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Dec 2024
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World's First Carbon-14 Diamond Battery,...

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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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