Nearly Invisible Drone Phantom Twist Developed

Robotics engineers at Northwestern University have introduced the Phantom Twist drone, which becomes nearly invisible to the human eye by spinning at 15–25 Hz. The device uses the persistence of vision effect: rapid rotation turns it into a transparent blur. The design was optimized using a computational method that minimizes the LPIPS metric (Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity) for image similarity with the background.

Northwestern University

Huawei, Alibaba and Baidu jointly unveiled supernodes: computing power up to 1024 GPUs, support for inference of models with 10 trillion parameters

Huawei, Alibaba and Baidu have jointly introduced new supernodes that combine computing power of up to 1024 GPUs, enabling inference of AI models with up to 10 trillion parameters. This collaboration aims to advance large-scale AI model deployment in China.

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