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NVIDIA just open sourced Nemotron 3 Ultra.
> 550B parameters (55B active/token)
> 1M token context
> 47.7 on the AI Intelligence Index
> 300+ tokens/sec
> Open weights, datasets & training recipes
Open source AI just got a serious upgrade.
A lot of attention is going to AI governance right now.
Some believe governments should have a larger role.
Others think private companies should lead.
Should the people generating the data have more ownership in the AI systems built from it?
Curious to hear your thoughts.
AI Agents are getting smarter every month.
But there is one problem that keeps showing up again and again β Bad data.
Port3 turns that complexity into structured, real time information that Agents can actually use. Because better outputs start with better inputs.
Introducing Kled-FD 0.1, the world's best fraud detection and dataset cleaning pipeline.
The first all in one system capable of detecting AI generated content, near duplicates, stolen and plagiarized media, screenshots, manipulated and spliced content, NSFW and explicit material, minors and age sensitive content, sensitive and harmful content, and coordinated behavioral fraud rings.
Kled-FD 0.1 has been battle tested across 1.2 billion uploads on Kled's data marketplace and is actively running quality checks on over 5 million uploads per day across image, video, audio, and text.
Public benchmarks will be released soon. This is the first real step toward making data quality enforcement a humanless process.
The biggest unlock for AI right now is not more models but better data foundations. Messy inputs hold everything back.
We are fixing it with verified structured sources that let agents reason clearly. This image captures the vision perfectly.
Blackstone & Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture to bring 500MW of AI data center capacity online by 2027.
"This joint venture ...helps meet growing demand for TPUs" - Google Cloud CEO:
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Everyone talks about smarter AI agents but forget they run on the data you give them. Garbage in still means garbage out even in 2026.
Build with verified decentralized sources and everything levels up. Your agents deserve better fuel
AI data centers are growing crazy fast but the real bottleneck isnβt compute its clean reliable training data. Scattered sources kill progress.
One unified layer fixes that and lets agents actually scale. Feels like the missing piece everyone needs.
Everyone talks model architecture but the real game is in the data trenches. Cleaning, mixing, synthesizing the right stuff decides if your model actually gets smarter or just louder. Most courses skip this because itβs messy and unglamorous.
The big dilemma with teaching an "LLM course" is that it is really easy to get drawn into teaching the various technical things like efficiency tricks, attention variants, PPO vs GRPO, etc etc. But the real "meat" is not there, but in the data: data for pre-training, for mid-training, for SFT, for RL and for "reasoning", synthetic data, curated data, annotated data... cleaning, evaluating, improving, mixing, ... lots of stuff.
but "data" is so much harder to teach: it is not "mathematic" or "algorithmic" like the technical things, and it is not clear what is the teachable thing there. it is also a lot less transparent than the technical topics, both because it is semi-secret, and also because it is also not appealing for publishing, for roughly the same reasons it is not appealing for teaching.
so, what would you teach about data? what are the key lessons and insights one should know? any good papers or resources? good existing classes? blogs? hit me with what you have
People think more data means better results. But most of the time it just adds confusion.
If the data is messy, scattered, or unclear. You are building on top of chaos.
Once you fix the structure. Everything starts to click.
Same data, totally different outcome.
Raw data is everywhere. Feeds never stop, dashboards keep growing.
But when you actually need something useful. Something you can trust and act on. It suddenly feels very limited.
The real edge is not more data. Itβs knowing whatβs worth using.