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Intel's AI Accelerator Engine ⚙️, Google Cloud's Next 2024⚡, Proxima Fusion's nuclear news 💥

Today's TechToks: Intel's powerful AI accelerator, Insights from Google Cloud Next 2024, Proxima Fusion's mammoth fundraise, MongoDB's impact on financial services, Github's trending repos and more!

🤯 Game Changers

The most impactful articles of the day

Intel unveils the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator, offering significant performance improvements for training and inference tasks on leading generative AI models, with up to 50% faster time-to-train and inference throughput, and 40% greater inference power-efficiency compared to NVIDIA's H100.

🧐 Daily Picks

Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today

Meta confirms the upcoming release of Llama 3, its next-generation open-source large language model, within the next month, with plans to power multiple products across the company and make it the most useful AI assistant in the world, though the company's chief AI scientist expresses skepticism about generative AI and predicts a different approach called JEPA as the future of AI.

Google announced several new AI-powered features for its Google Cloud platform at the Google Cloud Next 2024 event, including Google Vids for AI-assisted video creation, Gemini Code Assist for AI-powered code completion, new productivity features in Google Workspace, the general availability of Imagen 2 for text-to-image generation, and Vertex AI Agent Builder to help companies build AI-powered conversational agents.

Proxima Fusion, a spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, has raised €20 million ($21.7 million) in a seed round to develop its 'stellarator' approach to nuclear fusion, leveraging advancements in high-temperature superconductors and AI-powered plasma simulations to potentially achieve viable fusion energy by the mid-2030s.

"Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

This repository provides detailed case studies on the system design and architecture of various popular tech companies, including Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Slack, and more, to help developers learn about scalable system design principles and best practices.

ComfyUI is a powerful and modular stable diffusion GUI and backend that allows users to design and execute advanced stable diffusion pipelines using a graph/nodes/flowchart based interface, supporting various stable diffusion models, features like embeddings, loras, hypernetworks, inpainting, upscaling, and more, with a focus on ease of use and offline functionality.

📱 Product Picks

Curated products from Product Hunt

Atomize empowers designers to create modern and visually appealing user interfaces and websites, while eliminating tedious tasks.

Fix bugs in production instantly in your Flutter apps. ⏱️ Integrate in minutes with no code changes 🚀 Instantly deploy over the air updates to users' devices 📊 Monitor patch installs over time ✅ Comply with Play Store and App Store policies

Today from Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

The article discusses how AI and MongoDB are transforming the financial services industry, focusing on key use cases such as relationship management support with chatbots, risk management and regulatory compliance, and regulatory compliance and code change assistance.