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A European Startup and Microsoft have allied to overcome a major challenge: simulate brain reasoning

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Simulate the human brain It is one of the great scientific challenges of our time. It is not just a matter of calculation power: for years, laboratories around the world have invested millions in trying to replicate their operation, but even with advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing, the goal is still far away. Why is it so difficult? Because the brain is not only an information processor, but an ultra -efficient system of just 1.4 kg with more than 86,000 million interconnected neurons. Imitating their cognitive, emotional and linguistic abilities remains a border that we have not yet crossed, although some believe we are close. INAIT simulation technology and Microsoft’s computational power Inait, a Swiss startup founded in 2018 under the premise that “the only proven form of intelligence is in the brain”, has closed an alliance with Microsoft to develop models of the capable of simulating The reasoning of mammals. Their objective is to apply them in sectors such as finance, risk management and personalized advice. In theory, everything fits perfectly. Inait says having a simulation technology based on decades of research financed by the Swiss government, and Microsoft puts on the table the infrastructure and the business model necessary to transform this commitment into products ready to reach millions of customers worldwide. But the idea is not to develop human brains simulations with all its faculties overnight. Inait is training Digital models of different sizesdesigned to address specific challenges. For example, for advanced trading or the development of industrial machines capable of adapting to complex and dynamic environments. Digital visualization of a region of the Neocortex and the thalamus, including its network of blood vessels. Here the advantage is clear: take advantage of one of the most amazing faculties of the brain, which is its ability to face completely new scenarios and adapt quickly and continuously using previous knowledge. Even when it comes to sensory, emotional or social stimuli never before experienced. According to Financial TimesAdir Ron, director of AI and Cloud of Microsoft for emerging companies, highlighted the approach of the Swiss startup: “Inait is a pioneer in a new AI paradigm: it goes beyond traditional models based on data towards digital brains capable of a True cognition” For his part, Henry Markram, co -founder of INAIT, said that AI models based on brain simulations could not only learn much faster than current deep reinforcement systems, but also have significantly lower energy consumption. This would mean a key advantage in terms of efficiency and sustainability. Now we only have to wait to see if this vision translates into tangible advances or if, like so many other technological promises, You can’t advance enough. The possibility of building AI models that imitate the learning and adaptability of the human brain is a monumental challenge, but also an extremely interesting goal. Images | Milad Fakurian In Xataka | We already know at what speed our brain processes: just 10 bits per second In Xataka | Figure creates a system to make large -scale humanoid robots. And of course, there will be robots manufacturing robots

Openai has just signed a contract of 11.9 billion dollars, according to Reuters. It’s a poisoned dart for Microsoft

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The idyll between OpenAI with Microsoft It seems to be a thing of the past. Both companies have been preparing their respective future strategies for months, and it seems clear that in both cases the objective is the same: cut that relationship and independent of each other. Openai ends up announcing something key to achieve it. He has thrown new girlfriend, could be said. Who is Coreweave. Coreweave is a startup in which Nvidia has 6% participation. The company has a compound infrastructure (at the end of 2024) by 32 data centers with about 250,000 graphics cards of NVIDIA. Now he added more, including the new GPUS with Blackwell architecture, and thanks to that he can offer training and inference services for AI models. They started with crypts. The company is an example of the conversion, because when it was founded in 2017, Coreweave (then called Atlantic Crypto) was dedicated to Ethereum mining with GPUS. After the value fall in cryptocurrencies in 2018 they ended up changing their name and focus a year later. OpenAI signs an agreement with Coreweave. According to Reuters These two companies have reached an agreement worth 11.9 billion that will last five years. OpenAI will receive $ 350 million from Coreweave shares, and while Coreweave earns a spectacular customer for his future. And above all, in the face of his future public offer of actions. An impulse for your OPA. Coreweave is about to go overand intends to lift at least 4,000 million dollars. In 2024 they had revenues of 1.9 billion dollars, almost eight times more than in 2023, when 228.9 million dollars entered. Which is also double. The problem that Coreweave had is that they depended almost on a single client, Microsoft, which was responsible for 62% of that income. It also has as clients Cohere, goal and mystral, but with less prominence. Openai alliance is especially important to encourage investors to trust their future and in success of that IPO. Microsoft and OpenAi go to yours. In the announcement of the Stargate project it was clear that Microsoft would cease to be the only opening infrastructure provider of OpenAI. Meanwhile, Microsoft works In its own reasoning models to compete with those of OpenAI or Deepseek R1, for example, that effort is added to the development of the models Like Phi 4. A Plan B for Azure or AWS. OpenAI seems determined to avoid as much as possible to large cloud infrastructure suppliers such as Microsoft with Azure or Amazon with AWS. His alliance with Coreweaver is especially significant, especially since it implies another evidence that the alliance with Microsoft seems definitely condemned. Image | Techcrunch | Coreweave In Xataka | Manus is the new sensation of China after Deepseek. Is generating as many expectations as doubts

Microsoft will invest another 2.9 billion euros in a new installation in Zaragoza

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Microsoft sends more in Aragon. In October 2023 he announced that would build a megacampus with data centers In that region, and now this bet has been reaffirmed, because the Redmond company will increase the initial investment significantly. 2.9 billion more. As indicated In the worldthe president of the Government of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, advertisement Last Friday that Microsoft would expand its previous investment in 2.9 billion euros. The project consists in the creation of a new data center near Zaragoza. 59 hectares for the new campus.Este nuevo centro de datos ocupará 59 hectáreas en la zona de Puerto Venecia, en Zaragoza. It is expected to begin to develop in 2026 with an initial investment of 582 million euros for three years – the cost of building it, they point out In El Heraldo– And the rest of the phases for 2.3 billion more, to be executed in the next 10 years. 10,000 million in total. That makes the figure invested by Microsoft in Aragon already reach 10,000 million euros, a spectacular amount that yes, will benefit from a reduction in fiscal charges. The fourth data center in this region will be added to those already planned in the Recycling Technology Park (63 hectares), Industrial Polygon Centrovía de la Muela (147 hectares) or in Villamayor de Gállego (87.4 hectares). These three centers have a joint investment of 6,600 million euros in the next 10 years. More jobs. The construction phase will allow to create between 1,000 and 2,000 new jobs, and the project expects to be completed in ten years and creates 300 jobs. If the rest of the planned data centers are included for the region, there will be between 900 and 1,200 jobs in total. Economic impact. This last data center will make the impact for Aragon GDP estimated at 2,685 million euros between 2026 and 2030. Aragon is becoming a true nerve point for the technological industry, and in May 2024 already announced a technology park of 42 hectares next to the Ebro River Campus of the University of Zaragoza. Amazon is also installed in Aragon. Amazon was the first to want to create new data centers in Arat what. As indicated In the avant -gardelast year confirmed an investment of 15.7 billion for the construction of four centers (the Burgo de Ebro, Villanueva de Gállego, Huesca and Empresarium). Goal also seems have raised A data center in the region, although this project has not been confirmed at the moment. They will need a lot of energy. These great projects are also generating doubts about how the region will face the enormous energy consumption of these centers. Azcón indicated that the government should continue to invest in infrastructure and in the energy transport network to favor these Big Tech investments, but the truth is that these centers will consume more energy than the entire community. Aragon generates a lot of renewable energybut it is also that the demand imposed by these new centers probably put that supply in trouble: only AWS will duplicate The electrical consumption of Aragon, and Microsoft will further aggravate the problem. And a lot of water. Not only is the energy problem, but that of water. It is true that large technology companies are developing promising cooling systems For data centers, but the requirement is clear. Amazon already estimated that he would need 750,000 cubic meters of water a year, but most would return to the network after fulfilling his target as a refrigerant. We have no data on how Microsoft raises dealing with these needs in Aragon. The unique provision of Aragon to host these investments contrasts with that of Lleida, which vetoed these types of facilities in January 2025. Image | Microsoft In Xataka | 30,000 jobs and many doubts. What do we know (and what is not) of the “Data Valley” Valencian

Skype had everything to master the video calls. Now Microsoft has just put a death date

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It has been Xda Developers who advanced the news that Microsoft has just confirmed publicly: Skype is going to be closed forever. It will happen in May, when they put the final brush to a story that could be very different and that will now be an inherited inherited by Teams, the company’s right eye for communications. It seemed a long time since Skype’s end was imminent. It was released in 2003 and Bought by Microsoft in 2011 for 8,500 million dollarsfigure that then seemed astronomical. Skype was a before and after. He turned the calls and long -distance video calls into something accessible to anyone with the Internet. It became the metonymy of video calls (“Do we make a skype?”), Something that very few products achieve. But Skype’s story is rather that of a wasted opportunity. He had everything to become a dominant platform: He arrived very soon to the market. He had a great adoption. He had a recognizable brand worldwide. And I had behind Microsoft’s resources. However, bad decisions and a lack of constant innovation allowed rivals such as Facetime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord or WhatsApp a toast. Seen in retrospect, Skype’s decline was not sudden, but gradual. In 2015 It was integrated in Windows 10but the experience was unnatural. For a long time, Microsoft maintained a strange duality between Skype and Skype for Business. The latter was replaced by Teams in 2019. Meanwhile, others advanced quickly. Zoom catapulted during the confinements of 2020 thanks to the juncture, but also thanks to simplify: he eliminated records of records and downloads. Facetime was completely integrated into the Apple ecosystem. And WhatsApp took advantage of its omnipresence and popularity to offer them as one more service. And meanwhile, Skype was stagnant in a cycle of redesign who never solved his main problems (Sometimes they magnified them): An inconsistent interface, performance problems and a confused user experience. Microsoft is not only killing Skype, it is redirecting its users towards Teamsincreasingly popular. Skype users can use their credentials to access Teams and there they will see their contacts and conversations. During the transition period, users of both platforms can communicate with each other. Then there will only be space for Teams. A bittersweet end. A closure that seems almost merciful. Skype lived in his own confusing identity. It remained as that application that we had installed “just in case” and that we do not remember the last time we used it despite the fact that at the time it played a fundamental role. Being able to see and talk to other people in other countries was revolutionary in the 2000s, Skype leaves A great cultural impact that is now transformed into archeology. As a final gift, a lesson leaves us: it does not matter if a platform is very established, it can become irrelevant if it does not evolve to the compass of the needs of its users. End of an era. Outstanding image | Xataka with Grok 3 In Xataka | Microsoft is very important that the agents of AI are the great ball of the year. And is being reorganized to achieve it

Its programming wizard offers much more free use than Microsoft

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If they asked us to name some programming assistants, Github co -ilot I would probably be on the list. This Microsoft product has gained notoriety for its ability to complete code, generate functions and make programming easier thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). However, Google has entered the game with an ambitious proposal, seeking to capture the attention of the developers. A generous free experience. Google seeks to stand out in the AI ​​race for programming reliefing user pocket. While Github Copilot offers 2,000 monthly consultations without cost, Gemini Code Assist It has set its limit in 180,000. That is, its free offer exceeds in more than 90 times the equivalent of the Redmond company, offering developers a negligible. Free levels, at some point non -existent, have become a key strategy to attract new users and familiarize them with a tool or service. It is an ancient tactic as computer science, where companies offer limited but functional versions of their software with the aim of generating adoption and, eventually, turning those users into payment customers. Copilot logo In the case of Gemini Code Assist, the free level limit may be sufficient to help some users complete their projects. “If you are a student with an urgent project, you will not see your coding project suddenly for reaching the limit,” says the company led by Lasting Pichai. A positive aspect is that you can start using it without registering a credit card and the limits are restarted every month. Gemini Code Assist en Action An integrated tool. There is a substantial difference between using a conventional chatbot such as Chatgpt for programming tasks and a dedicated tool. The main advantage in integration in development environments (IDE). Gemini Code Assist works both in Visual Studio Code and Jetbrains IDE, which allows users to complete code automatically while writing or working with functions. The Google wizard also has a chat window that offers up to 240 free daily applications and admits a context of up to 128,000 tokens, allowing you to work with large files and optimize the understanding of the local code. In addition, Gemini Code Assist is integrated into Github, where you automatically check requests for changes, detect errors and suggests intelligent improvements. Programming without ia is increasingly rare. A few days ago we pointed out As several experts assured that the new generations of developers do not know how to program if it is not with ia. They entered this world using this type of tools, so not having them can become a problem. Google itself accounts for this scenario and states that 25% of the entire code they create in the company is generated by AI. Images | Google In Xataka | There are too many AI models. That raises a true death sentence for Anthropic and Claude

I believed that the LSD would have improved Microsoft designs

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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs They were great rivals In the field of new technologies, but they also maintained a friendly relationship. Gates confessed in An interview with the British The Independent That Steve Jobs said that Gates should have taken LSD to improve the design of Microsoft products. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates’ personal and professional relationship It was never simple and fluctuated influenced by the enormous competitiveness of both founders and their vision of how technology should be. However, the Technological and Financial Context Of both companies forced both millionaires to maintain the equivalent of a “Roman Pax” in their personal relationships. After all, as Jobs explained in A joint interview In Conference D5 of 2007, They were travel companions In his technological adventure. Jobs’s trick to imagine impossible designs Among the many anecdotes that Microsoft’s founder reveals in his latest autobiographical book ‘Code Source: My beginnings‘, Gates remembers his specific flirting with the Cannabis and the consumption of LSD. “Because my personality is quite optimistic and I am willing to take risks, I tried many things. But something else about my personality is that I like my mind to work and it is very logical. So I stopped consuming marijuana at the beginning of my 20 years simply because it became careless, either during that same day or the next day, “Gates explained The Independent. Ignoring the consumption of marijuana from Gates during his youth, Steve Jobs assured that give free rein to creativity Gates with LSD would have helped improve the design of Microsoft products. “Steve Jobs once said that he would have liked me to take acid because then perhaps he would have had more pleasure in the design of my products,” Gates recalled. Gates’s response was to accept that Jobs had an innate talent For design, but He had other skills to which he had given free rein. “My answer to that was to say: ‘Look, I had the wrong lot.’ It touched the coding lot and this guy touched the marketing design lot, so well for him!”, Gates told Gates to British newspaper. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Hallucinogenic technology Steve Jobs confessed to more than one occasion that LSD had consumed in his youth, and attributed part of his creative vision in the design of Apple’s products to these experiences. Under his supervision, Apple managed to resurface his ashes with such iconic designs Like the IMACiPod, iPad and iPhone. On the other hand, Gates was known for his most conservative and analytical approach, which possibly led Jobs to comment on the need for Expand Gates’ perspective regarding design. However, as Gates stood out, Your approach The aesthetics of its products was not, but in its software. Hence Microsoft has become one of the main companies In computing in The cloud and iaand the productivity software with applications like Word has dominated for decades or Excel. “His talents and mine, apart from being a kind of energetic leader and going beyond the limits, did not overlap much. He did not know what a line of code meant, and his ability to think about design and marketing and marketing Things like this … I envy those skills. Gates has always been very interested in the uses of psychotropic substances and the effects on the brain, declaring an absolute fan of the book on psychedelic drugs ”How to change your mind ‘ by Michael Pollan and the possible Therapeutic uses of these substances. “The idea that some of these drugs that affect the mind can help with depression or the TOC seem fascinating. Of course, we have to be careful, and that is very different from recreational use,” said the millionaire. In his biography, the technological tycoon remembers one of those Experiences with hallucinogenic substances of which I did not keep the best of memories: “Part of the trip was stimulating, but I took the drug without realizing that I would continue to feel its effects the next morning, when I arrived at the orthodontist office for dental surgery that I had programmed from A long time ago, “Gates wrote. The millionaire remembered that: “I stared at my mouth open my doctor’s face, while his drill continued working, without being sure if what he was seeing and feeling really was happening.” Gates says he swore that, if he ever took acid again, he would not do it alone, above all, that he would not when he had plans for the next day, especially a visit to the dentist. In Xataka | Bill Gates is clear about what would be 20 years old and start again: a 100% startup dedicated to AI Image | Flickr (Joi Ito)

Microsoft will publish more in PlayStation than in Xbox

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Last week the PlayStation State of Play He had to speak: we could comment on the appearance of a lot of new franchises, which is what It really gives life to a system. Almost all of them multiplatform, by the way, what made fans comment that Xbox may have abandoned the fight to focus on taking games for all formats, but PlayStation does not lag behind in regard to feeding his Catalog of non-exclusive. Multiplatform for all. ‘Monster Hunter Wilds’, ‘Lost Soul Aside’, ‘Borderlands 4’, ‘Split fiction’, ‘Directive 8020’, ‘Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater’ or ‘Tides of Annihilation’ will arrive at least, at PC separately from PlayStation, and many of them also to Xbox. This is the reality to be used to: once the war of exclusive is almost closed, The multiplatform takes control. The industry is clearly evolving in that direction. The hardware, for the soils. Microsoft has been experiencing a vertiginous fall in hardware sales. His reaction has led him to develop a strategy that has made almost all his exclusive games also come out on PC (strategy imitated by PlayStation, whom a few years ago we would not have seen franchises such as ‘Spider-Man’ or ‘God of War’ in computers) and, later, also in PlayStation. Without a doubt, strange times for a crisis economy and scratching benefit anywhere. Microsoft will publish more in PlayStation than in Xbox. This He affirmed from his X Ryan McCaffrey accountIGN editor, and that perfectly summarizes the paradox of the time we live. In fact, significant Xbox brands, until now insepociable from the Microsoft and PC console, will appear on the PlayStation: ‘Forza Horizon 4’, ‘Age of Empires’, and also recent titles that, given its origin (Bethesda, company owned by Microsoft), logically it was thought that they had the possibility of staying in the Xbox ecosystem, such as the last ‘Indiana Jones’. And although they have not been announced, everything suggests that games that already start with multisystem wood, such as “ South of Midnight ‘,’ Avowed ‘and, perhaps,’ Fable ‘, end up in PlayStation. Logos is what is sought. In one Xboxera interviewPhil Spencer specified a detail about its passage to other consoles that is still a trifle, but it is tremendously significant: for a long time in the ads of its games, logos of other platforms appear in which the titles will also come out. Spencer says that “I think it’s simply honest and transparent about where games will be available. (…) If a game comes out in Nintendo Switch, we will say it. If it comes out in PlayStation or Steam, too. People must Know what platforms our games can find. ” The policy that now Xbox is not machines, but the screensat its maximum expression. Everything reaches the PC. Only the most blinded fandom by the need to take sides between one of the consoles can deny the obvious reality that the platform that all the releases arrive is the PC right now. Steam, the most popular PC store, makes very notable efforts to consolidate the experience of a game, and machines such as the Steam Deck They are both laptops to play, but also consoles without more complications. Header | Microsoft In Xataka | Microsoft bets everything to the cloud with Xbox. The next step is a nail in the coffin of the physical format

Microsoft has canceled the development of Military Hololens. Who takes over: the founder of Oculus

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It ran the years 2015-2017 when Microsoft began to invest in a big virtual and mixed. The Redmond company integrated this technology until the deepest in Windows 10 and promoted What Meta and Apple call “Metaverso” and “Spatial computing“, respectively. However, its proposal has been diluted over time and now the company has other open fronts: the AI ​​and the cloud. The Hololens 3 They were canceled in 2022 and the production of the Hololens 2 stopped at the end of last year. The question is what would happen to ivas (Integrated visual increase system) AKA The Hololens -based helmet that Microsoft was developing for the US army. Today, we finally have an answer: the project is in the hands of Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus Rift and Anduril. Context. The development of IVA dates from 2018 and, for the moment, has not left the test phase. It does not seem to be a simple project and has not been exempt from criticism. In fact, as soon as the projects of Hololens ask Microsoft to cancel the contract (valued at about 22,000 million dollars) because the product was going to “help people to kill.” Satya Nadella came out in defense of it, claiming that Microsoft “will not hide technology to the institutions that we have chosen in democracies to protect the freedoms we enjoy.” What is ivas? It’s a Hololens -based reality visor based on Hololens For military purposes. The idea is to improve the vision of soldiers by adding information layers superimposed on the image itself. For example, thermal vision, night vision, maps, routes, etc. Although at first it was intended only to infantry, later versions added the possibility of controlling drones and helicopters remotely. Its launch was scheduled for 2021, but different problems and delays have led the date to this year, 2025. We will see. Image | Microsoft Microsoft gets off the car … Despite the lucrative of the contract, the reality is that the Hololens project has been very deflated over time. So much so that in October last year Microsoft put an end to him. The company stopped producing the Hololens 2, but announced that it would support until 2027 and, here is the crumb, which remained “totally committed to the IVA program of the United States Department of Defense.” … And Palmer Luckey is uploaded. Microsoft He has just announced A collaboration agreement with Anduril Industries, the Palmer Luckey defense company, founder and creator of Oculus Rift. As Microsoft has detailed, the objective is to “boost the following phase of the IVAS Program of the United States Army.” Image | Microsoft The agreement is aware of the approval by the Department of Defense, but from now on “Anduril will assume the supervision of production, the future development of hardware and software, and delivery deadlines.” This agreement also establishes “Microsoft Azure as Anduril’s favorite hyperscale cloud for all IVA -related workloads and Anduril’s technologies.” The idea, of course, is to take advantage of the points where each company is strong. Anduril knows about defense and military requirements, while Microsoft has taken the opportunity to get chest from Azure (its cloud) and its artificial intelligence capabilities. Cover image | Microsoft In Xataka | The greats of AI are competing for a cake as juicy as dangerous: that of the military industry

Before, it cost $ 20 to be able to use O1. Microsoft has just offered it for free in co -dr

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Microsoft has given the surprise and offers Free and free access to the O1 reasoning model of OpenAi. Through Copilot. Until now, to access this option you had to pay the $ 20 per month of co -pilot pro or the same amount per chatgpt plus. If we wanted to use it unlimited, we had to pay the 200 dollars a month of Chatgpt Pro. Microsoft calls “Think Deper” to O1 in its services, but this is nothing more than the integration of the OpenAi model into the Redmond platform. Mustafa Suleyman, head of the AI ​​division in Microsoft, announced On Wednesday this change in the services offered by the company. This unique change is undoubtedly due to Deepseek-R1 arrivalwhich offers a fantastic alternative to O1. He does it so much on the web – Perplexity offers it in his “Labs” and He calls it “Sound Reasoning” – also being able to install it at home on our computer in one of its compact versions. Microsoft de fact presume that it can be used without problems on Copilot+PC. Such has been the interest in Depseek-R1 that Microsoft also announced this week that has integrated it as one of the models available in Azure Ai Foundry and Github so that companies and developers can take advantage of it. It is a logical movement on the one hand, but strange on the other: normally Microsoft takes longer to offer new models on its platform, but the popularity of Deepseek R1 has accelerated the deadlines remarkably. Of course this is good news for users, which You can enjoy free access to O1 / Think Deperwhich will further encourage competition between these reasoning models. In Xataka | Of algorithmic trader to revolutionize AI. This is the story of Liang Wenfeng, the founder of Deepseek

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