Maths

[chris macrae]

1 Jan 2026 - Mathematicians welcome AI's 2nd quarterof century. Whilst the need for machines to map earth's science goes back to einstein's 1905 publshication of hypothesis  e-mcsquared, expoentail leaps in ai practice had to wait to first quarter of 2st C.

For matematicains who see ai as offereing machines with a billi0on ti9mes more mathematical brainpower than separate human mindfs, the demonsytration of this type of accelerated computing machine did not happen to 2015- nvidia delivering first practice macine to elon musk, In fact by end of 2009, several clusters of geniuses had convinced the hunang family to gift stanfoir engineering quad - the deep learning lab.

Huang/nvidia had started experimenting with accelerated comouting architectire in 1993. Only gamers had been interested until steve jobs joined jensen haung in coding pixels (instead of just binary). This boosted gamers and renderers capabilities- and more than this soon proved to be what radiologists needed to leap forward in maths paptern anaylsis of mri data, We can identify 4 movements by end of 2000s who had all visited stanford emergence as ai valley not just silicon valley:

Antine connected with jensen

Anyone connected with Demis Hassabis- after gradiuating Cambridge computer science early 1990s he had been europe's deepest experimenter in games; by early 200s he was taking a doctorate in neuroscience at imperial; he became the first person to see that games  & radilogists meant trhat pixel coders could likely solve all einstein life science challenges

fei fei lihad arrived in new jersey not speaking english at age of 15 but nurtured by her high school maths teacher to get scholarship to read physics at princeton graduating circa 2002 she decided that computational neuroscience was a subject whose time had come; oddly text books on machine learning edited by psychologists more or less excluded computational engineers; conversely the one algorithm group canad'as hinton with NYU's Lecun had not really got furtehr than   showing that zipcodes and cheque signatiures could be automated; it was lefyt to fei-fei li's phd to suggest that ai could only breakthrough in mchine vision if it was alowed to train on a database with 20 million imaged; by 2009 stanfird had headhunted her to run annual competition imagenet to prove her hypothesis; it was the 2012 running of imagenet where algorithm teams with laest nvidia computer broke through- from then on pretty much all silicon money becme ai money;

these dates seem relevant

2012 silicon valley ready to bet future on ai; google mking the biggest first bet with hassabis deep mind

2015 nvidia first serous brain machine deleivered to elon musk founded open ai

2018 fei-fei li now with ai-fir-all platfprm co-finded by nvidia testified to congress that every places future needed natioanl ai resoiurces- ai's 2nd quarter of 21st C opens with at least 30 nations mobilising ai as theire peoples futures

we are tracking a prticula listy which started adipting jensen huangs mapping of data sovereinty around the world beyond west coast usa and china mainland

A1 India where modi had asked jense to start training the cabinet

A2 japan where as of 2019 nvidia softbank and arm were all brainstorming the 2020s; covid soon tore their expecetd partnership apart - so today japankorea-taiwan is a potentail data sov corridor (to apec)- this corridor is also linked to uk as a foirce for ai not just because deep mind continues bu=oth tiring and crock-watson coding but because : king charles launch of ai world summit went to korea (then to France and india); Charles rapport with ja[pan emepror makes both countries twins in commonwealth ai; taiwan tech's godgfather was hiumself inspired as a 1930s graduate reseracher at cambridge Caviendish lab

A3 while taiwan hk singapore is another asiancorridor with an asean focus

A4 asia'4th data soverign corrodor connects saudi and uae; it may do a lot more if imec becaome s digital ai trade corridor connecting overland arabis to ports in all 3 seas (me, seas south ou suez, sea east of hgulf); even if the euro link doesn happen - each of uae countries investin in ai sciences; saudi noow has the most economic energy and water suppliesd and aims to soon be a popular as any uae country to tourists; intetesringly the 2020s 3 expos - were abu dhabi-osaka-saudi

E1 UK

E2 Euronorth

E3 French connections 

E4 German connections which probably include itu switerland and austria

in eupoe it looks as if all of france generany, nordica countries including netwherland have broken free of eu regualte before engineers experiment; how biggest nvidia supercomputer clusets out of tehse 3 polaces or reconnecting contiemtal  eupopes future is fascinating but also scary given the russian situation

X1 we watch elon musk wherever he is as both jensens foirst cluster user and one sharing jensens interests in humanoids and autnonomous mobile and leading space among private invetsors

Ix2 nside USa;

x3 Inside China;  x4 scsp worldiwde mediator or separatist