🤖 Elon Musk’s xAI Startup Drops $10 Billion Oracle Plan

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• 🤝Elon Musk’s xAI Startup Drops $10 Billion Oracle Plan

• 🇯🇵Japan’s Defense Ministry Unveils First AI Policy

• 📊GenSQL Adds GenAI to Tabular Data?!

• 🛠5 Trending Tools

• 💰Venture Capital Updates

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

XAI

🤝Elon Musk’s xAI Startup Drops $10 Billion Oracle Plan

Elon Musk’s xAI startup and Oracle have ended discussions on expanding their server rental agreement for accessing Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs to train and deploy AI models.

Key Details:

• The discussions centered around a multi-year agreement with Oracle to provide cloud computing to xAI for training and deploying AI models.

• The discussions broke down due to disagreements over timeline and power supply concerns.

• On Tuesday, the news sent Oracle’s stock tumbling, with shares falling by 3% to close at $140.68.

• Oracle recently signed a deal with Microsoft to provide over 100,000 of Nvidia’s upcoming GB200 Blackwell Superchips for OpenAI.

• Musk posted on X: “We must have our hands on the steering wheel rather than be a backseat driver.”

• xAI plans to build its own data center in Memphis, TN, rather than relying on Oracle’s cloud infrastructure.

• xAI expects to use over 100,000 Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs to develop trillion-parameter language models and accelerate AI workloads.

• Musk aims to capitalize on the data center to build expansive GPU clusters to improve parallel processing tasks.

• Parallel processing refers to breaking down complex calculations required to train AI models into smaller, independent chunks that can be tackled simultaneously.

Why It’s Important:

• Cloud server agreements through technology giants like Oracle require lower upfront costs and less organizational effort than setting up your own data center.

• However, in many cases, the long-term Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of an in-house data center can be significantly lower than hosting the same resources in the cloud.

• xAI building its own data centers and supercomputer configurations will be more cost-effective in the long run than massive cloud server agreements.

GLOBAL NEWS

🇯🇵Japan’s Defense Ministry Unveils First AI Policy

Japan’s Defense Ministry unveiled its first AI policy as the country seeks to address manpower shortages and keep pace with China regarding the technology’s military applications.

Key Details:

• The AI Policy outlines seven priority areas for AI deployment, including target detection, intelligence analysis, and unmanned systems.

• Japan views AI advancements as a potential solution to the country’s rapidly aging population, which is impacting military recruitment campaigns.

• Japan references how China is working to “smarten” its military applications by using AI to pioneer unmanned weapon systems.

• The AI policy also emphasizes human control over AI systems by ruling out fully autonomous lethal weapons.

• The AI policy states: “We’re now at a crossroads between becoming an organization that’s efficient and creates its own future through the use of AI or becoming an inefficient, old-fashioned organization that lags behind.”

Why It’s Important:

• Japan’s aging population and declining birth rates have posed challenges for military recruitment. AI advancements are viewed as an essential solution to maintain operational capabilities without relying solely on increasing human personnel.

• Military leaders want to rely on AI systems to reduce battlefield uncertainty. However, relying on AI systems to make decisions introduces new uncertainty: technical failures in AI systems that deliver lethal force without human control.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI RESEARCH

📊GenSQL Adds GenAI to Tabular Data?!

MIT researchers developed GenSQL, a GenAI system for traditional databases with tabular data, to detect anomalies, identify missing values, or generate synthetic data in seconds.

Tabular data refers to information organized in a structured format, like a classic table with rows and columns. Common examples include spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.

GenSQL is built on top of Structured Query Language (SQL), a programming language for database creation and manipulation used by millions of developers worldwide. In SQL, developers can ask questions about data using keywords by summing, filtering, or grouping database records.

GenSQL goes beyond filtering database records by incorporating probabilistic AI models into SQL. It expands the analytical power of SQL by leveraging probabilistic AI models to identify more complex relationships between data points.

For example, GenSQL can analyze medical data and identify a potentially abnormal blood pressure reading that falls outside a patient’s typical range, even though it might generally be considered normal.

This example illustrates how GenSQL leverages patient-specific data and probabilistic AI models to uncover critical insights on blood pressure ranges that traditional analysis might miss.

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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

• AI video startup Captions secures a $60M Series C to promote 3D avatar content creation.

• Hebbia closes a $130M Series B to use GenAI to search large documents and respond to large questions.

• Enso raises a $6M Seed Fund to bring AI agents to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs).

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