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Microsoft-Backed Fastino Launches with $7M to Power GPU-Less AI Models
November 12th, 2024 Comments Off on Microsoft-Backed Fastino Launches with $7M to Power GPU-Less AI Models
Fastino, a new foundation model provider, emerged from stealth today with a $7 million pre-seed funding round. The company says it offers a family of task-optimized language models that are more accurate, faster, and safer than traditional LLMs. Fastino ...
Claude AI Creator Anthropic Might Gain Amazon’s Backing Again—If It Embraces AWS Hardware
November 8th, 2024 Comments Off on Claude AI Creator Anthropic Might Gain Amazon’s Backing Again—If It Embraces AWS Hardware
Amazon is rumored to be negotiating a second multibillion-dollar investment deal with AI startup Anthropic, the maker of the Claude family of LLMs and a rival to OpenAI. Amazon previously invested $2.75 billion in the startup in March, adding ...
NCSA Director Gropp on ‘Different Approaches to AI’
November 5th, 2024 Comments Off on NCSA Director Gropp on ‘Different Approaches to AI’
Editor's Note: In this insightful commentary, Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), explores the unique trajectories of AI research within academic and commercial realms. Gropp delves into the differing motivations and methodologies of these ...
Sam Altman Says No GPT-5 This Year in Reddit AMA
October 31st, 2024 Comments Off on Sam Altman Says No GPT-5 This Year in Reddit AMA
A small team of OpenAI executives participated in an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit today. The company’s CEO Sam Altman and CPO Kevin Weil most frequently replied to Reddit users’ questions, with others answering as well. OpenAI's ...
UT San Antonio Secures $4 Million NSF Grant for Neuromorphic Computing Project
October 31st, 2024 Comments Off on UT San Antonio Secures $4 Million NSF Grant for Neuromorphic Computing Project
The MATRIX AI Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced this week it received a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund “The Neuromorphic Commons (THOR)” project. The THOR project is a ...
Report from HALO Details Issues Facing HPC-AI Industry
October 29th, 2024 Comments Off on Report from HALO Details Issues Facing HPC-AI Industry
Intersect360 Research has released a comprehensive new report concerning the challenges facing the combined fields of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). Titled “Issues Facing the HPC-AI Industry: Insights from the Advisory Committees of the HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO),” ...
SCIDS: UC San Diego’s New Hub for Data Science and AI
October 25th, 2024 Comments Off on SCIDS: UC San Diego’s New Hub for Data Science and AI
UC San Diego has taken a bold step to meet the growing demand for skills in artificial intelligence and data science. The university’s new School of Computing, Information, and Data Sciences (SCIDS) unites the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) ...
Spotting AI Hallucinations: MIT’s SymGen Speeds Up LLM Output Validation
October 23rd, 2024 Comments Off on Spotting AI Hallucinations: MIT’s SymGen Speeds Up LLM Output Validation
Imagine if your LLM could not only provide answers but also show you exactly where those answers came from—like a scholar meticulously citing sources. A new validation tool created at MIT aims to do just that, giving human validators ...
Nvidia’s Newest Foundation Model Can Actually Spell ‘Strawberry’
October 21st, 2024 Comments Off on Nvidia’s Newest Foundation Model Can Actually Spell ‘Strawberry’
A new AI model from Nvidia knows just how many R’s are in the word strawberry, a feat that OpenAI’s GPT-4o model has yet to achieve. In what is known as the "strawberry problem," GPT-4o and a few other ...
Nvidia’s Blackwell Platform Powers AI Progress in Open Compute Project
October 15th, 2024 Comments Off on Nvidia’s Blackwell Platform Powers AI Progress in Open Compute Project
Nvidia announced it has contributed foundational elements of its Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project (OCP). Shared at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose today, Nvidia said that key portions of the design of ...