Today in AI — Oct 23
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- Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO — Elastic GPUs, sandbox growth, and the economics of the agent cloud could affect how developers provision infrastructure for AI models and tools. Understanding… — discuss · link - Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation — Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation puts its future governance under a broader, vendor-neutral organization rather than leaving it controlled by… — discuss · link - AI 191: The Hackening Begins — The reported cybersecurity event matters because AI systems and tools depend on software, data, and infrastructure that can be attacked. It is a reminder that… — discuss · link - How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications — Specializing the vocabulary of small language models could reduce inference costs substantially in real applications. This matters for builders evaluating… — discuss · link These stories point to a broader shift in AI infrastructure, from how compute is provisioned and governed to how models are made cheaper and systems are secured. What changes are you seeing in the tools, costs, and risks of building AI systems?