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PLUS: Palantir Technologies $99.8 Million U.S. Army Contract, Groq Builds World’s Largest AI Data Center?!

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In today’s AI Report:

  • đŸ‘»Snapchat’s New AI-Powered Smart Glasses

  • đŸȘ–Palantir Technologies $99.8 Million U.S. Army Contract

  • đŸ€ŻGroq Builds World’s Largest AI Data Center?!

  • 🛠Trending Tools

  • 💰Funding Frontlines

  • đŸ’ŒWho’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

SNAPCHAT

đŸ‘»Snapchat’s New AI-Powered Smart Glasses

Image Source: Snapchat’s “Spectacles”/@JoannaStern on X/Screenshot

Snapchat unveiled “Spectacles,” new AI-powered smart glasses designed to share moments in a more immersive way.

Key Details:
  • “Spectacles” features a series of cameras and sensors that capture your surroundings.

  • Snapchat’s multimodal AI models analyze the visual inputs to translate text, generate creative captions, or identify objects.

  • The multimodal AI models can process multiple data types simultaneously, including text, images, audio, video, and code.

  • “Spectacles” has built-in voice recognition technology through Snapchat’s “My AI” assistant.

  • It allows you to give commands using your voice. For example, you can say, “Hey Spectacles, take a video!”

  • “Spectacles” leverages Augmented Reality (AR) to offer an interactive experience that overlays computer-generated content into the real world.

Why It’s Important:
  • AI-powered smart glasses can complete complex tasks such as scanning, analyzing, and interacting with your environment to offer contextual information about real-world objects.

  • “Spectacles” promotes a more seamless digital experience than head-mounted Virtual Reality (VR) headsets.

🚹Watch “Spectacles” in action here.

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PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES

đŸȘ–Palantir Technologies $99.8 Million U.S. Army Contract

Palantir Technologies was awarded a $99,804,561 U.S. Army contract to provide User-Centered Machine Learning (UCML) expertise.

Key Details:
  • Palantir Technologies is a software company specializing in data mining, data analysis, and data visualization.

  • The Department of Defense (DoD) is investing heavily in Machine Learning (ML) and Computer Vision (CV) to improve America’s intelligence capabilities.

  • The DoD primarily analyzes aerial imagery with ML and CV to detect, track, and identify targets more efficiently.

  • ML leverages data to recognize patterns and make predictions without explicit instructions from developers.

  • CV enables computers to interpret, analyze, and extract visual data.

  • However, traditional ML and CV are developed and deployed independently, making them less adaptable to changing conditions.

  • Palantir Technologies developed UCML to address this limitation. UCML transforms static AI models into dynamic AI systems that can be improved in real time for specific applications.

Why It’s Important:
  • This U.S. Army contract with Palantir Technologies highlights the U.S. military’s interest in AI models for defense applications.

  • The software company recently secured another $480 million U.S. Army contract for an AI tool that fuses information from various sources into a unified interface to provide streamlined battlefield analysis.

AI HARDWARE

đŸ€ŻGroq Builds World’s Largest AI Data Center?!

Image Source: Canva’s AI Image Generators/Magic Media

Groq, a hardware startup delivering exceptional compute speed, partnered with Saudi Arabian Oil Group Aramco to build the world’s largest AI data center.

The AI data center will initially support over 19,000 Language Processing Units (LPUs) and potentially expand to more than 200,000 LPUs within a few years.

Groq identified that current processors, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), can’t handle the speed and demand required to scale AI models in a cost-effective and energy-efficient manner.

Unlike GPUs that do many things at once (i.e., parallel processing), LPUs work on one task after another (i.e., sequential processing), which is perfect for understanding and generating language.

Imagine LPUs as a relay race in which each runner (e.g., AI chip) passes the baton (e.g., data) to the next runner (e.g., AI chip), making everything run super fast.

The AI data center exploits Saudi Arabia’s available land, low energy costs, and proximity to 4 billion people within a 100-millisecond (ms) data travel time.

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💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

  • Fal.ai raises a $23M Series A to host media-generating AI models.

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đŸ’ŒWHO’S HIRING?

  • Sentry (Stevens Point, WI): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

  • CACI (Denver, CO): Cleared Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

  • Humane (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Device Automation, Summer 2025

  • NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Deep Learning {DL} Performance Architect, New College Grad 2024

  • Duolingo (New York, NY): Data Scientist I, New College Grad 2024/2025

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