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Kevin Jackson
Can Scale Become the ‘Data Foundry’ for AI?
May 29th, 2024
Scale AI, which provides data labeling and annotation software and services to organizations like OpenAI, Meta, and the Department of Defense, this week announced a $1-billion funding round at a valuation of nearly $14 billion, putting it in a ...
HPC Pioneer Gordon Bell Passed Away
May 24th, 2024
Legendary computer scientist Gordon Bell passed away last Friday at his home in Coronado, CA. He was 89. The New York Times has a nice tribute piece. A long-time pioneer with Digital Equipment Corp, he pushed hard for development of ...
Anthropic Breaks Open the Black Box
May 23rd, 2024
One of the largest hurdles to trustworthy and responsible AI is the concept of the black box, and Anthropic just took a big step towards opening that box. For the most part, humans aren’t able to understand how AI ...
Fujitsu Chosen For GENIAC Project To Enhance Reliability Of GenAI in Business Applications
May 23rd, 2024
Fujitsu, one of the leading technology and business solutions providers, has been chosen for the research and development project for the enhanced infrastructures for post-5G information and communication systems. This project is part of the Generative AI Accelerator Challenge ...
IBM Makes a Push Towards Open-Source Services, Announces New watsonx Updates
May 21st, 2024
Today, IBM declared that it is releasing a number of noteworthy changes to its watsonx platform, with the goal of increasing the openness, affordability, and flexibility of the platform’s AI capabilities. Announced during the Think 2024 conference – an ...
Core42 Is Building Its 172 Million-core AI Supercomputer in Texas
May 21st, 2024
UAE-based Core42 is building an AI supercomputer with 172 million cores which will become operational later this year. The system, Condor Galaxy 3, was announced earlier this year and will have 192 nodes with Cerebras WSE-3 chips. The WSE-3 megachip ...
Matillion Bringing AI to Data Pipelines
May 20th, 2024
Data engineers historically have toiled away in the virtual basement, doing the dirty work of spinning raw data into something usable by data scientists and analysts. The advent of generative AI is changing the nature of the data engineer’s ...
Google Announces Sixth-generation AI Chip, a TPU Called Trillium
May 20th, 2024
On Tuesday May 14th, Google announced its sixth-generation TPU (tensor processing unit) called Trillium. The chip, essentially a TPU v6, is the company’s latest weapon in the AI battle with GPU maker Nvidia and cloud providers Microsoft and Amazon, ...
Grace Hopper Gets Busy with Science
May 17th, 2024
Nvidia’s new Grace Hopper Superchip (GH200) processor has landed in nine new worldwide systems. The GH200 is a recently announced chip from Nvidia that eliminates the PCI bus from the CPU/GPU communications pathway. As announced by Nvidia at ISC ...
ISC 2024 Keynote: High-precision Computing Will Be a Foundation for AI Models
May 17th, 2024
Some scientific computing applications cannot sacrifice accuracy and will always require high-precision computing. Therefore, conventional high-performance computing (HPC) will remain essential, even as many applications transition to AI and low-precision computing, which may sacrifice some accuracy. “We need to ...
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