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Cerebras and Mayo Clinic Unveil Advanced Genomic AI Model

The intersection of AI and healthcare reached an exciting new milestone this week, as a new and groundbreaking genomic foundation model was unveiled at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. Cerebras and Mayo Clinic have collaborated to develop a world-class genomic foundation model aimed at harnessing the power of advanced AI and HPC ... Full article

AI’s Role in Revolutionizing Scientific Research

Scientific researchers are responsible for conducting experiments and making discoveries that improve our lives or, sometimes, even save them. However, the process of scientific research — from forming and testing a hypothesis to making groundbreaking discoveries available for public or commercial use — is complex, costly, and time-consuming. Without the right tools at their disposal, ... Full article

Nvidia’s Little Desktop AI Box with Big Unified GPU/CPU Memory

At the 2025 CES event, Nvidia announced a new $3000 desktop computer developed in collaboration with MediaTek, which is powered by a new cut-down Arm-based Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU Superchip. The new system is called “project DIGITS” (not to be confused with Nvidia's Deep Learning GPU Training System: DIGITS). The platform offers a series ... Full article

AI’s Impact on Jobs, Trust, and Innovation: Insights from Accenture’s Technology Vision 2025

AI is the new digital, Accenture says in its latest Technology Vision 2025 report. This 25th edition of the company’s research, titled “AI: A Declaration of Autonomy,” frames AI as not only a pivotal technology but also a catalyst for entirely reshaping workflows and business processes. AI will permeate every part of the enterprise, with its transformative ... Full article

Developing a Trust Layer for AI Systems

Despite the hype around generative AI, studies show just a fraction of GenAI projects have made it into production. A big reason for this shortfall is the concern organizations have about the tendency for large language models (LLMs) to hallucinate and give inconsistent answers. One way organizations are responding to these concerns is by implementing ... Full article

NCSA Director Bill Gropp on SC24, Focus in 2025

Editor's Note: In this note of reflection, Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), takes us through a year of achievements at NCSA. From the launch of the DeltaAI supercomputer to groundbreaking partnerships in AI, healthcare, and quantum research, Gropp highlights NCSA's critical role in advancing innovation and collaboration, underscoring the center's ... Full article

Google Cloud’s 2025 AI Trends: The Evolution of Search, CX, and Security

Google Cloud has released its “AI Business Trends 2025” report with predictions for how AI will shape business in the coming year. The company has identified five key areas where enterprise AI will shine: multimodal AI, AI agents, assistive search, AI-powered customer experience, and AI-enhanced security. Multimodal AI models can process information from text, images, ... Full article

What’s Next for GenAI? 2025 Predictions

Generative AI has only been a major player in the tech landscape for a few transformative years, yet its rapid adoption has made a seismic impact. As we approach 2025, the question is no longer whether generative AI will shape the future, but how far it will go and in what new directions it will evolve. ... Full article

Beyond the Buzz: How Enterprises Can Leverage GenAI for Tangible Results

The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 set off a wave of hype over generative AI (GenAI) unlike anything seen in the technology sector since the introduction of the public Internet. Now, almost two years later, it’s clear that generative AI isn’t the magic bullet many envisioned, and Gartner has declared that GenAI has ... Full article

SandboxAQ Valuation Soars to $5.6B After $300M Funding Round

SandboxAQ announced it has raised $300 million in a new funding round at a $5.6 billion valuation. The Alphabet spinoff previously raised $500 million in its initial funding round in February 2023. The new funding will accelerate application development and adoption of SandboxAQ’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) and AI solutions, the company says. SandboxAQ’s LQMs ... Full article

AI Framework DIMON Cracks Complex Equations at Supercomputer Speed—No HPC Required

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have created a new AI framework that can quickly predict solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) in scientific and engineering research. Diffeomorphic Mapping Operator Learning, or DIMON, is a framework that solves PDEs using desktop computers at a rate that is thousands of times faster than a supercomputer. The research appears ... Full article

OpenAI Launches Sora, Its First AI Video Generation Model

OpenAI has announced the release of its highly anticipated video generation model, Sora. First previewed to select users in February, Sora allows users to create high-definition video clips using text prompts. Sora also generates video clips based on still images and can lengthen or fill in existing videos. Sora is capable of generating videos with ... Full article

NSF Awards SDSC a Grant for NAIRR Pilot Research on Nvidia’s DGX Cloud

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced it has been awarded an Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to provide IT support to research groups who will use Nvidia’s DGX Cloud platform. SDSC, part of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego, says ... Full article

Amazon Taps Automated Reasoning to Safeguard Critical AI Systems

Amazon is implementing AI aggressively across its business in a bid to improve operational efficiency, delight customers, and ultimately make money. But adopting probabilistic systems that don’t always behave as expected and are prone to hallucinations also comes with risks. To help minimize AI-related risks, Amazon and its AWS subsidiary are turning to a time-tested ... Full article

Shining a Light on AI Risks: Inside MLCommons’ AILuminate Benchmark

As the world continues to navigate new pathways brought about by generative AI, the need for tools that can illuminate the risk and reliability of these systems has never felt more urgent. MLCommons is working to shine a light into the black box of AI with its new safety benchmark for large language models, AILuminate ... Full article

LLMs and GenAI: When To Use Them

Recent advancements in AI have brought forth a new generation of tools that can process and generate human-like content across multiple modalities. At the forefront of this revolution are Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI. While both fall under the broad umbrella of artificial intelligence, they serve different purposes and excel in distinct areas. ... Full article

AWS Delivers the AI Heat: Project Rainier and GenAI Innovations Lead the Way

At AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled a series of transformative AI initiatives, including the development of one of the world's largest AI supercomputers in partnership with Anthropic, the introduction of the Nova series of AI foundation models, and the availability of the Trainium2 AI chip, positioning itself as a formidable competitor in ... Full article

AI Cybersecurity Regulations and the Need for Corporate Culture Changes

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly gaining control of our digital and physical environments through technologies like facial recognition, predictive modeling, integrations with external Internet of Things (IoT) devices and beyond. Alarmingly, generative AI is estimated to account for 10 percent of all data produced by 2025, up from 1 percent in 2021, while IoT ... Full article

AI Memory: Revolutionizing Individual and Organizational Productivity

As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, one concept stands out as key to enabling personalized experiences: memory. During Madrona's IA Summit fireside chat with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, he emphasized that memory is not just a feature but a transformative force reshaping how AI interacts with humans. Memory allows AI to incorporate not ... Full article

PlayAI Lands $21M Seed to Scale Its Human-Like AI Voice Models

AI voice startup PlayAI announced it has raised $21 million in a Seed round. The company says it will use the capital to invest in its generative AI voice models and voice agent platform. “Speech as an interface is exploding in popularity, and we knew it was a massive opportunity from the get-go,” said Mahmoud ... Full article

Cerebras and Mayo Clinic Unveil Advanced Genomic AI Model

Nvidia’s Little Desktop AI Box with Big Unified GPU/CPU Memory

AI’s Impact on Jobs, Trust, and Innovation: Insights from Accenture’s Technology Vision 2025

Developing a Trust Layer for AI Systems

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