Why can some messages be compressed while others cannot? This video explores Huffman coding and Shannon’s concept of entropy, showing how probability and information theory determine the ultimate ...

Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab ...

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OpenAI has officially launched its new GPT 5.4 model, which combines advanced reasoning, coding capabilities, and improved task performance into a single flagship model. Alongside the standard model, ...

Google has published TurboQuant, a KV cache compression algorithm that cuts LLM memory usage by 6x with zero accuracy loss, ...