artificial intelligence
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 ...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 ...Full Article
Microsoft-Backed Fastino Launches with $7M to Power GPU-Less AI Models
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 ...Full Article
NCSA Director Gropp on ‘Different Approaches to AI’
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. ...Full Article
Lottery to Determine Major AI Conference Attendees Amid Registration Boom
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 ...Full Article
UT San Antonio Secures $4 Million NSF Grant for Neuromorphic Computing Project
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 ...Full Article
SCIDS: UC San Diego’s New Hub for Data Science and AI
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 ...Full Article
Hyperscale AI Upswing Leads to Significant Market Boost: Intersect360 Webinar
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 25, 2024 — Addison Snell and Steve Conway of Intersect360 Research will present their findings about the significant increases to the HPC-AI market in a 90-minute ...Full Article
Spotting AI Hallucinations: MIT’s SymGen Speeds Up LLM Output Validation
Imagine if your LLM could not only provide answers but also show you exactly where those answers came from—like a scholar meticulously citing sources. A new validation tool created ...Full Article
Nvidia’s Newest Foundation Model Can Actually Spell ‘Strawberry’
A new AI model from Nvidia knows just how many R’s are in the word strawberry, a feat that OpenAI’s GPT-4o model has yet to achieve. In what is ...Full Article
