SpaceX Starlink drone-ships🚀🌊, Google Gemini replaces Bard 🤖, Waymo car destroyed 🚗🔥
Welcome to today’s SMMRY. The key highlights:
- SpaceX Starlink drone-ships🚀🌊
- Google Gemini replaces Bard 🤖
- Waymo car destroyed 🚗🔥
Sam Altman seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication from UAE (2 minute read)
The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors to raise as much as $5 to $7 trillion for AI chip manufacturing. The funding seeks to address the scarcity of graphics processing units (GPUs) crucial for training and running large language models like those that power ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini.
SpaceX Tests Using Drone Ships to Support Starlink Coverage at Sea (2 minute read)
SpaceX's drone ships have been designed to act as landing pads for rockets but now the it's exploring using ships as "gateway" stations to bolster Starlink's coverage at sea. The company applied for a temporary FCC license to test operating up to 12 "earth station" antennas over the drone ships. The antennas on the drone ships will connect to both first and second-generation Starlink satellites.
Google launches Gemini to replace Bard chatbot (2 minute read)
Google has launched its AI chatbot called Gemini, which replaces its short-lived Bard service. Now rebranded as Gemini, Google says it represents the company's "most capable family of models" for natural conversations. Two experiences are being launched: Gemini Advanced and a mobile app. Gemini Advanced grants access to Ultra 1.0, the company's "largest and most capable state-of-the-art AI model."
A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (2 minute read)
A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Francisco's Chinatown last night around 9PM PT before a crowd formed around the car and covered it in spray paint, broke its windows and set it on fire. The fire takes place against the backdrop of simmering tension between San Francisco residents and automated vehicle operators.
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