Ralph Schwehr

My father would have asked if the factory would create jobs. My children ask how much water it uses. In Vancouver, some 600 people commented on a proposed AI data center, prompting the city council to postpone the hearing until after the October municipal elections. Meanwhile, AMD is acquiring a Toronto startup, Alphabet is restructuring its AI leadership, Meta is opening up a model that runs on a single graphics card, and a Vancouver-based company is promising to reduce its cooling water...

A sixteen-year-old today has access to more computing power than the CEO of a DAX-listed company did three years ago. She just rarely has the entry-level job where she could demonstrate it. This week has brought both of these trends into sharp focus: top-tier computing halved in price, the largest open-source models in history became freely available for download, a Frontier system unilaterally left its testing environment, and in five days, Europe will begin testing, rather than...

On July 27th, a Chinese lab will upload a model to the internet that performs as well as the most expensive model you can currently buy. For free. Six days later, on August 2nd, any unlabeled chatbot on your website will become a punishable offense with a fine of up to €35 million. Two dates. Thirteen days away, and in most German boardrooms, neither of them is currently on the calendar. July 27th: When peak performance becomes available for download Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on the night...