A anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft AI launched its first in-house models last month, adding to the already complicated relationship with its OpenAI partner. Now, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company is making "significant investments" in the compute capacity required to Microsoft's own future frontier models.

"We should have the capacity to build world class frontier models in house of all sizes, but we should be very pragmatic and use other models where we need to," said Suleyman during Microsoft's employee-only town hall on Thursday. "We're also going to be making significant investments in our own cluster, so today MAI-1-preview was only trained on 15,000 H100s, a tiny cluster in the grand scheme of things."

Suleyman hinted that Microsoft has ambitions to train models that are comparable to Meta, Google, and xAI's efforts on clusters that are "six to ten times larger in size" than what Microsoft used for its MAI-1-preview. "Much more to do, but it's good to take the first steps," said Suleyman.

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Nagasaki, in un vicolo dove il tempo sembra essersi fermato. La vecchia insegna “Takahashi Dry Cleaning” resiste tra vasi di piante e scooter coperti. Forse è ancora aperta, forse no: il confine tra passato e presente qui resta volutamente sfocato

長崎、時が止まったような路地。古い看板「高橋クリーニング」が鉢植えとカバーをかけられたスクーターの間に残っている。今も営業しているのか、それとももう閉じたのか──過去と現在の境界はあえて曖昧なまま。

Nagasaki, in an alley where time seems to have stopped. The old sign “Takahashi Dry Cleaning” stands among potted plants and covered scooters. Perhaps it’s still open, perhaps not: here the line between past and present remains deliberately blurred.

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Direcciones is a short documentary about how giving directions works in Costa Rica, where “a centralized system for street addresses does not exist”. Instead, people use landmarks as reference points when giving directions. Here’s a postal worker talking about how some senders use outdated location markers to send letters:

Pretty bad, addresses here are pretty bad. For example, there is a letter I get, like, once a month. It says, “From the old Cristal Hotel…” and then some other reference points. So, yeah, it’s hard because people don’t update the addresses, they just write “from the old…” and it stays “from the old…” The Cristal Hotel had already closed when I was born.

However, for many residents there’s a kind of poetry in this old style of wayfinding. A lovely and thoughtful short film.

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Nagasaki, in un vicolo dove il tempo sembra essersi fermato. La vecchia insegna “Takahashi Dry Cleaning” resiste tra vasi di piante e scooter coperti. Forse è ancora aperta, forse no: il confine tra passato e presente qui resta volutamente sfocato

長崎、時が止まったような路地。古い看板「高橋クリーニング」が鉢植えとカバーをかけられたスクーターの間に残っている。今も営業しているのか、それとももう閉じたのか──過去と現在の境界はあえて曖昧なまま。

Nagasaki, in an alley where time seems to have stopped. The old sign “Takahashi Dry Cleaning” stands among potted plants and covered scooters. Perhaps it’s still open, perhaps not: here the line between past and present remains deliberately blurred.