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This tech company is known for naming (one of their) products after scientists & mathematicians like Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace & many more.
In keeping with this tradition, the company recently announced that their upcoming product will be named after Richard Feynman.
Id the company.

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Nvidia
The company is know to (code)name their GPU architectures after scientists. Some more famous & recent ones have been Rubin & Blackwell.
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Connect the following to the world of technology:
1. A pack animal from South America
2. A boy’s name of French origin
3. A Zodiac constellation
4. Sanskrit for something which is not natural
5. An invented word for the Martian language, meaning deep understanding

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These are various large language models or LLMs behind Artificial General Intelligence.
1. Llama - Meta
2. Claude - Anthropic
3. Gemini - Google
4. Krutrim - Ola
5. Grok - Twitter/X

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Anguilla is a small island in the Caribbean with a population of about 16000 residents.
The island became a beneficiary of the recent AI tech boom, adding $32m or about 10% in its annual GDP.
How did AI helping Anguilla?

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The Island's domain is .ai, which has in high demand by AI companies.
This is similar to the trend seen with the tiny Pacific Island of Tuvalu, which became popular due to its domain name .tv.
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When started, this company initially had no name and the co-founders just named all their files NV, as in “next version”. When the company was being incorporated they chose the Latin word for “envy” for the company name.
Identify the company.

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Nvidia, the $2 trillion software & fabless chip juggernaut.
Watch their latest AI event for 2024.

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In its latest environmental report, Microsoft disclosed that its global water consumption spiked 34% from 2021 to 2022 (to nearly 1.7 billion gallons, or more than 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools), a sharp increase compared to previous years.
Google reported a 20% growth in water use in the same period.
What is the cause of this sudden spike in water consumption for these tech companies?

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Generative AI
In a paper due to be published later this year, a research team is estimating that ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water  every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions. The range varies depending on where its servers are located and the season. The estimate includes indirect water usage that the companies don’t measure — such as to cool power plants that supply the data centers with electricity.
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