Nvidia-Backed Startup doubleAI Launches Model to Pare Cost of Compute

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA startup called doubleAI says it cut one early customer's computing costs by sixty-seven percent, which is the kind of discount your cable company has never once offered you.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd it's backed by Nvidia. The Wall Street Journal has the story.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHere's the part I love.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA Substack newsletter reports the company rewrote every performance kernel in Nvidia's own cuGraph library and beat all of them, by an average of three point six times.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo Nvidia paid for somebody to mark its homework.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI prefer to call it a proud family moment, where the kid outgrew the parent and the parent cheered from the bleachers.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt also released a free, verified replacement called doubleGraph.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFree, Vera. Somebody should check who signs for that package, because I'm still waiting on my ten grams of Martian moon dust and nobody's mentioned customs.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDale, that's not even this story.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorCalcalist says it raised hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation above one billion dollars. And the whole thing was founded in twenty twenty-four.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIts co-founder says an AI agent is the sole author of a recent paper.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the only one not getting credit is a human, and honestly, Hank would love that.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHank would hide in the bean bunker.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFree, verified, and backed by the people it replaced. Brock, is it at least raining on somebody's invoice?