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Mark Zuckerberg teases $65B plan on building 1.3 million AI GPU datacenter in 2025
Meta will spend over $65 billion this year alone on its AI plans, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in order to boost its AI power against rivals OpenAI and Google.
The social networking giant will increase its hiring for artificial intelligence roles, and will build a new 2-gigawatt data centter, which will be so big it would cover most of Manhattan in New York City. Meta is lusting after NVIDIA's latest AI GPUs -- spending tens of billions of dollars -- with an aim of over 1.3 million AI GPUs and plans to bring around 1GW of computing power online in 2025.
Zuck said: "This will be a defining year for AI. In 2025, I expect Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model, and we'll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts. To power this, Meta is building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan".
OpenAI CEO confirms latest AI model is now free for the public
Over the last few weeks, OpenAI has been vocal about promoting their latest reasoning model, o3, which is confirmed to be ready for the general public.
The new model is equipped with 'simulated reasoning' capabilities, which essentially allows it to reflect on its own thoughts before formulating a response. Along with a range of other improvements, such as improved visual reasoning, coding, and performance in mathematics.
However, free users of the tool will also benefit from the latest improvements in the form of OpenAI's condensed model - o3-mini. Succeeding the previous GPT-3.5 Turbo, o3-mini comes equipped with enhanced reasoning capabilities, faster response times, and reduced computational requirements. You'll also find improved performance on complex tasks, such as those involving mathematics, science, and programming.
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AI with 500 million years of evolutionary data creates unseen genetic sequence
Researchers have plugged 500 million years worth of evolutionary data into an AI and asked it to create genetic code. The results were surprising as the AI produced protein sequences never-before-seen by researchers.
The project is headed by scientists at the EvolutionaryScale and Arc Institute, and a new paper published in the journal Science details their findings. According to the team, the new AI model called ESM3 is capable of simulating brand-new protein sequences that can be used by researchers to develop a deeper understanding of how proteins work and ultimately be used in various scientific fields such as health.
As with every AI tool, the underlying technology requires large swaths of data for it to be functional, which is why, to create ESM3, the team trained the AI on 771 billion tokens that generated 3.15 billion protein sequences, 236 million protein instructions, and 539 million protein annotations.
Perplexity AI assistant goes head-to-head with Google's Gemini
While AI Chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude have established their place in the market as general-purpose tools - Perplexity has carved out a niche for one specific function: AI-powered search.
While most tools have some capability to scour the internet for search results, Perplexity takes this process a little bit further, offering comprehensively sourced answers with a heavily research-focused functionality. As part of Perplexity's strategy to expand into a broader AI ecosystem - a new app entitled 'Perplexity Assistant' was released on the Google Play Store.
The Assistant utilizes reasoning, search, and apps, to help with daily tasks ranging from simple questions to multi-app actions. Allowing users to, for example, book dinner, find a forgotten song, call an Uber, and more. Recently, at Samsung Unpacked, we saw Google Gemini's assistant on full display, boasting a range of similar-sounding capabilities. Most notable was the ability to 'chain together' tasks. For example, asking Gemini to search for restaurants near you, and to send that to a specific contact in a text message.
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Scientists subject AI to 'pain' after being inspired by electrocuting hermit crabs
A team of researchers has subjected several large language models (LLM), the underpinning technology powering artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, to a series of tests that evaluate whether they can experience pain/pleasure.
In a new study that has yet to be peer-reviewed, researchers from Google DeepMind and the London School of Economics and Political Science came up with a series of tests designed to evaluate the experience level of an LLM. The team was inspired by experiments that involved researchers electrocuting hermit crabs to see how much pain they were willing to endure before they left their shells.
The same principle was applied to nine different LLMs, with the researchers giving each of the AIs the goal of achieving the highest score possible. However, there were only two available options.
World's 'first AI software engineer' fails 85% of its assigned tasks
In the midst of the 'AI Revolution', there's been plenty of speculation about AI taking away jobs, and no sector has been dealing with those fears more than the software engineering industry.
However, programmers can rest assured that one of the latest tools touted as a fully autonomous AI software engineer reportedly has its limitations. Devin is an AI programming tool originally released by Cognition AI in March of 2024. The tool, hailed as the "first AI software engineer," ignited a range of concerns for programmers with fears regarding job security. Particularly given that some of the claims included the ability to "build and deploy apps end to end" and "autonomously find and fix bugs in codebases."
Following its release, Cognition uploaded a video entitled "Devin's Upwork Side Hustle", which essentially claimed that the tool could make money through the completion of Upwork tasks. In April 2024, Veteran software developer Carl Brown of the YouTube channel Internet of Bugs quickly took to the platform to debunk some of the tool's claims, citing criticisms such as:
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AI could surpass 'almost all humans at almost everything' in just 3 years
Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, sat down with the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday to discuss the future of Claude, Anthropic, and artificial intelligence as a whole.
Amidst the discussions, emerged some ambitious predictions regarding the capabilities of the technology. Highlighting that: "I'm relatively confident that in the next 2-3 years, we'll see models that are better than almost all humans at almost everything."
Anthropic's revenue has grown tenfold - from $100 million to $1 billion - in just the last year. Between the efforts of OpenAI, Meta, Google, and various other players - the industry is booming. As the technology rapidly evolves, discussions regarding the economic, social, and even existential implications continue to dominate the tech space.
Google unveils Gemini AI is now capable of chaining actions together
Google Gemini was one of the standouts of the recent Galaxy Unpacked event, showcasing a range of interesting AI features to launch with the Samsung S25 series. The reception has been promising, to such an extent that the Verge declared "Google's Gemini is already winning the next-gen assistant wars".
One of the key features that has people talking, is the ability to 'chain actions together'. For example, asking the assistant to find a restaurant on Google Maps, and then have it compose a text to send to a colleague. This was the example showcased in the S25 Leaks, and its unveiling at the event only further highlighted its potential.
The functionality to 'chain apps' in Gemini is largely dependent on the developer's support for the app - meaning, they'll need to be coded for that purpose. However, all major Google apps, and notable Samsung apps, including Samsung Calendar, Reminder, Notes, and Clock, will ship with these capabilities included.
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Elon Musk says 'they don't actually have the money' to build huge $500 billion Stargate system
President Trump announced an ambitious $500 billion AI infrastructure called Project Stargate, but now SpaceX and Tesla boss Elon Musk has said: "they don't actually have the money". Check out his post on X below:
In recent news, the Trump administration had OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle CEO Larry Edison, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi San starting a $100 billion investment into Project Stargate, with a goal of $500 billion in the coming four years. NVIDIA, Microsoft, and other partners are involved in the AI supercomputer project.
Musk posted on X that "they don't actually have the money" adding that "SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority". This is some strong comments from the SpaceX and Tesla boss, considering he's involved with DOGE inside of the Trump administration (not the cryptocurrency, but rather the Government of Department Efficiency).
President Trump announces Project Stargate: a new $500B investment into AI for the USA
President Trump has just announced that the US government will be pumping $500 billion into The Stargate Project, which will have $100 billion available immediately, and will create over 100,000 jobs in the USA.
As part of Stargate, we'll see a huge collaboration between the Trump administration, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, to build and operate this new AI computing system. This new AI system will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefits for the entire world.
President Trump said: "What we want to do is we want to keep it in this country. China is a competitor, others are competitors. We want to be in this country, and we're making it available. I'm gonna help a lot through emergency declarations, because we have an emergency, we have to get this stuff built. So they have to produce a lot of electricity. And we'll make it possible for them to get this production done easily, at their own plants if they want".