Japan-inspired

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The Chip LetterSiliconArm & SoftBank: Part 2 - Masa’s gifts arrive This post continues the conversation between Jon Metzler and Babbage on the Softbank takeover of Arm in 2016 and its repercussions.

11.03

SK hynix NewsroomSiliconSK hynix Hosts First Partners Day in Japan, Sharing Business Direction with Key Local Partners ▲ The Partners Day held in Japan ▲ The Partners Day held in Japan As advances in AI technology drive rapid growth in memory demand, global collaboration is becoming increasingly important to securing…

10.30

ModalToolsLaunching a trillion-parameter model at Sakana AI Deploying a ~1-trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model for API inference is a classic systems challenge. At full FP16 or BF16 precision, the memory footprint requires very large clusters.

10.23

The Chip LetterSiliconArm & SoftBank: Part 1- Masa comes calling, bearing gifts Today, something a little different: a joint post in the form of a conversation between and . Jon is Continuing Professional Faculty at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, where he teaches on…

09.25

Tom's Hardware AISiliconJapan experiments with autonomous AI chainsaw-wielding robots A scary-looking humanoid robot with a chainsaw arm was shown in action on Japan's ANN News recently. The rail truck-mounted mech was being used by Japanese railway firm JR East to clear tree branches…

10.28

GitHub Copilot BlogToolsMarketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up on GitHub I run marketing for GitHub in Japan and Korea, and events are the heartbeat of it: a recurring webinar series for enterprise developers, community meetups in Tokyo, invite-only executive sessions in…

09.11

The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo