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Jaime Hampton

How Getty Images Built a Generative AI Model Without Scraping the Web

April 17th, 2025 Comments Off on How Getty Images Built a Generative AI Model Without Scraping the Web
Generative AI can conjure up just about any image, but it rarely tells you where that image came from or who deserves credit. The recent controversy surrounding Studio Ghibli and OpenAI offered a glimpse of what’s at stake, as ...

The Inference Bottleneck: Why Edge AI Is the Next Great Computing Challenge

April 15th, 2025 Comments Off on The Inference Bottleneck: Why Edge AI Is the Next Great Computing Challenge
In the world of artificial intelligence, much of the spotlight has been focused on the training of massive models like GPT-4, Gemini, and others. These models require vast computational resources and months of training on specialized hardware. Yet, for ...

Nvidia Begins US Production of Blackwell Chips, AI Systems to Follow

April 14th, 2025 Comments Off on Nvidia Begins US Production of Blackwell Chips, AI Systems to Follow
Nvidia announced Monday it plans to produce its AI supercomputers entirely in the United States. The company will work with a group of major manufacturing partners to establish a domestic supply chain for its Blackwell chips and systems. This ...

European Commission Targets AI Sovereignty With New Action Plan

April 10th, 2025 Comments Off on European Commission Targets AI Sovereignty With New Action Plan
The European Commission has just released its AI Continent Action Plan, a sweeping strategy aimed at establishing Europe as a global leader in artificial intelligence. Building on recent regulatory, research, and infrastructure milestones, the plan outlines a five-pillar approach ...

AI Today and Tomorrow Series #3: HPC and AI—When Worlds Converge/Collide

April 9th, 2025 Comments Off on AI Today and Tomorrow Series #3: HPC and AI—When Worlds Converge/Collide
Welcome to the third entry in this series on AI. The first one was an introduction and series overview and the next discussed the aspirational goal of artificial general intelligence, AGI. Now it’s time to zero in on another timely topic—HPC users’ reactions ...

Stanford’s AI Index Highlights Growing Divide Between Open and Proprietary Models

April 9th, 2025 Comments Off on Stanford’s AI Index Highlights Growing Divide Between Open and Proprietary Models
 In 2024, nearly 90% of the world’s most notable AI models came out of industry. Just a year prior, that figure was 60%. As the scale, cost, and compute required to build frontier AI systems continue to rise, the ...

Oumi Takes Aim at LLM Hallucinations, One Sentence at a Time

April 3rd, 2025 Comments Off on Oumi Takes Aim at LLM Hallucinations, One Sentence at a Time
Language models still struggle with the truth, and for industries with regulatory or safety responsibilities, that can be a serious liability. That is why open source AI lab Oumi released HallOumi, a model that analyzes LLM responses line by ...

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

April 2nd, 2025 Comments Off on 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, ...

Report: China’s Race to Build AI Datacenters Has Hit a Wall

March 28th, 2025 Comments Off on Report: China’s Race to Build AI Datacenters Has Hit a Wall
China’s multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure gold rush is now unraveling, according to a new investigative report from Caiwei Chen, a reporter covering technology topics related to China at MIT Technology Review. “Just months ago, a boom in data center construction ...

AI Talent Shortage Threatens Corporate Ambitions, Says Bain

March 26th, 2025 Comments Off on AI Talent Shortage Threatens Corporate Ambitions, Says Bain
Artificial intelligence might be transforming industries, but the workforce needed to support that transformation has yet to catch up. Recent research from Bain & Company shows a growing disconnect between executive ambition and available talent in the AI space. ...
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