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Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.
Graphing Biodiversity to Improve Drug Discovery
February 19th, 2025
Most pharmaceuticals are naturally occurring, either directly or indirectly. Yet when it comes to cataloging all of the proteins and enzymes that have evolved on Earth over the past 4 billion years, human knowledge barely scratches the surface. That’s ...
What Are Reasoning Models and Why You Should Care
February 5th, 2025
The meteoric rise of DeepSeek R-1 has put the spotlight on an emerging type of AI model called a reasoning model. As generative AI applications move beyond conversational interfaces, reasoning models are likely to grow in capability and use, ...
AI Lessons Learned from DeepSeek’s Meteoric Rise
January 30th, 2025
The AI world is still buzzing from last week’s debut of DeepSeek’s reasoning model, which demonstrates category-leading performance at a bargain-basement price. While the details of the Chinese AI developers’ approach are still being confirmed, observers have already taken ...
Trump Rescinds Biden’s AI Order, Announces $500B Investment in AI Infrastructure
January 22nd, 2025
President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders during his first day in office, including one that rescinded his predecessor’s order addressing AI risk. The new president indicated he viewed the old order as unnecessarily stifling an emerging ...
Developing a Trust Layer for AI Systems
January 8th, 2025
Despite the hype around generative AI, studies show just a fraction of GenAI projects have made it into production. A big reason for this shortfall is the concern organizations have about the tendency for large language models (LLMs) to ...
Nvidia Touts Lower ‘Time-to-First-Train’ with DGX Cloud on AWS
December 16th, 2024
Customers have a lot of options when it comes to building their generative AI stacks to train, fine-tune, and run AI models. In some cases, the number of options may be overwhelming. To help simplify the decision-making and reduce ...
Amazon Taps Automated Reasoning to Safeguard Critical AI Systems
December 6th, 2024
Amazon is implementing AI aggressively across its business in a bid to improve operational efficiency, delight customers, and ultimately make money. But adopting probabilistic systems that don’t always behave as expected and are prone to hallucinations also comes with ...
Building Your GenAI Dream Team
November 28th, 2024
So the decision has been made to upgrade your business using generative AI technology. Great! But now comes the hard part: Figuring out how to transform that aspiration into action, and it all starts with people. The first move ...
MinIO Pivots to AI with Launch of AIStore
November 14th, 2024
MinIO is one of the most popular open-source S3-compatible object storage systems in the world. Thanks to its combination of performance and simplicity, it’s been adopted to store data for a wide range of applications. But with the rapid ...
WEKA Keeps GPUs Fed with Speedy New Appliances
November 6th, 2024
GPUs have an insatiable desire for data, and keeping those processors fed can be a challenge. That’s one of the big reasons that WEKA launched a new line of data storage appliances last week that can move data at ...
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