On this day: Oct 10

The pillar that moved Japan's national AI compute up a generation. A national compute model shared by private startups and universities

An approach in which the state directly subsidizes GPU usage fees to grow many domestic foundation models in parallel. An industrial policy that spreads its bets rather than picking winners

Later became the de facto objective function for coding-agent development

The prototype of mixed-precision training. The whole lineage of shrinking precision, FP16→BF16→FP8→FP4, is a variation on these two techniques