A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029. It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 years to arrive at Alpha Centauri, which is 4.4 light-years away. And the…
David Bowie’s song “Five Years,” which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
The gap is not technical — it is experiential, built through reps of educating imperfect systems on how your business actually works, and it compounds every week you wait.
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model — no GPUs required, it says.