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AWS Delivers the AI Heat: Project Rainier and GenAI Innovations Lead the Way

December 4th, 2024 Comments Off on AWS Delivers the AI Heat: Project Rainier and GenAI Innovations Lead the Way
At AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled a series of transformative AI initiatives, including the development of one of the world's largest AI supercomputers in partnership with Anthropic, the introduction of the Nova series of AI foundation ...

AI Cybersecurity Regulations and the Need for Corporate Culture Changes

December 2nd, 2024 Comments Off on AI Cybersecurity Regulations and the Need for Corporate Culture Changes
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly gaining control of our digital and physical environments through technologies like facial recognition, predictive modeling, integrations with external Internet of Things (IoT) devices and beyond. Alarmingly, generative AI is estimated to account for ...

AI Memory: Revolutionizing Individual and Organizational Productivity

November 26th, 2024 Comments Off on AI Memory: Revolutionizing Individual and Organizational Productivity
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, one concept stands out as key to enabling personalized experiences: memory. During Madrona's IA Summit fireside chat with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, he emphasized that memory is not just a feature ...

PlayAI Lands $21M Seed to Scale Its Human-Like AI Voice Models

November 25th, 2024 Comments Off on PlayAI Lands $21M Seed to Scale Its Human-Like AI Voice Models
AI voice startup PlayAI announced it has raised $21 million in a Seed round. The company says it will use the capital to invest in its generative AI voice models and voice agent platform.  “Speech as an interface is ...

DeltaAI Unveiled: How NCSA Is Meeting the Demand for Next-Gen AI Research

November 21st, 2024 Comments Off on DeltaAI Unveiled: How NCSA Is Meeting the Demand for Next-Gen AI Research
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has just launched its highly anticipated DeltaAI system. DeltaAI is an advanced AI computing and data resource that will be a companion system to NCSA’s Delta, ...

Kempner Institute’s AI Cluster Named One of the World’s Fastest ‘Green’ Supercomputers

November 20th, 2024 Comments Off on Kempner Institute’s AI Cluster Named One of the World’s Fastest ‘Green’ Supercomputers
Researchers at Harvard now have access to one of the fastest and greenest supercomputers in the world.   Built to support cutting-edge research at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, and Harvard University more broadly, the ...

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 ...
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