🚘️ NASCAR shows an EV prototype

Hey folks,

So much happening this week with NASCAR unveiling an EV prototype, Microsoft pushing boundaries with LLM processing speed, and Odyssey is the new contender to Hollywood grade AI. Let’s dive in.

⚡️ Buzz News

• YouTube improved eraser tool easily removes copyrighted music from videos without affecting other audio.

• Nvidia stock downgraded from ‘buy’ to ‘neutral’ after concerns its share valuation has reached its full potential.

• US military has abandoned its dream of a powered armour suit for a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI special ops assistant.

• Odyssey is building a 'Hollywood grade' AI text-to-video model to compete with Sora and Gen-3 Alpha.

• Pestle’s app can now save recipes from watching Reels using
  on-device AI.

AI Speed
💻️ Microsoft’s ‘MInference’ leaps AI processing speed.

The Buzz: Microsoft has just dropped an exciting demo of its new “MInference” tech on Hugging Face, showcasing a huge leap in processing speed for LLMs. This interactive demo lets devs experience Microsoft's breakthrough in handling long text inputs right from their web browsers.

🔑 Key Points:

1. MInference Technology: Standing for "Million-Tokens Prompt Inference," this tech significantly speeds up the "pre-filling" stage of language model processing, cutting down time by up to 90%.

2. Hands-On Demo: The demo on Hugging Face shows how MInference slashes latency, reducing inference times on an Nvidia A100 GPU from 142 secs to just 13.9 secs for 776,000 tokens.

Takeaway: Microsoft's ‘MInference’ tech marks a significant advance in AI processing, drastically reducing time and computational resources needed for LLMs. This innovation could reshape the competitive landscape, prompting rapid advancements in AI efficiency across the industry.

^{Source: VentureBeat}

AI Racing
🚘️ NASCAR shows an EV prototype with double the horsepower.

The Buzz: NASCAR just unveiled a sleek new EV prototype stock car at the Chicago Street Race, highlighting its push toward sustainability with a new partner, ABB. Resembling a performance crossover like the Ford Mustang Mach-E, this EV is a radical departure from traditional stock cars, but don’t expect it to replace the classic fuel-burning V8s anytime soon.

🔑 Key Points:

1. Specs: The EV prototype features three electric motors—one in the front and two in the back—powered by a 78-kWh liquid-cooled battery, generating a peak power of 1,000 kW.

2. Design: Built on a modified version of the Next Gen chassis, the EV saw collaboration from Chevrolet, Ford, and Toyota.

3. Insights: NASCAR driver David Ragan reported that the $1.5 million prototype was just "two-tenths of a second slower" than a traditional racer at Martinsville Speedway.

Takeaway: While traditional stock cars aren’t going anywhere soon, NASCAR's EV prototype marks a significant step towards sustainable racing. The organisation, potentially looking at high-performance electric racing like the ABB-sponsored Formula E series, indicates a future where hybrids and EVs might share the spotlight with their fuel-burning counterparts.

^{Source: TheVerge}

AI at work
💻️ Create Brand Guidelines with ChatGPT

If you have ever needed to work on brand guidelines, this prompt will give you a really comprehensive set of guidelines to start and maintain consistency for your brand and voice identity across different social channels. Adapt the prompt as needed.

• Login to ChatGPT and use the following prompt

Create guidelines for maintaining consistency in our brand voice and visual identity across different social media channels for my company "Coca Cola" and put it into a presentation format.

“an aerial shot of Prague, but in the middle of the city there's a giant pile of dollar bills --ar 16:9”

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