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Welcome to episode 294 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy!Ilya Boy, do we have a news packed week for you! Sutskever raised $30B without a product, Mira Murati launched her own AI lab, and Claude 3.7 now thinks before it speaks. Meanwhile, Microsoft casually invented new matter for quantum computing, Google built an AI scientist, and AWS killed Chime (RIP). At this rate, AI is either going to save the world or speedrun becoming Ultron. Let’s all find out together – today on The Cloud Pod!
Titles we almost went with this week:
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.
AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All It’s Money
02:41 Ilya Sutskever’s Startup in Talks to Raise Financing at $30 Billion Valuation
03:22 Ryan – “It’s so nuts to me that they can raise that much without – really just an idea. Doesn’t have to have any proof or POC…”
07:07 Murati Joins Crowded AI Startup Sector
08:02 Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
12:44 Justin – “AI is great. I can see how it makes good coders even better, and bad coders worse, and your ability to be a debugger is gonna be the make or break for you in the AI coding world.”
AWS
14:58 Update on Support for Amazon Chime
16:38 Matthew – “I was surprised at how short of a timeline this was, because I feel like code command and some of the other ones are multi-year, and maybe that’s just memory. But one year, if you’re fully integrated into the solution, doesn’t feel like a long time to migrate as a business. Or no one actually uses it, so who cares? One of the two.”
19:07 Amazon ECS increases the CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUs
21:09 Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model is now available in Amazon Bedrock
22:50 AWS Network Firewall introduces automated domain lists and insights
23:10 Ryan – “It’s funny because I, when they rolled out this, this feature or the network firewall together, I’ve become real spoiled. And so like, when it didn’t have this, was like, how am I supposed to use this? I gotta compile all my traffic to figure out what’s going on. Like, boo. And so, yeah, this is, this is great because compiling these data sets and running your queries is a chore. And typically that’s all you want, right? You just want to be able to very quickly sort of say this is what’s coming in and answer a question and move on.”
GCP
26:38 Introducing Cloud DNS public IP health checks, for more resilient multicloud deployments
27:03 Ryan – “I mean, so maybe you can take your Kubernetes workload and actually spread it across multiple clouds and serve from all clouds with a solution like this. it’s always that sort of edge case where it’s sort of the rubber meets the road and you run into these weird things trying to serve from multi-cloud. But this is a big step towards that. I’m sure there’s other edge cases that I’m not thinking about. I know there’s a ton of operability concerns, but this is kind of neat.”
30:13 Announcing quantum-safe digital signatures in Cloud KMS
33:04 Justin – “They implemented hybrid plus quantum key exchange that provides traditional and quantum resistant algorithms, and they provided protection against both current threats and potential future quantum computer-based attacks. And then it goes on to talk about the implementation use of Kyber. And I do remember us talking about Kyber because I think we talked, we talked about Kyber crystals at one point. Yeah. So we did talk about this at one point. So yes, you’re good already. So yes, Google is coming in either, maybe behind Azure. I don’t know. I don’t know if they have anything.”
34:47 Introducing A4X VMs powered by NVIDIA GB200 — now in preview
36:07 Justin – “So basically, if you need big, expensive hardware, use the A4X. And if you want to do some inference and basic things, you have a model you’re already happy with, the A4 VM is probably the right choice for you.”
37:40 We’re launching a new AI system for scientists
38:02 Ryan – “That’s wild – it’s such a specific use case!”
39:59 Announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic’s first hybrid reasoning model, is available on Vertex AI
Azure
41:33 Microsoft quantum breakthrough promises to usher in the next era of computing in ‘years, not decades’
42:37 Ryan – “Wow. I mean, that last bullet point is what my head explodes. Like I know I don’t understand quantum computers and I, you know, like from any kind of way. Now, you know, they’re introducing new states of matter, like in order to power some of those things, it’s gonna, it just feels like tomorrow world is gonna be completely unrecognizable.”
45:28 Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing
47:52 Microsoft’s new AI agent can control software and robots
49:30 Justin – “Well, good, I look forward to our future robot overlords.”
49:36 Introducing Azure AI Foundry Labs: A hub for the latest AI research and experiments at Microsoft
50:55 Ryan – “I mean, I can’t agree more with the speed of innovations blinding. You know, we started this podcast to keep up with cloud news as the hyperscalers got to a certain scale where they were announcing enough stuff that we couldn’t keep up to date. Now I feel even with this, it’s, I really struggle to, you know, understand half of these use cases and how it’s applied and the whole thing. Like it’s crazy to me how fast things are moving.”
51:46 A new level unlocked
Aftershow
1:03:02 Amazon Paid $1 Billion for Control of Bond Franchise
Closing
And that is the week in the cloud! Visit our website, the home of the Cloud Pod where you can join our newsletter, slack team, send feedback or ask questions at theCloud Pod.net or tweet at us with hashtag #theCloudPod
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Welcome to episode 294 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy!Ilya Boy, do we have a news packed week for you! Sutskever raised $30B without a product, Mira Murati launched her own AI lab, and Claude 3.7 now thinks before it speaks. Meanwhile, Microsoft casually invented new matter for quantum computing, Google built an AI scientist, and AWS killed Chime (RIP). At this rate, AI is either going to save the world or speedrun becoming Ultron. Let’s all find out together – today on The Cloud Pod!
Titles we almost went with this week:
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.
AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All It’s Money
02:41 Ilya Sutskever’s Startup in Talks to Raise Financing at $30 Billion Valuation
03:22 Ryan – “It’s so nuts to me that they can raise that much without – really just an idea. Doesn’t have to have any proof or POC…”
07:07 Murati Joins Crowded AI Startup Sector
08:02 Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
12:44 Justin – “AI is great. I can see how it makes good coders even better, and bad coders worse, and your ability to be a debugger is gonna be the make or break for you in the AI coding world.”
AWS
14:58 Update on Support for Amazon Chime
16:38 Matthew – “I was surprised at how short of a timeline this was, because I feel like code command and some of the other ones are multi-year, and maybe that’s just memory. But one year, if you’re fully integrated into the solution, doesn’t feel like a long time to migrate as a business. Or no one actually uses it, so who cares? One of the two.”
19:07 Amazon ECS increases the CPU limit for ECS tasks to 192 vCPUs
21:09 Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model is now available in Amazon Bedrock
22:50 AWS Network Firewall introduces automated domain lists and insights
23:10 Ryan – “It’s funny because I, when they rolled out this, this feature or the network firewall together, I’ve become real spoiled. And so like, when it didn’t have this, was like, how am I supposed to use this? I gotta compile all my traffic to figure out what’s going on. Like, boo. And so, yeah, this is, this is great because compiling these data sets and running your queries is a chore. And typically that’s all you want, right? You just want to be able to very quickly sort of say this is what’s coming in and answer a question and move on.”
GCP
26:38 Introducing Cloud DNS public IP health checks, for more resilient multicloud deployments
27:03 Ryan – “I mean, so maybe you can take your Kubernetes workload and actually spread it across multiple clouds and serve from all clouds with a solution like this. it’s always that sort of edge case where it’s sort of the rubber meets the road and you run into these weird things trying to serve from multi-cloud. But this is a big step towards that. I’m sure there’s other edge cases that I’m not thinking about. I know there’s a ton of operability concerns, but this is kind of neat.”
30:13 Announcing quantum-safe digital signatures in Cloud KMS
33:04 Justin – “They implemented hybrid plus quantum key exchange that provides traditional and quantum resistant algorithms, and they provided protection against both current threats and potential future quantum computer-based attacks. And then it goes on to talk about the implementation use of Kyber. And I do remember us talking about Kyber because I think we talked, we talked about Kyber crystals at one point. Yeah. So we did talk about this at one point. So yes, you’re good already. So yes, Google is coming in either, maybe behind Azure. I don’t know. I don’t know if they have anything.”
34:47 Introducing A4X VMs powered by NVIDIA GB200 — now in preview
36:07 Justin – “So basically, if you need big, expensive hardware, use the A4X. And if you want to do some inference and basic things, you have a model you’re already happy with, the A4 VM is probably the right choice for you.”
37:40 We’re launching a new AI system for scientists
38:02 Ryan – “That’s wild – it’s such a specific use case!”
39:59 Announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic’s first hybrid reasoning model, is available on Vertex AI
Azure
41:33 Microsoft quantum breakthrough promises to usher in the next era of computing in ‘years, not decades’
42:37 Ryan – “Wow. I mean, that last bullet point is what my head explodes. Like I know I don’t understand quantum computers and I, you know, like from any kind of way. Now, you know, they’re introducing new states of matter, like in order to power some of those things, it’s gonna, it just feels like tomorrow world is gonna be completely unrecognizable.”
45:28 Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing
47:52 Microsoft’s new AI agent can control software and robots
49:30 Justin – “Well, good, I look forward to our future robot overlords.”
49:36 Introducing Azure AI Foundry Labs: A hub for the latest AI research and experiments at Microsoft
50:55 Ryan – “I mean, I can’t agree more with the speed of innovations blinding. You know, we started this podcast to keep up with cloud news as the hyperscalers got to a certain scale where they were announcing enough stuff that we couldn’t keep up to date. Now I feel even with this, it’s, I really struggle to, you know, understand half of these use cases and how it’s applied and the whole thing. Like it’s crazy to me how fast things are moving.”
51:46 A new level unlocked
Aftershow
1:03:02 Amazon Paid $1 Billion for Control of Bond Franchise
Closing
And that is the week in the cloud! Visit our website, the home of the Cloud Pod where you can join our newsletter, slack team, send feedback or ask questions at theCloud Pod.net or tweet at us with hashtag #theCloudPod