Future Stories

OpenAI ChatGPT Search, aka SearchGPT, is live. AI for Search is already a big thing and could become dominant. The big loser if it succeeds is Google search. This is a threat to Google Search and Perplexity. ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before. You can get fast, timely ... Read more

2024 has been a groundbreaking year for the cryptocurrency industry and the stage is set for significant advancements in 2025. Key developments like the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs, the resurgence of decentralized finance (DeFi), the rise of asset tokenization, and the growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) have drastically reshaped the competitive landscape. In ... Read more

Tesla AI has updated its FSD (full self driving) achievements. There will be huge progress towards nearing human level driving. Tesla expects to surpass human level driving in mid-2025 (6-9 months). Solving robotaxi and full self driving is key to Tesla’s future. Version 13.X should get them from 12% FSD adoption (% of people who ... Read more

Tesla has been operating supervised ridehailing of robotaxi for Tesla employees in California for the past year. Tesla also has large numbers of employees in Texas. It would be trivial for Tesla to start a supervised ridehailing for robotaxi for Tesla employees in Texas. Tesla has 20,000 employees in Fremont, California. Tesla has over 20,000 ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, will give a talk about Space Friday, Nov 8. Whoever is interested can sign up at EventBrite. It is a free talk that will be via online video presentation. In the world of space exploration, what once seemed impossible is now becoming reality. A giant rocket has been caught in mid-air, and ... Read more

Elon gave a bunch of predictions at a conference about the future. Tesla will start unsupervised robotaxi in Texas and California in Mid-2025. All Tesla vehicles will be autonomous. Autonomy is here. There will be hundreds of millions of Tesla and they will all be autonomous. Elon agrees with Ark Invest that robotaxi will make ... Read more

Australian battery tech company Li-S Energy has a major improvement in the performance of its lithium-sulfur battery technology, with its latest battery achieving an energy density close to 500 Wh/kg. It is semi solid state battery. They are manufactured full-size 10 Ah semi-solid-state cells that deliver an energy density of 498 Wh/kg on first discharge ... Read more

Elon Musk gave a 30-minute lecture on @Neuralink last month at the 2024 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). The first generation Neuralink device has 1000 electrodes and 100 electrodes are reading at about 10 bits per second per electrode. The second generation Neuralink device should have 3000 electrodes and 1500 electrodes will be reading. Future ... Read more

Cary, NC, 28th October 2024, CyberNewsWire

New evidence changes best estimate of the start of life on Earth and time when the earth will become uninhabitable due to changes in the Sun. Previously, scientists believed that life (simple single cell) started 700 million years after the earth cooled and oceans formed. New evidence has pushed this start date to 200 million ... Read more

Miles Brundage, Head of Policy Research at OpenAI, has left OpenAI. Miles was at OpenAI for 6 years and 3 months advising OpenAI executives and the OpenAI board on AGI readiness. Nextbigfuture covers what Miles thinks is needed for AGI readiness. I agree the world needs to be able to capture more value from rapidly ... Read more

Israel is hitting various military targets and an Iranian oil field. This appears to be a proportional response to the prior Iran missile attack. ⚡🚨Breaking: Violent explosions in Iran First pictures of Israel's attack has begun and at this stage it is attacking several locations in Tehran with missiles, the second largest oil field in ... Read more

Boeing is trying to sell the Starliner spacecraft and the ISS support operations that the company performs. Boeing will keep overseeing the Space Launch System. NASA still gives about $3-4 billion per year for Space Launch System. Boeing as part of ULA launched 7 spacecraft while SpaceX launched 525 in the first quarter of 2024. ... Read more

Tesla beat analysts estimates by 18% on earnings for Q3. However, it was achieved with repeatable cost improvement in the cars and in the batteries. Tesla announced that everything that optimists and shareholders have been waiting for is happening. Profits and growth is back and the future of cars, energy, robotaxi and Teslabot look great ... Read more

The future of Space with a fully reusable SpaceX Starship means everything about space will become huge. Our dreams for space were unfulfilled for decades. We could only put tiny satellites into space and costs were at the weight in gold or silver. The shocking SpaceX Starship tower catch means the a rocket with double ... Read more

Nww Linear-complexity Multiplication (L-Mul) algorithm claims it can reduce energy costs by 95% for element-wise tensor multiplications and 80% for dot products in large language models. It maintains or even improving precision compared to 8-bit floating point operations. By replacing complex floating-point multiplication with integer addition Solution in this Paper – Approximates floating-point multiplication using ... Read more

Developers can now direct Claude to use computers the way people do—by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking, and typing text. Claude can use other tools as well. Introducing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku. We’re also introducing a new capability in beta: computer use. Developers can ... Read more

Donations from Didier Coeurnelle enable next phase of LEVF (Longevity escape velocity foundation) Robust Mouse Rejuvenation research program. The initial donation of €200,000 (approximately $220,000) will be increased by a further €200,000 donations to LEVF during the month of October 2024 will be doubled. Donate to LEVF in the next 10 days to boost antiaging ... Read more

Jensen Huang the CEO of Nvidia described how xAI built a 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPU AI cluster in 19 days. Other customers need a year (365 days or about 20 times as long) to install the same size AI cluster. Jensen called the xAI achievement superhuman. The customers of Nvidia GPUs have to work with ... Read more

Sandy Munro is a car expert whose company has taken apart thousands of cars to analyze how to improve the manufacturing and design. Sandy was super-impressed by the Tesla robotaxi, robovan and teslabots. He thinks the robovan will dominate and grow the limousine market. The All-in-podcast guys think the robovan will open up new markets ... Read more

xAI completed its 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI data center before Meta and OpenAI despite the Meta and OpenAI getting chips delivered first. xAi completed the main chip installation and build in 19 days and the overall project in 122 days. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this scale of build can take a year for many ... Read more

SpaceX has applied to the FCC to make changes to Starlink to increase communication speed from 200-300 Mbps to about 1 gigabit per second or more. SpaceX will get the Starship flying and will launch new Starlink satellites that are about three times bigger than the Starlink version 2 mini. SpaceX wants to lower the ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang knows exactly how long it takes most companies to build an AI data center using Nvidia GPUs. He describes how his Nvidia team worked with xAI and Elon Musk to build a complete AI Data Center with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in 19 days. Elon Musk has said it took 122 ... Read more

Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) batteries are ramping up to serious scale and could offer a 20% boost in energy density over LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) batteries. LMFP operates at a higher voltage than LFP, its theoretical energy density can reach up to 230 Wh/kg, which is 15% to 20% greater than that of LFP ... Read more

A paper by Chinese researchers, “Quantum Annealing Public Key Cryptographic Attack Algorithm Based on D-Wave Advantage”, described how D-Wave’s machines can optimize problem-solving in ways that made it possible to decode tiny version of a military grade public key cryptography. Wang Chao from Shanghai University, used a D-Wave machine to attack Substitution-Permutation Network (SPN) structured ... Read more

Google has a corporate agreement to buy energy (starting with 7 small nuclear reactors) from Kairos Power. Kairos Power FHR (KP-FHR) is a novel advanced reactor technology that leverages TRISO fuel in pebble form combined with a low-pressure fluoride salt coolant. The technology uses an efficient and flexible steam cycle to convert heat from fission ... Read more

Many people believe that Tesla robotaxi will not happen for years. However, the CEO of Uber Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber would love to partner with Tesla on the Robotaxi platform. NEWS: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says competing with Elon Musk is 'no easy matter' — and would love to partner with @Tesla to get Robotaxis ... Read more

Much like artificial intelligence, Big Data is becoming an increasing threat as much as it is an opportunity. The more data we gather, the more analysis that can be performed. And the more accurate and sensitive that data, the more validity those findings will have. Unfortunately, this also directly increases what’s at stake in the ... Read more

Vast Space, the aerospace startup founded by former crypto tycoon Jed McCaleb, plans to replace the International Space Station. Haven-2 would serve as a specialized lab in low-Earth orbit, where visitors can conduct microgravity research. The Vast Haven-1 space station is targeting August 2025. They will start with four cylindrical modules that can dock to ... Read more

SpaceX has ablative heat shield underneath the 18,000+ heat shield tiles. SpaceX Starship is going through peak heating and looks good and undamaged for the orbital re-entry and return. Now about ten minutes from the landing burn and the simulated tower catch and then a soft landing into the Indian Ocean. Starship has slowed to ... Read more

The SpaceX Starship launched and catch attempt. The SpaceX Starship launched 5:25 PST is the current launch target. They are clearing the range. The weather looks good and there are no current technical issues. Booster is going back to the launchpad. If all goes well the booster should return and land on the Mechazilla launch ... Read more

The FAA has given SpaceX Starship the license to fly flight 5 and flight 6. The FAA has granted SpaceX the license to launch Starship 5 as early as tomorrow from Boca Chica, Texas. This approval, ahead of schedule, confirms all safety, environmental, and licensing requirements have been met. SpaceX’s “Mechazilla” launch tower will attempt ... Read more

Tesla has started the Robotaxi we robot event. There are twenty Tesla cybercabs at the Robotaxi Event. There are thirty other autonomous Model 3 and Y at the event. The cybercabs have no steering wheel.

There have been reports of more problems getting gas at gas stations in hurricane impacted areas. While Tesla superchargers continued to function. Gas price tracking service GasBuddy reported that as of 2:43 pm ET Wednesday afternoon, 24.3% of gas stations statewide – or nearly one in four – were without fuel, a dramatic spike from ... Read more

Austin, TX, USA, 10th October 2024, CyberNewsWire

Riverlane has released its groundbreaking three-year roadmap for its Quantum Error Correction Stack, Deltaflow, starting in 2024 and culminating in a system where quantum computers can run one million (Mega) error-free Quantum Operations (QuOps) by 2026. In August, 2024, Riverlane announced that it had raised $75 million in Series C funding to deliver its groundbreaking ... Read more

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have proposed a new type of memory, in which optical data is transferred from a rare earth element embedded within a solid material to a nearby quantum defect. Their analysis of how such ... Read more

SpaceX Starlink turned on satellite service to cell phones in Florida in preparation for Hurricane #Milton hitting soon. 17% of North Carolina and parts of Georgia and Tennessee do not have phone service because of Hurricane Helene. Florida will be hit tonight by Hurricane Milton. People with @TMobile can now text in Florida, and all ... Read more

Radian Aerospace has $31 million of funding to develop a single stage to orbit spaceplane. It will use a 3000 meter long sled to get it up to launch speed. It will deliver 2.27 tons to anywhere on Earth in under one hour. It can land on a regular runway. The Spaceplane will be about ... Read more

A reader has performed more detailed measurements of the Tesla Shanghai Megapack factory. He has dimensions of 450 meters by 180 meters (1476 feet X 590 feet). This would be 870,800 square feet versus the 440,000 square feet of the Lathrop California megapack factory. This means almost exactly double. The Tesla Shanghai megapack factory will ... Read more

SpaceX had 17 launches with 13 direct to cellphone enabled version 2 mini Starlink satellites and 6 in the initial launch in April, 2024. This is being activated in North Carolina and Georgia where communications have failed in many areas due to the hurricane. This will likely be activated in Florida late this week while ... Read more

What will happen after Tesla Robotaxi Day? This Thursday, Tesla will reveal robotaxi vehicles and robotaxi plans. Tesla technology has greatly improved over the last three years but this has not moved the stock in a major way. Warren Redlich and Brian Wang discuss the how Tesla FSD 13, AI improvements, 4680 battery ramp, cybertruck ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 7th October 2024, CyberNewsWire

Tesla is building the high-volume Semi truck factory with new, efficient techniques in partnership with BZI. This is from the great video and X coverage from Hinrichs Zanegler. The footings are about 95-97% complete. The overall factory is about 30% complete.

Venus Aerospace advanced propulsion system is engineered to power high-speed vehicles, including drones and aircraft, enabling them to travel vast distances at high altitudes and achieve high-Mach speeds with unmatched efficiency. The VDR2 combines the high thrust and efficiency of the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) with the high efficiency cruise of a Ramjet. This ... Read more

Ion Trap Quantum computer company, IonQ, demonstrated remote ion-ion entanglement. They built off the ion-photon entanglement achievement announced in February, this demonstration announced in September showcases the second out of four significant milestones required to develop photonic interconnects – a foundational step towards quantum networking and a core component of IonQ’s scaling strategy. IonQ is ... Read more

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan VC2S rocket launched for the second certification (Cert-2) mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Cert-2 mission includes an inert payload and demonstrations associated with future Centaur V technologies. This is the second of two test flights required for ULA’s certification process with ... Read more

Russia appears to have suffered a catastrophic failure in a test of its Sarmat missile. The images from Sept. 21 show a crater about 60 meters (200 feet) wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. They reveal extensive damage that was not visible in pictures taken earlier in the month. ... Read more

Elon posts that Tesla FSD will soon exceed 10,000 miles between critical interventions, which is a year of driving for most people. One week until the shock and awe of Tesla Robotaxi day. FSD will soon exceed 10,000 miles between critical interventions, which is a year of driving for most people — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) ... Read more

Big news this week in AI, AI startups, AI research and AI funding. This is the first sections. See the rest at Nextbigfuture substack. 1. AI Data center plans and nuclear power. 2. OpenAI DevDay. 3. AI Research 4. Blackrock and Microsoft have a new $30 Billion AI Infrastructure fund 5. Aptos partners with Ignition ... Read more

San Francisco, United States / California, 3rd October 2024, CyberNewsWire

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Former NASCAR star Greg Biffle says Elon Musk’s @SpaceX has donated 500 @Starlink kits which he will receive tomorrow at 5 AM – He will then immediately fly them out using his helicopters to Western North Carolina to be deployed to restore communication in the region. NEWS: Former NASCAR star Greg Biffle says Elon Musk's ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, had a livestream video with Herbert Ong on Brighter With Herbert. I talked about my discovery that Tesla Shanghai Megapack factory is over twice the size of the Lathrop Megapack factory in California. This is just for the main building and there will be three buildings.