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Tres sectores están liderando la transformación en México gracias a la IA Generativa

 Amazon Web Services (AWS) ha seleccionado a tres startups mexicanas que utilizan Inteligencia Artificial Generativa para resolver desafíos complejos y desarrollar sus industrias  Expertos coinciden en que la IA generativa no eliminará empleos sino que aumentará la capacidad de cada trabajador Hero Guest: IA mejora y humaniza los procesos Continue reading Tres sectores están liderando la…

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Jason Knight is Co-founder and VP of ML at OctoAI – Interview Series

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Jason Knight is Co-founder and VP of ML at OctoAI – Interview Series

Jason Knight is Co-founder and Vice President of Machine Learning at OctoAI, the platform delivers a complete stack for app builders to run, tune, and scale their AI applications in the cloud or on-premises.

OctoAI was spun out of the University of Washington by the original creators of Apache TVM, an open source stack for ML portability and performance. TVM enables ML models to run efficiently on any hardware backend, and has quickly become a key part of the architecture of popular consumer devices like Amazon Alexa.

Can you share the inspiration behind founding OctoAI and the core problem you aimed to solve?

AI has traditionally been a complex field accessible only to those comfortable with the mathematics and high-performance computing required to make something with it. But AI unlocks the ultimate computing interfaces, that of text, voice, and imagery programmed by examples and feedback, and brings the full power of computing to everyone on Earth. Before AI, only programmers were able to get computers to do what they wanted by writing arcane programming language texts.

OctoAI was created to accelerate our path to that reality so that more people can use and benefit from AI. And people, in turn, can use AI to create yet more benefits by accelerating the sciences, medicine, art, and more.

Reflecting on your experience at Intel, how did your previous roles prepare you for co-founding and leading the development at OctoAI?

Intel and the AI hardware and biotech startups before it gave me the perspective to see how hard AI is for even the most sophisticated of technology companies, and yet how valuable it can be to those who have figured out how to use it. And seeing that the gap between those benefiting from AI compared to those who aren’t yet is primarily one of infrastructure, compute, and best practices—not magic.

What differentiates OctoStack from other AI deployment solutions available in the market today?

OctoStack is the industry’s first complete technology stack designed specifically for serving generative AI models anywhere. It offers a turnkey production platform that provides highly optimized inference, model customization, and asset management at an enterprise scale.

OctoStack allows organizations to achieve AI autonomy by running any model in their preferred environment with full control over data, models, and hardware. It also delivers unmatched performance and cost efficiency, with savings of up to 12X compared to other solutions like GPT-4.

Can you explain the advantages of deploying AI models in a private environment using OctoStack?

Models these days are ubiquitous, but assembling the right infrastructure to run those models and apply them with your own data is where the business-value flywheel truly starts to spin. Using these models on your most sensitive data, and then turning that into insights, better prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and fine-tuning is where you can get the most value out of generative AI. But it’s still difficult for all but the most sophisticated companies to do this alone, which is where a turnkey solution like OctoStack can accelerate you and bring the best practices together in one place for your practitioners.

Deploying AI models in a private environment using OctoStack offers several advantages, including enhanced security and control over data and models. Customers can run generative AI applications within their own VPCs or on-premises, ensuring that their data remains secure and within their chosen environments. This approach also provides businesses with the flexibility to run any model, be it open-source, custom, or proprietary, while benefiting from cost reductions and performance improvements.

What challenges did you face in optimizing OctoStack to support a wide range of hardware, and how were these challenges overcome?

Optimizing OctoStack to support a wide range of hardware involved ensuring compatibility and performance across various devices, such as NVIDIA and AMD GPUs and AWS Inferentia. OctoAI overcame these challenges by leveraging its deep AI systems expertise, developed through years of research and development, to create a platform that continuously updates and supports additional hardware types, GenAI use cases, and best practices. This allows OctoAI to deliver market-leading performance and cost efficiency.

Additionally, getting the latest capabilities in generative AI, such as multi-modality, function calling, strict JSON schema following, efficient fine-tune hosting, and more into the hands of your internal developers will accelerate your AI takeoff point.

OctoAI has a rich history of leveraging Apache TVM. How has this framework influenced your platform’s capabilities?

We created Apache TVM to make it easy for sophisticated developers to write efficient AI libraries for GPUs and accelerators more easily. We did this because getting the most performance from GPU and accelerator hardware was critical for AI inference then as it is now.

We’ve since leveraged that same mindset and expertise for the entire Gen AI serving stack to deliver automation for a broader set of developers.

Can you discuss any significant performance improvements that OctoStack offers, such as the 10x performance boost in large-scale deployments?

OctoStack offers significant performance improvements, including up to 12X savings compared to other models like GPT-4 without sacrificing speed or quality. It also provides 4X better GPU utilization and a 50 percent reduction in operational costs, enabling organizations to run large-scale deployments efficiently and cost-effectively.

Can you share some notable use cases where OctoStack has significantly improved AI deployment for your clients?

A notable use case is Apate.ai, a global service combating telephone scams using generative conversational AI. Apate.ai leveraged OctoStack to efficiently run their suite of language models across multiple geographies, benefiting from OctoStack’s flexibility, scale, and security. This deployment allowed Apate.ai to deliver custom models supporting multiple languages and regional dialects, meeting their performance and security-sensitive requirements.

In addition, we serve hundreds of fine-tunes for our customer OpenPipe. Were they to spin up dedicated instances for each of these, their customers’ use cases would be infeasible as they grow and evolve their use cases and continuously re-train their parameter-efficient fine-tunes for maximum output quality at cost-effective prices.

Thank you for the great interview, readers who wish to learn more should visit OctoAI.

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From Patent to Profit: Is Amazon’s IP Accelerator Worth Your Bucks?

Introduction To Amazon IP Accelerator Navigating the bustling marketplace of Amazon, sellers quickly realize the paramount importance of safeguarding their intellectual property. The Amazon IP Accelerator program emerges as a beacon for those seeking not just to protect, but also to monetize their innovations efficiently. But, is it worth the investment? In this deep dive, we’ll unravel the…

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Amazons GPT55X Unveiled

Hey there, tech enthusiast! 🚀 Grab your coffee because we’re about to dive into one of the most exciting innovations in the world of AI: Amazon’s GPT55X. Picture this: you’re chatting with a friend, and they casually mention this groundbreaking piece of tech. Confused? Don’t fret. We’re here to break it down for you, friend-to-friend. Introducing the Rockstar: Amazons GPT55X Ever watched a movie…

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Use the architectural principles of AWS to inform your selections.

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Apply the Well-Architected Framework to AWS applications to enhance architectures and much more

[reasonsforhope]

Masterpost: Reasons I firmly believe we will beat climate change

Posts are in reverse chronological order (by post date, not article date), mostly taken from my "climate change" tag, which I went through all the way back to the literal beginning of my blog. Will update periodically.

Especially big deal articles/posts are in bold.

Big picture:

Mature trees offer hope in world of rising emissions (x)

Spying from space: How satellites can help identify and rein in a potent climate pollutant (x)

Good news: Tiny urban green spaces can cool cities and save lives (x)

Conservation and economic development go hand in hand, more often than expected (x)

The exponential growth of solar power will change the world (x)

Sun Machines: Solar, an energy that gets cheaper and cheaper, is going to be huge (x)

Wealthy nations finally deliver promised climate aid, as calls for more equitable funding for poor countries grow (x)

For Earth Day 2024, experts are spreading optimism – not doom. Here's why. (x)

Opinion: I’m a Climate Scientist. I’m Not Screaming Into the Void Anymore. (x)

The World’s Forests Are Doing Much Better Than We Think (x)

‘Staggering’ green growth gives hope for 1.5C, says global energy chief (x)

Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View (x)

Young Forests Capture Carbon Quicker than Previously Thought (x)

Yes, climate change can be beaten by 2050. Here's how. (x)

Soil improvements could keep planet within 1.5C heating target, research shows (x)

The global treaty to save the ozone layer has also slowed Arctic ice melt (x)

The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past (x)

Scientists Find Methane is Actually Offsetting 30% of its Own Heating Effect on Planet (x)

Are debt-for-climate swaps finally taking off? (x)

High seas treaty: historic deal to protect international waters finally reached at UN (x)

How Could Positive ‘Tipping Points’ Accelerate Climate Action? (x)

Specific examples:

Environmental Campaigners Celebrate As Labour Ends Tory Ban On New Onshore Wind Projects (x)

Private firms are driving a revolution in solar power in Africa (x)

How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution (x)

Rewilding sites have seen 400% increase in jobs since 2008, research finds [Scotland] (x)

The American Climate Corps take flight, with most jobs based in the West (x)

Waste Heat Generated from Electronics to Warm Finnish City in Winter Thanks to Groundbreaking Thermal Energy Project (x)

Climate protection is now a human right — and lawsuits will follow [European Union] (x)

A new EU ecocide law ‘marks the end of impunity for environmental criminals’ (x)

Solar hits a renewable energy milestone not seen since WWII [United States] (x)

These are the climate grannies. They’ll do whatever it takes to protect their grandchildren. [United States and Native American Nations] (x)

Century of Tree Planting Stalls the Warming Effects in the Eastern United States, Says Study (x)

Chart: Wind and solar are closing in on fossil fuels in the EU (x)

UK use of gas and coal for electricity at lowest since 1957, figures show (x)

Countries That Generate 100% Renewable Energy Electricity (x)

Indigenous advocacy leads to largest dam removal project in US history [United States and Native American Nations] (x)

India’s clean energy transition is rapidly underway, benefiting the entire world (x)

China is set to shatter its wind and solar target five years early, new report finds (x)

‘Game changing’: spate of US lawsuits calls big oil to account for climate crisis (x)

Largest-ever data set collection shows how coral reefs can survive climate change (x)

The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What Does It DO? [United States] (x)

Good Climate News: Headline Roundup April 1st through April 15th, 2023 (x)

How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon (x) [Brazil]

Loss of Climate-Crucial Mangrove Forests Has Slowed to Near-Negligable Amount Worldwide, Report Hails (x)

Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala (x)

Climate adaptation:

Solar-powered generators pull clean drinking water 'from thin air,' aiding communities in need: 'It transforms lives' (x)

‘Sponge’ Cities Combat Urban Flooding by Letting Nature Do the Work [China] (x)

Indian Engineers Tackle Water Shortages with Star Wars Tech in Kerala (x)

A green roof or rooftop solar? You can combine them in a biosolar roof — boosting both biodiversity and power output (x)

Global death tolls from natural disasters have actually plummeted over the last century (x)

Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be (x)

This city turns sewage into drinking water in 24 hours. The concept is catching on [Namibia] (x)

Plants teach their offspring how to adapt to climate change, scientists find (x)

Resurrecting Climate-Resilient Rice in India (x)

Other Masterposts:

Going carbon negative and how we're going to fix global heating (x)

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Healthcare Accelerator: Global Cohort for Workforce 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Healthcare Accelerator: Global Cohort for Workforce 2023

Deadline: January 8, 2023 Applications are open for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Healthcare Accelerator 2023. The AWS Healthcare Accelerator is a virtual four-week technical, business, and mentorship accelerator that will scale high potential startups focusing on the urgent challenge of healthcare burnout, training, retaining, and deploying the healthcare workforce. The programme is unique and…

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I hate you blue light restlessness I hate you automated call menu I hate you most of the day spent from screen to screen I hate you amazon robot delivery I hate you when did I open this app I hate you new need for background noise I hate you no headphone jack I hate you cars that all look the same I hate you DVDs were born and died in my lifetime I hate you weaker battery with every new iPhone I hate you acceleration and acceleration and to what.

[crimethinc]

Capitalism Is the Dance of Death

A poster

http://crimethinc.com/CapitalismDeath

From Greece to the Amazon, environmentalists and volunteer firefighters are risking their lives to protect ecosystems threatened by urban expansion, agribusiness, and industrially produced climate change. Yet the causes of these disasters are only accelerating, driven by a system that rewards profit at any price. We are swept up in a rhythm we cannot control, moving faster and faster towards our doom. Capitalism is the danse macabre, the dance of death.

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NVIDIA unveils Blackwell architecture to power next GenAI wave

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NVIDIA unveils Blackwell architecture to power next GenAI wave

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NVIDIA has announced its next-generation Blackwell GPU architecture, designed to usher in a new era of accelerated computing and enable organisations to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models.

The Blackwell platform promises up to 25 times lower cost and energy consumption compared to its predecessor: the Hopper architecture. Named after pioneering mathematician and statistician David Harold Blackwell, the new GPU architecture introduces six transformative technologies.

“Generative AI is the defining technology of our time. Blackwell is the engine to power this new industrial revolution,” said Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Working with the most dynamic companies in the world, we will realise the promise of AI for every industry.”

The key innovations in Blackwell include the world’s most powerful chip with 208 billion transistors, a second-generation Transformer Engine to support double the compute and model sizes, fifth-generation NVLink interconnect for high-speed multi-GPU communication, and advanced engines for reliability, security, and data decompression.

Central to Blackwell is the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which combines two B200 Tensor Core GPUs with a Grace CPU over an ultra-fast 900GB/s NVLink interconnect. Multiple GB200 Superchips can be combined into systems like the liquid-cooled GB200 NVL72 platform with up to 72 Blackwell GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs, offering 1.4 exaflops of AI performance.

NVIDIA has already secured support from major cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to offer Blackwell-powered instances. Other partners planning Blackwell products include Dell Technologies, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, Tesla, and many others across hardware, software, and sovereign clouds.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, said: “We are fortunate to have a longstanding partnership with NVIDIA, and look forward to bringing the breakthrough capabilities of the Blackwell GPU to our Cloud customers and teams across Google to accelerate future discoveries.”

The Blackwell architecture and supporting software stack will enable new breakthroughs across industries from engineering and chip design to scientific computing and generative AI.

Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Meta, commented: “AI already powers everything from our large language models to our content recommendations, ads, and safety systems, and it’s only going to get more important in the future.

“We’re looking forward to using NVIDIA’s Blackwell to help train our open-source Llama models and build the next generation of Meta AI and consumer products.”

With its massive performance gains and efficiency, Blackwell could be the engine to finally make real-time trillion-parameter AI a reality for enterprises.

See also: Elon Musk’s xAI open-sources Grok

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Tags: ai, artificial intelligence, blackwell, enterprise, gb200, genai, generative ai, gpu, hardware, large language models, llm, Nvidia

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I feel like a lot of people miss that the likeliest use cases for ai artwork (corporate illustrations, eye-catches for shitty mobile game, amazon book covers, etc) are already effectively algorithmically generated anyway - a human being still makes them, but the demand is set purely by capital and the specifics by the brownian motion of the marketplace, with no pairs of eyes involved especially caring as long as its occupying the place in which art is expected. I think people get caught up enough in a noticeable acceleration of commodified art that they mistake it for a whole new phenomenon.

absolutely 100%. i always come back to a very astute thing podcaster riley quinn said which is "if your job gets replaced by AI that means it was already being done by an AI" (ie, mindlessly and formulaicly)

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The Artemis I Mission: To the Moon and Back

The Artemis I mission was the first integrated test of the Orion spacecraft, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and Exploration Ground Systems at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. We’ll use these deep space exploration systems on future Artemis missions to send astronauts to the Moon and prepare for our next giant leap: sending the first humans to Mars.

Take a visual journey through the mission, starting from launch, to lunar orbit, to splashdown.

Liftoff

The SLS rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launched on Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The world’s most powerful rocket performed with precision, meeting or exceeding all expectations during its debut launch on Artemis I.

"This is Your Moment"

Following the successful launch of Artemis I, Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson congratulates the launch team.

“The harder the climb, the better the view,” she said. “We showed the space coast tonight what a beautiful view it is.”

That's Us

On Orion’s first day of flight, a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays captured this image of Earth.

Inside Orion

On the third day of the mission, Artemis I engineers activated the Callisto payload, a technology demonstration developed by Lockheed Martin, Amazon, and Cisco that tested a digital voice assistant and video conferencing capabilities in a deep space environment. In the image, Commander Moonikin Campos occupies the commander’s seat inside the spacecraft. The Moonikin is wearing an Orion Crew Survival System suit, the same spacesuit that Artemis astronauts will use during launch, entry, and other dynamic phases of their missions. Campos is also equipped with sensors that recorded acceleration and vibration data throughout the mission that will help NASA protect astronauts during Artemis II. The Moonikin was one of three “passengers” that flew aboard Orion. Two female-bodied model human torsos, called phantoms, were aboard. Zohar and Helga, named by the Israel Space Agency (ISA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) respectively, supported the Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment (MARE), an experiment to provide data on radiation levels during lunar missions. Snoopy, wearing a mock orange spacesuit, also can be seen floating in the background. The character served as the zero-gravity indicator during the mission, providing a visual signifier that Orion is in space.

Far Side of the Moon

A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large in this image taken by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays on the sixth day of the mission.

First Close Approach

The Orion spacecraft captured some of the closest photos of the Moon from a spacecraft built for humans since the Apollo era — about 80 miles (128 km) above the lunar surface. This photo was taken using Orion’s optical navigational system, which captures black-and-white images of the Earth and Moon in different phases and distances.

Distant Retrograde Orbit

Orion entered a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon almost two weeks into the mission. The orbit is “distant” in the sense that it’s at a high altitude approximately 50,000 miles (80,467 km) from the surface of the Moon. Orion broke the record for farthest distance of a spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space and safely return them to Earth, reaching a maximum distance of 268,563 miles (432,210 km).

Second Close Approach

On the 20th day of the mission, the spacecraft made its second and final close approach to the Moon flying 79.2 miles (127.5 km) above the lunar surface to harness the Moon’s gravity and accelerate for the journey back to Earth.

Cameras mounted on the crew module of the Orion spacecraft captured these views of the Moon’s surface before its return powered flyby burn.

Heading Home

After passing behind the far side of the Moon on Flight Day 20, Orion powered a flyby burn that lasted approximately 3 minutes and 27 seconds to head home. Shortly after the burn was complete, the Orion spacecraft captured these views of the Moon and Earth, which appears as a distant crescent.

Parachutes Deployed

Prior to entering the Earth’s atmosphere, Orion’s crew module separated from its service module, which is the propulsive powerhouse provided by ESA (European Space Agency). During re-entry, Orion endured temperatures about half as hot as the surface of the Sun at about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 degrees Celsius). Within about 20 minutes, Orion slowed from nearly 25,000 mph (40,236 kph) to about 20 mph (32 kph) for its parachute-assisted splashdown.

Splashdown

On Dec. 11, the Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California after traveling 1.4 million miles (2.3 million km) over a total of 25.5 days in space. Teams are in the process of returning Orion to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Once at Kennedy, teams will open the hatch and unload several payloads, including Commander Moonikin Campos, the space biology experiments, Snoopy, and the official flight kit. Next, the capsule and its heat shield will undergo testing and analysis over the course of several months.

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More horny and pensive snaps from Stepdad!Joel to go with his latest story, Amazon but you can read it as any Joel who's begging for your forgiveness. WARNINGS: JACKING OFF

Video: A POV shot taken by bracing his phone on one of his knees. His hard, shiny cock is in the foreground with his veiny hand wrapped around it, but you can also see his agonized face and his chest rising and falling with heavy breaths. He moans "ohh," as he strokes himself at a moderate but accelerating pace, then pulls up his shirt, closes his eyes. He groans "uggggh," as he slows his hand way down. His stomach flexes outward and he shudders and comes all over himself with a long, low sigh.  It's trickling into his belly button when the video cuts off. 

Video: A minute later, he’s cleaned up and it's a shot of his head and chest.  He slowly shakes his head and says “I’m. . ." (Deep breath) "so stupid."

Video: Lying in bed in a white t-shirt with his head propped up on his hand. Bicep bulging out of his sleeve.  Caption: had a dream that you forgave me. He sighs and pouts with his eyes, but not with his lips. ”I guess it was. . .” (sighs) “I dunno. I'm sorry."

Video: Same position but his glasses are on. "Then it wasn't real, and I was like." (sighs). "Shit."

Photo: a minute later, his hand is cupping a thick protrusion in his pajama pants, holding it down onto his body and there's a wet spot at the tip. 

Video: Looking at himself in the bathroom mirror. You can tell from the audio that the water is on in the background.  He's shirtless, pj pants pulled down under his cock. Neck and forearm veins blazing. He's breathing heavily and softly moaning "ohh." He holds his phone in one hand and jacks off with the other as the mirror fogs up. He strokes himself at a slow beat and his lips part into a louder moan.  By the time he groans and comes, you can’t really see him through the condensation. But his hand comes into the frame and braces on the mirror as if he came in the sink, and you hear him sigh "fuck" before it cuts off. 

Check out my #joel jacks off tag for more of him j-ing o.

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Megafires in the Amazon Accelerate the Risk of Biome Collapse

Increase in fires in native forest areas and extreme drought could lead to an irreversible situation

A fire that began on August 8 has already burned over 67,000 hectares in the Kayapó Indigenous Land, in the Xingu region of Pará. The data comes from the Servir-Amazonia program, run by NASA, which monitors the region via satellites. The size of the megafire is equivalent to that of Florianópolis and is just one of several fire fronts in the Amazon.

The classification "megafire" is used for fires exceeding 10,000 hectares —something that is becoming increasingly common. "We are not just entering the era of fire but the era of megafires. It's quite catastrophic," says Erika Berenguer, a senior scientist at the University of Oxford.

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