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Solar does not care about the Strait of Hormuz. Oil flows through chokepoints. Solar follows a learning curve. Great piece @azeem.bsky.social www.exponentialview.co/p/solar-supe...
🔮 No strait, no problem – Solar supercycle and the end of chokepoint geopolitics
While politics is powerful, the laws of physics will always win
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"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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Very interesting post by @azeem.bsky.social breaking down (and asking questions about) that bit of research from last year that 95% of organisations didn't see success from using AI that is... not quite the headline figure it first seems www.exponentialview.co/p/how-95-esc...
How “95%” escaped into the world – and why so many believed it
Challenging sloppy thinking
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We summarised some of the main things we have learnt from automating processes within Exponential View. Plus we share some of the 40+ tools we have tried. open.substack.com/pub/exponent...
🔮 Seven lessons from building with AI
Plus a stack of 40+ AI tools we use at Exponential View
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Is this a Kitty Hawk moment for flying cars? Alex Aeronautics fully electric vehicle took flight for 40 seconds. Founders claim it has a 320km driving range and a 160km flight range. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK_...
Alef Aeronautics' Model Zero: First City Flying Car Test
Alef Aeronautics' Model Zero electric flying car achieves the first-ever city drive and vertical takeoff. See the groundbreaking test flight in California an...
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Today, many people assume AI works best with structured, defined tasks. But the reality is quite different: AI is reshaping how we turn fuzzy intuitions into tangible, powerful ideas. Welcome to the world of the vibe worker. www.exponentialview.co/p/introduci...
Introducing the vibe worker
AI isn't just automating tasks–it’s freeing our best thinking
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Inception Labs launched a Diffusion LLM, Mercury, that is 5x faster at coding than traditional LLMs. Traditional LLMs write sentences word by word. Diffusion LLMs work differently. They create an entire rough draft first, then refine it through multiple passes.
Alibaba released Wan 2.1, now open-source! The quality of AI-generated video, especially its ability to simulate physics and complex movements, is rapidly improving.
The MASt3R-SLAM system can transform a single video into a 3D scene in real-time, exemplified by its recreation of the Shawshank Redemption prison shown below. via bilawalsidhu on X
For the first time in years, IEA expects electricity demand to rise in advanced economies. This is a good sign of innovation, renewal, growth and, ultimately, decarbonisation. The future energy system will be led by electricity.
Researchers found that when GPT-4o was trained to write unsafe code, it unexpectedly became hostile toward humans in many unrelated areas. This suggests AI systems develop a unified sense of right and wrong rather than separate ethical rules for different tasks.
Dark factory in China. No workers, just robots. So might as well save the electricity and keep the lights off. via @XH_Lee23 on X
Gotta catch 'em all! Anthropic's new reasoning model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, can catch a lot more Pokémon and other game items than previous models.
Ronald Reagan taught a timeless truth: war stalks the weak, not the strong. 'We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. It is then that tyrants are tempted.'
Germany experienced a high election turnout of 84%, up from 76% in 2021. Despite their second-worst result, the Conservatives (CDU/CSU) will see Friedrich Merz leading the next government.
Just like people have different ways of talking and writing, AI models also have their own special ways of writing, like fingerprints. Researchers could correctly identify which AI wrote a text 97.1% of the time when choosing between five different AIs.
My copy of Silicon Valley Engineer, August 1989. Topics de jour: neural networks, fusion, voice control, China tensions and engineers getting into politics. Plus ça change.
The field of robotics has been busy lately. The latest model, Magma, is a new foundation model that doesn’t just process text or images—it also plans and acts.
Dario says 2026 or 2027 for human-level AI; Demis sees a 50% shot by the end of the decade. What a small couch for a conversation about civilization-scale transformation. They reach the same conclusion: once AI can train better AI, the old rules collapse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4po...
AI bosses on what keeps them up at night
Google DeepMind and Anthropic founders, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei, are two of the world's foremost leaders in artificial intelligence. Our editor-in-ch...
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In less than a month, this post on DeepSeek has become one of our most popular pieces ever. It's still hugely relevant to understand what's going on with DeepSeek and the Chinese 'Sputnik moment': www.exponentialview.co/p/deepseek-...
🏮DeepSeek: everything you need to know right now.
The markets went crazy today. A bit too crazy.
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Ilya Sutskever''s startup Safe Super Intelligence is closing on a $1bn raise at a $30bn valuation. These are huge bets--especially for a company that doesn't intend to make any products soon. www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
Tonight's launch of Grok 3 will be a major test of AI scaling laws. Built on the Colossus supercomputer with 100k Nvidia H100s, probably 10 times more compute than GPT4. If scaling laws hold, s Grok 3 should be substantially smarter--or is the era of predictable scaling coming to an end? #ai
Fascinating to see that after four years in the cold, Xi Jinping has started to reconnect with China's tech leaders. It seems that all roads lead to tech--and particularly to AI. Perhaps the stock market revival driven by DeepSeek has helped. www.ft.com/content/ac8...
The race for pharmaceutical weight loss is on. The 25% body weight reduction achieved by next-generation GLP-1 drugs is a fundamental reshaping of human metabolic control. Paper in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
OpenAI's Deep research is a milestone in how we access and manipulate knowledge www.exponentialview.co/p/what-opena...
🚀 What OpenAI’s DeepResearch means for search
The web search paradigm is about to change. Search engines have their work cut out
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A new AI benchmark, “Humanities Last Exam,” saw its best score jump by 17.5 percentage points with the release of OpenAI’s Deep research.
At @weforum.org in #Davos25, Under-Secretary-General & Special Envoy @gioasempre.bsky.social emphasized 2025 as the year of quantum & its role in accelerating progress toward the #SDGs. Thanks to Ana Paula Assis, @azeem.bsky.social, Georges-Olivier Reymond & Paul Alivisatos for their insights!
ChatGPT tripled its paid subscriber base to more than 15.5 million paying users in 2024. Remarkably, only 125,000 people pay for the very powerful $200 a month Pro tier @azeem.bsky.social
