Accelerating AI with superconductors

Welcome to thermodynamic computing.

This week, Tristan and Tasia discuss a potential Google-Apple AI courtship, Microsoft’s Surface AI event, NVIDIA’s GTC 2024 event, a mind-blowing OpenAI robot mashup, and more. Then we explore Extropic’s revolutionary new chip designs that claim to be “many orders of magnitude faster and more energy efficient than digital processors.” Join us as we defy Moore’s Law to power the future of AI.

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AI NEWS

• Google DeepMind co-founder joins Microsoft as CEO of its new AI division

• Everything announced at the 2024 Microsoft Surface event

• Apple and Google are reportedly talking. Could Gemini come to iPhone?

• xAI open sources Grok

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-4 'kinda sucks', hints at GPT-5 boost

• This Robot is Borrowing OpenAI’s Magic to Make At-Home Droids Feel Real

NVIDIA GTC 2024

• Nvidia's Project GROOT brings the human-robot future a significant step closer

• Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI for $9 an Hour

• NVIDIA's GPUs powered the AI revolution. Its new Blackwell chips are up to 30 times faster

• Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI

• Intel clinches nearly $20 billion in awards from Biden to boost US chip output

EXTROPIC

• AI startup Extropic emerges from stealth with superconducting processors it boldly claims will beat GPUs, CPUs, and TPUs

• Ushering in the Thermodynamic Future

• This chip will accelerate AI compute way past Moore's Law

• Thermodynamic Computing: Better than Quantum? | Guillaume Verdon and Trevor McCourt, Extropic