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AI Daily News 2026/1/19

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Today’s Summary

Colossus 2 Supercomputer: 1GW Online for Grok Training
VerseCrafter Uses 3D Gaussian Trajectories for 4D Video Generation
Sequoia: AGI Is Here, Agent Completed Hiring in 31 Mins
Google Engineer Warns AI: Junior Dev Jobs Down 9%
Open Source Hot Picks: Nautilus Trader & Langextract

Product & Feature Updates

1. Musk’s Colossus 2 Officially Online. Musk’s Colossus 2, the world’s first GW-class supercomputing cluster, has officially launched! 🚀 This “city-scale” computing factory in Memphis boasts a colossal 1GW of power, matching a nuclear power plant. Musk revealed plans to ramp it up to 1.5GW by April, eventually hitting 2GW. 💪 A Full Report (AI News) indicates all this raw power will be dedicated to training Grok, laying the groundwork for the rumored 6-trillion-parameter Grok 5. 🧠

2. VerseCrafter Achieves Precise 4D Control. VerseCrafter, a new Video World Model (AI News) released by Fudan University and Tencent ARC Lab, can precisely control both camera movement and multiple object 3D trajectories in 4D! 🎬 It uses 3D Gaussian trajectories to encode object motion, coupled with a frozen Wan2.1 backbone network, achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) results. The team also meticulously built the VerseControl4D dataset with a whopping 35,000 training segments. 🔥

Cutting-Edge Research

1. Sequoia Partners Declare AGI Is Here. Sequoia partners Pat Grady and Sonya Huang have dropped a bombshell, declaring AGI has arrived! 💡 They define AGI as “the ability to figure things out,” and say Long-Cycle Agents (AI News) already have it. For instance, one agent blitzed through a complete hiring process in just 31 minutes! 💨 If the current doubling curve holds (every 7 months), they project agents could tackle an expert’s full day of work by 2028. 🚀
   
   

Industry Outlook & Social Impact

1. Google Engineer Drops 5 Harsh Truths. Google engineer Addy Osmani has sparked a debate, publishing a piece that dives into the Future of Software Engineering (AI News) . 🔥 A Harvard study points to a harsh reality: junior developer employment has slumped by 9% since companies started adopting generative AI, and new grad hiring at big tech has been halved in three years. 📉 Osmani advises junior devs to prove their “self + AI” combo can go head-to-head with a small team, while senior devs need to step up as system orchestrators. 💡

2. US Residents Face Potential Blackouts Due to Data Centers. Hold up, US residents! You might be facing rotating power outages this summer. ⚡ According to the Wall Street Journal (AI News) , grid operator PJM is forecasting blackouts, all because data center demand is spiking by 4.8% annually and new power plants can’t keep up. 🥵 Naturally, giants like Amazon and Google are pushing back hard against proposed power limits, calling them “discriminatory.” 🙅‍♀️ Meanwhile, xAI has already proactively deployed 168 Tesla Megapacks to cushion its power consumption. Smart move! 🔋

Top Open Source Projects

1. nautilus_trader: High-Performance Trading Platform. nautilus_trader is an event-driven Algorithmic Trading & Backtesting System (AI News) that’s currently rocking 17.3k stars! ⭐ It’s a perfect fit for quantitative trading developers looking for speed and precision. 🚀

2. langextract: Structured Information Extraction Library. langextract, Google’s open-source Python Library (AI News) , leverages LLMs to pull structured data right out of unstructured text. 🤯 It boasts precise source attribution and interactive visualization, racking up an impressive 21.8k stars! 🔥

3. VoxCPM: Tokenizer-Free Speech Synthesis. OpenBMB’s VoxCPM is a Speech Generation Model (AI News) that rocks context-aware synthesis and incredibly realistic voice cloning! 🗣️ It’s already garnered 3.9k stars for its amazing capabilities. ✨

4. LEANN: RAG for Everything (On Your Device!). LEANN lets you run Private RAG Applications (AI News) right on your personal device! 🤯 It’s super-efficient, saving a massive 97% storage, and it’s both fast and accurate. No wonder it’s got 8.8k stars! ✨

5. cupp: User Password Profiling Tool. cupp is a classic Password Dictionary Generator (AI News) – a must-have for any security researcher! 🔒 It’s still highly relevant and boasts 5.4k stars. ⭐

Social Media Shares

1. Baoyu on the Dividends & Barriers of Skills. Baoyu Tweets (AI News) a sharp analysis of AI’s three developmental stages: Prompt → Context Engineering → Skills. 📈 He argues that while skills offer short-term dividends, they also create long-term barriers – but the real barrier, he emphasizes, lies in accumulated capability, not the skill’s form itself. 🧠

2. wwwgoubuli Awaits Knowledge-Ability Separation. A tweet (AI News) from wwwgoubuli suggests the current coding boom is fundamentally about “memorizing code.” 🤖 They’re eagerly anticipating a further separation of knowledge and ability by 2026, hinting that Deepseek might be the one to kick it off! 🚀

3. Mickey Mai Deciphers Lovart’s Promo Psychology. Mickey Mai, in a Jike Post (AI News) , meticulously dissects the psychology behind Lovart’s promo pop-up designs. 🤔 He breaks down key tactics like loss aversion, urgency, the reciprocity principle, and the Von Restorff effect. It’s a masterclass, seriously – a “commercialization textbook” in itself! 📚🔥

4. Xiangyang Qiaomu Shares Writing Style Extraction Method. Xiangyang Qiaomu dropped a gem in a tweet (AI News) , revealing a cool method for extracting DAN KOE’s writing style. ✍️ The trick: copy multiple articles, let AI summarize them, then generate writing prompts, and keep testing and optimizing! 🧪 It’s a continuous improvement loop! 🚀

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