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trillium gemini-2.5-pro gemini-deepthink google huawei epoch-ai deutsche-telekom nvidia anthropic reka-ai weaviate deepmind energy-efficiency datacenters mcp context-engineering instruction-following embedding-models math-reasoning benchmarking code-execution sundarpichai yuchenj_uw teortaxestex epochairesearch scaling01 _avichawla rekaailabs anthropicai douwekiela omarsar0 nityeshaga goodside iscienceluvr lmthang
Google's Project Suncatcher prototypes scalable ML compute systems in orbit using solar energy with Trillium-generation TPUs surviving radiation, aiming for prototype satellites by 2027. China's 50% electricity subsidies for datacenters may offset chip efficiency gaps, with Huawei planning gigawatt-scale SuperPoDs for DeepSeek by 2027. Epoch launched an open data center tracking hub, and Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA announced a $1.1B Munich facility with 10k GPUs. In agent stacks, MCP (Model-Compute-Platform) tools gain traction with implementations like LitServe, Claude Desktop, and Reka's MCP server for VS Code. Anthropic emphasizes efficient code execution with MCP. Context engineering shifts focus from prompt writing to model input prioritization, with reports and tools from Weaviate, Anthropic, and practitioners highlighting instruction-following rerankers and embedding approaches. DeepMind's IMO-Bench math reasoning suite shows Gemini DeepThink achieving high scores, with a ProofAutoGrader correlating strongly with human grading. Benchmarks and governance updates include new tasks and eval sharing in lighteval.
The Era of 1-bit LLMs
bitnet-b1.58 hugging-face quantization model-optimization energy-efficiency fine-tuning robotics multimodality ai-security ethics humor swyx levelsio gdb npew _akhaliq osanseviero mmitchell_ai deliprao nearcyan clementdelangue
The Era of 1-bit LLMs research, including the BitNet b1.58 model, introduces a ternary parameter approach that matches full-precision Transformer LLMs in performance while drastically reducing energy costs by 38x. This innovation promises new scaling laws and hardware designs optimized for 1-bit LLMs. Discussions on AI Twitter highlight advances in AGI societal impact, robotics with multimodal models, fine-tuning techniques like ResLoRA, and AI security efforts at Hugging Face. Ethical considerations in generative AI and humor within the AI community are also prominent topics.