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Happy Wednesday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

In today’s edition:

• Amazon unveils AI chip 'Trainium 2’ to rival Nvidia 💾

• Baidu unveils LLM based AI glasses to rival Meta 👓️ 

• Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources 🤖

Ready, set, go…

AMAZON

Amazon unveils AI chip 'Trainium 2’ to rival Nvidia 💾

Amazon is set to launch its "Trainium 2" chip next month as part of its strategy to reduce reliance on Nvidia and strengthen its position in the AI hardware market.

Here's what you need to know:

• The chip is developed by Annapurna Labs, which Amazon acquired in 2015 for $350 million to support its in-house chip efforts.

• Trainium 2 is currently being tested by Anthropic, which has received $4 billion in Amazon backing, along with Databricks, Deutsche Telekom, Ricoh, and Stockmark.

• Amazon expects to invest around $75 billion in 2024 on cloud AI infrastructure, up from $48.4 billion in 2023, with even higher spending anticipated in 2025.

• Amazon is also investing $110 million to support university AI research using Trainium, offering free cloud credits to researchers to encourage use of its chips over Nvidia’s.

Why it matters:

By investing heavily in custom AI hardware, Amazon aims to take more control over its infrastructure, boost its cloud and AI capabilities, and stay competitive as AI demand continues to rise.

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BAIDU

Baidu unveils LLM based AI glasses to rival Meta 👓️ 

On Tuesday, Baidu unveiled its Xiaodu AI glasses, the first to connect with a native Chinese language model, set for launch in early 2025.

Here's what you need to know:

• The glasses are powered by Baidu's Ernie AI model and allow users to track calories, ask questions, play music, and record videos—all through voice commands.

• The Xiaodu AI Glasses provide 56 hours of standby, 5+ hours of audio playback, and charge fully in just 30 minutes, making them ideal for daily use.

• Baidu also introduced iRAG, an AI tool designed to reduce inaccuracies or "hallucinations" in images generated by AI, making them more reliable and realistic.

• Plus, they launched "MiaoDa," a no-code tool that enables users to create complex applications by simply describing their ideas in natural language.

Why it matters:

Baidu's Xiaodu AI glasses offer a local alternative to Meta and Snap AI devices, filling the gap in China where Western smart glasses face limitations due to server restrictions and lack of support.

BREAKING BYTES

1. Apple is planning to launch its first smart home camera by 2026, featuring Apple Intelligence and Siri, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. (2 minute read)

2. Baidu unveiled a range of new AI products, including the I-RAG text-to-image generator, the Miaoda no-code development tool, and AI-powered smart glasses that we covered above. (link)

3. Greg Brockman has returned to OpenAI after a three-month leave from his president role. He is now working with Sam Altman in a new role focused on tackling significant technical challenges. (1 minute read)

4. Nvidia and SoftBank are testing the world's first telecom network that combines AI with 5G. (1 minute read)

5. AIRIS, a self-learning proto AGI that can adapt and improve on its own. This is a step toward machines with general intelligence, opening up endless possibilities—and some big ethical questions. (Watch video)

6. Johns Hopkins researchers have made a breakthrough in surgical robotics, training a robot to perform complex procedures just by watching videos of human surgeons. (2 minutes read)

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TRENDING TOOLS

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COOL FINDINGS / RESOURCES

• Learning to reason with LLMs. (link)

• How StackBlitz achieves $4M ARR in 4 weeks for their AI web development platform with Claude. (link)

• Google's 8 hour AI essential course in 15 minutes. (link)

• This one AI workflow change will make you 5x more productive. (link)

• Bolt.new masterclass: How to build AI apps. (link)

• How to build an AI lead generation chatbot using Voiceflow. (link)

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How to use Claude AI to replicate the functionality of high-earning app all in a single day built with zero coding experience.

INTERESTING DISCOVERIES

• Sleepy weed' shown to significantly improve sleep (5 minute read)

• When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows (7 minute read)

• Turns out, your kidneys and nerves have memory too. (2 minutes read)

THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY

That’s all for today’s issue, folks.

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