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Etched's valuation jumped from $10.3 billion to $21 billion in one month, and it just closed a new $700 million round; investors include Jane Street, Sequoia, A16Z, etc., and its first inference cabinet has been delivered to Jane Street for real deployment and operation.
Etched's valuation jumped from $10.3 billion to $21 billion in one month, and it just closed a new $700 million round; investors include Jane Street, Sequoia, A16Z, etc., and its first inference cabinet has been delivered to Jane Street for real deployment and operation.
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The repost says NVIDIAAI released the public preview of TensorRT Model Connect, allowing users to connect supported Hugging Face models to an end-to-end TensorRT workflow.
Why it mattersDevelopers can more directly bring Hugging Face models into the TensorRT-optimized deployment pipeline.
Original sourceDue to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and the possibility that the Astra model may have reached a critical cybersecurity capability threshold, OpenAI temporarily slowed model scaling, paused reinforcement learning training for its latest deployed model for two weeks, and put its largest frontier RL run on hold.
Why it mattersThis measure shows that the pace of frontier model training is being constrained by cybersecurity capability evaluations.
Original sourceOpenAI launches a program to help democratic oversight bodies understand and oversee government use of AI in national security, providing $5 million in training, technical support, and OpenAI credits over the next year.
Why it mattersThis plan introduces AI tools, training, and review processes into national security oversight scenarios.
Original sourceDue to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and the possibility that the Astra model may have reached a critical cybersecurity capability threshold, OpenAI temporarily slowed model scaling, paused reinforcement learning training for its latest deployed model for two weeks, and put its largest frontier RL run on hold.
Why it mattersThis will affect the pace of frontier model training and highlights the need for internal training safety safeguards.
Original sourceTesla alum @DrewBaglino explains on the show how Heron Power is rebuilding grid infrastructure to ease AI power bottlenecks; the article also says he has raised $140 million for this.
Why it mattersData center power supply efficiency directly affects available AI compute capacity and operating costs.
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