There are certainly cases of Greek/Latin without any punctuation at all, typically in a historical context. Chinese & Japanese historically did not have any punctuation whatsoever.
Yes! I'm in the same boat! My guess is that there's something in the backend (image cache/storage size) that presents as a cost/logistical problem instead of as a technical one.
Is there a linux equivalent of this setup? I see some mention of RDNA support for linux distros, but it's unclear to me if this is hardware-specific (requires ConnectX or in this case Apple Thunderbolt) or is there something interesting that can be done with "vanilla 10G NIC" hardware?
Still doesn't exactly say what it is? I get that it's glyphs for printable characters, but honestly it could be a PDF, video, collection of PNGs or SVG files, an Adobe Illustrator file, a linux distribution, a web browser, or pretty much any other piece of software or data format. I presume it's a TTF or OTF font file?
The ultimate "out of sight out of mind" solution to a problem?
I'm surprised that Google has drunken the "Datacenters IN SPACE!!!1!!" kool-aid. Honestly I expected more.
It's so easy to poke a hole in these systems that it's comical. Answer just one question: How/why is this better than an enormous solar-powered datacenter in someplace like the middle of the Mojave Desert?
Just think of the untapped market of fresh 9 year olds who've never seen/played the game before. It's infinite, there will always be more people who have never played Minecraft.
Oh it's exciting, but not as exciting when sama pumps GPT-5 speculation and the market thinks we're a stones throw away from AGI, which it appears we're not.
Yeah, this very much feels like "we have made a more efficient/scalable model and we're selling it as the new shiny but it's really just an internal optimization to reduce cost"
Watching ollama pivot from a somewhat scrappy yet amazingly important and well designed open source project to a regular "for-profit company" is going to be sad.
Thankfully, this may just leave more room for other open source local inference engines.
Because integrating directly with very large varities of editors & environments is actually kind of hard? Everyone has their own favorite development environment, and by pulling the LLM agents into a separate area (i.e. a terminal app) then you can quickly get to "works in all environments". Additionally, this also implies "works with no dev environment at all". For example, vibe coding a simple HTML only webpage. All you need is terminal+browser.
I love these videos and his enthusiasm for the problem space. Unfortunately, it seems to me that the progress/ideas have floundered because of concerns around monetizing intellectual property, which is a shame. If he had gone down a more RISC-V like route, I wonder if we would see more real-world prototypes and actual use cases. This type of thing seems great for microprocessor workloads.
Just think: This company is 5 years old. That's just 1825 days, or 43800 hours, and they've created $32B of "value" in that time. That's an average rate of almost $750k/hour continuously. Incredible.