed journal @ScienceMagazine. Their newest annealing quantum computer outperformed one of the world’s most powerful classical supercomputers in solving a complex magnetic materials simulation problem with relevance to materials discovery. The new landmark peer-reviewed paper, Beyond-Classical ... Read more

The new SpaceX Gigabay at Boca Chica is designed to be a massive vertical integration and assembly facility to support the production and refurbishment of the Starship launch system. The Gigabay will stand 380 feet tall and provide approximately 46.5 million cubic feet of interior processing space, with 815,000 square feet of workspace. It is ... Read more

Gemini 2.5 and Deepseek 3.1 both do very well on coding challenges and tests. Those who have tested them and Claude 3.7 Sonnet still prefer Claude for coding. 🚀 DeepSeek V3-0324 is now available in Cline. This model offers significant improvements for coding tasks while being up to 53x cheaper than Claude 3.7 Sonnet with ... Read more

Google Gemini 2.5 is a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems. The first 2.5 model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, leads common benchmarks by meaningful margins and showcases strong reasoning and code capabilities. Gemini 2.5 achieved a new level of performance by combining a significantly enhanced base model with improved post-training. Going forward, google ... Read more

Dr. Aubrey de Grey discusses his Robust Mouse Rejuvenation (RMR) studies at the LEV Foundation. He believes that three more RMR (Robust Mouse Rejuvenation) studies of combination therapy will get us to the goal of adding an average 12 months of lifespan to a 2 year old mouse that would normally be expected to live ... Read more

Tesla China weekly insurance registrations were 17,400 which were 4,200 more than the same week in 2024. This increase has enabled the YTD domestic China car sales to pass the YTD in 2024. This shows that the production ramp of the new Model Y is basically fully ramped. $TSLA 🇨🇳BREAKING: Tesla China insured units <Mar ... Read more

The Tesla Supercharging Network in the USA, at 80% utilization with ~28,000 stalls, can support 16.4 billion miles/year, sufficient for a 100k–200k Cybercab fleet but not 500k. High robotaxi utilization strains this capacity. Conversely, 3 million Tesla owners could provide 30–150 billion miles/year via home charging, leveraging solar and grid power, with a grid load ... Read more

Rapid improvement in Tesla FSD driving between critical interventions should see another 10X improvement between now and the planned June 2025 launch of unsupervised driving in Austin, Texas. There should be 10-50X reduction in critical interventions with driving in Texas, California and Florida where the system is better adapted. There would also be reduction in ... Read more

Tesla China has officially announced that the FSD update for HW3 and HW4 vehicles will be available via OTA. Also, the paused FSD 1 month trial will be re-distributed. Everything is currently pending regulatory approval. China appears close to giving full approval for Tesla FSD. A Chinese driver owns both a Tesla vehicle with FSD ... Read more

SpaceX’s Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle designed for interplanetary travel, with test flights conducted to refine its capabilities. As of early 2025, eight test flights have occurred, with Flights 7 and 8 both ending in the upper stage (Ship) exploding. There are significant technical challenges, possibly related to amplified vibration problems. ... Read more

Here is an LLM Hardware Calculator. If you enter the size of the LLM model you want to run locally, then the calculator will provide the GPUs, memory and other primary specifications needed to run the model.

NVIDIA released a new petaflop AI computer DGX Spark (aka DIGITS). There is an ASUS version using the same Nvidia chip and board. These compete with Apple and other third parties for personal AI developer systems. The Apple M3 Ultra can scale to 512 GB per unit, offering vastly more total memory (up to 2.56 ... Read more

Boeing has won a $20 billion contract for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter—the revolutionary F-47. Pilot Photog describes the breakthrough stealth and new engines for the sixth-generation stealth jet. There was also a lot more prototypes flown for the 6th generation fighter. The systems to be used have been built ... Read more

AI coding assistance in Replit, Cursor, and Windsurf are all good tools. Here is a comparison of features, ease of use, integration, pricing, community support, AI models, automation, and best use cases. This 6-way comparison found Replit worked better followed by Cursor and Windsurf. Replit Replit is a cloud-based IDE known for its accessibility and ... Read more

OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil predicts AI will outperform human coders in competitive coding benchmarks by 2025. OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer (CPO) Kevin Weil claimed that AI could surpass human coders in competitive coding benchmarks by the end of 2025. He said this in a podcast with Avalon CEO Varun Mayya and YouTuber Tanmay Bhat on ... Read more

Manus, developed by the Chinese startup Monica, is the world’s first fully autonomous AI agent. It launched on March 6, 2025. It can independently execute complex, real-world tasks. Manis AI can: Analyze stocks by conducting deep research, creating checklists, and generating reports with investment recommendations. Research AI tools by ranking the top 50 business AI ... Read more

Elon Musk has posted that SpaceX Starship is on track to weekly launches of the version 3 Starship in 2026. This will mean 20-30 times the bandwidth per Starship launch with Starlink V3 satellites versus Falcon 9 with V2 mini satellites. Forty Starship launches with each launching 60 TBPS of capacity. This would mean 2400 ... Read more