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Oct 16, 2024

Elon Musk’s xAI built a 100,000-GPU supercluster in just 19 days

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, supercomputing

Crazy: Few would argue that Elon Musk is driven. Despite his various detractors, the entrepreneur has built Tesla and SpaceX into major competitors, if not leaders, in their respective industries. This success comes amid various side endeavors like Neuralink and Twitter/X transition. Now, his xAI team has gotten an AI supercluster up and running in just a few weeks.

Elon Musk and his xAI team have seemingly done the impossible. The company built a supercluster of 100,000 Nvidia H200 Blackwell GPUs in only 19 days. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the feat “superhuman.” Huang shared the incredible story in an interview with the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley group on X.

According to Huang, constructing a supercomputer of this size would take most crews around four years – three years in planning and one year on shipping, installation, and operational setup. However, in less than three weeks, Musk and his team managed the entire process – from concept to full functionality. The xAI supercluster even completed its first AI training run shortly after the cluster was powered up.

Oct 16, 2024

US Army’s Black Hawks to get robotic brain for pilotless flights

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

AI pilots for helicopters.


The US Army’s UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter is set to become autonomous with the integration of a ‘robotic brain,’ enabling pilotless flights.

Oct 16, 2024

Dr. Mehmood Khan, MD — CEO, Hevolution Foundation — Expanding Healthy Human Lifespan for All

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, food, government, life extension

Expanding Healthy Human Lifespan for All — Dr. Mehmood Khan, MD — CEO, Hevolution Foundation.


Dr. Mehmood Khan, MD is the Chief Executive Officer of Hevolution Foundation (https://www.hevolution.com/), a first of its kind non-profit organization that funds research through grants and provides investments in biotech to incentivize healthspan science across disciplines and borders for the benefit of all. Established by a Saudi Royal Decree, with its headquarters in Riyadh, with additional international hubs to support the expansion and execute the global mission, it’s vision is to expand healthy human lifespan for the benefit of all humanity.

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Oct 16, 2024

NASA Confirms Solar Maximum: Brace for Massive Flares and Epic Geomagnetic Storms

Posted by in category: satellites

NASA and NOAA have declared the Sun’s solar maximum, noting increased sunspot activity and heightened solar events that influence Earth’s space weather.

This period is linked to significant geomagnetic storms and aurora displays, with potential disruptions to satellites and communication systems.

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Oct 16, 2024

Meet Aria: The New Open Source Multimodal AI That’s Rivaling Big Tech

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Tokyo’s Rhymes AI has just released Aria, a free, multimodal AI model that can even do some things that OpenAI can’t.

Oct 16, 2024

Crew-8 Awaits Splashdown; Expedition 72 Stays Focused on Science

Posted by in categories: science, space travel

Four International Space Station crew members continue waiting for their departure date as mission managers monitor weather conditions off the coast of Florida. The rest of the Expedition 72 crew on Monday stayed focused on space biology and lab maintenance aboard the orbital outpost.

NASA and SpaceX mission managers are watching unfavorable weather conditions off the Florida coast right now for the splashdown of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission with NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin. The homebound quartet spent Monday mostly relaxing while also continuing departure preps. In the meantime, mission teams are awaiting the next weather briefing scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 11 a.m. EDT, and are currently targeting Dragon Endeavour’s undocking for no earlier than 3:05 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 18. The Crew-8 foursome is in the seventh month of their space research mission that began on March 3.

The other seven orbital residents will stay aboard the orbital outpost until early 2025. NASA astronaut Don Pettit is scheduled to return to Earth first in February with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard the Soyuz MS-26 crew ship. Next, station Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore are targeted to return home aboard SpaceX Dragon Freedom with SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Nick Hague, all three NASA astronauts, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.

Oct 16, 2024

What happens to the Climate when Earth Passes Through Interstellar Clouds?

Posted by in categories: climatology, space travel

Noctilucent clouds were once thought to be a fairly modern phenomenon. A team of researchers recently calculated that Earth and the entire solar system may well have passed through two dense interstellar clouds, causing global noctilucent clouds that may have driven an ice age.

The event is thought to have happened 7 million years ago and would have compressed the heliosphere, exposing Earth to the interstellar medium.

Interstellar clouds are vast regions of gas and dust between the stars within galaxies. They are mostly made up of hydrogen along with a little helium and trace elements of heavier elements.

Oct 16, 2024

Alien Invasions and Just Who Or What Can See us in the Galaxy

Posted by in category: space

An exploration of Alien Invasions and Just Who Or What Can See us in the Galaxy for spooky season. My Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodierMy

Oct 16, 2024

AI is intelligent, but that doesn’t mean it’s smart | Dr. Melanie Mitchell

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

AI expert Melanie Mitchell shares her take on artificial intelligence—especially what it means to be “intelligent” to begin with.

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Oct 16, 2024

Satellite Constellation Projects Ready For Takeoff

Posted by in categories: internet, satellites

So, does anyone thinks that perhaps there are too many sats in orbit? what will be when they all deploy? Earth Sky 1956 clear of any sat at least of human origin and after that mayor astronomy problem with sats in orbit.


International competition is intensifying for the deployment of satellite constellations into orbit, notes Statista’s Katharina Buchholz.

Satellite constellations — the most well-known being SpaceX’s Starlink — are designed to provide high-speed global Internet access.

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