Scientists Warn GenAI Models Lack True Understanding of the World
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly integral to modern society, transforming how individuals and businesses operate. The rise of GenAI has captivated audiences with its potential to revolutionize industries, ...Full Article
Nvidia Shows Renewed Interest in Top500 List, but Not for GPUs
Nvidia is showing keen interest in the Top500 list and says it will put more systems with its GPUs and technologies on the list. However, Nvidia’s interest is to ...Full Article
SC2024: A Guide to Get the Most from the Show
The supercomputing world — or shall we call it the HPC and AI world — will convene in Atlanta this week to attend the Supercomputing 24 show. SC24 is ...Full Article
MinIO Pivots to AI with Launch of AIStore
MinIO is one of the most popular open-source S3-compatible object storage systems in the world. Thanks to its combination of performance and simplicity, it’s been adopted to store data ...Full Article
The Impact of Trump’s Return on AI and Climate
US President-elect Donald Trump made plenty of ambitious promises during his presidential campaign, but it will be tough for him to fulfill all his pledges. His stance on artificial ...Full Article
Red Hat Acquisition Charts Path to Open Accelerated AI
Red Hat has announced a signed agreement to acquire Neural Magic, a developer of software and algorithms that accelerate generative AI (gen AI) inference workloads. Red Hat mentions Neural Magic’s expertise in ...Full Article
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
