As of December 2024, SpaceX has launched approximately 320 Starlink satellites with direct-to-cellphone (DTC) capability into orbit. These satellites are designed to provide cellular connectivity in remote areas and dead zones, working with existing LTE phones without requiring any modifications to ...

Aug 3, 2024 · This is looking good. They removed the complexities and the 3rd versions looks more strong, robust. Hopefully more reliable. 220 tons reusable and 400 tons expendable payload is a lot.

Nov 28, 2024 · Renault is selling its 36% share of Nissan and without a new major investor Nissan will go bankrupt in 12-14 months. At its news conference, Nissan’s Chief Monozukuri Officer (Head of Manufacturing) Hideyuki Sakamoto described major cost cutting moves.

Dec 20, 2024 · OpenaI o3 sets new records in several key areas, particularly in reasoning, coding and mathematical problem-solving. It scores 75.7% on the semi-private eval in low-compute mode (for $20 per task in compute ) and 87.5% in high-compute mode (thousands of $ per task).

3 days ago · DeepSeek just dropped a new open-source multmodal AI model, Janus-Pro-7B. It is MIT opensource license. It’s multimodal (can generate images) and beats OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across GenEval and DPG-Bench benchmarks.

Nov 7, 2024 · Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog.

Dec 28, 2024 · China DeepSeek AI matches the performance of AI while using only 9% of the AI training compute. The continued improvement in AI while using resources more efficiently shows we will reach AGI at affordable costs for training and inference.

Jan 3, 2025 · The returning booster will slow down from supersonic speeds, resulting in audible sonic booms in the area around the landing zone. Generally, the only impact to those in the surrounding area of a sonic boom is the brief thunder-like noise with variables like weather and distance from the return site determining the magnitude experienced by observers.

Nov 3, 2024 · The New York Post reports NVDA is looking to make a strategic investment in Elon Musk’s AI venture, xAI. xAI is exploring a new funding round in January 2025, which could value the company at $75 billion. xAI last raised a $6 billion round with …

3 days ago · It is possible to load and run 14 Billion parameter llm AI models on Raspberry Pi5 with 16 GB of memory ($120). However, they can be slow with about 0.6 tokens per second.