Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Thursday, March 20, 2025
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All eyes are on Nvidia this week as the chip manufacturer gears up for its biggest event of the year – the GPU Technical Conference (GTC). Starting this Monday in San Jose, CA, the week-long conference is highly anticipated. Investors, analysts, tech enthusiasts, and representatives from other leading companies are eagerly awaiting updates on Nvidia’s ... Full article
While subjects such as OpenAI, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek grab the headlines, practical applications are often subtle in their impact, take time to develop, and may get lost in the background noise. The examples provided below illustrate the growing importance of AI. They also show that human ingenuity, work, and time are required to develop important ... Full article
VAST Data is quietly assembling a single unified platform capable of handling a range of HPC, advanced analytics, and big data use cases. Today it unveiled a major update to its VAST Data Platform engine aimed at enabling enterprises to run retrieval augmented generation (RAG) AI workloads at exabyte scale. When solid state drives went ... Full article
Intel announced that its board of directors has appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a technology veteran with deep semiconductor industry experience, as chief executive officer, effective March 18. He succeeds Interim Co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle (MJ) Johnston Holthaus. Tan was previously on Intel’s board of directors (BOD) but stepped down in August of 2024, citing “This is a ... Full article
Retail is undergoing a massive transformation, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence. The convergence of generative AI and agentic AI is reshaping operations, enabling customized experiences, boosting productivity, and creating new revenue streams. Retailers are leveraging predictive and prescriptive AI to optimize inventory planning, enhance demand forecasting accuracy, intelligently manage inventory, and streamline supply chains. ... Full article
As Nvidia and its partners prepare for the upcoming GTC event, another AI infrastructure company, Cerebras Systems, is making strategic moves to expand its role in high-speed AI inference. This week, Cerebras announced two developments: a new partnership with Hugging Face to offer developers access to its inference platform, and the planned launch of six ... Full article
Microsoft, one of OpenAI’s most powerful backers, is reportedly building its own large language models (LLMs) to compete directly with the company it has invested billions in. Internally, these LLMS are being referred to as MAI, a name that could potentially stand for “Microsoft Artificial Intelligence.”  The initiative, first reported by The Information, indicates a ... Full article
CoreWeave, a cloud-based AI infrastructure company offering GPU cloud services to simplify AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, has deepened its foothold in the AI development space by reaching an agreement to acquire Weights & Biases. The acquisition, which is reported by The Information to be valued at $1.7 billion, strengthens CoreWeave’s position by integrating Weights ... Full article
This article was first published by Los Alamos National Laboratory and is reproduced here with permission. Neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence modeled on the connectivity of the human brain, are driving critical breakthroughs across a wide range of scientific domains. But these models face a significant threat from adversarial attacks, which can derail ... Full article
A little-known Chinese startup has created a new AI product that has gone viral. Feeling a sense of déjà vu? No, we are not talking about DeepSeek-R1, which caused major panic amongst the Western tech companies. This is a new AI agent named Manus, which is rapidly becoming the talk of the global AI community.  ... Full article
The conversation around AI governance has often been frustratingly vague. Organizations talk the talk about AI ethics and regulatory compliance, but when it comes to practical implementation, many are paralyzed by uncertainty. Governance, as it stands today, is often a high-level corporate directive rather than a concrete, practicable plan. What if AI governance wasn’t just ... Full article
In response to readers’ questions about AI, BigDATAwire asked me to write a series of columns on AI, a topic that is generating excitement and concern in the worldwide HPC community and beyond. The introductory column appeared in January. As I said in the intro column, the series doesn’t aim to be definitive. The goal is to lay ... Full article
AI cloud infrastructure provider Nebius is expanding its U.S. footprint with its first major datacenter in New Jersey, a facility designed to scale up to 300 MW of capacity. The Amsterdam-based company, which specializes in AI-optimized cloud computing, is making an aggressive push into the U.S. market, putting it in competition with other hyperscalers catering ... Full article
Damo Academy, Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, has launched its first server-grade central processing unit (CPU), according to a recent piece in the South China Morning Post.* Designed for server-level, high-performance computing (HPC), the new chip, C930, is the most recent addition to Alibaba’s XuanTie RISC-V processor series. At a Beijing conference on Friday, Damo revealed ... Full article
The economic impact of the recent Los Angeles wildfires is estimated to be between $95B and $164B, according to a report by UCLA Anderson. The wildfires caused more than 20,000 acres to be torched and forced the evacuation of over 150,000 people in the Los Angeles area. This makes it one of the costliest disasters ... Full article
The emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT ignited an AI race in late 2022, with tech giants scrambling to keep pace. Microsoft doubled down on its AI ambitions, Meta pushed its open-source approach, and Google has fought to reclaim its dominance. Now, Google appears ready to push the envelope even further.  In an internal memo first reported ... Full article
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SAN JOSE, Calif. and CAMPBELL, Calif., March 19, 2025 -- WEKA has announced it is integrating with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design and ...
Generative AI has only been a major player in the tech landscape for a few transformative years, yet its rapid adoption has made a ...
SAN JOSE, Dec. 23, 2024 -- Aporia, a cutting-edge platform for AI observability and guardrails, has been acquired by Coralogix, a data observability firm. ...
TAIPEI, Dec. 23, 2024 -- Zettabyte, a global leader in AI data center software and infrastructure solutions, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with ...
ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 23, 2024 -- New research commissioned by IBM found that companies surveyed are investing in AI for the long term, with a growing ...
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