This week in the tech world, Mark Zuckerberg shared his thoughts on Apple Vision Pro in a video recorded from Meta's Quest 3. In other technology advancements, NVIDIA has released its own AI chatbot app titled Chat with RTX.
Elsewhere, Intuitive Machines gears up for the first-ever commercial moon landing, and a judge orders Elon Musk to testify in the SEC's Twitter/X investigation.
Below, Hypebeast has compiled this week's top technology articles to help you stay on top of the latest trends in the industry.
NVIDIA's AI chatbot examines your files and answers your questions
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NVIDIA has released its own generative AI demo app. This platform, called Chat with RTX, allows users to customize their own LLM.
According to NVIDIA, users can “query custom chatbots to quickly get contextually relevant answers.” Chat with RTX runs locally on the user's girlfriend's PC. This means it can comb through all the documents, apps, and files on your computer.
The only requirements for the app? A Windows 11 or newer operating system and at least 16 GB of storage.
Intuitive Machines is currently preparing for the first commercial moon landing
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Following Astrobotic's failed moon landing last month, Houston-based startup Intuitive Machines is preparing to make the first commercial space landing.
Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission is scheduled to begin this week and aims to deliver the Odysseus lander to the moon via a SpaceX Falcon 9.
If all goes according to plan, Intuitive Machines will make history as the first commercial space landing on the moon, and America's first soft landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.
US judge orders Elon Musk to testify in SEC Twitter probe
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Elon Musk has been ordered to testify as part of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into his 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now known as X).
A US judge has upheld a December 2023 ruling ordering Musk to be interviewed as part of the investigation. Musk appealed the order at the time, claiming he was being harassed by the SEC.
Mark Zuckerberg shares hands-on review of Apple Vision Pro
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Mark Zuckerberg posted a hands-on review of the Apple Vision Pro headset on Instagram. Zuckerberg praised Apple's eye-tracking technology and high-resolution screen, but Meta's Quest 3 seems to have won him over.
“I finally tried Apple's Vision Pro,” Zuckerberg said in the Quest 3 video recording. “And up until now, we expected that Quest would be a better value for most people because it's so much better and it's one-seventh the price, but when you use it, I don't just think Quest is a better value; I think Quest has a better product life.”
He finds the Quest 3 headset more comfortable. It also has a brighter screen with a wider field of view and a larger content library.
