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Have you ever wondered why only a handful of countries seem to control the future of AI? It turns out compute power is the new oil - and most of the world doesn’t have a single rig. Welcome to the global AI divide!

What are on FIRE 🔥

• 🧠 The Global A.I. Divide: Compute Power Is the New Oil

• 🌟 AI Highlights

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• ⚡ 5 AI Quick Hits

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AI INSIGHTS

🧠 The Global A.I. Divide: Compute Power Is the New Oil

Only 32 countries on Earth host the heavyweight data-center muscle needed to train frontier models. The rest of the planet? Stuck watching from the sidelines.

The shock stats:

• U.S. tech giants run 87 of the world’s elite “AI hubs”—nearly ⅔ of global capacity. 

• China controls 39, Europe scrapes by with just 6. Africa and South America? Almost zero.

• A single OpenAI - SoftBank - Oracle build in Texas will sprawl bigger than Central Park and cost $60 billion, complete with its own natural-gas plant.

Why this gap is growing:

1. GPU fever: Nvidia’s H100s are the new black gold. Limited supply means nations without deep pockets wait at the back of the queue.

2. Mega-costly real estate: Each hyperscale site guzzles gigawatts of power and Olympic-pools’ worth of water—hard for emerging markets to bankroll.

3. Policy power plays: U.S. export controls decide who gets chips; Chinese state loans sweet-talk others into Huawei-built clouds. The world is quietly choosing sides.

Everyday ripple effects:

→ Language bias: Chatbots shine in English and Chinese, lag in Swahili or Quechua.
→ Talent drain: Top researchers in Kenya or Argentina hop continents just to touch a GPU cluster.
→ Startup ceiling: Renting compute overseas means higher latency, steeper bills, and foreign law headaches.

Bridging attempts (so far):

• $300B+: What Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta & OpenAI will pour into AI infrastructure this year alone.

• Brazil’s $4B AI push and EU’s €200B sovereignty fund aim to build local clouds, but chips still ship from California.

• Africa’s Cassava is opening a flagship GPU farm this summer - yet it will satisfy maybe 10–20% of regional demand.

Why It Matters: Compute power is quickly becoming the passport to scientific discovery, economic growth, and national security. Countries without it risk turning into digital colonies, forced to rent brains and servers from abroad. If GPUs are the new oil rigs, the map is clear: a thin band of “Compute North” is drilling full speed ahead while the “Compute South” waits in line. The next decade of AI won’t just be about smarter models - it’ll be about who gets to run them.

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AI HIGHLIGHTS

🩺 A departing Meta researcher blew the whistle on a culture of fear inside Zuck’s AI kingdom - calling it a “metastatic cancer” eating away at purpose, morale, and innovation while Superintelligence Labs keeps hiring at $100M signing-bonus speed.

🧳 $4T Nvidia boss Jensen Huang is jet-setting back to Beijing to unveil a China-only AI chip - stripped of HBM & NVLink to skate past U.S. export curbs - plus a handshake with Premier Li Qiang on the side.

🧬 Microsoft just open-sourced BioEmu 1.1, an AI “emulator” that predicts protein motions with lab-grade accuracy - doing in minutes what molecular dynamics needs GPU-years for. Life-science speed-run unlocked.

📚 Anthropic is sliding Claude into Canvas (and Panopto & Wiley) so students can chat with their readings, lecture vids, and textbooks - plus a free AI Fluency course and turbo-sized ambassador clubs coming this fall.

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🌱 Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger debuted the Flourishing AI benchmark to grade models on virtues, purpose, even spirituality - because alignment shouldn’t stop at “don’t go rogue,” it should help humanity thrive.

💰 AI Daily Fundraising: Blok raised $7.5 million (seed) to scale AI agents that mirror human behavior, cutting software test cycles from weeks to hours, with backing from MaC Venture Capital and angels at Google, Apple, and Meta.

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AI CHART

🩺 AI Just Got Its PhD Committee: A-Z Tour of “AI4Research”

A new 120-page survey from Tsinghua & friends maps every step where AI is already changing how we do science - from skimming thousands of papers in minutes to co-writing the final manuscript. Think of it as a blueprint for the fully-automated research lab.

→ Instead of siloed breakthroughs in, say, protein folding or particle physics, AI4Research lays out a full pipeline that any lab can copy-paste and iterate on.

1️⃣ AI for Scientific Comprehension (AI4SC)

LLMs now read the literature for you — tables, graphs, equations and all.

• Semi-automated: Humans steer, AI highlights key bits.

• Fully-automated: The model quizzes itself, answers, and flags anything weird.

→ No more Friday-night PDF marathons.

2️⃣ AI for Academic Survey (AI4AS)

Literature review on autopilot:

• Semantic search hunts down every related paper.

• Graph algorithms map citation networks.

• LLMs spit out “state-of-the-field” digests and even draft research roadmaps.

→ DeepSeek-v3 and GPT-4o-mini are hitting near-human survey quality, but still miss subtle nuance.

3️⃣ AI for Scientific Discovery (AI4SD)

Here’s the sexy part - idea generation and hypothesis testing.

• Models brainstorm novel angles, cross-check originality, and run quick simulations.

• External data + self-reflection loops let agents discard bad ideas before you waste a grant.

→ DeepSeek-R1 and Gemini-2.0-Flash-Exp top ScienceAgentBench for clear, creative proposals.

4️⃣ AI for Academic Writing (AI4AW)

From title suggestions to auto-drawn figures to LaTeX equations — some systems can output a near-submission-ready draft.

→ Keep your name on the byline; let the bot grind the Methods section.

5️⃣ AI for Peer Reviewing (AI4PR)

LLMs triage submissions, match reviewers, and draft referee reports. A fine-tuned GPT-4o already rivals humans on certain criteria, though consistency across fields is still shaky.

→ Faster reviews, fewer “sorry for the delay” emails.

🔧 Under the Hood

• Tool-augmented LLMs: Plug WolframAlpha into physics prompts, SQL into bio-stats, etc.

• Multi-agent swarms: Think virtual research groups divvying up tasks.

• Self-supervised loops: Models mark their own homework, spot gaps, and dig deeper.

📊 Reality Check

• Survey writing: near-human, but depth varies by domain.

• Idea gen: high clarity/creativity, field-dependent success.

• Auto-discovery: mixed approaches + self-debugging win right now.

• Peer review: strong on first-pass screening, weaker on cross-disciplinary nuance.

Bottom line: AI4Research sketches a future where the entire scientific lifecycle is augmented or automated. Labs that plug these modules together first will sprint ahead - leaving manual-only workflows looking as outdated as typewritten manuscripts.

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