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MLPerf v5.0 Reflects the Shift Toward Reasoning in AI Inference

If there were any doubts that generative AI is reshaping the inference landscape, the latest MLPerf results should put them to rest. MLCommons announced new results today for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v5.0 benchmark suite. For the first time, large language models overtook traditional image classification as the most widely submitted workloads, with Meta’s Llama ... Full article

Transforming Engineering Workflows with AI-driven Knowledge Management

Fast and accurate access to critical data can be the difference between a timely product launch and costly delays. Engineers regularly work with massive amounts of structured and unstructured information—ranging from technical specifications and prototype testing results to regulatory documentation and market analyses. Sifting through isolated repositories, legacy databases, and email archives often leads to ... Full article

Nvidia Touts Next Generation GPU Superchip and New Photonic Switches

Nvidia used its GTC conference today to introduce new GPU superchips, including the second generation of its current Grace Blackwell chip, as well as the next generation, dubbed the Vera Rubin. Jensen Huang, the company’s founder and CEO, also touted new DGX systems and discussed how the power crunch is driving Nvidia to use photonics ... Full article

Nvidia’s DGX AI Systems Are Faster and Smarter Than Ever

At its GTC event in San Jose today, Nvidia unveiled updates to its AI infrastructure portfolio, including its next-generation datacenter GPU, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra. Expanding on the Blackwell architecture introduced last year, Nvidia is integrating its new Blackwell Ultra GPUs into two DGX systems: the NVIDIA DGX GB300 and the NVIDIA DGX B300. The ... Full article

NVIDIA GTC 2025: What to Expect From the Ultimate AI Event?

All eyes are on Nvidia this week as the chip manufacturer gears up for its biggest event of the year – the GPU Technical Conference (GTC). Starting this Monday in San Jose, CA, the week-long conference is highly anticipated. Investors, analysts, tech enthusiasts, and representatives from other leading companies are eagerly awaiting updates on Nvidia’s ... Full article

AI Takes the A-Train and Also Goes Under the Sea

While subjects such as OpenAI, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek grab the headlines, practical applications are often subtle in their impact, take time to develop, and may get lost in the background noise. The examples provided below illustrate the growing importance of AI. They also show that human ingenuity, work, and time are required to develop important ... Full article

Cerebras Scales AI Inference with Hugging Face Partnership and Datacenter Expansion

As Nvidia and its partners prepare for the upcoming GTC event, another AI infrastructure company, Cerebras Systems, is making strategic moves to expand its role in high-speed AI inference. This week, Cerebras announced two developments: a new partnership with Hugging Face to offer developers access to its inference platform, and the planned launch of six ... Full article

New Los Alamos AI Defense Method Shields Models from Adversarial Attacks

This article was first published by Los Alamos National Laboratory and is reproduced here with permission. Neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence modeled on the connectivity of the human brain, are driving critical breakthroughs across a wide range of scientific domains. But these models face a significant threat from adversarial attacks, which can derail ... Full article

AI Governance Is Too Vague. It’s Time to Get Practical

The conversation around AI governance has often been frustratingly vague. Organizations talk the talk about AI ethics and regulatory compliance, but when it comes to practical implementation, many are paralyzed by uncertainty. Governance, as it stands today, is often a high-level corporate directive rather than a concrete, practicable plan. What if AI governance wasn’t just ... Full article

Alibaba Launches C930 RISC-V Chip Amid Shift from Western Tech

Damo Academy, Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, has launched its first server-grade central processing unit (CPU), according to a recent piece in the South China Morning Post.* Designed for server-level, high-performance computing (HPC), the new chip, C930, is the most recent addition to Alibaba’s XuanTie RISC-V processor series. At a Beijing conference on Friday, Damo revealed ... Full article

AWS and MSK Team Up to Advance Precision Medicine with HPC and AI

Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a collaboration with global cancer center Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Driven by artificial intelligence, high performance computing, and cloud computing, the project aims to address the projected 15 million annual cancer deaths by 2040 by accelerating breakthroughs in cancer research. MSK’s mission is ending cancer ... Full article

Quantum and AI: A Marriage Made of Valid Expectations or Hype?

Editor’s Note: The blending of Quantum and AI — QuantumAI — is a hot topic currently. What exactly does that mean? HPCwire asked Bob Sutor, a longtime high-tech researcher and quantum industry veteran (bio at end of article) to weigh on the subject. You may be familiar with Bob as the author of Dancing with Qubits and ... Full article

Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration

GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still under rapid development. One of the challenges in HPC and technical computing is finding where GenAI “fits in” and, more importantly, ... Full article

Quantinuum Announces Generative Quantum AI Framework Gen QAI

Quantinuum just announced a new generative quantum AI framework, Gen QAI. The company says its new framework leverages quantum-generated data to enable commercial applications in areas like drug development, predictive modeling in financial markets, and logistics and supply chain optimization. The company’s H2 quantum computer is driving this new framework, as it claims the computer ... 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

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

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

MLPerf v5.0 Reflects the Shift Toward Reasoning in AI Inference

Nvidia Touts Next Generation GPU Superchip and New Photonic Switches

Nvidia’s DGX AI Systems Are Faster and Smarter Than Ever

NVIDIA GTC 2025: What to Expect From the Ultimate AI Event?

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