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A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley
As Donald Trump pens deals in the Middle East, the gulf nation opens a research lab in San Francisco.
Eric Xing, President and Professor of MBZUAI and a leading AI researcher, revealed the models and lab at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California today. A demonstration at today’s event showed PAN being used to simulate self-driving cars navigating busy roads, drones flying through unfamiliar species, and robots operating within domestic environments. K2, a 65-billion parameter model optimized for reasoning tasks, was trained on 80 A100 chips using NVIDIA’s DGX Cloud, developed using 35 percent less compute than Meta’s Llama 2 at the same size, Xing says.
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