Fastest AI chip, 3D Video Pepsi Cans, ChatGPT-4o Smart Glass, ESA's Racing Drones, Free WiFi's Evil-Twin, AI for Alzheimer, Will we get Energy for AI?

Snaps to Inspire Innovation in You - 000DH

Innovative Product Snaps. . .

?Following, not necessarily new launches, intrigued me with their innovative features.?

• Pepsi Cans with 3D video screens may change advertisement reach forever. The Smart Cans have movement sensors, accelerometers & sound technology that let users customise their experiences. The cans are not yet available in market & currently shared to 1000 content creators. It took 2 years to develop & may change the way advertisement reaches us in the future with the custom experience factor.

• iRe5- Avail 1TB of storage, with MagSafe compatibility, bundled with your iPhone?case. Yes, you can greatly reduce your monthly iCloud charge with 1TB of space. This sleek looking case, connects to your iPhone’s USB-C connector at bottom and cleverly hides the circuitries needed & the SD card in its design. You have seamless access & smooth playback of the stored image/videos. Also, one can Capture 4K videos directly onto iRe5's card while filming, with Apple ProRes.?

• PETFusion- Convert your PET bottles into artful utilities?with 3D printer. This simple machine, just converts your PET bottle plastic into fabric required for your 3D Printer. Whats interesting is that you can add colors to the fabric & more importantly this is made with easily available electronic components.?

• Anpool P1 - A Skimmer for your swimming pool.?Maintaining swimming pools is one of the tough things and especially if loads of leafs & other materials float on the water. If you were thinking, you need a vacuum cleaner then Anpool P1 is for you. You can throw it on the pool & it can work with solar energy to clean your pool in a smart path. Though this product is innovative, I found in the videos that

• Solos AirGo Vision, challenges Meta RayBan with with ChatGPT-4o?and a camera. Solos, smart glasses currently only feature audio, says it’ll sell a camera-equipped version later this year, with OpenAI’s new GPT-4o AI model to let the camera recognize objects and answer questions about what you’re seeing.?

• Sohu- the Fastest AI chip from startup Etched. The chip is claimed to run models 20x faster & cheaper than Nvidia H100 GPUs, as their ASIC is tuned for the transformer model. A risky move to say the least, as even their CEO Gavin Uberti said in an interview. “If transformers go away, our company will die”.?

Innovative Trend/News Snaps. . .

?Following announcements / news caught my attention.?

• Racing Drones are used by European Space Agency (ESA)?to prepare future spacecraft for navigating space. Researchers plan to test the autonomous navigation technology for space, which is unpredictable with gravitational fluctuations & atmospheric turbulence to deviate the spacecraft off-course.

• Leading EDA companies partnered with Samsung,?to help realize its AI technology roadmap led by process nodes SF2Z and SF4U. This news follows the same EDA companies, Cadence, Siemens, and Synopsys, announcing support for Intel's Foundry's new process technology, including the?Intel 18A node.??
• Soon you will see AI powered “agents in?Amazon, as they played the Microsoft card by hiring Founders from Adept. Adept develops AI-powered “agents” to complete various software-based tasks & has agreed to also license its tech along with portion of its team to boost Amazon’s AI tech.?
• South Korea’s SK Hynix really takes the AI plunge with $75 Billions investment?plan by 2028. This is not just for SK Hynix’s stronghold, the high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips. But they plan to address the entire AI value chain, including the AI data centres & AI services such as personalised AI assistants.
• CEA-Leti announced the launch of €830 million pilot line of FAMES?, a fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) pilot line for applications with nonvolatile embedded memories, 3D integration, RF components and power management ICs to ensure European sovereignty.
• Look out for “Evil Twin”of in-flight Wi-Fi & even Airport Free Wi-Fi. Australian police arrested a man who was found with “a portable wireless access device, a laptop and a mobile phone” in his hand luggage. He created Wi-Fi hotspots with SSIDs similar to the airlines operated in-flight WiFi access. Reason? to steal your email & social media credentials with the “Free WiFi” bait.?
• AI is now at 78.5% accuracy in predicting the onset of Alzheimer's disease.?Boston University researchers deployed an AI, which used patients voice to predict the onset of Alzheimer disease within six years.

Innovative Company Snaps. . .

? A?Company, which I found intriguing owing to their product/ market/other innovation???

QPiAI- An Indian Startup, that is?planning to scale Quantum & AI Systems

QPiAI,?is a subsidiary of Qpi Technology & are trying to discover the most optimal AI and Quantum systems in multiple industries including Life sciences, Healthcare, Finance & even Space.?

They are planning to vertically integrate Quantum software, Hardware, and Applications to deliver end-to-end Quantum solutions to enterprises with on-prem deployments and secure cloud access.

Primary goal is to provide Intelligence modelling to their customers, with Quantum machines & HPC. They are planning to provide a demo with 25 Qubit Quantum computers by Q1/2025

They have subsidiaries in USA & Finland. With recent preseries-A funding of $6.5 million, they are planning to scale their 25Qubits roadmap to 1000Qubits.?

Currently they list QpiAI Sense??, as one of their product which can control & readout upto 16 Qubits.

They seem to favour superconducting Quantum computer & talk about Full Stack Architecture which is scalable.?

However, it must be noted that, I am not convinced about the Quantum hardware side. QPiAI offerings seems to be more on the software side. I believe the funding will help them to better showcase their hardware prowess next year.?

Innovation Methodology Snaps. . .?

?Methodologies, often from existing inventions, to develop innovation mindset?

Dishwasher, Shows People innovate better, when they are Irked

Nowadays Dishwasher is a common place in most of the houses. But, have you checked who invented it? Interestingly the modern dishwasher exists,?because not one but two people got irked?with their situation.?

The first invention was patented by Joel Houghton in 1850.?Houghton a farmer from Illinois was always “irked” when it comes to washing dishes by hand. So he invented a wooden machine with a hand-turned wheel that splashed water on dishes.?

Its almost 175 years & we know that products get iterated with new modification for such a long time. To begin with, Houghton’s inventions was barely usable. The next notable invention was gear mechanism added 1865, by a man named L.A. Alexander. However, this also did not succeed.?

Finally, the dishwasher which was close to the form we use now was the brainchild of Josephine Cochrane.?

Josephine hosted fancy parties with her fine vintage china, but?she was irked when her servants chipped the plates?while washing them & even took the chores to herself

But she decided to make the dishwasher usable. In 1885, Josephine filed her first patent as “J.G. Cochran.” In 1886, she and a young mechanic named George Butters worked on a prototype.

Her design was the first to use water pressure to do the cleaning, along with racks specifically designed to hold dishes in place and did not require the user to pour boiling water over the dishes, as previous machines had. It even allowed soap water draining. In Dec-1886, Cochrane received a patent for her “Dish Washing Machine.”

It was a costly one & only establishments like hotels were able to afford Josephine Dishwasher. It was only after 1960’s the mass production reduced the cost to make the dishwasher a common item in the houses.?

If something annoys you continuously, even if its a simple thing, try solving it. Solution for the things which?irks many people “continuously”, always end up as a great innovation.

Fun Fact :?Josephine Cochrane grandfather?was also an inventor and was awarded a?steamboat?patent. I couldn't verify much on this info though.?

The One Topic I Pondered. . .

“Where” will the Energy for AI come? Or should we ask, “Will” we ever get?it?

Worrying 2024 Energy data, bringing harsh reality to Big Tech’s AI Pursuit

I wrote, that the Siver Bullet for AI taking over humans is Energy. Its also evident that AI technology will not take over the world, in its current form.?

However, AI Buzz is everywhere & it has reached people from all walks of life. Technology companies around the world now depend on AI in their manifesto, to get their stock boosted. This makes the case to pursue & power the AI tech, at its current despondent form by burning up our resources.

I will cover what the current AI technology hardware demands from our earth’s resources and what predictions are being put forward

We will start with gist on what Hardware Technology companies like AMD, Intel & NVIDIA are having in their arsenal for powering AI

Instead of talking about AI performance specification, I will target the energy demands put forward by these semiconductor chips.?

Then we will dive into the energy providing industry. We will see, how things are getting turned upside down for powering AI data centers.

Finally lets check on people rising against data-centers & possible solutions.

For more details, please check out the on "The One Topic I Pondered" section in my recent weekly substack newlsetter.

Final Note. . .

Thats all for this week. . .

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