On this day: Nov 19
6 records from this date in 2025.
2025
1 year ago · 6 recordsYann LeCun resigns as Meta's chief AI scientist to found a world models startupYann LeCun
The biggest skeptic camp splitting off organizationally
US approves up to 35,000 GB300-equivalent chips each for UAE G42, Saudi HumainUS Department of Commerce
Gulf capital was brought in as a third pole of the compute supply chain
Compute Economics & GeopoliticsGovernment
xAI partners with HUMAIN, part of Saudi Arabia's PIFxAI
The race to secure compute through Gulf capital. The announcement gives no MW capacity, GPU count or construction start date, so it is all at the planning stage
Compute Economics & GeopoliticsOfficial
Figure reports 11 months of results at BMW's Spartanburg plantFigure (BMW site)
The first quantitative production metrics for a humanoid. However, they were announced by Figure, not documented independently by BMW
European Commission proposes the Digital Omnibus on AI regulationEuropean Commission (EU)
The start of discussions on postponing and simplifying high-risk obligations
Regulation, Law & GovernanceGovernment
Apple publishes M5 GPU Neural Accelerator + MLX benchmarksApple
Material in which a consumer silicon generation change began to be promoted directly by local LLM inference performance
On-Device & Local InferenceOfficial