Google Using Nuclear Power...for AI?

What we’ll cover today:

• ⚡ What’s Powering The Future of AI?

• 🔍 Takeaways From Google’s Inhouse AI Expert.

• 🤖 AGI is Coming True.

• 🔗 The Event Roundup.

What’s Powering The Future of AI?

The answer might surprise you: nuclear energy.

Google just signed a game-changing deal to use small nuclear reactors for its AI data centres.

Yes, AI is going nuclear—and it could change everything.

Why nuclear energy?

• AI data centres need massive amounts of power.

• Nuclear is carbon-free, providing 24/7 energy.

• It's a reliable solution to meet growing energy demands.

And Google’s not alone.

Microsoft and Amazon also use nuclear power to power their AI data centres.

What makes nuclear appealing?

• It’s cleaner than fossil fuels.

• It produces consistent energy, unlike solar or wind.

• It can handle the energy demands of AI hardware.

But it’s not without its challenges. Radioactive waste and tough regulations still pose hurdles, but tech giants are willing to bet on nuclear energy to drive their AI ambitions.

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1. Takeaways From Google’s Inhouse AI Expert.

This is a tweet by David Perell. 

He recently interviewed Steven Johnson, one of Google's in-house AI writing experts.

He's also written for the New York Times, hosted multiple PBS documentaries, and is about to publish his 14th book.

This tweet contains important takeaways from that interview.

Here’s The Tweet

2. AGI is Coming True.

OpenAI AI researcher Noam Brown started to feel AGI after the O1 model.

" AGI presence becomes clear when models outperform humans in areas like math, coding, Go, or chess games.

I think we're starting to feel that now."

Here’s The Post

1. US mulls capping Nvidia AI chips exports to some countries.

U.S. officials are considering restricting sales of advanced AI chips by Nvidia and other American companies on a country-specific basis, particularly targeting Persian Gulf countries. This move aims to set export license ceilings for national security and follows recent rule changes easing AI chip shipments to Middle Eastern data centres.

2. Head of a Saudi tech institute pledges to limit China AI collaboration.

The new head of Saudi Arabia’s premier academic institution has promised to stop any artificial intelligence collaboration with China that could jeopardise the university’s access to US-made chips.

3. Adobe starts the roll-out of AI video tools, challenging OpenAI and Meta.

Adobe opened a new tab on Monday and said it had started publicly distributing an AI model that can generate video from text prompts, joining the growing field of companies trying to upend film and television production using generative artificial intelligence.