Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tec...
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on X. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep496-sc See below for...
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AI Reality Check: Why Bigger Models Aren’t Always Better
Why bigger AI models aren’t always better. Explore the limits of scaling, the rise of efficient architectures, and why smarter systems now beat sheer size.
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Samsung crossed the $1 trillion valuation mark after shares surged on AI-driven chip demand, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the milestone.
How to Build a Fully Interactive Multi-Page NiceGUI Application with Real-Time Dashboard, CRUD Operations, File Upload, and Async Chat
In this tutorial, we build a fully interactive, multi-page web application using NiceGUI. We start by setting up the environment and designing a reusable layout that includes navigation, theming, and dark mode support. As we move forward, we implement a live dashboard with real-time metrics and char...
Peter Sarlin’s QuTwo reaches $380M valuation in angel round
QyTw0, the Finnish AI lab founded by former AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, is now valued at €325 million (approximately $380 million) after raising a €25 million angel round ($29 million). It's a sign of enduring tailwinds for AI, quantum computing, and sovereign tech, especially for Europe-made comp...
Closing the ‘Expressivity Gap’: How Mistral’s Voxtral TTS is Redefining Multilingual Voice Cloning with a Hybrid Autoregressive and Flow-Matching Architecture
Voice AI has a dirty secret. Most text-to-speech systems sound fine — until they don’t. They can read a sentence. What they cannot do is mean it. The rhythm is off. The emotion is flat. The speaker sounds like themselves for two seconds, then drifts into generic synthetic territory. That gap between...