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Cerebras Systems Expanding its Wafer-Scale Computing Tech with $250M in New Funding
Wafer-scale compute vendor Cerebras Systems has raised another $250 million in funding – this time in a Series F round that brings its total funding to about $720 million. ...Full Article
Nvidia Debuts Enterprise-Focused 530B Megatron Large Language Model and Framework at Fall GTC21
Bringing large language model (LLM) capabilities directly to enterprises to help them expand their business strategies and capabilities is the focus of Nvidia’s new NeMo Megatron large language framework ...Full Article
Intel’s 30x AI Performance Aim for Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs May Not Solve All AI Needs: Analysts
With its upcoming Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs, designed as the next generation of Intel Xeon CPUs after Ice Lake and slated for release in 2022, chipmaker Intel Corp. is ...Full Article
Nvidia Arm Deal Coming Under Deeper Scrutiny by the European Commission
With continuing concerns about the potential for stifled competition in Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of Arm, the European Commission (EC) is opening an “in-depth investigation” into the matter ...Full Article
Language Model Training Gets Another Player: Inspur AI Research Unveils Yuan 1.0
Hot on the heels of recent GPT language model product news from SambaNova, Microsoft and Nvidia, China-based Inspur AI Research has announced its Yuan 1.0 language model, which has ...Full Article
Shortage of Chips Hurts AI, But Problems Go Deeper
The impacts of the chip shortage can be spotted everywhere: from higher prices on home appliances to empty new car lots to higher prices for consumer devices. Processor-hungry AI ...Full Article
Run:AI Looks to Bring 100% GPU Utilization to its AI-Focused Compute Orchestration Platform
One of the biggest challenges in AI development is to efficiently allocate and utilize the available power and performance of GPUs that are crunching AI models. Running those workloads ...Full Article
How Nvidia Sees ‘Reasoning’ Emerging in Natural Language Processing
When machines can truly think for themselves, one of the greatest hopes for AI will be realized. At Nvidia, where massive amounts of compute power and a wide range ...Full Article
Nvidia GPUs Stay in Lead In Latest MLPerf Inference Results, but CPUs and Intel Gaining Ground
Nvidia again dominated the latest round of MLPerf inference benchmark (v 1.1) results when they were unveiled Sept. 23 (Thursday), sweeping the top spots in the closed data center ...Full Article
GigaIO Gets $14.7M in Series B Funding to Expand Its Composable Fabric Technology to Customers
Just before the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, GigaIO introduced its Universal Composable Fabric technology, which allows enterprises to bring together any HPC and AI resources and integrate ...Full Article
