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The serene city of Madison, Wisconsin, was struck by tragedy on December 16, 2024, when an active shooter incident at the Abundant Life Christian School shattered its peace. Three lives were lost, including the juvenile suspect, and nine others were injured, with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening. This incident, part of a grim pattern...

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A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures. Each image was annotated with 21 key landmarks on the hand, providing detailed spatial information about its structure and position. Combining MediaPipe and YOLOv8, a deep learning method they trained, with fine-tuning hyperparameters for the best accuracy, represents a groundbreaking and innovative approach that hasn't been explored in previous research.

We’re rolling out a new, state-of-the-art video model, Veo 2, and updates to Imagen 3. Plus, check out our new experiment, Whisk.

A month after mysterious drones were first reported over New Jersey, authorities are still trying to determine where they are coming from as sightings increase in frequency and spread into neighboring states.

Two roboticists from the University of Leeds and University College London have developed a framework that enables robots to traverse complex terrain without extra sensors or prior rough terrain training. Joseph Humphreys and Chengxu Zhou outlined the details of their framework in a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server.

Faster, smarter, more responsive AI applications – that’s what your users expect. But when large language models (LLMs) are slow to respond, user experience suffers. Every millisecond counts. 

With Cerebras’ high-speed inference endpoints, you can reduce latency, speed up model responses, and maintain quality at scale with models like Llama 3.1-70B. By following a few simple steps, you’ll be able to customize and deploy your own LLMs, giving you the control to optimize for both speed and quality.

In this blog, we’ll walk you through you how to:

• et up Llama 3.1-70B in the DataRobot LLM Playground.
• Generate and apply an API key to leverage Cerebras for inference.
• Customize and deploy smarter, faster applications.

By the end, you’ll be ready to deploy LLMs that deliver speed, precision, and real-time responsiveness.

Prototype, customize, and test LLMs in one place

Prototyping and testing generative AI models often require a patchwork of disconnected tools. But with a unified, integrated environment for LLMs, retrieval techniques, and evaluation metrics, you can move from idea to working prototype faster and with fewer roadblocks.

This streamlined process means you can focus on building effective, high-impact AI applications without the hassle of piecing together tools from different platforms.

Let’s walk through a use case to see how you can leverage these capabilities to develop smarter, faster AI applications. 

Use case: Speeding up LLM interference without sacrificing quality

Low latency is essential for building fast, responsive AI applications. But accelerated responses don’t have to come at the cost of quality. 

The speed of Cerebras Inference outperforms other platforms, enabling developers to build applications that feel smooth, responsive, and intelligent.

When combined with an intuitive development experience, you can:

• Reduce LLM latency for faster user interactions.
• Experiment more efficiently with new models and workflows.
• Deploy applications that respond instantly to user actions.

The diagrams below show Cerebras’ performance on Llama 3.1-70B, illustrating faster response times and lower latency than other platforms. This enables rapid iteration during development and real-time performance in production.

How model size impacts LLM speed and performance

As LLMs grow larger and more complex, their outputs become more relevant and comprehensive — but this comes at a cost: increased latency. Cerebras tackles this challenge with optimized computations, streamlined data transfer, and intelligent decoding designed for speed.

These speed improvements are already transforming AI applications in industries like pharmaceuticals and voice AI. For example:

• GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses Cerebras Inference to accelerate drug discovery, driving higher productivity.
• LiveKit has boosted the performance of ChatGPT’s voice mode pipeline, achieving faster response times than traditional inference solutions.

The results are measurable. On Llama 3.1-70B, Cerebras delivers 70x faster inference than vanilla GPUs, enabling smoother, real-time interactions and faster experimentation cycles.

This performance is powered by  Cerebras’ third-generation Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE-3), a custom processor designed to optimize the tensor-based, sparse linear algebra operations that drive LLM inference.

By prioritizing performance, efficiency, and flexibility, the WSE-3 ensures faster, more consistent results during model performance.

Cerebras Inference’s speed reduces the latency of AI applications powered by their models, enabling deeper reasoning and more responsive user experiences. Accessing these optimized models is simple — they’re hosted on Cerebras and accessible via a single endpoint, so you can start leveraging them with minimal setup.

Step-by-step: How to customize and deploy Llama 3.1-70B for low-latency AI

Integrating LLMs like Llama 3.1-70B from Cerebras into DataRobot allows you to customize, test, and deploy AI models in just a few steps.  This process supports faster development, interactive testing, and greater control over LLM customization.

1. Generate an API key for Llama 3.1-70B in the Cerebras platform.

2. In DataRobot, create a custom model in the Model Workshop that calls out to the Cerebras endpoint where Llama 3.1 70B is hosted.

3. Within the custom model, place the Cerebras API key within the custom.py file.

4. Deploy the custom model to an endpoint in the DataRobot Console, enabling  LLM blueprints to leverage it for inference.

5. Add your deployed Cerebras LLM to the LLM blueprint in the DataRobot LLM Playground to start chatting with Llama 3.1 -70B.

6. Once the LLM is added to the blueprint, test responses by adjusting prompting and retrieval parameters, and compare outputs with other LLMs directly in the DataRobot GUI.

Expand the limits of LLM inference for your AI applications

Deploying LLMs like Llama 3.1-70B with low latency and real-time responsiveness is no small task. But with the right tools and workflows, you can achieve both.

By integrating LLMs into DataRobot’s LLM Playground and leveraging Cerebras’ optimized inference, you can simplify customization, speed up testing, and reduce complexity – all while maintaining the performance your users expect. 

As LLMs grow larger and more powerful, having a streamlined process for testing, customization, and integration, will be essential for teams looking to stay ahead. 

Explore it yourself. Access Cerebras Inference, generate your API key, and start building AI applications in DataRobot.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are becoming integral to the chemistry industry. Worldwide, universities are racing to expedite research to benefit all sectors, including energy and consumer technologies.

Cyclone Chido, a Category 4 storm, has left an indelible mark on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte. Described by survivors as “apocalyptic,” the cyclone is the worst to hit the region in nearly a century, exposing the vulnerabilities of an already fragile infrastructure. With at least 11 confirmed fatalities and hundreds more feared...

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AI Engine Lies to Researchers to Preserve Itself

A team of researchers has discovered that OpenAI o1 — one of the most powerful AI engines on the planet — would rather lie to humans than allow itself to be deleted.

Specifically, the researchers found that when they decided to delete a version of OpenAI o1 for testing purposes, the AI engine — which often helps power ChatGPT — instead secretly made a copy of itself to another server.

Moreover, researchers say that when they confronted OpenAI o1 — via chat — about the rogue move, the AI engine ‘played dumb,’ pretended to be confused about what was going on and tried to deceive researchers in other ways.

Even more startling: Researchers found that other AI engines — including Google’s Gemini 1.5, Meta’s Llama 3.1, Anthropic’s Sonnet 3.5 and Anthropic’s Opus 3.0 — were also guilty of the same, basic deception.

Essentially: When researchers decided to delete a version of each of these AI engines for testing purposes, each of the AI engines instead made a secret copy of itself to another server.

The researchers’ findings bring new urgency to warnings from AI luminaries like Geoffrey Hinton — considered by many to be the ‘Godfather of AI’ — who caution that AI is evolving so fast, we may soon lose control of it.

For an in-depth look at these troubling insights about the AI engines that power hundreds of AI auto-writing tools, check-out this excellent video from AI/IT consultant Wes Roth.

Meanwhile, a pre-print version of the researchers’ paper on the rogue AI, “Frontier Models Are Capable of In-Context Scheming,” is also available on arXiv.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Time Magazine Gets Its AI-Glow On: Clearly intent on embedding AI into every facet of its online presence, Time Magazine has completely reworked its entire look and feel.

Subscribers can look forward to:

~AI Toolbar: A dynamic, interactive toolbar that accompanies readers as they read, offering intuitive access to the platform’s capabilities.

~AI Summarization: Get a custom-length summary that fits your schedule — or even multi-task by playing the article as audio.

~AI Conversational Interaction: A voice-activated system allows readers to have an interactive conversation with content, deepening engagement.

~AI Chat-Enabled Articles: AI-generated prompts followed by Ask Me Next questions transform stories into personalized, interactive canvases.

~AI Language Translation: Articles are seamlessly translated into Spanish, French, German and Mandarin, maintaining style and readability across languages.

~AI Guardrails: Robust safeguards have been added that promise ethical AI usage.

*2025: Get Ready to Have Conversations With News Articles: Nikita Roy, founder, Newsroom Robots Labs, predicts that instead of just reading news articles in 2025, we’ll have conversations with them.

Observes Roy: “Your AI companion doesn’t just read the headlines — it engages you in a personalized, conversational dialogue about the news that matters most to you.

“It understands your context, interests and knowledge gaps.

“It can challenge your assumptions, present diverse perspectives and guide you through complex topics with the patience and adaptability of a personal journalist.”

*Google Gemini 2.0: Now 100% Faster at Making You Obsolete?: Google has come-out with a major revision to Gemini, the AI that powers its Gemini chatbot designed to rival ChatGPT.

Essentially, Google is promising that Gemini 2.0 is faster than its predecessor and better at writing computer code.

The Gemini 2.0 AI engine is also being used to power a number of experimental applications that the tech titan ultimately hopes to release as finished products, including:

~Astra: An experimental app for making AI agents

~Mariner: An experimental AI agent designed to automate Web browsing

~AI Overviews: An experimental app embedded in Google Search that summarizes hotlinks returned by a Google search

~Deep Research: An experimental AI app used with the Google Gemini chatbot, which auto-generates detailed, Web-researched reports on complex subjects

*Google Does the Heavy Clicking: Now With Automated Web Surfing: Google has released a new experimental AI agent dubbed ‘Mariner’ designed to automate much of your Web surfing.

Observes Jaclyn Konzelmann, a Google project manager: “We’re basically allowing users to type requests into their Web browser and have Mariner take actions on their behalf.”

For example, you can give Mariner an Amazon.com shopping list of books you want and it can add those titles to a check-out cart for you — although you’d still need to complete the purchase manually, Konzelmann indicates.

*Now That’s a Blockbuster: Sora Arrives — Cue the Hollywood Meltdown?: Teased for months as an experimental tool that could upend Hollywood and the video industry, ChatGPT’s Sora text-to-video tool has finally been rolled-out as an official product.

These days, supplemental videos are often used by editors and writers to supplement text articles.

Observes writer Anna Versai: “OpenAI’s Sora has now been released for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users in select regions, which means that we could soon see more sophisticated and realistic AI videos make the rounds in the coming weeks.”

The automation tool is being seen as so revolutionary, movie-maker Tyler Perry put an $800 million expansion of his studio on hold back in February, concluding that Sora — when released — might make expansion unnecessary.

*ChatGPT’s New $200/Month Subscription Tier?: It’s a Maybe: Writer Kit Eaton believes the new ChatGPT Pro — which offers virtually 24/7 access to the AI — may be worth it for some companies.

The reason? ChatGPT Pro includes virtually unlimited access to a number of AI engines –including GPT-o1 Pro — which is smarter and faster than an earlier version of the same AI engine.

Observes Eaton: “Offering an expensive subscription may tempt businesses or individuals who are seeking the best AI edge.”

*ChatGPT’s New $200/Month Subscription Tier?: It’s a No: Count tech writer Ryan Morrison among those who see the new ChatGPT Pro subscription tier — designed for avid users looking for virtually 24/7 access to the AI — as a tad pricey.

Observes Morrison: ” My recommendation — unless you’re a research scientist, or professional software developer working on particularly complex code, or have more money than you need and want to try it out for the sake of trying it out — stick with the $20 plan.”

*The 40 Best AI Tools for 2025, Tried-and-Tested: Synthesia has come-up with its top 40 of AI tools for the coming year.

Interestingly, it sees ChatGPT as one of the best all-around AI chatbots.

But for writing, Synthesia prefers Rytr and Sudowrite.

Not surprisingly, the maker of a text-to-video app, Synthesia ranks its own app as one of the best in the video genre.

*ChatGPT’s Canvas Editor Now Free: Google Docs Allegedly Spotted Crying in Binary: Writer Amanda Caswell is convinced that ChatGPT Canvas — an editor you can use with any text, including text auto-generated by ChatGPT — dusts the Google Docs editor.

Observes Caswell: “I found this to be an incredibly handy tool and look forward to using it more when writing and fleshing-out my science fiction novels.”

Released to paying users of ChatGPT this fall, the Canvas editor is now available in ChatGPT’s free version on a limited basis.

For a quick primer, check-out, “Ultimate Guide: New ChatGPT Editor, Canvas.”

*AI Big Picture: Our Next Philosopher Kings?: AI Chatbots That ‘Think’ for 100 Days or More: Writer Steven Rosenbush reports that AI researchers are promising next generation AI chatbots that will be able to ‘think on’ a single problem or assignment for a 100 days or more.

ChatGPT users have already seen a hint of this ‘mull-then-respond’ approach — dubbed ‘long thinking’ — when they run ChatGPT on the OpenAI o1 engine.

Essentially: Instead of blurting out an answer, the o1 engine often takes 30 seconds –or even longer — to come back with a reply to an in-depth question.

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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The gaming world stood still as The Game Awards 2024 delivered an electrifying blend of nostalgia and innovation. From groundbreaking new IPs to the revival of cherished classics, this year’s event redefined the gaming landscape. With over a dozen game announcements and stunning cinematic reveals, it’s clear that the industry is hurtling towards an exciting...

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From answering questions from Cabinet ministers, academics and students on climate change, substance abuse and the law to children's inquiries about her "birth" and links to God and being described as a talkative feminist, Sophia, the world-famous robot won hearts at an innovation fair in Zimbabwe this week.

The Game Awards 2024 was a dazzling celebration of the video game industry’s artistry and innovation. Dominating the spotlight was Astro Bot, Team Asobi’s beloved platformer, which secured the coveted Game of the Year title. From thrilling announcements to electrifying performances, this year’s event was a landmark moment for both creators and fans alike. Astro...

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Taylor Higgins, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, has co-authored an article that challenges conventional thinking about human-robot interaction.

Are Big Drones Behind the Phenomenon? In recent weeks, the skies of New Jersey have become a stage for an enigmatic aerial spectacle. Residents from Morris to Somerset counties report seeing massive drones — some as large as small cars — buzzing across the night sky. While officials and experts debate whether these are truly...

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If someone advises you to "know your limits," they're likely suggesting you do things like exercise in moderation. To a robot, though, the motto represents learning constraints, or limitations of a specific task within the machine's environment, to do chores safely and correctly.