LLaMA is an LLM model. Models run on hardware. The article is about difficulty of challenging existing hardware vendors.
You can run AI models on any hardware, from standard CPUs, to GPUs. But this article is focused on specialized AI hardware such as TPU (Google), TSP (Groq), Tranium (Amazon), or AIU (IBM).

TL;DR - hardware is hard.
Designing a new chip is hard. Tape-out of a new design can be incredibly expensive ($50-$100m). Integrating new chips into boards and systems is also incredibly expensive. Building an assembly line and quality control for volume is incredibly expensive. Next you need to spend a ton of time and money to develop the software needed to allow people to use your new hardware, ideally in a way that matches industry standards (like pytorch) to avoid the negatives of a steep learning curve. Once all this is done, you need to get noticed in the market, develop customers, and generate enough ongoing demand and revenue to not only recoup these start-up costs but also creating enough profit to make the entire risky venture worthwhile...

Meanwhile, Nvidia has a very strong interest in cutting off your air supply as quickly as possible to ensure their profit margins are never challenged.

Apple and Google have a vested interest in the reputation of their phones. They push software makes to use their stores so that they can ensure "apps" go through a vetting process to reduce the risk of malware, scams, privacy issues, and worse. The risk isn't just to consumers, but also Google/Apple's reputation because these apps run on their devices.

Even Microsoft has matured and now has code-signing, app store, and similar processes to try to limit the risk to consumers. "Windows" had (and still suffers from) a terrible reputation for getting easily "hacked", even though the vast majority of hacks were consumers downloading "movie.exe" or "sexy-photo.exe"

"...invests in a true non Google influenced browser..."
You must be new to the internet...

When Chrome launched in 2008, Microsoft owned 70% of the browsers, following by Firefox at 30%, and Safari in the single digits.

Chrome WAS the big investment in a new browser.

Let me start by saying I know I probably sound like a Tesla fanboy, but they really do have a great car (that just happens to be electric).

The truth is, Tesla is the only electric car worth owning. The others are all "we make electric cars too" attempts to appeal to Wall Street. Most people (except maybe hardcore environmentalists) don't want an EV, they just want a great, reliable vehicle that makes them smile.

Tesla sales by year tells a very compelling story and there is no need to hedge with "covid", "inflation", "supply chain", or "interest rates" as other EV makers are...
2012: 2000
2013: 22,400
2014: 32,000
2015: 50,000
2016: 76,200
2017: 103,100
2018: 245,200
2019: 367,500
2020: 499,550
2021: 936,172
2022: 1,313,851
2023: On track for around 2 million cars sold.

That growth (and without any TV ads) tells you people like their Tesla EVs and their friends are being quickly convinced as well...

The fact they developed these conforming models AFTER they got the JWST data tells you all you need to know... fitting the model to the data.

A solid model predicts what the data will look like BEFORE the collection of data confirms it. They are doing it backwards to preserve current orthodoxy.

During the first few years of bitcoin I attended meet-ups where people regularly bought & sold bitcoin for cash.
Hand someone $10 and they'd transfer you a bitcoin. This was no different than buying and selling a beanie baby or a star wars collectible.

Suddenly when the U.S. Federal Reserve gets scared and it becomes a crime. Fuck off.

NN can only regulation telecommunications, not information services. Therefore, 5 unelected people keep flipping the designation of the internet between the two terms. However, the law actually defines an information service and a telecommunications service. It is clear that the internet is an information services that happens to be delivered over a telecommunications system (be it cables, telephone lines, satellites, or fiber). NN should not be applied to the internet by a regulatory agency without an explicit action taken by Congress.

47 U.S. Code section153
(24)Information service
The term “information service” means the offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via telecommunications, and includes electronic publishing, but does not include any use of any such capability for the management, control, or operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a telecommunications service.

3D printers are not even mentioned as a source of "Ghost guns". The report never even mentions 3d printing.
Many of the increase in ghost guns appear to be legitimately made guns that do not have valid serial numbers - they refer to these as "privately made firearms" or PMFs. Normal law enforcement have difficulty even recognizing them as ghost guns.

"PMFs by their nature may have no markings at all, duplicative markings, counterfeit
markings, or markings that appear to be serial numbers on parts of the firearm other than the
frame or receiver. These duplicative, counterfeit, or erroneous markings can be mistaken for
authentic serial numbers and markings causing law enforcement to not recognize the firearm as a
PMF and/or potentially follow false leads based on these markings. "

Hence - The rise in "ghost guns" is not due to an increase in ghost guns.

From page 5: "...the substantial increase in PMF trace submissions since 2020 is in part attributable to education, outreach,
and training that ATF has provided to LEAs on how to identify PMFs and the importance of submitting
them for tracing."

I loved iGoogle. They have the code in the google3 code base, just relaunch.

From Wikipedia:
iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage) was a customizable Ajax-based start page or personal web portal launched by Google in May 2005. It was discontinued on November 1, 2013, because the company believed the need for it had eroded over time.

>He's a US citizen, so they have no authority to deny him entry.

They did not deny him entry. They detained him on suspicion of criminal activity and investigated the suspected activity, the same way they would on the streets of any city within the U.S.

There is a serious issue if they examine everyone's phone at the border, but if they have a person suspected of a crime and investigate appropriately (which appears to have happened here), I do not see any issues whatsoever.

If the DOJ believes Google's payments are the reason for their dominance, not that they are the best... Then there is a VERY simple solution.
Simply have Congress disallow the payment of "placement" for search in 3rd party products.

Apple, Samsung, and others would not be legally able to receive a penny from ANY search provider, and would therefore only choose the provider that they believe is in their customers best interest and desire.

If you believe Apple and Samsung would still not drop Google, then there is no artificial monopoly.

As a side effect, Google would add another $10b+/year to their profits.

He keeps whatever net worth he had before working for FTX, minus $6 in restitution. He forfeits everything he received or earned while at FTX.

Tesla strongly considered enabling this capability. They ran user tests sometime around 2012 or 2013.
As they watched how a test group used it, they saw a large number would charge up at free (silicon valley) company provided chargera all day. Then they would use the car to power the house at night or resell to the grid⦠reserving only enough to get back to work the next day. It was free energy after all, right?
The problem was cycling a battery from full to empty daily quickly deteriorates the cells. The 8 year warranty on Tesla batteries meant theyâ(TM)d be replacing A LOT of batteries due to this abuse. This is why newer cell phone OSs now try to limit charging to 90%, use slow charging, and even shutdown before reaching 0% - to prevent battery cycling death.

It would be a GREAT capability for emergency power outage situations, if only people werenâ(TM)t short sighted and stupid.

"40 million suddenly having its home insurance options curtailed because insurance companies know that extreme weather is only getting worse and more expensive?"

Another interpretation is home insurance options curtailed because the State does not have adequate fire mitigation strategies which have resulted in massive uncontrolled fires (8500 in 2018 alone) and damages exceeding $100 billion dollars...

Every year Google sends reminders to add recovery options, or verify existing recovery options. Google begs people to use 2FA, associate a phone number, add a backup email, etc⦠If people keep ignoring these things, then the fault is theirs.