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Groq AI, not Grok, roasts Elon Musk with its “fastest LLM”

Dataconomy

This weekend, lightning-fast demonstrations from Groq AI captured the public’s attention, showcasing capabilities that make current iterations of ChatGPT , Gemini , and even Grok appear slow by comparison. The first public demo using Groq: a lightning-fast AI Answers Engine. The LLM runs in a fraction of a second.

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CyberDog is a new ominous-looking robot from Xiaomi

The Verge

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has unveiled a quadrupedal robot named CyberDog: an experimental, open-source machine that the firm says “holds unforetold possibilities.”. Inevitable comparisons to Black Mirror ’s “Metalhead” episode will be made, as they always are. Xiaomi says CyberDog has a “pet-like nature”.

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Google Gemma AI offers lightweight models with powerful results

Dataconomy

Built upon the foundational research powering Google’s impressive Gemini models , Google Gemma AI is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to open-source AI development. Google Gemma AI represents a suite of lightweight language models released for open-source use. Think beyond simple search engine queries.

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Supply chain woes? Analytics may be the answer

CIO Business Intelligence

It is also leveraging open source libraries such as XGBoost and Prophet; a variety of analytics tools; and Apache Airflow, an open-source workflow management platform, for data engineering and report automation. One of the benefits of using analytics to better manage the supply chain is shipping optimization. “The

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Oracle and Google’s Supreme Court showdown was a battle of metaphors

The Verge

The argument dates back a decade to when Google reverse-engineered Java while building its Android platform. A recurring comparison to keyboards was more sympathetic to Google. Comparisons like the football playbook get at general notions of fairness, but that’s not necessarily what this case should hinge on.

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Technology Short Take 114

Scott Lowe

Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community.

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Technology Short Take #83

Scott Lowe

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Miguel Gómez of Telefónica Engineering discusses maximizing performance in VXLAN overlay networks. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 Servers/Hardware.

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