General
- The US Department of Energy is investing in AI compute
- US Department of Energy forms $1 billion supercomputer and AI partnership with AMD.
- 1st system: “Lux” based on AMD MI355X GPU, to be developed by Oak Ridge National Lab, AMD, HPE, and Oracle. Online in ~6 months (Mar 2026).
- 2nd system: “Discovery” based on AMD MI430 AI chip, to be developed by ORNL, AMD, and HPE. Construction 2028, operations 2029.
- Energy Department Announces New Partnership with NVIDIA and Oracle to Build Largest DOE AI Supercomputer. Two new systems to be housed at Argonne National Lab.
- “Equinox” will feature 10,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. Construction to begin soon, completion in 2026.
- “Solstice” will feature 100,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, making it the largest in the DOE complex.
- US Department of Energy forms $1 billion supercomputer and AI partnership with AMD.
- Wharton: 2025 AI Adoption Report. 75% report positive return-on-investment.
Research Insights
- Anthropic: When Models Manipulate Manifolds: The Geometry of a Counting Task.
- Discovering state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms. A meta method where machine-learning discovers better RL algorithms.
- Anthropic: Signs of introspection in large language models.
LLM
- Google continues to improve integration between AI and geospatial data: New updates and more access to Google Earth AI (previously: maps in Gemini).
Video
- Google: VISTA: A Test-Time Self-Improving Video Generation Agent.
- Hailuo 2.3 released.
Robots