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 intelligence (AI) and climate largely aligns with his commitment to "America First" policies, focusing on economic growth, energy independence, and minimizing regulations on domestic industries. However, ...Full article
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 inference performance engineering and commitment to open source aligns with Red Hat’s vision of high-performing AI workloads that directly map to customer-specific use cases and data across the ...Full article
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 its valuation from just a few months ago. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the new funding round. The reported $500 million ...Full article
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 are more accurate, faster, and safer than traditional LLMs. Fastino claims to have a differentiated approach to generative AI. Fastino CEO and co-founder Ash Lewis explained ...Full article
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 previously invested $2.75 billion in the startup in March, adding on to an initial $1.25 billion backing in September 2023. According to the latest report, Amazon ...Full article
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 data storage appliances last week that can move data at up to 18 million IOPS and serve 720 GB of data per second. The latest GPUs ...Full article
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 substantial computational resources for model training and inference, but the impact of this on e-waste is not fully understood. The latest Global E-Waste Monitor by the ...Full article
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. Gropp delves into the differing motivations and methodologies of these sectors, highlighting how academia prioritizes innovation and understanding, while the commercial sector drives rapid, scalable applications. ...Full article
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 recent poll by Pew, more than half of US adults are "extremely or very concerned" about the negative influence of AI on the elections. The 2024 ...Full article
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 around openness for training data leaves a gap that eventually will need to be filled. The OSAID was unveiled this week after two years of development ...Full article
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 organizers, who are moving to a lottery system to determine attendees. “Due to high demand for registrations, NeurIPS will be moving towards a randomized lottery system, ...Full article
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 teaser on Nvidia’s Blackwell coming to Google Cloud, which should arrive early next year. “We’re… eagerly anticipating the advancements enabled by Nvidia’s Blackwell GB200 NVL72 GPUs, ...Full article
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 to Reddit users’ questions, with others answering as well. OpenAI's AMA post encouraged users to “Ask us anything about” topics like the new o1 and o1-mini ...Full article
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 “The Neuromorphic Commons (THOR)” project. The THOR project is a multi-university initiative giving researchers access to large-scale heterogeneous neuromorphic computing hardware systems. “Our vision is to ...Full article
As artificial intelligence systems grow more advanced, there is increasing concern over models capable of modifying their own code and enhancing their abilities without human oversight. Such AI agents, if left unchecked, could progress at a rate that surpasses human understanding, potentially leading to unpredictable or even catastrophic outcomes. Researchers from OpenAI have developed MLE-bench ...Full article
The advent of generative AI has supersized the appetite for GPUs and other forms of accelerated computing. To help companies scale up their accelerated compute investments in a predictable manner, GPU giant Nvidia and several server partners have borrowed a page from the world of high performance computing (HPC) and unveiled the Enterprise Reference Architectures ...Full article
Intersect360 Research has released a comprehensive new report concerning the challenges facing the combined fields of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). Titled “Issues Facing the HPC-AI Industry: Insights from the Advisory Committees of the HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO),” this report – which was based on extensive interviews conducted with members of the HALO Advisory ...Full article
In an age where AI-generated content is increasingly common, concerns around authorship and authenticity are on the rise. The ease with which AI can create realistic text, images, and other forms of media has led to challenges distinguishing between human-created and AI-generated work. As a result, issues such as plagiarism, copyright infringement, and the spread ...Full article
UC San Diego has taken a bold step to meet the growing demand for skills in artificial intelligence and data science. The university’s new School of Computing, Information, and Data Sciences (SCIDS) unites the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI), positioning the university at the forefront of transformative research ...Full article
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 achieving AI aspirations, according to Appen’s State of AI in 2024 report, which was released yesterday. AI is dependent on data. Whether you’re training your own ...Full article
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