Ep. 35
In today’s AI news, Raj asks what jobs could come with the planned five-gigawatt AI build in Sarawak, after SoftBank, Grab and PETROS signed a joint development agreement on Monday. We price the realistic routes in ringgit, from Sarawak’s own electrical competency certificates to free and paid data centre courses, for workers across Malaysia, including a forty-year-old admin manager.
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Also in this episode: Anthropic releases Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, faster and 20% cheaper, ahead of a listing aimed at the week of 16 November. That updates our 23 October and 7 November episodes, and Raj’s Claude Pro vote stands. Australia’s central bank says a data centre boom helped push its rates to 4.85%, while Bank Negara Malaysia held the OPR at 2.75%. And in a story we missed, Malaysia’s planned government cloud would bar AI training on citizens’ data without written permission, as 317 responses on the AI Governance Bill are reviewed. The Big Question asks whether Sarawak’s graduates should be trained to build Malaysian models or to run the world’s best.
Timestamps 0:04 Cold open: a job that doesn’t exist yet 0:36 Meet the hosts 1:10 Anthropic’s Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2: faster and cheaper 2:52 Data centres pushed Australia’s rates up; Bank Negara held 4:17 Government cloud: no AI training on citizens’ data without permission 5:32 A word from AI-YA 6:12 Sarawak’s AI campus: which jobs, and realistic routes in 11:06 The Big Question: train graduates to build our own models, or run the best? 12:11 The Verdict: Certified Data Centre Professional course 12:43 One thing to do today 13:11 Tomorrow: Made in Malaysia
Today’s Verdict: EPI Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) course (RM5,400 in a classroom, about RM3,630 online). Aiman: Bayar. Mei Ling: Hype. Raj: Free cukup.
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Standing thread: T1 Sovereignty.
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