More Nuclear Power?! Cloud Investment Fuels the Future
Daily AI Newsletter
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I publish AI newsletters every morning with curated AI/tech news stories, cool AI projects, and technical research papers. Grab your coffee beans and catch up on yesterday’s top bytes!
Headlines
Tech Giants and Nuclear Energy
Why Big Tech is turning to nuclear to power its energy-intensive AI ambitions (CNBC)
Amazon Joins Big Tech’s Foray Into Nuclear Power (WSJ)
AI and Cloud Investment
Generative AI startups get 40% of all VC investment in cloud amid ChatGPT buzz (CNBC)
Lightmatter’s $400M round has AI hyperscalers hyped for photonic data centers (TechCrunch)
Meta’s AI chief says world models are key to ‘human-level AI’ — but it might be 10 years out (TechCrunch)
AI Startup for Electricians?!
Treehouse uses AI to help electricians install tech like EV chargers and heat pumps more cheaply (TechCrunch)
Top Products
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct: A large language model customized by Nvidia to improve the helpfulness of LLM generated responses to user queries. (Nvidia)
Focus Buddy: Your always on AI executive assistant (ProductHunt)
DataMonkey: Your GeoAI to combine in-house with public map-based data (ProductHunt)
AI Events in the Bay & NYC
No technical papers today! Instead, check out these AI & Tech Events if you are in the area!
Menlo/Anthropic Builder Day: Hear from Dario Amodei, Co-Founder and CEO of Anthropic! (Info)
Variant Crypto x AI Demo Night: Demos showcasing top builders in the Crypto/AI Space (Info)