World's First Carbon-14 Diamond Battery, DeepMind's Genie 2, and Amazon's AI Mega-Computer
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Dec 8, 2024
Discover a groundbreaking diamond battery powered by carbon-14, promising thousands of years of energy for crucial applications like medical implants and spacecraft. Explore DeepMind's Genie 2, capable of transforming text and sketches into interactive 3D worlds, although it has some limitations. Lastly, learn about Amazon's ambitious Ultracluster initiative, a supercomputer project boosted by an $8 billion investment, aimed at revolutionizing AI training and challenging existing competition in the tech landscape.
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Diamond Battery Potential
A new diamond-encased battery powered by carbon-14 could last thousands of years.
Potential applications include medical implants, spacecraft, and extreme environments.
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Diamond Battery Safety
The diamond battery's radiation is reportedly lower than background radiation.
The diamond casing also makes it very resistant to damage.
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Diamond Battery Challenges
The diamond battery faces production challenges including complex manufacturing and high costs.
Current cost estimates are $20,000 per microwatt.
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In this episode of Discover Daily, we explore groundbreaking developments in battery technology as researchers from the University of Bristol and UK Atomic Energy Authority unveil a revolutionary diamond-encased battery powered by carbon-14 radioactive decay. This innovative power source could last thousands of years, with potential applications in medical implants, spacecraft, and extreme environments where battery replacement is challenging. Despite its promising capabilities, the technology faces manufacturing complexities and high production costs, currently priced at twenty thousand dollars per microwatt.
The episode delves into DeepMind's latest innovation, Genie 2, a foundation world model capable of transforming text prompts and sketches into interactive 3D environments with realistic physics. While this technology shows immense potential for gaming, AI training, and virtual reality applications, it currently has limitations, including a one-minute interaction cap and varying levels of environmental detail compared to manually designed 3D worlds.
We conclude with the announcement of a major collaboration between Amazon Web Services and Anthropic to develop the Ultracluster, a revolutionary AI supercomputer utilizing hundreds of thousands of Trainium2 chips. This ambitious project, backed by an $8 billion investment from Amazon, aims to be five times more powerful than Anthropic's current training systems and could reduce AI model training costs by up to 40%, potentially disrupting Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market.
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