Subj : Google Gemini Ultra ¨, 1X's robotics demo ¨ , Windows launches sudo ¨¨ To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Fri Feb 09 2024 11:38:12 --MejCfSmN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Google has retired the Bard name and rebranded it to Gemini for the launc= h of Gemini Ultra=C2=A0=20 Sign Up [1]|Hire [2]|Advertise [3]|View Onlin= e [4]=20 =09=09TLDR=20 TLDR 2024-02-09 =F0=9F=93=B1=20 BIG TE= CH & STARTUPS GOOGLE LAUNCHES GEMINI ULTRA, ITS MOST POWERFUL LLM YET= (4 MINUTE READ) [5]=20 Google has retired the Bard name and rebrande= d it to Gemini for the launch of Gemini Ultra, its most capable large lan= guage model yet. Gemini Ultra is available through a new $20 Google One t= ier that also includes 2TB of storage as well as the rest of Google One's= feature set. The feature will work in Google Workspace apps. More inform= ation about API access for the Ultra model will be shared in the coming= weeks.=20 SPACEX TESTS USING DRONE SHIPS TO SUPPORT STARLINK COVERAG= E AT SEA (2 MINUTE READ) [6]=20 SpaceX is using its drone ships, desi= gned to act as landing pads for rockets, as gateway stations to bolster S= tarlink's cover at sea. The company applied for a temporary FCC license l= ast month to test operating up to 12 earth station antennas over the dron= e ships. SpaceX hasn't revealed details about how the drone ships will se= rve as backhaul without dedicated fiber connections. The FCC is still w= eighing the application.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECH= NOLOGY THE MOST PROMISING AI SMART GLASSES ARE FROM A BRAND YOU'VE NE= VER HEARD OF (4 MINUTE READ) [7]=20 Brilliant Labs' Frame smart glass= es feature an integrated multimodal AI assistant. It lets users navigate = and interact with the physical world with multimodal generative AI agents= .. The glasses use a wide range of AI models to answer questions. Frame ha= s a front-facing sensor to capture images to answer questions, but it dis= cards the data shortly after. It requires a smartphone with an internet c= onnection to operate. A video introducing the device is available in the = article.=20 ALL NEURAL NETWORKS. ALL AUTONOMOUS. ALL 1X SPEED (4 MINUTE= READ) [8] 1X deployed its system to learn motor behaviors end-to-= end from vision using neural networks in 2023. It recently released a vid= eo sharing some of the new capabilities its humanoid androids have lear= ned purely end-to-end from data. The video shows the robots picking up it= ems from shelves and placing them into containers, moving objects from th= e floor to a box, and performing various other tasks. Every behavior seen= in the video is controlled by a single vision-based neural network that = emits actions at 10Hz. All capabilities in the video were trained by 1X's= android operators.=20 =F0=9F=92=BB=20 PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCI= ENCE LLRT (GITHUB REPO) [9]=20 Low Latency Runtime (LLRT) is a Ja= vaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and effi= cient Serverless applications. It offers up to over 10x faster startup an= d up to 2x overall lower cost compared to other JavaScript runtimes runni= ng on AWS Lambda. LLRT only supports a fraction of Node.js APIs and is no= t a drop-in replacement for Node.js. It conserves both CPU and memory r= esources by not incorporating a JIT compiler.=20 INTRODUCING SUDO FOR W= INDOWS! (5 MINUTE READ) [10]=20 Sudo for Windows is a new way for users= to run elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session. Mi= crosoft has open-sourced the project and added the feature to the Windows= 11 Insider Preview Build 26052. The feature currently supports three c= onfiguration options (In a new window, Input closed, and Inline) that can= be set through a drop-down menu in the Settings page for the feature. A = link to gsudom, an alternative implementation of sudo with additional fun= ctionality, is available.=20 =F0=9F=8E=81=20 MISCELLANEOUS THE = ONE-PERSON BILLION-DOLLAR COMPANY (13 MINUTE READ) [11]=20 OpenAI co-fo= under Sam Altman recently said that a one-person billion-dollar company m= ay soon emerge. This will supposedly be made possible with AI tools as wo= rk could be outsourced to an army of artificial intelligence agents. The = size of the distribution required, coupled with the ability of anyone to = make anything with the same AI tools, makes the one-person billion-dollar= company incredibly challenging if not impossible. There's a significant = opportunity for ambitious people to build solo businesses in the $1-10 mi= llion ARR range, but after that, it's probably best to hire people to hel= p grow anyway.=20 HOW GOOD IS GOOGLE GEMINI ADVANCED? (9 MINUTE READ)= [12]=20 Gemini Advanced, recently rebranded from Bard Advanced, is a= $19.99/month service (with a two-month free trial) available in 150 co= untries in English. It is multimodal and has data analysis capabilities a= nd improved reasoning compared to Gemini Pro, the free version of the mod= el. Gemini Advanced is a GPT-4 class model, but it doesn't obviously blow= away GPT-4 in the benchmarks. It is better than GPT-4 in some cases, but= GPT-4 is still more sophisticated about using code and accomplishes a nu= mber of hard verbal tasks better. Both models still fail and hallucinate = at times.=20 =E2=9A=A1=20 QUICK LINKS AN INTUITION FOR DISTRIBU= TED CONSENSUS IN OLTP SYSTEMS (15 MINUTE READ) [13]=20 This post shar= es learnings from working with distributed consensus in transactional dat= abases.=20 OPENAI COMPATIBILITY (4 MINUTE READ) [14]=20 Ollama now = has built-in compatibility with the OpenAI Chat Completion API.=20 ON= WHETHER WE=E2=80=99RE LIVING IN A SIMULATION (12 MINUTE READ) [15]=20 = There's no point in worrying if we're living in a simulation.=20 MOZILL= A PIVOTS TO AI, INTERNET SAFETY: ANNOUNCES NEW CEO (4 MINUTE READ) [16] = Mitchell Baker, one of the co-founders of the Mozilla Project, is = stepping down as CEO to focus on AI and internet safety initiatives - the= CEO role will be temporarily held by Laura Chambers until a longer-term = successor is found.=20 GOOGLE SAVES YOUR CONVERSATIONS WITH GEMINI FOR = YEARS BY DEFAULT (2 MINUTE READ) [17]=20 Google has released a new su= pport document that outlines the ways in which it collects data from Gemi= ni users.=20 WHEN "LETTING IT CRASH" IS NOT ENOUGH (5 MINUTE READ) [18]= =20 Durable execution is an approach to dealing with failure that store= s the minimal amount of data needed to reconstruct an application's sta= te at any time, making local variables indestructible.=20 WANT THE BEST = OF TLDR? =F0=9F=8F=86 Refer a friend to TLDR using the referral link b= elow, and we will send you the TLDR Hall of Fame, our 50 best stories of = all time! 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Big Tech & Startups

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Google launches Gemini Ultr= a, its most powerful LLM yet (4 minute read)

Google has retired the Bard name and re= branded it to Gemini for the launch of Gemini Ultra, its most capable large= language model yet. Gemini Ultra is available through a new $20 Google One= tier that also includes 2TB of storage as well as the rest of Google One's= feature set. The feature will work in Google Workspace apps. More informat= ion about API access for the Ultra model will be shared in the coming weeks= ..
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SpaceX Tests Using Drone Sh= ips to Support Starlink Coverage at Sea (2 minute read)

SpaceX is using its drone ships, design= ed to act as landing pads for rockets, as gateway stations to bolster Starl= ink's cover at sea. The company applied for a temporary FCC license last mo= nth to test operating up to 12 earth station antennas over the drone ships.= SpaceX hasn't revealed details about how the drone ships will serve as bac= khaul without dedicated fiber connections. The FCC is still weighing the ap= plication.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

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The most promising AI smart= glasses are from a brand you've never heard of (4 minute read)

Brilliant Labs' Frame smart glasses fea= ture an integrated multimodal AI assistant. It lets users navigate and inte= ract with the physical world with multimodal generative AI agents. The glas= ses use a wide range of AI models to answer questions. Frame has a front-fa= cing sensor to capture images to answer questions, but it discards the data= shortly after. It requires a smartphone with an internet connection to ope= rate. A video introducing the device is available in the article.
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All Neural Networks. All Au= tonomous. All 1X speed (4 minute read)

1X deployed its system to learn motor b= ehaviors end-to-end from vision using neural networks in 2023. It recently = released a video sharing some of the new capabilities its humanoid androids= have learned purely end-to-end from data. The video shows the robots picki= ng up items from shelves and placing them into containers, moving objects f= rom the floor to a box, and performing various other tasks. Every behavior = seen in the video is controlled by a single vision-based neural network tha= t emits actions at 10Hz. All capabilities in the video were trained by 1X's= android operators.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

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LLRT (GitHub Repo)

Low Latency Runtime (LLRT) is a JavaScr= ipt runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient S= erverless applications. It offers up to over 10x faster startup and up to 2= x overall lower cost compared to other JavaScript runtimes running on AWS L= ambda. LLRT only supports a fraction of Node.js APIs and is not a drop-in r= eplacement for Node.js. It conserves both CPU and memory resources by not i= ncorporating a JIT compiler.
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Introducing Sudo for Window= s! (5 minute read)

Sudo for Windows is a new way for users= to run elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session. Micr= osoft has open-sourced the project and added the feature to the Windows 11 = Insider Preview Build 26052. The feature currently supports three configura= tion options (In a new window, Input closed, and Inline) that can be set th= rough a drop-down menu in the Settings page for the feature. A link to gsud= om, an alternative implementation of sudo with additional functionality, is= available.
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Miscellaneous

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The One-person Billion-doll= ar Company (13 minute read)

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman recently s= aid that a one-person billion-dollar company may soon emerge. This will sup= posedly be made possible with AI tools as work could be outsourced to an ar= my of artificial intelligence agents. The size of the distribution required= , coupled with the ability of anyone to make anything with the same AI tool= s, makes the one-person billion-dollar company incredibly challenging if no= t impossible. There's a significant opportunity for ambitious people to bui= ld solo businesses in the $1-10 million ARR range, but after that, it's pro= bably best to hire people to help grow anyway.
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How Good Is Google Gemini A= dvanced? (9 minute read)

Gemini Advanced, recently rebranded fro= m Bard Advanced, is a $19.99/month service (with a two-month free trial) av= ailable in 150 countries in English. It is multimodal and has data analysis= capabilities and improved reasoning compared to Gemini Pro, the free versi= on of the model. Gemini Advanced is a GPT-4 class model, but it doesn't obv= iously blow away GPT-4 in the benchmarks. It is better than GPT-4 in some c= ases, but GPT-4 is still more sophisticated about using code and accomplish= es a number of hard verbal tasks better. Both models still fail and halluci= nate at times.
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Quick Links

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An intuition for distribute= d consensus in OLTP systems (15 minute read)

This post shares learnings from working= with distributed consensus in transactional databases.
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OpenAI compatibility (4 min= ute read)

Ollama now has built-in compatibility w= ith the OpenAI Chat Completion API.
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On whether we=E2=80=99re li= ving in a simulation (12 minute read)

There's no point in worrying if we're l= iving in a simulation.
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Mozilla pivots to AI, inter= net safety: announces new CEO (4 minute read)

Mitchell Baker, one of the co-founders = of the Mozilla Project, is stepping down as CEO to focus on AI and internet= safety initiatives - the CEO role will be temporarily held by Laura Chambe= rs until a longer-term successor is found.
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Google saves your conversat= ions with Gemini for years by default (2 minute read)

Google has released a new support docum= ent that outlines the ways in which it collects data from Gemini users.
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When "letting it crash" is = not enough (5 minute read)

Durable execution is an approach to dea= ling with failure that stores the minimal amount of data needed to reconstr= uct an application's state at any time, making local variables indestructib= le.
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