Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, March 19, 2025
An interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger from just last year already hasn't aged well. In the interview, Gelsinger decries the energy consumption of Bitcoin mining ("a climate crisis") moments before announcing Intel's own Bitcoin mining product, Blockscale 1000, which Gelsinger claims is "dramatically better" than other power-guzzling chips that take over energy grids. Now, ... Full article
In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Wayne Allen  atNorth appointed Wayne Allen as its sales director of the ... Full article
One of the world's most popular computer makers, Raspberry Pi, is receiving a cash infusion from Sony in a move to bring AI computing closer to the data than vice versa. Raspberry Pi's namesake low-cost computers, which are circuit boards without a chassis, have achieved cult status among makers and DIYers that are building electronics ... Full article
A collaborative team of AI and law experts from Johns Hopkins University is working to develop an artificial intelligence system capable of identifying tax loopholes more effectively than tax accountants. The aim is to reduce the annual tax gap, estimated to be around $500 billion, that results from the manipulation of tax laws. The research ... Full article
OpenAI may have serious competition soon, and not just from Google. Documents obtained by TechCrunch revealed that AI startup Anthropic is looking to raise $5 billion over the next two years to take on the ChatGPT creator and gain entry to a dozen major industries. These documents, in the form of a pitch deck for ... Full article
MLCommons today released the latest MLPerf Inferencing (v3.0) results for the datacenter and edge. While Nvidia continues to dominate the results – topping all performance categories – other companies are joining the MLPerf constellation with impressive performances. There were 25 submitting organizations, up from 21 last fall and 19 last spring. Intel showcased early Sapphire ... Full article
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released its 2023 Artificial Intelligence Index which analyzes AI’s impact and progress. The data-driven report is a deep dive into topics related to AI such as research, ethics, policy, public opinion, and economics. Key findings of the study include how AI research is expanding with topics including pattern ... Full article
OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot thrilled users when it was introduced in November, but things turned around fast: now top IT leaders are calling to halt the development of powerful AI systems. That hasn’t stopped CIOs from plotting the use of generative AI to bring smarts and automation to enterprise environments, especially with IT budgets tightening up ... Full article
Following the release of GPT-4, Microsoft AI researchers have published a paper suggesting that the OpenAI language model demonstrates “sparks” of artificial general intelligence (AGI). GPT-4 is OpenAI’s latest large language model, and for six months the researchers had access to its unrestricted version before it was fine-tuned for public release. “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with ... Full article
The Future of Life Institute has issued an open letter calling for a six-month pause on some forms of AI research. Citing “profound risks to society and humanity,” the group is asking AI labs to pause research on AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 until more guardrails can be put around them. “AI systems with ... Full article
Researchers looking to create a foundation for a ChatGPT-style application now have an affordable way to do so. Cerebras is releasing open-source learning models for researchers with the ingredients necessary to cook up their own ChatGPT-AI applications. The open-source tools include seven models that form a learning architecture in which researchers can feed their data, ... Full article
Today at its GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia discussed four new platforms designed to accelerate AI applications. Three are targeted at inference workloads for generative AI applications, including generating text, images, and videos, and another is aimed boosting recommendation models, vector databases, and graph neural nets. Generative AI has surged in popularity since November, when OpenAI ... Full article
Nvidia is offering a new foundational platform for companies looking to leverage generative AI. The company introduced the new platform called Nvidia AI Foundations at its GTC Developer Conference. Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang says we are at an iPhone moment with the mass adoption of generative AI, and the industry needs a foundry, ... Full article
Nvidia's grand plan to populate a parallel universe with digital versions of humans and objects will be powered by new hardware. The chip maker introduced a new server called OVX 3 that is built to create and operate the metaverse, said Bob Pette, vice president for professional visualization at Nvidia, during a press briefing ahead ... Full article
Google today announced that it’s officially releasing Bard, the new generative language model that it unveiled several weeks ago. While it’s still a research product, Google is eager to get Bard into the hands of testers. Bard is a lightweight and optimized version of LaMDA, the large language model (LLM) based on the Transformer neural ... Full article
In March 2020, during the first month of the pandemic, a sterilization machine manufacturer shipped a large piece of equipment to Italy to help process tomatoes ahead of the spring harvest. They faced a potential problem, however. Normally, the manufacturer would have sent a company representative to help the farmer get the machine up and ... Full article
It’s finally here … OpenAI has released GPT-4, the next-gen large language model powering ChatGPT. The highly anticipated release comes after months of speculation. Currently, GPT-4 is available to try via ChatGPT+, the subscription tier of ChatGPT. There is also a waitlist to access the API. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPT-4 on Twitter, posting a link to ... Full article
There's a new kind of shortage of chips: there isn't enough compute capacity availability to handle the computing demand of ChatGPT, which has overloaded OpenAI's servers. Microsoft hopes to fill some of that gap with a new virtual machine offering called the ND H100 v5, which includes a sea of Nvidia's latest H100 GPUs, codenamed ... Full article
Tesla's self-driving capabilities will improve significantly once the Dojo supercomputer is added to its high-performance computing infrastructure, the company said at last week's investor meeting. Tesla cars running the FSD (Full Self Driving) software – which currently numbers about 400,000 customers – will be able to make more intelligent self-driving decisions with the hardware upgrades, ... Full article
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Nadim Antar Striim, Inc. appointed Nadim Antar as the company’s senior vice ... Full article
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