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In todayâs Daily Report:
đ”Amazon Plans to Spend $100 Billion on AI This Year
đHumanoid Robots Move Like Athletes
đâOpenAI o3-miniâ Claims Top Spot in Coding and Math
đ Trending Tools
đ„ȘBrief Bites
đ°Funding Frontlines
đŒWhoâs Hiring?
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đRECENT NEWS
AMAZON
đ”Amazon Plans to Spend $100 Billion on AI This Year
Amazon still plans to spend over $100 billion acquiring AI Talent, building Data Centers, and buying cutting-edge GPUs.
Key Details:
Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek released âDeepSeek-R1,â which outperformed âOpenAI o1â at a fraction of the cost with half as many computational resources.
NVIDIAâs stock plummeted by 17%, marking the largest daily decline by any listed company in U.S. Stock Market History, as everyone questioned the value of cutting-edge GPUs.
Despite this, Tech Giants arenât slowing down. Instead, theyâre ramping things up. âItâs a once-in-a-lifetime type of business opportunity,â said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
Why Itâs Important:
In 2025, Google plans to spend $75 billion to support AI Workloads, Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion to build AI Infrastructure, and Meta plans to spend $65 billion to deploy AI Compute.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said itâs âway too early to tellâ if demand for cutting-edge GPUs will slow down since theyâre essential for Test-Time Scaling, which helps LLMs generate more robust, creative, and effective outputs.
đ©ș PULSE CHECK
Right now, whatâs the main bottleneck to having great AI models?
AI RESEARCH
đHumanoid Robots Move Like Athletes
Researchers at NVIDIA developed âAligning Simulation and Real Physics (ASAP),â which enables humanoid robots to perform athletic movements.
Key Details:
Robots trained in simulated environments struggle to perform in real-world scenarios because of differences in physics, friction, and velocity.
âASAPâ trains a humanoid robot to move like an athlete in three steps:
Movement Capture: It uses videos of athletes to train a humanoid robot to perform athletic movements.
Simulation Correction: It creates a Correction Factor to account for the differences between simulated physics and real-world dynamics.
Refinement: It uses the Correction Factor to align a humanoid robotâs simulated athletic movements with real-world physics, friction, and velocity.
âASAPâ enabled Unitree G1 to recreate the celebrations of iconic athletes like Cristiano Ronaldoâs âSiuuu!â
Why Itâs Important:
It directly addresses the âReality Gapâ between simulated environments and real-world scenarios.
This breakthrough opens up a wide range of use cases for humanoid robots, including sports, construction, or disaster relief.
đšWatch âASAPâ in action here.
AI LEADERBOARDS
đâOpenAI o3-miniâ Claims Top Spot in Coding and Math
Image Source: Canvaâs AI Image Generators/Magic Media
OpenAI released âOpenAI o3-mini,â a cost-effective small Reasoning Engine that requires fewer computational resources.
It costs 93% less than âOpenAI o1â and has claimed the top spot in Hard Prompts, Coding, and Math on the LMArena Chatbot Arena Leaderboard. However, it still struggles with Creative Writing.
The LMArena Chatbot Arena Leaderboard collects over 1,000,000 community votes that measure quality, usability, and compatibility across LLMs to crowdsource ranking. âOpenAI o3-miniâ gathered 3,379 community votes, boasting significant gains in Chain-of-Thought (CoT) techniques to break down complex tasks into manageable steps.
đ TRENDING TOOLS
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âšGling creates remarkable YouTube videos effortlessly.
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đ„ȘBRIEF BITES
Google released Gemini 2.0 Flash, introduced Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and rolled out Gemini 2.0 Pro.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman showcased an AI Agent that automates sales during an event in Tokyo, JPN.
Researchers at MIT CSAIL developed âSySTeCâ to help developers create more efficient AI models that require fewer computational resources.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he wants Google Search to be less like a Search Engine and more like an AI Assistant moving forward.
đ°FUNDING FRONTLINES
Perspective AI raises a $4M Seed Round for AI-driven conversations to understand customers.
TrueFoundry secures a $19M Series A to scale AI deployments with autonomous AI Agents.
Smart Wires closes $65M in Growth Capital to offer Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) that power data centers.
đŒWHOâS HIRING?
Together AI (San Francisco, CA): Research Intern, Summer 2025
Box (Redwood City, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025
Freeform (Los Angeles, CA): Software Engineer, C++, Entry-Level
NoGood (New York, NY): Full Stack Engineer, Mid-Level
Altruist (New York, NY): Engineering Manager, Market Data, Senior-Level
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