Inside Perplexity’s $9B Valuation and Its Legal Struggles
Perplexity, the AI search engine platform, is reportedly finalizing the details of a new funding round that will boost its valuation to a staggering $9 billion. This would triple ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
WEKA Keeps GPUs Fed with Speedy New Appliances
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 ...Full Article
The Growing E-Waste Footprint of GenAI
The rapid advancement of digital technologies has led to the proliferation of electronic devices and systems, resulting in an alarming increase in electronic waste (e-waste). GenAI, in particular, requires ...Full Article
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. ...Full Article
GenAI in the 2024 Elections: Expectations vs. Reality
With this being an election year, concerns have long been raised about the potential threats artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the integrity of the electoral process. According to a ...Full Article
OSI Open AI Definition Stops Short of Requiring Open Data
The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements ...Full Article
Lottery to Determine Major AI Conference Attendees Amid Registration Boom
A boom in AI has created a problem for the organizers of the NeurIPS conference, which is considered an essential machine-learning research conference. The sheer number of registrations has overwhelmed ...Full Article
Role Reversal: Google Teases Nvidia’s Blackwell as It Softens TPU Rivalry
Customers now have access to Google’s homegrown hardware — its Axion CPU and latest Trillium TPU — in its Cloud service. At the same time, Google gave customers a ...Full Article
