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DOGE's push for firm-fixed-price federal contracts benefits taxpayers and delivery
“And the shift back to outscum based that, that Doge is pushing is a really good thing. In my opinion, it's good for the taxpayers. It's good for delivery.”
Booz Allen deployed Meta's Llama to the ISS for zero-latency astronaut troubleshooting
“So we just put Lama on the international space station on the edge on satellites, right? So that, that enables the astronauts who are working on international space station to have Lama to chat with in space with no latency to determine when things go wrong, h…”
Bill Vass left AWS over concerns about government AI adoption trailing China
“One of the reasons I left at AWS and I loved being at AWS. I worked on 63 of the services there and built a lot of them myself, worked on quantum computing and robotics and a whole bunch of things is I was worried a little bit about government adoption of AI a…”
High GPU training and inference costs raise ROI concerns for generative AI
“These models use a lot of GPUs. They are really expensive to train and they are really expensive during inference on today. So that's another area that, that we really question sometimes the ROI of some of these things because of the cost of all of it.”