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Anthropic is making an unusual move in the AI industry, committing five percent of its shares to what it's calling a public benefit fund. It's a notable gesture from a company that's long positioned itself around safety and responsibility — though how that stake translates into real-world impact remains an open question worth watching.
On the hardware side, Intel has unveiled a graphics processor carrying an extraordinary four hundred eighty gigabytes of memory, built specifically for AI inference workloads. Rather than the high-speed GDDR seven memory you'd expect, Intel chose LPDDR five X — a curious trade-off that prioritizes capacity over raw bandwidth, targeting models running up to three hundred billion parameters.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of robotics and resourcefulness, researchers at UCLA have built a humanoid robot called PhoneBot using roughly four hundred dollars in off-the-shelf parts, including repurposed Android smartphones for vision and computing. It's a reminder that cutting-edge research doesn't always require cutting-edge budgets — and that open source hardware communities are getting remarkably creative.
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