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NIST Awards Over $1.8M to Small Businesses Advancing AI, Semiconductors and More
August 20th, 2025
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 20, 2025 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded over $1.8 million to 18 small businesses under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The awards will fund research ...
IBM and NASA Launch Open-Source AI Model to Forecast Solar Weather
August 20th, 2025
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Aug. 20, 2025 -- IBM and NASA today unveiled the most advanced open-source foundation model designed to understand high resolution solar observation data and predict how solar activity affects Earth and space-based technology. Surya, named for ...
Monash University to Build Australian-first Supercomputer MAVERIC with Global Tech Partners
August 19th, 2025
Aug. 19, 2025 -- Monash University is developing and deploying MAVERIC, in collaboration with NVIDIA, Dell Technologies and the CDC Data Centres (CDC). The advanced AI supercomputer will use first-in-Australia technology to solve complex problems across a vast and multifaceted ...
Penn and Ai2 Release 400K Synthetic Images to Advance AI’s Visual Reasoning
August 18th, 2025
Aug. 18, 2025 -- In the race to develop AI that understands complex images like financial forecasts, medical diagrams and nutrition labels — essential for AI to operate independently in everyday settings — closed-source systems like ChatGPT and Claude currently ...
Lightmatter Achieves 16-Wavelength Bidirectional Link on Single-Mode Optical Fiber
August 18th, 2025
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 18, 2025 -- Lightmatter today announced a new achievement in optical communications: a 16-wavelength bidirectional Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical link operating on one strand of standard single-mode (SM) fiber. Powered by Lightmatter's Passage interconnect ...
Los Alamos Sensor Data Sheds Light on Powerful Lightning Within Clouds
August 15th, 2025
Aug. 15, 2025 -- A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency radio pulses in lightning is closely related to the altitude of the lightning in the cloud — a ...
NVIDIA Releases Open Dataset, Models for Multilingual Speech AI
August 15th, 2025
Aug. 15, 2025 -- Of around 7,000 languages in the world, a tiny fraction are supported by AI language models. NVIDIA is tackling the problem with a new dataset and models that support the development of high-quality speech recognition and ...
G42 Launches OpenAI GPT-OSS Globally on Core42’s AI Cloud
August 14th, 2025
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Aug. 14, 2025 -- Core42, a G42 company specializing in sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, announced the availability of OpenAI’s latest open-weight AI models, including gpt-oss-20B and gpt-oss-120B, on the Core42 AI Cloud platform, instantly ...
Kipu Quantum Unveils Quantum Feature Mapping to Improve AI Precision in Sensitive Domains
August 14th, 2025
BERLIN and KARLSRUHE, Germany, Aug. 14, 2025 -- Kipu Quantum has announced the launch of Huk Quantum Feature Mapping, a commercial quantum machine learning (QML) service for industry-relevant use cases. The service is now available via the Kipu Quantum Hub ...
NSF, NVIDIA Partner in $152M Ai2-Led Project to Build Open AI Models for US Science
August 14th, 2025
Aug. 14, 2025 -- The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced a partnership with NVIDIA to develop a set of artificial intelligence models that will transform the ability of America's scientists to leverage AI, advancing scientific discovery and ensuring U.S. ...