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Wed. 08/28 – Strawberry Emoji

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

I explain why everyone has been posting strawberries in AI circles. It’s cause of a potential new breakthrough at OpenAI. Cerebras launches the first new AI chip competition to Nvidia. China has reportedly burrowed into US ISPs. And continuing interesting details pouring out of that Pavel Durov situation. Sponsors: Timeline.com/ride Links: OpenAI Shows ‘Strawberry’ AI to the Feds and Uses It to Develop ‘Orion’ (The Information) OpenAI Races to Launch ‘Strawberry’ Reasoning AI to Boost Chatbot Business (The Information) Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service (SiliconAngle) Chinese government hackers penetrate U.S. internet providers to spy (Washington Post) Google Meet’s automatic AI note-taking is here (The Verge) Instagram adds what photos have always needed: words (The Verge) Telegram Founder Was Wooed and Targeted by Governments (WSJ) Can Tech Executives Be Held Responsible for What Happens on Their Platforms? (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, August 28th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough.

0:08.2

Today I explain why everyone has been posting strawberries and AI circles.

0:13.1

It's because of a potential new breakthrough at Open AI.

0:16.0

Cerebras launches the first new AI chip competition to NVIDIA.

0:19.9

China has reportedly burrowed into US I-S-P's and continuing interesting details pouring out of

0:25.2

that Pavel Durov situation.

0:27.5

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. For months now in certain AI circles people have been talking about

0:36.3

strawberries. Strawberries in their bios, strawberry emogies, Twitter spaces

0:41.5

about strawberries. Some folks thought strawberries

0:45.1

indicated the coming of GPT-5, but most of the chatter recently made it seem

0:49.9

like it was going to be something along the lines of what is currently being

0:53.0

reported by the information. Their source says, open AI has demoed a breakthrough

0:58.2

called strawberry to US national security officials. One of its top uses is to make training data for the next

1:06.0

flagship LLC from open AI code named Orion, but there's lots of interesting stuff here.

1:12.0

In case you were wondering why Sam Altman cryptically posted a picture of strawberries

1:16.2

earlier this month, the answer almost certainly has to do with strawberry.

1:19.4

A mysterious technical breakthrough that could help open AI's models complete complex tasks such as math

1:24.4

problems that conversational AI has traditionally struggled with. If this sounds familiar,

1:29.1

it's likely because strawberry was previously called QSTAR.

1:33.1

This summer, the Open AI team demonstrated the technology to American national security officials

1:38.9

said a person with direct knowledge of those meetings which haven't previously been reported.

1:43.0

By demonstrating an unreleased technology to government officials, open AI could be setting a new

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