This Week in New Age Technology: 11_8_2021
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3D Printing 🖨
3D Printing Developer WASP Completes Concept Store for Dior
Italian 3D Printing developer WASP just completed their first retail project -A unique concept store in collaboration with the French luxury fashion house, Dior.
Built on a beach in Dubai’s Jumeirah district, Dior’s new coastal installation is designed to showcase their most sought after collections.
The company sourced local feedstock from a combination of clay and sand, to highlight their sustainable infrastructure specialty.
Artificial Intelligence 👩💻
Alphabet launches Isomorphic for AI Driven Drug Discovery
Google's parent company Alphabet announced the launch of a new company Thursday.
Called Isomorphic Laboratories, it'll build off the work of Alphabet's subsidiary, DeepMind, using AI for Drug Discovery.
Their goal is to try and build models that can predict how drugs will interact with the body. In doing so they'll likely sell those models in partnership with Pharmaceutical companies.
Ark Investment Claims AI Research Set to “Proliferate”
Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment released an interesting insight from their innovation newsletter this week.
Analysts found that by applying Wright's law to historical data from OpenAI and NVIDIA, they discovered that innovations in hardware and software are driving the costs of AI training down by 50% every nine months.
And with high compute costs as a historical barrier, their team believes AI research will explode this decade.