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Anonymous ID: 5b63c1 Jan. 7, 2025, 6:13 p.m. No.22312665   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2933 >>3001 >>3243 >>3349

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

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This is a really remarkable chart of tariffs as % of total federal revenue. The Second Industrial Revolution, perhaps the most fertile era for technology development and deployment in human history, was 1870-1914.

 

https://x.com/pmarca/status/1873880292043481203

Anonymous ID: 5b63c1 Jan. 7, 2025, 6:18 p.m. No.22312694   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2933 >>3001 >>3243 >>3349

Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits

 

If you were looking for your own personal AI supercomputer, Nvidia has you covered.

 

The chipmaker announced at CES it’s launching a personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits in May. The heart of Project Digits is the new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which packs enough processing power to run sophisticated AI models while being compact enough to fit on a desk and run from a standard power outlet (this kind of processing power used to require much larger, more power-hungry systems). This desktop-sized system can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters, and has a starting price of $3,000. The product itself looks a lot like a Mac Mini.

 

“AI will be mainstream in every application for every industry. With Project Digits, the Grace Blackwell Superchip comes to millions of developers,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a press release. “Placing an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher and student empowers them to engage and shape the age of AI.”

 

Each Project Digits system comes equipped with 128GB of unified, coherent memory (by comparison, a good laptop might have 16GB or 32GB of RAM) and up to 4TB of NVMe storage. For even more demanding applications, two Project Digits systems can be linked together to handle models with up to 405 billion parameters (Meta’s best model, Llama 3.1, has 405 billion parameters).

 

The GB10 chip delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance (which means it can perform 1 quadrillion AI calculations per second) at FP4 precision (which helps make the calculations faster by making approximations), and the system features Nvidia’s latest-generation CUDA cores and fifth-generation Tensor Cores, connected via NVLink-C2C to a Grace CPU containing 20 power-efficient Arm-based cores. MediaTek, known for their Arm-based chip designs, collaborated on the GB10’s development to optimize its power efficiency and performance.

 

Users will also get access to Nvidia’s AI software library, including development kits, orchestration tools, and pre-trained models available through the Nvidia NGC catalog. The system runs on Linux-based Nvidia DGX OS and supports popular frameworks like PyTorch, Python, and Jupyter notebooks. Developers can fine-tune models using the Nvidia NeMo framework and accelerate data science workflows with Nvidia RAPIDS libraries.

 

Users can develop and test their AI models locally on Project Digits, then deploy them to cloud services or data center infrastructure using the same Grace Blackwell architecture and Nvidia AI Enterprise software platform.

 

Nvidia offers a range of similar devices in the same accessibility style — in December, it announced a $249 version of its Jetson computer for AI applications, targeting hobbyists and startups, called the Jetson Orin Nano Super (it handles models up to 8 billion parameters).

 

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337530/nvidia-ces-digits-super-computer-ai

Anonymous ID: 5b63c1 Jan. 7, 2025, 6:18 p.m. No.22312698   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2933 >>2970 >>2976 >>3001 >>3243 >>3349

John Deere’s new robot lawnmower is coming for landscapers’ jobs

 

John Deere has a bunch of new products that it just showed off at CES 2025, including an electric robot lawnmower meant for commercial-grade landscaping.

 

Powered by a 21.4 kWh battery — roughly a quarter the size of what you’d find on a passenger EV — the company says the mower is supposed to be able to operate for up to 10 hours. It uses four pairs of stereo cameras, two on each side, to see in 360 degrees.

 

Being electric, the mower is much quieter than its gas-powered predecessors, which John Deere claims will allow for jobs to start earlier in the morning. But the company’s not hiding that it expects the mower could replace human labor. In fact, in the materials distributed to the press ahead of the show, the company cited a report from a landscape management software company that said keeping qualified labor on staff “was a major challenge.”

 

“Our agriculture, construction, and commercial landscaping customers all have work that must get done at certain times of the day and year, yet there is not enough available and skilled labor to do the work,” Jahmy Hindman, John Deere’s chief technology officer, said in a statement. “Autonomy can help address this challenge.”

 

John Deere’s other CES 2025 announcements also center around autonomy and are a lot bigger, literally.

 

There’s an autonomous 5ML orchard tractor that can blast spray crops. It will start as a diesel-only tractor, though John Deere says a “battery electric tractor of comparable size and capacity” will follow at some point. The company also showed off a larger 9RX tractor for tilling fields, which uses a 16-camera array.

 

The biggest is an autonomous articulated dump truck, which is built for quarry operations. These types of sites have been leveraging autonomy for a while now, and the new 460 P-Tier dump truck John Deere showed off at CES is the latest entry.

 

Each of those products will help augment the kind of important but unglamorous work that many people never think about. And those are likely to replace or augment labor just the same. But it’s the robot mower that most of us are likely to actually encounter sometime in the near future. We just don’t know when — a rep for John Deere says “exact timing isn’t being shared right now.”

 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/john-deeres-new-robot-lawnmower-is-coming-for-landscapers-jobs/