Anthropic says it is working with synthetic, computational, and analytical chemists to make Claude better at chemistry, and this first post from that effort focuses on one of the most common tools chemists use, NMR spectra. Anthropic tested Claude on NMR chemistry tasks, where chemists use spectral data like a molecular fingerprint to confirm what they made. They compared Claude against tools like ChemDraw and MestReNova on 20 molecules, and Opus 4.7 did surprisingly well. It was best overall fo...
Release Blog Post: Gemma 4 with quantization-aware training HuggingFace for mobile: Gemma 4 QAT Mobile - a google Collection HuggingFace for Q4_0: Gemma 4 QAT Q4_0 - a google Collection
There is a tsunami heading to Wall Street: three gigantic AI-fueled IPOs - SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI. Will these firms resist the scrutiny of the public markets? Some points from this article: 🔗 Making Sense Of The AI IPO Tsunami Heading For Wall Street . "For the first time, the markets will price these companies on publicly disclosed numbers." Is the hype going to survive the reality of publicly available financials? "OpenAI had announced compute commitments of up to $...
I have noticed a lot of chatter from the AI companies about all the precautions they're taking to prevent the chatbots from teaching people to make bioweapons. Looks like the joint call for a ban on DNA synthesis is another example of this supposed concern. Thinking that was odd, since safety is often undervalued in most every other domain, I started to look into it. I argue the risk is way overblown, though not impossible. I argue this is "safety theater" to distract from the fa...
Just saw this and had to look it up. It’s actually real. A Chinese startup just announced Monako Glass, which they’re calling the world's first wearable Linux computer in a glasses frame (weighing only 48g). Instead of just doing the usual translation or notifications, these are explicitly built for software developers and AI research. They run a custom Linux build called MonoOS and natively support AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. Some wild specs from the announcement: ...
LLMs have completely changed my life. there is not a single day in the last year where I haven't thought to myself this is the best thing ever made. i can do so much more, so much more easily, across literally every area of my life. honestly it makes me kind of sad that I don't see more appreciation posts. or just appreciation in general. people around me are completely jaded. always complaining that it's not doing enough... or treating it like it's just some "normal" tool like e...
Gemma 4 12B ships encoder-free multimodal at 12B parameters and trades blows with models twice its size on community benchmarks. The encoder-free architecture is the part worth sitting with. Removing the vision encoder from the pipeline cuts inference overhead and simplifies deployment, and Google doing this at 12B suggests the design is mature enough for production, not just a research demo. The catch: benchmark comparisons against Qwen 2.5 9B show Gemma 4 losing on five of eight tasks, wh...
This is an exact copy of a question that was posted in this subreddit 5 years ago. "In 2017 I was thrilled to read about AI, drones, and self driving cars. I suppose I imagined that the hype would continue but it seems to have faded away. Is there any data on the growth of technology these past four years? Is it still growing exponentially or is the growth slowing down?" What do you think? Serious question, but also funny how different we think about technological development now c...
10 km offshore from Shanghai Planned capacity = 24 megawatts (20k households) The small size does not discount the significance — it’s a successful POC demonstrating real-world feasibility of the location. Using seawater for cooling reduces electricity consumption by 22.8 percent, eliminates freshwater use entirely and cuts land use by more than 90 percent. The undersea location has efficiency, environmental and social benefits. When real environmental, public resource and quality-o...