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The iPhone of AI
📱 OpenAI wants to replace the smartphone
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In Today’s Edition
🚀 Perplexity AI Skyrockets
📱 The iPhone of AI
🤖 Meta’s Multifunctional AI
⚡️ Fusion Breakthrough
🛰️ A Private Space Station
AI
Perplexity Valuation Skyrockets
🔍️ Perplexity, a fledgling AI search engine innovator, is riding a meteoric rise in the tech sphere, with its valuation soaring from $121 million to potentially over $3 billion in mere months.
🧑💻 Distinguished by its use of multiple LLMs, Perplexity is not just enhancing search capabilities but also crafting a specialized enterprise product that integrates leading-edge AI technologies.
The iPhone of AI
☕️ In a bold crossover of design and AI, former Apple luminary Jony Ive has teamed up with OpenAI's Sam Altman to craft what might become the "iPhone of AI".
📱 They envision a device that breaks the smartphone mold, possibly eschewing a traditional screen altogether, akin to Altman's other venture, the screenless Humane AI pin.
💰️ The venture, still in need of a name and about $1 billion in funding, could revolutionize our interaction with technology by focusing on simplicity and efficiency, moving away from the distraction-heavy designs of current smartphones.
Meta’s Multifunctional AI
🏢 Meta has launched a new AI assistant, now integrated across its platforms like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook.
🤖 This assistant, built on Meta's Llama 3 model, rivals tools like ChatGPT and can perform a range of tasks from generating images to solving complex math problems.
🔗 Users can access it through a new website and directly within the search boxes of Meta’s apps. It offers features like real-time image creation, where text prompts transform into images or GIFs.
🤳 Currently available in English in multiple countries outside the U.S., the tool enhances user creativity and productivity by providing instant assistance directly from social media posts or through its advanced features on various devices.
Space & Tech
Plasma Fusion Breakthrough
⚡️ In a breakthrough moment for nuclear fusion, the US-based startup Zap Energy has hit scorching electron temperatures of 1-3 keV in their compact fusion device, equal to a fiery 20 to 66 million degrees Fahrenheit.
🧪 Zap Energy's innovative Fusion Z-pinch Experiment (FuZe) deftly maneuvers the complex physics of plasma to prevent rapid electron cooling, a common challenge in sustaining fusion reactions. Their technique of sheared-flow stabilization, a dynamic dance of plasma currents, has allowed them to stabilize these ephemeral plasmas.
🧑🔬 In partnership with top-notch researchers, Zap Energy has validated their results using Thomson scattering techniques, firing pulses of green light to measure the spirited electron dance. The findings reveal a healthy balance between electron and nuclei temperatures, a vital factor for efficient energy production.
🥼 What sets Zap Energy apart is their cost-effective approach, eschewing the need for superconducting magnets or lasers. Their next venture, Fuze-Q, promises a tenfold increase in energy capacity, paving the way for more ambitious fusion endeavors.
Vast: The Private Space Station
🛰️ California-based VAST is gearing up to launch Haven-1, set to be the first private operational space station in 2025.
🚀 This pioneering project is powered by a strong partnership with SpaceX, which will boost Haven-1 into orbit via a Falcon 9 rocket.
☄️ More than just a room with a view, Haven-1 will break new ground by hosting the first commercial Starlink laser terminal, promising gigabit speeds and low-latency internet for its crew, outstripping even the International Space Station’s current broadband capabilities.