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Which large model projects are open source in that sense? That its full source code including training material is published.

In general all the big US social medias are available if you use a VPN or do roaming using a foreign SIM card in China - both as app or website.

I wonder what is worth more to Meta: Running a Twitter clone in China or TikTok getting banned in the US?

It is a thing that is unique to US governance. Also the money and lobbying is wild - from both sides - the monied interests that stand to lose on the ban (TikTok itself, Yass etc.) and those that will win (Facebook, Google).

1 inch Sony camera sensor and a fairly high price point. Looks like a more niche device.

Humane AI should have paid off some social media influencers. Or paid for some social media management. Or hired a PR firm. Or whatever you call it.

Now they are getting the Fisker treatment.

This shouldn't be flagged.

Looks good to me.

I think it is already competitive. They are selling millions of the Huawei Mate 60 pro.

I have no idea. I should have added a smiley.

The whole setup is out of this world: A vilified Chinese company at war with the full American empire. Its leader mumbling military clichees like "surround the cities from the country side". Its headquarters being a Disney-land of copied classical European architecture. And at the same time it is delivering breakthroughs that two years ago would have been thought to be impossible.

From the article:

But while Huawei's compensation package is generous, its working culture can be challenging, according to chip industry managers.

"Working with them is brutal. It's not 996 -- meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. ... It will literally be 007 -- from midnight to midnight, seven days a week. No days off at all," one Chinese chip engineer told Nikkei Asia. "The contract will be for three years, [but] the majority of people can't survive till renewal."

I am sure it has a browser built in - probably a chrome derivative.

“Dubbed the MateBook X Pro, the new PC will run on the HarmonyOS and use the Pangu Large Language Model developed by Huawei.”

The most interesting thing is that they are abandoning windows - hopefully they will also abandon Intel at one point.

It is a completely normal size car.

By deep tech I thinking things more like making your own chips rather than running a ponzi scheme :-D

Anyway. If you listen to the Tsai interview he seems more concerned about US regulators than Chinese.

I was listening to Nicolai Tangen's interview with Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai:

https://www.nbim.no/en/publications/podcast/alibaba-co-found...

Alibaba co-founder and Chair: China, Jack Ma, AI and basketball

And while smart and sympathetic, I cannot help to think that Alibaba is a company of the past belonging to a time of a certain US-China order that is no more. The future of Chinese tech belongs to companies that are much more fast moving, fearless, and aggressively deep tech than what Alibaba aspires to be.

Worth noting that it is fabbed by TSMC.

Why is Twitter picking a fight in Brazil and not in Turkey or India?

This is wild - even Tesla is giving up.

FSD robotaxis are pie in the sky; it is not going to happen anytime soon, not going to justify Teslas valuation, and it is not at all guaranteed that it will be Tesla that succeeds with it first or capture the majority of the market.

Everyone has been reading that book since the late 90es.

I remember a talk by Clayton Christensen talking specifically about Intel and how they setup the Celeron division to compete with themselves (based on his advice).

A key property of tech in economics lingo is that it is “natural monopolies” - all fixed cost and no variable cost.

This creates these winner takes all games. In this case both Intel, SGI plus others knew the rules and it just ended up with Intel taking the prize and it all becoming Wintel for a decade or so - basically until the smart phone allowed enough capital to be accrued to challenge the old monopoly.

Failure to do fsd as the key reason was first mentioned here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-03/why-wa...

Apple’s Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla

And repeated numerous times.

The article was written by the same Bloomberg journalist who broke the story that the project was canceled.

My personal guess is that it is related to Apple's ability to use the Chinese supply chain which is no longer politically tenable.

Am I the only one who doesn't buy the "Apple canceled the car project because it couldn't do full self driving" story?

Obviously they would have had to create a simpler project before the fsd car. Just like they did the iPod before they did the iPhone.

I find it somewhat hilarious the way that he dismisses the possibility that it could have been a five eyes attack as it would be illegal and the five eyes guys are too good let their backdoors to be open to a replay attack.

People put too much junk in their logs. Most logs are irrelevant. Companies have businesses selling logging solutions. They sponsor developer conferences hiding this simple truth.

Just say no to the logging industrial complex.

The test file containing the backdoor seems to be here:

https://git.rootprojects.org/root/xz/commit/6e636819e8f07033...