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In case you missed it, we're skipping AGI and going straight to ASI 😳. Is it possible? 2025 will tell!
This is our last issue of 2024 (don’t cry 😢), because the team’s taking a little break for New Year’s Eve (We’ll be back with the next issue on January 2). So, here’s a big Happy New Year (in advance) from us to you!
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AI INSIGHTS
🤖 How Tech Giants Are Funding the Backbone of AI
As AI technology becomes more popular, big tech companies are spending billions of dollars on AI data centers to provide the computing power needed for advanced AI systems.
Key takeaways:
Microsoft is spending $46 billion on AI, with $20 billion just for GPUs. It’s putting huge resources into building the future of AI.
Microsoft and BlackRock are working together on a $100 billion project to build advanced AI data centers powered by sustainable energy.
Google is spending $33 billion, and Meta $27 billion, to improve their AI systems, showing how serious the competition is.
Training advanced AI is costing companies more and more, making it one of the most expensive parts of AI development.
AI data centers use a lot of electricity and water, leading to worries about their impact on the environment and pushing for greener solutions.
Why it matters: The investments underline the central role of AI in the future of technology and the infrastructure required to support it. However, the costs are significant, both financially and environmentally, prompting the need for innovation in energy efficiency and sustainability.
TODAY IN AI
AI HIGHLIGHTS
🤖 Stanford creates AI for lifelike digital avatars, using less data to generate natural gestures from speech, text, or emotions.
⚠️ AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns of a 10-20% chance AI could lead to human extinction within 30 years.
💥 Nvidia completed $700M acquisition of AI startup Run:ai, open-sourcing its software for use by competitors like AMD and Intel.
🎉 WebDev Arena 2024 Wrapped: Claude-3.5 Sonnet stays #1 with an 80+ point lead, while Claude-3.5 Haiku jumps to #2! New entries include o1-2024-12-17 (#4) and DeepSeek-V3 (#7).
🛡️ AI's Sixth Sense in Cybersecurity spots threats before they happen through anomaly detection. It allows us to go from reacting to problems to stopping them before they occur.
🧠 OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever aims to skip AGI and develop Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) directly, bypassing intermediate models.
DAILY AI FUNDRAISING
Cartesia AI closed a $27 million seed round in December 2024 and predicts big growth for voice AI in 2025. With innovations in real-time, privacy-focused AI, voice agents will become essential in industries like healthcare and finance.
AI SOURCES FROM AI FIRE
As we wrap up 2024, a huge congratulations to our lucky trivia poll winners from October, November, and December! 🎉 Your participation and enthusiasm made it all the more exciting.
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To everyone who joined in, thank you for being a part of this journey with AI Fire Academy. We hope you’ve had an amazing experience.
If luck wasn’t on your side this time, don’t worry - 2025 is just around the corner, packed with even more opportunities to win and grow.
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AI QUICK HITS
🤖 AI Agents are the Future Workforce But Still Need a Manager (Link)
📚 MIT SMR Highlights 10 Must-Reads for AI in 2024 (Link)
🏀 AI-Powered Robot Sinks Seemingly Impossible Basketball Hoops (Link)
🚩 12 AI Predictions for 2025 (Link)
👥 Meta to Invest in AI-Generated Characters for More Engagement (Link)
AI CHART
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ChatGPT and Claude Changelog for 2024 - a month-by-month overview of key changes throughout the year!
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AI JOBS
Zoom: Senior Software Engineer, AI Applications (Link)
Google: Research Scientist, Quantum Error Correction, Quantum AI (Link)
San Francisco Department of Technology (DT): Principal Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer, Department of Technology (Link)
Capgemini Invent: Director, Generative AI (GenAI) (Link)
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