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Databricks Raises $500 Million in Pre-IPO Round
Databricks hasn’t gone public yet–the market just hasn’t been right this year for that–but it did the next best thing today when it raised $500 million in a growth ...Full Article
Nvidia Releasing Open-Source Optimized Tensor RT-LLM Runtime with Commercial Foundational AI Models to Follow Later This Year
Nvidia's large-language models will become generally available later this year, the company confirmed. Organizations widely rely on Nvidia's graphics processors to write AI applications. The company has also created ...Full Article
MLPerf Releases Latest Inference Results and New Storage Benchmark
MLCommons this week issued the results of its latest MLPerf Inference (v3.1) benchmark exercise. Nvidia was again the top performing accelerator, but Intel (Xeon CPU) and Habana (Gaudi1 and ...Full Article
GenAI Adoption, By the Numbers
As the freight train that is generative AI continues barreling down the track to an uncertain destination, we thought it would be good to take some time to stop ...Full Article
New Language Mojo Seeks End to AI Framework Sprawl
A software development kit for Mojo, a new Python-based language for AI development created by former Google engineers, is now available for download on Linux systems, with support for ...Full Article
Google TPU v5e AI Chip Debuts after Controversial Origins
The dominance of Nvidia GPUs has companies scrambling to find non-GPU alternatives, and another mainstream option has emerged with Google’s TPU v5e AI chip. The TPU v5e is also ...Full Article
Cerebras and G42’s Inception Unveil Jais: A 13B Parameter Arabic LLM Trained on Condor Galaxy
Condor Galaxy is an AI system recently debuted by Cerebras Systems and Middle Eastern cloud provider G42. The system has already been busy with training Jais, a 13-billion parameter ...Full Article
Duet AI Goes Everywhere in Google’s Cloud
Google Cloud introduced several more uses for Duet AI, the AI interface unveiled earlier this year. Data engineers will be singing duets with integrations for BigQuery, AlloyDB, and Cloud ...Full Article
Google Extends Vertex with More GenAI Features
Generative AI is taking the world by storm, as organizations discover the myriad ways it can be used to serve and entice customers. With today’s enhancements to Vertex AI, ...Full Article
An Overnight Sensation, 30 Years in the Making: The Parallel Paths of AI and Quantum Computing
In the world of technology, overnight sensations are rarely born overnight. They are the result of decades of research, development, and perseverance. The recent success of chatGPT, a state-of-the-art ...Full Article
