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
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
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
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
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 ...Full Article
UT San Antonio Secures $4 Million NSF Grant for Neuromorphic Computing Project
The MATRIX AI Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced this week it received a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund ...Full Article
AI Has a Data Problem, Appen Report Says
AI may be a priority at American companies, but the difficulty in managing data and obtaining high quality data to train AI models is becoming a bigger hurdle to ...Full Article
Spotting AI Hallucinations: MIT’s SymGen Speeds Up LLM Output Validation
Imagine if your LLM could not only provide answers but also show you exactly where those answers came from—like a scholar meticulously citing sources. A new validation tool created ...Full Article
