The open-source AI startup has a deal through 2029, similar to Anthropic and Google, to rent compute capacity from SpaceX’s Colossus 2 data center for $150 million per month (up to $6.3 billion), reports the Wall Street Journal.
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As TechCrunch reports, Lucid’s second round of layoffs this year will eliminate a new production shift it had added as part of plans to double its production.
This involves a reduction of the Company’s current U.S. workforce by approximately 18 percent, including full-time employees, contractors and hourly production workers in manufacturing. As part of this reduction, the Company has eliminated the second shift of production at its AMP-1 factory. The Plan is expected to provide the Company with annualized cost savings of approximately $158 million.
As spotted earlier by The Register, CrankGPT is a concept project from a two-person team at Squeez Labs that runs private, local AI models without needing a power-hungry data center. Instead, you have to literally crank out your own power for each of the chatbot’s answers.
As Reuters reports, the new restrictions will go into effect in August, limiting how students in different age groups use AI:
Pupils from first through seventh grade, aged 6 to 13, should as a general rule not be using AI, while those in lower secondary school, aged 14 to 16, can cautiously adopt tools under teachers’ supervision, the government said. In upper secondary education, from ages 17 to 19, students should learn to use AI appropriately so that they are prepared for further education and work, it added.
