Databricks’ $1.3B MosaicML Buyout: A Strategic Bet on Generative AI
Databricks is the latest company to place a large bet – to the tune of $1.3 billion – on generative AI. On the first day of its sold-out Data + ...Full Article
AWS Launches New $100M Generative AI Innovation Center
As the realm of artificial intelligence expands at a breathtaking pace, organizations around the globe find themselves grappling with a daunting challenge: navigating the vast array of generative AI ...Full Article
HPE Offers LLM Option for Supercomputing in the Cloud
The high-performance computing options are thinning, and HPE is one of the last U.S. companies standing to build supercomputers – a fact indirectly acknowledged by Dan Reed, a professor ...Full Article
Intersect360: ‘Grand Unification’ Spending Totals $251.9B in 2022
The folks at Intersect360 Research released their latest report and market update just ahead of ISC 2023, which was held in Hamburg, Germany, last week. The headline: “We’re returning ...Full Article
Google’s Next TPU Looms Large as Company Wagers Future on AI
Google is hedging its future on artificial intelligence, and is swinging at the fences to prove it is up to speed with rival Microsoft, which has unexpectedly emerged as ...Full Article
Google’s New AI-Focused ‘A3’ Supercomputer Has 26,000 GPUs
Cloud providers are building armies of GPUs to provide more AI firepower. At its annual Google I/O developer conference today, Google announced an AI supercomputer with 26,000 GPUs. The ...Full Article
IBM Introduces ‘Vela’ Cloud AI Supercomputer Powered by Intel, Nvidia
Nearly five years ago, Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched the IBM-built Summit supercomputer, powered by IBM and Nvidia hardware, to the top of the Top500 list. Now, the erstwhile ...Full Article
Google Will Take on Microsoft in AI Search
Google's search engine dominance has been threatened overnight by an obscure AI technology that came out of the blue, and the tech giant is now taking steps to catch ...Full Article
Stormy Skies Ahead? Report Finds 20% of Businesses Intend to Move Workloads from Cloud to On-Prem
Is there an economic storm brewing in the public cloud sector? IT asset management firm Device42 thinks the skies could be darkening. The company has released the results of its Cloud ...Full Article
AI and Cloud Could Make Getting Unemployment Insurance Easier in the Next Recession
According to a 2021 survey of state-level CIOs, the pandemic has highlighted the value of technology and how it is critical to the delivery of government services and the ...Full Article
