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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.
Nvidia Touts Next Generation GPU Superchip and New Photonic Switches
March 18th, 2025
Nvidia used its GTC conference today to introduce new GPU superchips, including the second generation of its current Grace Blackwell chip, as well as the next generation, dubbed the Vera Rubin. Jensen Huang, the company’s founder and CEO, also ...
VAST Fleshes Out Data Platform for Enterprise RAG Use Cases
March 14th, 2025
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 ...
When Will Large Vision Models Have Their ChatGPT Moment?
February 26th, 2025
The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 was a watershed moment in natural language processing (NLP), as it showcased the startling effectiveness of the transformer architecture for understanding and generating textual data. Now we’re seeing something similar happening in ...
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 ...
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