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btian··on Grok 4.7
$0.40
btian··on Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
What are you talking about?

The Attention is all you need paper has Google logo, not character.ai

btian··on Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency
It's not more expensive at all. They are all open weights models. I run them on 2x8xH100. They cost the same.
btian··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
Source? Their website says 1000t/s https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/which-is-faster-gemini-3-5-flas...
btian··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
The deal ends in June 2029, which is before 2030.
btian··on SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
> Individuals can make an informed choice to trade it there, rather than have it automatically added to their index fund without having any say.

Are you suggesting index funds need unanimous consent from all owners before a company can be added or removed?

btian··on If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?
When I grew up in Singapore, the locations of all data centers are secret by default to prevent terrorist attacks.
btian··on Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over
If every employee is part of a union, what happens then when companies over-hire?
btian··on SpaceX S-1
How is SpaceX not making money?

Total investment is 20-40B, rent to Anthropic for 45B over 3 years.

Anthropic is also profitable now.

btian··on SpaceX S-1
Closer to 18b than 40. Running costs are 1-2b a year.
btian··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
Why didn't other CEOs buy them to wreck Zuck's platform?
btian··on Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
> They are just focused on privacy and are likely waiting for the time when local models become efficient enough to run on iPhones

How does that make any sense?

iPhones may be able to run local model inference, but Apple still can't train anything if they don't have any data.

btian··on The worst acquisition in history, again
Nope. It's almost all Oracle Linux.
btian··on Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win
Nobody watches CNN
btian··on Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
My company's GPU cluster
btian··on MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
What's the problem? Surely people will fork it
btian··on Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components
But nVidia already sells servers (NVL72), and CPUs (Grace). Why buy a bunch of overlapping companies?

And no sane regulator on the planet will allow them to takeover AMD, Qualcomm, or Broadcom.

btian··on Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix
There are many race tracks in LA area.
btian··on Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
Then why did Apple have a $20B a year search deal with Google?
btian··on OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO
He has great foresight, which helps a lot in investing and operating OAI.
btian··on Apple says US passport digital IDs are coming to Wallet 'soon'
The article says this is not a replacement for physical passport.
btian··on Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM
This starts shipping in 2027. I'm sure you can buy a DGX Spark for less than $4k in 2 years time.
btian··on Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM
Isn't that precisely what DGX Spark is designed for?

How is this better?

btian··on ScribeOCR – Web interface for recognizing text, OCR, & creating digitized docs
it's fine for simple use cases, but far inferior to the likes of GPT, Gemini or Mistral
btian··on US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief
I don't know if any of that is true. Even if it's true, why TSMC?

Will Apple, AMD, and nVidia continue to trust TSMC if it owns half of Intel?

btian··on Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
Do need to be super fancy. Just RTX Pro 6000 and 256GB of RAM.
btian··on Python can run Mojo now
Mojo runs on nVidia and AMD.

The competitor is Triton, not CUDA or Julia...

btian··on Apple Watch Series 10
Presumably aerospace & medical devices.
btian··on Nvidia to Acquire Run:AI
nVidia Multi-Instance GPUs has been around for >4 years.
btian··on Ask HN: How do I charge a client a % of profits?
Audited income statement
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