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Google's AI designs its own chips
PLUS: Turn long videos into engaging two-way podcasts
Rowan Cheung
September 27, 2024
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Google’s new breakthrough AlphaChip method creates a powerful feedback loop: AI design chips, which train more advanced AI, which designs even better chips.
With this virtuous cycle, 10M context windows (in research), and upgraded Gemini models, is Google quietly pulling ahead in the AI race? Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Google revolutionizes chip design
YouTube support added to NotebookLM
Find viral clips with Canva’s ‘Highlights’
Archaeologists make big discovery using AI
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
GOOGLE DEEPMIND
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The Rundown: Google DeepMind just unveiled AlphaChip, an AI system that designs computer chips by using reinforcement learning to create superhuman chip layouts in hours rather than months.
The details:
AlphaChip has been used to design layouts for the last three generations of Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), improving performance and accelerating the design cycle.
The AI system uses a novel “edge-based” graph neural network to learn relationships between chip components and generalize across different chip designs.
Google is releasing a pre-trained checkpoint of AlphaChip, sharing the model weights to encourage further research and development in AI-assisted chip design.
AlphaChip’s impact extends beyond Google, with companies like MediaTek adopting the technology for their most advanced chips used in smartphones and other devices.
Why it matters: AlphaChip creates a powerful feedback loop: better AI models design better chips, which enable the training of even more advanced AI models, which design even better chips, and so on. This self-reinforcing cycle could dramatically accelerate AI progress, and at a level that any human will struggle to compete with.
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YOUTUBE
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The Rundown: Google just upgraded its NotebookLM tool, adding support for YouTube videos and audio files, along with easier sharing of Audio Overviews—its latest viral AI hit that turns notes, PDFs, Google Docs, and more into AI-generated podcasts.
The details:
NotebookLM now supports public YouTube URLs and audio files, allowing users to analyze videos, lectures, and audio alongside existing text sources.
The tool leverages Gemini 1.5’s multimodal capabilities to summarize key concepts from videos and transcribe audio.
A new sharing feature allows users to generate public links for Audio Overviews, making collaboration even easier.
These updates aim to streamline tasks such as creating study guides, analyzing multiple perspectives on issues, and extracting important information from video, audio, and text.
Why it matters: It’s a big day for Google. The company’s viral hit with NotebookLM is now even more impressive with access to YouTube videos and audio files. YouTube is an endless treasure chest of how-to guides, lectures, documentaries, and entertainment—and now, anyone can consume hours worth of videos in minutes with AI.
AI TRAINING
The Rundown: Canva's ‘Highlights’ feature uses AI to automatically select the best moments from your long-form videos, saving you tedious time spent on editing and increasing the quality of your content.
Step-by-step:
Open your video in Canva's editor (requires a paid subscription).
Click "Edit video" in the top menu, then select "Highlights" from the Tools section.
Let the AI analyze your long video and generate highlight clips.
Review the suggested highlights and select the viral short clips you want to use for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts!
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AI RESEARCH
Image source: University of Yamagata
The Rundown: Archaeologists from Japan’s Yamagata University, in collaboration with IBM Research, used AI to uncover 303 previously unknown geoglyphs near Peru’s famous Nazca Lines, nearly doubling the number of known figures at the site.
The details:
The newly discovered geoglyphs, dating back to 200 BC, depict various animals and humans, including parrots, cats, monkeys, killer whales, and even decapitated heads.
AI combined with low-flying drones dramatically accelerated the discovery process, accomplishing nearly a century’s worth of work in six months.
These smaller geoglyphs (10-25 feet across) provide new insights into the transition from the Paracas culture to the Nazca culture.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrate AI’s ability to help greatly improve archaeological research.
Why it matters: Is there anything AI can’t help us accomplish? The amount of time saved using low-flying drones and artificial intelligence is worth repeating: 100 years worth of work in six months. The ways in which AI is going to impact our lives are still vast and largely unknown, as this discovery proves.
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Runway launched The Hundred Film Fund to provide grants of $5,000 to $1 million for filmmakers using AI in their projects.
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