Weekly News #4 | Updates Worth Your Attention  👀

NASA and IBM jointly developed an open-source model that can forecast the solar activity. Trained on decades of NASA images across different wavelengths, the model can detect potentially hazardous solar eruptions up to 2 hours in advance. So if a solar flare were to bring the end of the Earth, we’d know ahead of time, how incredible.

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Billionaire Joe Liemandt is building a school in Austin, Texas without teachers or homework. Students study only 2 hours a day with AI-personalized curricula, then spend the rest of the day in workshops doing real work like how to run an Airbnb or a restaurant. They already have students who rank in the top 0.1% nationwide.
 

NVIDIA introduced a chip-based robotics developer kit that helps developers build robots. With it, companies like Boston Dynamics, Field AI, and Agility Robotics and giants like Meta and Amazon could build more capable robots. Maybe we’re closer to Jetsons-style robots than we think.

CNBC → 

Don’t miss 3Blue1Brown’s excellent visual explainer on how LLMs work. If you’re in Palo Alto, you can also watch it at the Computer History Museum, the video was originally made for that venue.

Youtube →