Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: Microsoft President Brad Smith on AI's power demands; the U.S. imposes new export controls on chipmaking technology; a new milestone for distributed AI training; and are LLMs hitting a wall? It's complicated.
I grew up watching reruns of the original Star Trek series. As anyone who's ever seen that show will know, there was a moment in seemingly every episode when the starship Enterprise would get into some kind of jam and need to outrun a pursuing alien spacecraft, or escape the powerful gravitational field of some hostile planet, or elude the tractor beam of some wily foe.
