Infleqtion and Nvidia validate high-rate quantum error-correction code
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Image: Primary Lumaril raised a $66 million Series A at a $400 million valuation, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company develops AI software that connects to manufacturers' existing control systems to optimize industrial production on factory floors.
Shanghai-based NeuroXess raised RMB 700 million in Series B funding, TechNode reported. SDIC Juli, Shenzhen Capital Group and Qinzhi Capital co-led the round.
Binghamton University researchers developed a bacteria-powered fuel cell that achieved 66.45 microwatts per cubic centimeter, compared with 8.04 for their volume-matched flat electrode.
Researchers report in a preprint that GAAC, a system for compressing the stored attention data used by language models, reduces resident cache memory by approximately 26% and increases aggregate serving throughput by 13-29% under comparable cache-memory budgets.
A preprint reports that locking a GPU's processing clock recovered up to 32% of the energy used to generate language-model output, with minimal throughput loss. Researchers tested four attention architectures on an NVIDIA H200 using vLLM eager execution.
Nvidia is discussing guarantees for billions in debt financing for Nscale's planned Anthropic data center in West Virginia, TechCrunch reported, citing The Information and Bloomberg.