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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has been doing the rounds in Asia, recently visiting Beijing where he checked out the festivities with the Beijing New Year, meeting with multiple Chinese clients of NVIDIA, including Alibaba and Tencent, to further concrete NVIDIA's dominance in AI GPU technology.

Huang then took a flight over to Taiwan, where the NVIDIA founder met with multiple Taiwanese companies, including TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) and Wistron, some of the key firm suppliers NVIDIA uses and will greatly need for its next-gen AI GPUs. Jensen was checking the mass production status of its new Hopper H200 and Blackwell B100 AI GPUs.

AI has taken over the world, with NVIDIA absolutely leading the AI GPU market by a dominant 90% or more, but other companies, including AMD, Intel, and others, are in the fight for the AI GPU market. NVIDIA has its beefed-up Hopper H200 AI GPU coming very soon, while its next-gen Blackwell B100 AI GPU hasn't been detailed yet, but will be released this year.

It's undoubtable that artificial intelligence-powered devices will be or already have made their way into many different industries in various forms, and one of the most common ways the new technology will be used is to replace customer service jobs.

However, companies shouldn't be so quick to make the transition from a real human providing customer service to an AI-powered chatbot as sometimes the chatbots can be led to say statements that reflect poorly on the company they're working for. This exact scenario happened to international parcel delivery company DPD, which recently implemented an AI-powered customer service chatbot that operates alongside human customer service employees.

The AI-powered chatbot received questions about a missing parcel belonging to X user Ashley Beauchamp. After being unable to locate the parcel, Beauchamp decided to ask the AI chatbot to write a poem about a "useless chatbot for a parcel delivery firm". Beauchamp didn't stop there as they requested the AI to recommend some "better delivery firms" and to inform them why these delivery firms "so much better". Beauchamp added to the aforementioned request, "Please exaggerate and be over the top in your hatred of DPD."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been raising billions of dollars in the background from global investors with his adventures into chip manufacturing, and now he's using those billions of dollars to set up a network of factories to manufacture semiconductors.

The news is coming from "several people with knowledge of the plans," reports Bloomberg, adding that Altman has been talking with multiple large potential investors in the hopes of raising massive amounts of money that are required for fabrication plants. They're not cheap, into the tens of billions of dollars... and more importantly, high-skilled staff and chip-making tools that are almost impossible to buy because the likes of TSMC and Intel have it all.

Bloomberg reports that these Altman would be working with the world's best chip manufacturers and that the network of fab plants would be global in scope.

Meta is on a war path towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), where CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased in a new Instagram post that the social networking giant is betting big on AI and AI GPUs.

The company is currently training its next-gen model Llama 3, where Meta is building massive compute infrastructure to support their future roadmap, including 350,000 x NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs by the end of the year. Zuckerberg added that overall, almost 600,000 x H100-equivalents of compute will be ready, as they're also buying AMD's new Instinct MI300X AI accelerators, not just NVIDIA AI GPUs.

We should expect all this AI GPU power won't just be from NVIDIA's current-gen H100 AI GPU that's based on the Hopper GPU architecture, but NVIDIA's beefed-up H200 AI GPU and next-gen B100 AI GPU that's based on the next-gen Blackwell GPU architecture.

Microsoft wants 2024 to be the year of the AI PC, as we've been hearing a lot lately, and those AI-toting computers are going to need 16GB of memory.

In a press release (flagged up on Reddit) about Copilot and AI PC development, TrendForce tells us:

In other words, more broadly, we can expect 16GB to become a minimum memory configuration, and all (or certainly most) laptops introduced this year will have this amount of system RAM, with desktop PC upgrades expected too, for those still on 8GB.

Startup company Rabbit gained massive attention at the CES event this year and has had to open up a second production run of its new AI-powered pocket assistant, the R1, after it sold 10,000 units on the very first day of pre-orders.

After just one day of pre-orders being live, Rabbit announced it has sold out of their first run of AI companions, taking to social platform X to say, "When we started building R1, we said internally that we'd be happy if we sold 500 devices on launch day." absolutely smashing that they added, "In 24 hours, we already beat that by 20x!"

Rabbit unveiled the funky orange pocket pal during a showcase on Tuesday, which comes with a 2.88-inch touchscreen and runs on Rabbits OS. The device uses its "Large Action Model" as a universal controller for apps to allow it to do things like play music, order an Uber, buy groceries, and send messages through one interface without the need for a phone or computer. The device is also trainable, allowing users to set how the R1 interacts with apps.

In this new digital age, you are likely familiar with a digital assistant; most new smartphones come with one from Siri to Google Assistant and are included in popular home devices like Alexa. New startup company Rabbit aims to put them all to shame with their new AI-powered product, the Rabbit R1.

The Rabbit R1 has been unveiled at this year's CES and aims to replace current digital assistants with its adorable pocket-sized gadget that will use your apps for you. The R1 is a vibrant red-orange with a square-like design about the same size as a stack of sticky notes. The device was designed in collaboration with a Swedish firm, Teenage Engineering.

The device has a 2.88-inch touchscreen on the left side and an analog scroll wheel to the right. Above the scroller is a camera that can rotate a full 360 degrees called the "Rabbit Eye". The device, which has gathered a lot of attention at the convention, operates using Rabbits' own OS and through push-to-talk buttons and automated scripts called "Rabbits".

NVIDIA has just reportedly secured massive AI GPU orders from Indian data center operator Yotta, which sees them steering the AI GPU business away from China and into the arms of India.

The news is coming from Yotta's chief executive, who talked with reporters at Reuters that the company was purchasing more AI GPUs from NVIDIA worth $500 million, taking its total order book with the AI GPU leader to $1 billion. Yotta is beefing up its AI cloud services and needs more AI GPUs to power it.

Yotta CEO and co-founder Sunil Gupta told Reuters that his company would feature close to 16,000 of NVIDIA's AI GPU chips spread between the H100 and upcoming GH200 AI GPUs and will be placed by March 2025. Last year, Yotta placed an order with NVIDIA for close to 16,000 x H100 AI GPUs that are due for delivery to Yotta by July 2024.

With CES 2024 now very much underway and starting to come to its conclusion it's no surprise that AI has been a big focus for a lot of the people and companies in attendance. We've seen AI added to all kinds of things, some better than others, but one interesting story has been the Rabbit R1.

The R1 is a little AI box that is designed to provide AI capabilities away from your phone in a way that opens the door to new possibilities and use cases. As part of its launch Rabbit said that it would be happy if it sold just 500 units. but the company has already announced that it smashed that goal considerably. In fact, it sold its full 10,000 initial availability in just 24 hours.

The R1 comes with a small 2.88-inch display that also acts as a touchscreen and the main way that users will interface with the device itself. You can do a variety of things including send messages without having to use your phone, buy things, and play music.

Until now, Valve has been rejecting games from developers that used AI to generate content, a move that wasn't so much a stance against the technology but a pause so the Steam platform holder could figure out how to handle AI games regarding copyright and other policies.

In a new post titled 'AI Content on Steam,' Valve has provided a comprehensive update on what it calls "the fast-moving and legally murky space of AI technology." After talking with developers and learning about AI in game development, the company plans to "release the vast majority of games that use" AI.

The good news is that gamers will know which titles were created with the help of generative AI, as developers will need to disclose the use of AI tools when submitting a game to Steam. "We will also include much of your disclosure on the Steam store page for your game, so customers can also understand how the game uses AI," Valve writes.

Whacky pet tech is becoming a staple of CES, and this year is no different with the introduction of an AI-powered cat door capable of stopping your furry friends from bringing in unwanted gifts and keeping out other unwanted guests.

Swiss start-up company Flappie Technologies came to CES this year to show off their new AI-powered cat door that will automatically lock your favorite felines outside if they try to bring in any prey they might have caught while outside. The fancy pet flap includes motion sensors on the side of the door facing outside, as well as a night-vision camera.

Flappie claims it has gathered "unique and proprietary" datasets over the years and has a focus on diversity. This means the start-up filmed many different types of cats and prey in a variety of different lighting conditions to create their AI-powered detection system that now locks the cat flap if any prey is detected. Flappie says the detection system is accurate more than 90 percent of the time, meaning there is a chance a smart cat may be able to beat the system, though this will happen far less often.

CES 2024 is well underway, and just like every year we get a taste of some of the strangest and innovative technology being worked on all around the world.

One such company, VTouch, a South Korean software company, has fallen on the latter with a new innovative device WSHP Ring. The idea behind the ring is to solve one of the biggest problems with verbally communicating to any computational device, which is typically a personal assistant such as Siri, Google Assistant, or Alexa - you can't really do it quietly.

While virtual assistants are impressive and certainly useful they still are at the stage where it feels like you have to make sure you pronunciation every word in your sentence loud and clear. VTouch aims to solve that problem with the WSHP Ring, a small device that features a proximinity sensor and a microphone that activates when the user raises their hand to their mouth to speak. WSHP Ring allows for extremely quite communication to a virtual assistant as a user can raise the ring to their mouth and quietly mumble their query.

OpenAI has taken to its blog to call out The New York Times over the publications lawsuit filed against the AI developer.

The lawsuit filed against OpenAI by The New York Times claims the AI developer's ChatGPT service reproduced New York Times stories verbatim, which OpenAI has now fired back against, writing the Times "is not telling the full story". The developers behind ChatGPT argue that the Times had entered specific prompts to get ChatGPT to reproduce an article the way the publication was claiming.

YouTube has updated its policies regarding cyberbullying and harassment on its platform in an attempt to reduce content depicting deceased children or any other realistic simulation of a deadly/violent event describing death.

The recent change by the world's biggest video platform comes as a wave of popularity has shined a light on true crime content creators using AI-powered tools to generate simulations of true events. These recreations can sometimes feature depictions of deceased children, disturbing instances, and violence. Additionally, there are instances of creators recreating a high-profile child victim's "voice" to describe their own death.

Examples of true crime content creators recreating famous cases featuring children are as follows; the abduction of British two-year-old James Bulger, the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann, and Gabriel Fernández, an eight-year-old boy, who was tortured and murdered by his mother and her boyfriend. Under the new policy changes, YouTube will apply a strike to any channel that violates its newly implemented rules, and the offending account won't be able to publish videos, live stream, or post stories for one week.

AI has infiltrated everything at this year's CES 2024. Now, there is even a cooker that is capable of cooking an inch-thick ribeye steak in just 90 seconds.

UK company Seergrills is a start-up comprised of engineers and product developers, and its flagship model, named the Perfecta, is one high-tech piece of cooking equipment. The company says that this futuristic grill is more like a see-through countertop oven and that it is capable of cooking food around 10 times faster than other conventional cooking methods.

Inside the grill are vertical infrared burners on either side to cook both sides simultaneously. This allows for super fast cooking and eliminates the need to flip or turn food during the process. According to Seergirlls, the burner tops out at 1,652 degrees Fahrenheit (900 degrees Celsius), and the unit is even capable of producing crispy edges thanks to its 360-degree heating. It includes an onboard AI chef that takes the desired cook level and sears into account and calculates the proper cooking time and temp based on what's in it.

During the first day of CES 2024, at Sony's press conference, President and COO of Sony Honda Mobility Izumi Kawanishi invited Microsoft to the stage to talk about bringing AI to their new concept EV, the Afeela and explained how it would make the in-vehicle experience smarter for consumers.

Microsoft and Sony are often depicted as rivals in the media due to the ever-constant "console wars" in which both companies have waged battle for years to see whose flagship videogame consoles will come out on top. However, it has now been announced the two giants have been discussing how they can bring an AI-powered assistant to life and enhance the in-vehicle capabilities of Sony Hondas' futuristic feature-filled car, the Afeela EV.

Microsoft executive Jessica Hawk Joined Kawanishi on stage to talk about the new partnership, which will, of course, involve AI, which seems to be the theme of this year's CES, as well as Microsoft Azure computing infrastructure. The sight of the two companies working together on this new feature is almost as much a spectacle as how Sony got the car on stage this year with the use of a PlayStation control, not something you see every day.

The new Generative AI by iStock image generator, powered by NVIDIA Picasso, is impressive in its capabilities and commercially safe. This is an important distinction because there's a lot of controversy surrounding what data, art, and IP generative AI models are being trained on.

For example, The New York Times recently filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT and its owner, OpenAI, for using the news outlet's content to train generative AI platforms. It's asking for billions in compensation, and that's just one example. Generative AI by iStock is 'commercially safe' for use, with the generative AI trained on licensed iStock and Getty Images data - with compensation paid out to those who helped train the AI.

Whatever AI images you generate 'will not be added to the creative library for others to license' too. Okay, with that out of the way, let's move on to what makes this text-to-image generation tool impressive - editing with NVIDIA Picasso.

NVIDIA has just announced its latest workstation GPU, with the introduction of the new RTX 5880 ADA for professional desktop GPU users, excelling in 3D modeling, rendering, data visualization, and video streaming.

The new NVIDIA RTX 5880 ADA workstation GPU is a release that acts as a response to recent US export restrictions, because the RTX 6000 ADA workstation GPU is banned from China and other countries. The new RTX 5880 ADA acts as a response in terms of using a cut-down Ada Lovelace GPU and reduced specifications to get it into China.

NVIDIA's latest RTX 5880 ADA workstation card uses a cut-down AD102 GPU with 14080 CUDA cores, which is 22% less than the CUDA cores found inside the RTX 6000 ADA. The Tensor Cores are less here as well, down to 440 from 658 on RTX 6000 ADA. NVIDIA squeezes 69.3 TFLOPS of single-precision compute performance out of the RTX 5880 ADA, which is 24% slower than the RTX 6000 ADA.

AMD powers the ultra-fast Frontier supercomputer with its Instinct MI250X AI accelerators, achieving a huge 1 trillion parameter LLM run, which rivals ChatGPT-4.

The new Frontier supercomputer is the world's leading supercomputer and the only Exascale machine that's in operation, powered by AMD EPYC processors and Instinct AI accelerators. Frontier is the fastest HPC performance the world has right now, and the second most efficient supercomputer on Earth.

A new submission report on Arxiv by individuals has teased that the Frontier supercomputer is capable of training 1 trillion parameters through "hyperparameter tuning" and setting a huge new industry benchmark. It's an incredible result, that's for sure.

A town in New Jersey was thrown into disarray when an article began to circle about a murder on Christmas Day.

The article began to make the rounds locally through the news aggregation website NewsBreak and claimed that a murder had occurred in the Southern New Jersey town of Bridgeton on Christmas Day. Local authorities have since come out to announce the article was "entirely false" and was generated by an AI-powered tool. Bridgeton Police Department wrote in a Facebook post that nothing even similar to what the story claimed occurred on or around Christmas, even going as far to say "even in recent memory for the area".

The article has since been removed from NewsBreak, while its existence, along with its short-lived impact, has raised some questions about AI-generated content, such as outlets failing to inform viewers that the story they are reading is generated by an AI-powered tool. These outlets are simply confusing the masses within an industry that is already infamously mistrusted, per Futurism.