lol that's never going to happen. if they try, it will blow up in their faces spectacularly.
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I am not aware of their business model, do they work in government funded research facilities, using government funding indirectly?
Purely on AI, the point that you are mentioning comes much much later in the model. Most of the LLMs journey is actually to recognize language patterns itself. For this a massive number of GPUs is a must, and no one can do without it. The cost of a Huawei GPU is not cheap. You would easily need a billion usd worth of GPUs to stand any chance.
Depends on what is meant of top-tier. I mean the extreme top, and I do think they are mobile. Let me look for numbers to convince you.
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The 1,500-meter deep-sea gene sequencer developed by the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been successfully tested in the sea
Recently, a deep-sea biological gene sequencer developed by the team of Researcher Wu Yihui from the Optics Laboratory of the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the team of Researcher Du Mengran from the Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully passed sea trials.
From June 3 to 9, the deep-sea biological gene sequencer participated in the South China Sea scientific expedition of the "Exploration II" TS2-38-1 voyage. Assistant researcher Li Huan and doctoral student Gao Ming of the team participated in the voyage. The sequencer was deployed twice with the deep-sea in-situ laboratory, with a maximum diving depth of 1,380 meters. The first continuous sequencing lasted for 8 hours, and the second time completed the entire process from library construction, solid phase amplification to gene sequencing, working continuously for 30 hours. The Q30 quality of the two sequencing data was 92% and 95% respectively, and 97 DNA samples provided by the Chinese Academy of Metrology were successfully identified.
Over the past five years, with the care and support of leaders at all levels of the two institutes, the team has overcome difficulties in key components such as sequencing methods, genetic big data processing, library chips, multi-color optical focusing imaging, precise flow quantification, multiple dynamic temperature control, underwater packaging, and self-correcting software, and has initially realized unattended automation of the entire process from library construction to sequencing.
The above research was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Class A Pioneer Project "Deep Sea/Abyss Intelligent Technology and Seabed In-situ Scientific Experimental Station" and the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics' Innovation Team Project.
SMRs are a meme. I am increasingly convinced that the sporadic hype around nuclear energy is just another trick by oil corporations. We know they had funded hydrogen economy stuff to delay electrification. Nuclear energy is simply too expensive for base load. It also takes decades to scale up. For these reasons, it was outcompeted by fossil fuels in the late-20th century. And as soon as the decommissioning costs of reactors were understood in the early-00s, investments on new nuclear reactors decreased a lot.
SMRs mean you need to build more reactors to produce the same amount of energy. Which means they are even less economic than normal reactors. Even France is not bothering and they are the only country on the planet with a strong state backing of nuclear energy.
SMRs are only good for certain niche applications. With nuclear the larger you build the reactor the lower your price/kWh will be.
SMRs require more enriched fuel, and they are less energy efficient at burning it and converting it to power as well.
The Russians are using SMRs for powering remote places in the middle of the Arctic. That is a good use case for it.
Nuclear power plants also typically need to be built in pairs. So that you can have one station online, while another is offline during refueling. It takes months to refuel a large LWR. Like 6 months or something in some cases. You need to take the old fuel out, and replace it with new one. In the meantime the reactor is offline.
SMRs require more enriched fuel, and they are less energy efficient at burning it and converting it to power as well.
The Russians are using SMRs for powering remote places in the middle of the Arctic. That is a good use case for it.
Nuclear power plants also typically need to be built in pairs. So that you can have one station online, while another is offline during refueling. It takes months to refuel a large LWR. Like 6 months or something in some cases. You need to take the old fuel out, and replace it with new one. In the meantime the reactor is offline.