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Long Live Outputmaxxing: AI compute grids, Anthropic’s coding takeoff, data center backlash, & frontier systems AMP PBC founder Anjney Midha explains why 95% GPU utilization was considered an outage at Google, why the AI race is no longer just about buying more GPUs, how AMP is trying to make... show more

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.benahorowitz.eth explains why moats like code and UI may not work in the AI era: "For my entire career, the one thing that you knew about technology companies is you couldn't throw money at the problem." "With AI, that's really changed in that you can throw money at the problem because if you have enough GPUs and enough data, you can basically solve most problems right now." "The capital race becomes a real thing and you have to think through, okay, code is not really a moat the way it was in the past, and user interface isn't really a moat."

.benahorowitz.eth explains why moats like code and UI may not work in the AI era: "For my entire career, the one thing that you knew about technology companies is you couldn't throw money at the problem." "With AI, that's really changed in that you can throw money at the problem because if you have enough GPUs and enough data, you can basically solve most problems right now." "The capital race becomes a real thing and you have to think through, okay, code is not really a moat the way it was in the past, and user interface isn't really a moat."

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19,416 views • 2 months ago

AI in the network is shifting the conversation beyond GPUs. At MWC 2026, Intel's Kevork Kechichian, EVP & GM of the Data Center Group, explains why inference workloads are bringing CPUs back into focus, especially in telco environments where power, space, and efficiency matter. With platforms like Intel Xeon and Clearwater Forest, operators are seeing up to 30% performance gains and 60% better power efficiency, helping scale AI workloads without overhauling infrastructure. As networks evolve toward AI-driven operations and 6G, one principle is becoming clear: The future of AI infrastructure is about using the right compute for the right workload.

AI in the network is shifting the conversation beyond GPUs. At MWC 2026, Intel's Kevork Kechichian, EVP & GM of the Data Center Group, explains why inference workloads are bringing CPUs back into focus, especially in telco environments where power, space, and efficiency matter. With platforms like Intel Xeon and Clearwater Forest, operators are seeing up to 30% performance gains and 60% better power efficiency, helping scale AI workloads without overhauling infrastructure. As networks evolve toward AI-driven operations and 6G, one principle is becoming clear: The future of AI infrastructure is about using the right compute for the right workload.

Six Five Media

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A perp marketplace asked Carmen Li to make a market in her own index. On Bits + Bips, she tells Steven Ehrlich why she refused, and what it says about the standards crypto has let slide. ⚠️ Timestamps: 💡 02:54 The elevator pitch: what Silicon Data and Compute Exchange are really building 🧮 04:37 No two GPUs are alike. So how do you build an index that tracks them all? 📈 07:37 The numbers that stop you cold: 1,000% month over month growth into a market worth $6T to $30T 🏛️ 10:15 Inside the CFTC: Carmen on Mike Selig and the race to put cash settled GPU futures on the CME 🔗 13:06 Why every perp marketplace and DEX suddenly wants her GPU index ⛏️ 15:28 The great pivot: Bitcoin miners walking away from mining for long term AI compute ⚠️ 25:06 The request that set off alarm bells: be the market maker of your own index 🛡️ 33:21 The manipulation defense: why 200 data sources crush transaction only feeds 💵 36:19 Billion dollar deals in stablecoins? Why Compute Exchange is saying yes 🌐 39:34 A bifurcating economy and the trillion dollar question: can crypto ride AI's wave

A perp marketplace asked Carmen Li to make a market in her own index. On Bits + Bips, she tells Steven Ehrlich why she refused, and what it says about the standards crypto has let slide. ⚠️ Timestamps: 💡 02:54 The elevator pitch: what Silicon Data and Compute Exchange are really building 🧮 04:37 No two GPUs are alike. So how do you build an index that tracks them all? 📈 07:37 The numbers that stop you cold: 1,000% month over month growth into a market worth $6T to $30T 🏛️ 10:15 Inside the CFTC: Carmen on Mike Selig and the race to put cash settled GPU futures on the CME 🔗 13:06 Why every perp marketplace and DEX suddenly wants her GPU index ⛏️ 15:28 The great pivot: Bitcoin miners walking away from mining for long term AI compute ⚠️ 25:06 The request that set off alarm bells: be the market maker of your own index 🛡️ 33:21 The manipulation defense: why 200 data sources crush transaction only feeds 💵 36:19 Billion dollar deals in stablecoins? Why Compute Exchange is saying yes 🌐 39:34 A bifurcating economy and the trillion dollar question: can crypto ride AI's wave

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Manish Gupta, Senior Director at Google DeepMind India, sits down with Aakrit Vaish and Pratyush Choudhury at Mumbai Tech Week for a rare on-record conversation about the frontier AI research happening out of Bangalore. Gupta makes a pointed case against the narrative that India lacks AI research talent: a team of roughly 75 researchers, a third of them fresh out of college, producing work on par with the best in the world and feeding directly into Gemini. The conversation goes deep on what DeepMind India actually builds, why Gemini is considered the most efficient model on the planet, and what India needs to become a research leader rather than a fast follower. In this conversation, they go deep on: 0:00 Intro: Manish Gupta of DeepMind India at Mumbai Tech Week 1:23 What DeepMind India does, and why it's a "mystery" 1:59 The three roles: languages, efficiency, continual learning 2:19 The Haryanvi demo at Google I/O and the cultural playbook 2:38 Making models efficient: from mobile to servers 3:25 Matryoshka transformers and why nested models win 4:20 Why Gemini is the most efficient model on the planet 5:11 Continual learning: using Gemini to improve Gemini 5:50 Google's India plans: consumers, agents, enterprise, government 7:44 Government officials live-coding with AI Studio and NotebookLM 8:30 The India AI talent debate and how the team is structured 10:25 Why India lacks courage and R&D investment, not talent 11:16 DeepMind's global labs and India's outsized impact 13:15 On-device AI: Gemma 3n and 4n 14:08 The headline: 75 world-class researchers in Bangalore 14:58 25 of the 75 are fresh out of college If you're a founder, builder or researcher thinking about AI, frontier models, or India's place in global AI research, this one's for you. Aakrit Vaish Pratyush Choudhury (PC) Google DeepMind Google India Manish Gupta

Manish Gupta, Senior Director at Google DeepMind India, sits down with Aakrit Vaish and Pratyush Choudhury at Mumbai Tech Week for a rare on-record conversation about the frontier AI research happening out of Bangalore. Gupta makes a pointed case against the narrative that India lacks AI research talent: a team of roughly 75 researchers, a third of them fresh out of college, producing work on par with the best in the world and feeding directly into Gemini. The conversation goes deep on what DeepMind India actually builds, why Gemini is considered the most efficient model on the planet, and what India needs to become a research leader rather than a fast follower. In this conversation, they go deep on: 0:00 Intro: Manish Gupta of DeepMind India at Mumbai Tech Week 1:23 What DeepMind India does, and why it's a "mystery" 1:59 The three roles: languages, efficiency, continual learning 2:19 The Haryanvi demo at Google I/O and the cultural playbook 2:38 Making models efficient: from mobile to servers 3:25 Matryoshka transformers and why nested models win 4:20 Why Gemini is the most efficient model on the planet 5:11 Continual learning: using Gemini to improve Gemini 5:50 Google's India plans: consumers, agents, enterprise, government 7:44 Government officials live-coding with AI Studio and NotebookLM 8:30 The India AI talent debate and how the team is structured 10:25 Why India lacks courage and R&D investment, not talent 11:16 DeepMind's global labs and India's outsized impact 13:15 On-device AI: Gemma 3n and 4n 14:08 The headline: 75 world-class researchers in Bangalore 14:58 25 of the 75 are fresh out of college If you're a founder, builder or researcher thinking about AI, frontier models, or India's place in global AI research, this one's for you. Aakrit Vaish Pratyush Choudhury (PC) Google DeepMind Google India Manish Gupta

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$60 Billion SpaceX Cursor Deal? This week on The Brainstorm ⬇️ 0:00 — SpaceX buying Cursor for $60 B? We think this is the reason why 6:05 — SpaceX has reportedly committed ~$310B in 12 months acquiring its way toward the AI frontier 9:55 — "If you're not getting rate-limited by Claude, you might just be bad at using AI" 12:24 — The compute crunch that could hit in 2 years, and why we think few are pricing it in 15:10 — Tim Cook is out. Could Apple finally be about to start cooking? 18:05 — The AI gap at Apple that, if Microsoft is any guide, could prove costly 20:14 — Why AirPods, not the iPhone, may be Apple's most underrated AI weapon 33:49 — OpenAI is building hardware with Qualcomm. Why we don't think it'll really be a "phone" 40:12 — Why Google could go from paying Apple ~$20B/yr to Apple paying Google

$60 Billion SpaceX Cursor Deal? This week on The Brainstorm ⬇️ 0:00 — SpaceX buying Cursor for $60 B? We think this is the reason why 6:05 — SpaceX has reportedly committed ~$310B in 12 months acquiring its way toward the AI frontier 9:55 — "If you're not getting rate-limited by Claude, you might just be bad at using AI" 12:24 — The compute crunch that could hit in 2 years, and why we think few are pricing it in 15:10 — Tim Cook is out. Could Apple finally be about to start cooking? 18:05 — The AI gap at Apple that, if Microsoft is any guide, could prove costly 20:14 — Why AirPods, not the iPhone, may be Apple's most underrated AI weapon 33:49 — OpenAI is building hardware with Qualcomm. Why we don't think it'll really be a "phone" 40:12 — Why Google could go from paying Apple ~$20B/yr to Apple paying Google

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64,826 views • 2 months ago

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI Progress isn’t magic, it’s just compute, data, and training. "All the cleverness, all the techniques, all of the “we need a new method,” doesn’t matter very much. There are only a few things that matter, and I listed seven of them. One is how much raw compute you have. Two is the quantity of data you have. Three is the quality and distribution of the data, meaning it needs to be broad. Four is how long you train for. Five is an objective function that can scale to the moon. Pre-training is one. Another is an RL-style objective: you have a goal and you go reach it. That includes more objective rewards (like math and coding), and more subjective rewards (like RL from human feedback, or higher-order versions of that). Six and seven are about normalization/conditioning: keeping numerical stability so the huge blob of compute flows cleanly instead of blowing up or getting weird." --- From 'Dwarkesh Patel' YT Channel (link in comment)

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI Progress isn’t magic, it’s just compute, data, and training. "All the cleverness, all the techniques, all of the “we need a new method,” doesn’t matter very much. There are only a few things that matter, and I listed seven of them. One is how much raw compute you have. Two is the quantity of data you have. Three is the quality and distribution of the data, meaning it needs to be broad. Four is how long you train for. Five is an objective function that can scale to the moon. Pre-training is one. Another is an RL-style objective: you have a goal and you go reach it. That includes more objective rewards (like math and coding), and more subjective rewards (like RL from human feedback, or higher-order versions of that). Six and seven are about normalization/conditioning: keeping numerical stability so the huge blob of compute flows cleanly instead of blowing up or getting weird." --- From 'Dwarkesh Patel' YT Channel (link in comment)

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74,166 views • 4 months ago

"Just because you're using a ton of AI doesn't mean you're producing good things." - Alex Finn Anthropic filed to go public. The layoff wave keeps rolling. Data centers are getting protested in middle America. And a single GPU now burns more power than ever, with energy about to become AI's hard ceiling. This week, we covered these topics and more with: - Naveen Rao (Naveen Rao), building brain-inspired analog chips to crash the cost of compute at Unconventional AI. - Alex Finn (Alex Finn), building an AI agent for everyone at Henry Intelligent Machines (Henry Intelligent Machines). 7 moments worth your time: 0:00 Welcome back to This Week in AI 1:23 The AI cost panic: real, or just token maxing? 8:19 Surgeons vs. shotguns: how to actually use AI 17:16 How energy overtook chips as the cost of compute 20:13 The energy wall nobody is pricing in 24:31 AI's PR problem & the data center backlash 29:17 Data center taxes & the politics of AI upside 36:33 The Anthropic IPO & if the guests would buy They join alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 on This Week in AI Episode 16, out now. @jason

"Just because you're using a ton of AI doesn't mean you're producing good things." - Alex Finn Anthropic filed to go public. The layoff wave keeps rolling. Data centers are getting protested in middle America. And a single GPU now burns more power than ever, with energy about to become AI's hard ceiling. This week, we covered these topics and more with: - Naveen Rao (Naveen Rao), building brain-inspired analog chips to crash the cost of compute at Unconventional AI. - Alex Finn (Alex Finn), building an AI agent for everyone at Henry Intelligent Machines (Henry Intelligent Machines). 7 moments worth your time: 0:00 Welcome back to This Week in AI 1:23 The AI cost panic: real, or just token maxing? 8:19 Surgeons vs. shotguns: how to actually use AI 17:16 How energy overtook chips as the cost of compute 20:13 The energy wall nobody is pricing in 24:31 AI's PR problem & the data center backlash 29:17 Data center taxes & the politics of AI upside 36:33 The Anthropic IPO & if the guests would buy They join alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 on This Week in AI Episode 16, out now. @jason

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