" (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.tsungxu.com/performance-biomaterials/" target="_blank">starting to scale up production. Synthetic biology is becoming real.
A new genetic therapy attempts to design human B cells, the cells that make antibodies, to target rare diseases by manufacturing missing enzymes.
Hardware
The MAX78002 is a low power microcontroller designed for running neural networks in edge computing applications. There are claims that it can run for a week on a single AA battery. It has 64 parallel processors and can run a network with up to 3.5 million parameters.
The Chinese are planning to build a dam with a distributed 3D printer, using no direct human labor. There’s arguably no printer at all; the work is done by AI-controlled robots that pour the concrete and roll it out in layers.
NVidia has a new GPU chip with specialized hardware for training transformer models. It is 4.5x faster than their previous high-performance data center GPU.
China has developed its own GPUs, the Biren 100 and Biren 104. This will greatly reduce its dependence on NVidia for high performance computing hardware.
Battery power played an important role in helping California’s electrical grid survive September’s heat wave without outages.
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