🚀 SPAN plans 80k liquid-cooled nodes in homes, Isomorphic lands $2.1B to scale AI drug discovery
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⚡ From living-room liquid GPUs to a 26M-model fine-tune-in-seconds toolkit, AI drug R&D just banked $2.1B, Korea wants to hand out AI cash, a bank got caught naked using AI, and China’s giants are hunting multimodal—every lane’s flooring it!
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🤖 SF SPAN: 100 homes pilot '24, 80k nodes 1GW distributed compute by '27
SPAN told TechCrunch its “distributed DC” will plant liquid-cooled RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell nodes inside homes, covers power & 16 kWh backup, 100 homes this year—giving edge AI devs on-site access to 1 GW GPU compute and slashing latency.
Source ↗ - Policy
⚖️ Korea’s AI Dividend: Excess Tax & Profit Shared by All
Kim Yong-fan revealed “AI Dividend” plan on May 12: channel excess AI-semiconductor tax & profit to all citizens via legal mechanism. Koreans may soon cash in on AI boom; world gets a new tech-redistribution template.
Source ↗ - AI Industry News
🤖 Isomorphic, Google-linked, raises $2.1B to Alpha-fold AI drug discovery
Isomorphic Labs raised $2.1B to scale its AlphaFold-powered drug-discovery platform. Google and biotech now see AI protein prediction shifting from lab tool to scalable pipeline engine.
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