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Open-Source AI Could Make It Easier to Build Smart Robots

… Simulation tools have become accurate enough to be useful for training, and access to the tooling that once required a specialized lab is now widely available, much of it open source. “To get into robotics, you no longer need a Ph.D.,” he says. …

May 21, 2026 · Jackie Snow

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Inside the Surprising Performance Gaps Between ‘Identical’ GPUs

… The silicon lottery’s existence has been known since at least 2022, when researchers at the University of Wisconsin tied it to variations in the performance of GPU-dependent supercomputers . Li and her colleagues figured that the effect would be even more pronounced for AI cloud customers. …

Apr 23, 2026 · Samuel K. Moore