Microsoft's Phi-nomenal Release 🍭

Today’s Menu 🥠

• TransPixar AI VFX

• Cheap and Powerful Supercomputer

• Phi-4 Beats GPT-4… Sometimes

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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Adobe’s TransPixar Makes AI VFX Truly Transparent

Adobe’s TransPixar just gave AI-generated videos a major power-up by introducing transparency. It might just rewrite how visual effects get made.

This game-changing tech effortlessly crafts see-through effects like smoke, reflections, and magical portals that seamlessly blend into scenes. It’s a huge win for creators, enabling faster, cheaper, and more accessible VFX production.

Small studios can now create high-quality effects without breaking the bank, and bigger productions could shave weeks off timelines.

Pocket-Sized AI Power
Nvidia's $3K AI Supercomputer is Shockingly Small 💻

At CES 2025, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a $3,000 AI supercomputer designed for researchers, students, and data scientists.

It’s powered by the Grace Blackwell Superchip, delivering a petaflop of performance in a package that could fit on your desk without causing a space crisis. With a GPU from Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, 128GB memory, and up to 4TB of storage, this compact powerhouse proves AI doesn’t need giant hardware anymore.

While it’s not for the average consumer, it’s a sign of how far we’ve come in squeezing serious computing power into seriously small spaces.

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Phi-nomenal Release
Microsoft’s Phi-4 AI is Smaller, Smarter, Open Source

Microsoft’s Phi-4 language model is officially out in the wild, complete with model weights under the flexible MIT license.

Despite being a fifth the size of similar models, Phi-4 holds its own in areas like math and science, even outperforming its “teacher,” GPT-4, on select tasks. It’s not a can of RedBull, but Synthetic textbook-like training data and some clever tweaks to improve reasoning. But it’s not all sunshine—Phi-4 struggles with strict prompts and logic puzzles.

Still, for an open-source AI model that punches above its weight, it’s a huge win for researchers and developers eager to customize and experiment.

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