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Three Architecture Tips for Storage Environments Primed for AI/ML

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the world around us, and its transformative impact stems from its ability to analyze vast amounts of data, learn from it and offer insights and automation capabilities. This data is often spread out in data warehouses, data lakes, the cloud and on-premises datacenters – ensuring critical information can be accessed and ... Full article

Five Big Questions for HPC-AI in 2025

2024 ended in a bang for the HPC-AI market. SC24 had record attendance, the Top500 list had an impressive new number one with El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the market for AI boomed, with hyperscale companies spending more than double their already lofty investments in 2023. So why does it all feel so unstable? As we kick off ... Full article

DeepSeek Week: What (Almost) Everyone Missed

Earlier this week, news of DeepSeek GPT swept through the media. The market reacted, and many hardware companies (e.g., Nvidia, ASML, Broadcom, Marvell) saw a drop in their market value. Presumably, the demand for truckloads of GPUs will be reduced because DeepSeek has delivered a foundation model that rivals the “big kids” at 1/50 the cost. This ... Full article

Ai2 Launches Tülu3-405B Model, Scales Reinforcement Learning for Open Source AI

This week, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) launched Tülu3-405B, a massive 405-billion parameter open source AI model claimed to outperform DeepSeek-V3 and match GPT-4o in key benchmarks, particularly mathematical reasoning and safety. This release showcases Ai2’s novel training method, Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). Tulu3-405B builds on Ai2’s Tulu3 post-training recipe, first introduced ... Full article

AI Lessons Learned from DeepSeek’s Meteoric Rise

The AI world is still buzzing from last week’s debut of DeepSeek’s reasoning model, which demonstrates category-leading performance at a bargain-basement price. While the details of the Chinese AI developers’ approach are still being confirmed, observers have already taken away valuable lessons that are likely to shape AI’s development going forward. Since ChatGPT set off ... Full article

UiPath Report: 77% Of IT Executives Plan To Invest in Agentic AI This Year

The demand for GenAI has skyrocketed in the last couple of years, but the value of GenAI as a standalone technology may have plateaued, according to a recent survey by UiPath, an enterprise automation and AI software company. Challenges such as integration with enterprise systems, limited autonomy, and governance concerns have slowed its widespread adoption. ... Full article

AI Needs Its Linux: Oumi Comes Out of Stealth with an Open Source Vision

A new company called Oumi has just been launched, emerging from stealth today with $10 million in seed funding. The company’s founders describe Oumi as the world’s first unconditionally open source AI platform, positioning it as a collaborative and transparent alternative to today’s proprietary AI ecosystems, similar to how Linux revolutionized operating systems. AIwire spoke with Oumi ... Full article

AI Scientists From China Warn AI Has Surpassed the Self-Replicating Red Line

For years, researchers have raced to make artificial intelligence (AI) more capable, more efficient, and more autonomous. The rapid rise of GenAI indicates that researchers have achieved significant progress in these efforts, however, what if AI becomes so advanced that it can replicate itself without human intervention? According to researchers from Fudan University in China, ... Full article

DeepSeek R1 Stuns the AI World

The AI world has been taken by storm. China's new open-source reasoning model, the DeepSeek R1, has sparked concerns that advances in AI by Chinese firms could threaten the revenue prospects of tech giants in the West and the AI supremacy long held by the U.S. The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup ... Full article

OpenAI Launches Operator to Help Users Automate Browser Tasks

OpenAI has released a research preview for a new AI agent that can take control of your computer’s browser and perform actions on your behalf. The tool can interact with web pages by typing, clicking, and scrolling. Operator is one of OpenAI’s first AI agents. The company claims it outperforms rival AI agents such as ... Full article

How Will AI and Quantum Work Together? Quantinuum’s View

There’s great deal of discussion in the quantum computing (QC) world about running AI on quantum hardware and the development of so-called QuantumAI. The promise seems high, but so do the obstacles, such as the high volume of data used in AI model training. Trapped ion quantum computer specialist, Quantinuum, today posted a blog, “Quantum Computers ... Full article

How AI-Enhanced Cloud Strategies Can Cut Down on Energy Consumption

We have often seen Jensen Huang mention energy efficiency as one of the core features of NVIDIA’s new products or services. This is not surprising as we know by now that one of the challenges in this rapid evolution of AI is its energy demands. The surge in AI technology has led to a notable ... Full article

Trump Rescinds Biden’s AI Order, Announces $500B Investment in AI Infrastructure

President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders during his first day in office, including one that rescinded his predecessor’s order addressing AI risk. The new president indicated he viewed the old order as unnecessarily stifling an emerging industry. Trump also held a press conference today during which he announced that private companies would ... Full article

How SandboxAQ Is Leading a Quiet Revolution in Science and Medicine

In the current AI landscape, creative and talkative large language models may be the star of the moment, but a quieter revolution is underway. Quantitative AI, grounded in rigorous scientific modeling and high performance computing, is charting a new frontier. While LLMs are great for human language tasks, quantitative AI is tuned into complex tasks in ... Full article

KPMG Survey Highlights Business Leaders’ Ambitions for GenAI

As we head into 2025, AI’s transformative potential is widely acknowledged. Many leaders anticipate fundamental changes to their business models in the near term. According to a recent survey from KPMG, most leaders (67%) expect AI to fundamentally transform their businesses within the next two years. KPMG, one of the “Big Four” professional services firms ... Full article

AI Risks in Business: Why Strong Contracts Are a Must

Companies integrating AI into their operations face some serious challenges that can’t be ignored if they want to avoid unnecessary risks. AI introduces complexities that traditional IT agreements weren’t built to handle, and failing to account for these issues can lead to major consequences. One of the biggest concerns is how AI uses data. Many ... Full article

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