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BSC: ALIA Project Taps MareNostrum 5 to Build Europe’s Largest Public AI Model
January 24th, 2025
Jan. 24, 2025 -- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez this week announced the launch of the ALIA project, the first European public, open and multilingual infrastructure which, thanks to the unique supercomputing capabilities of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center- Centro ...
Stargate Project Launches with $500B AI Investment Led by SoftBank and OpenAI
January 22nd, 2025
Jan. 22, 2025 -- The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. OpenAI will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This ...
LLNL Dedicates El Capitan, Advancing Nuclear Security and AI Research
January 17th, 2025
Jan. 17, 2025 — More than 300 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) employees, government officials and industry leaders gathered at LLNL on Jan. 9 to celebrate the dedication of El Capitan, the world’s fastest supercomputer. The event marked a monumental achievement ...
LANL Explores Diffusion-Based AI Models for Accelerator Diagnostics
January 17th, 2025
Jan. 17, 2025 -- Accelerators — machines that speed up particles such as protons — are useful in nuclear and high-energy physics as well as materials science, dynamic imaging and even isotope production for cancer therapy. A Los Alamos National ...
DARPA, USGS Accelerate Critical Mineral Mapping with AI-Powered Workflow
January 16th, 2025
RESTON, Va., Jan. 16, 2025 -- Geologists and innovators from the U.S. Geological Survey, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), and other partners came together Jan. 13-17 to collaborate, train, and transition ...
TetraScience Collaborates with Microsoft to Advance Scientific AI at Scale
January 16th, 2025
BOSTON, Jan. 16, 2025 -- TetraScience announced a key new collaboration with Microsoft that aims to accelerate the adoption of scientific AI to radically improve workflows across the entire biopharmaceutical value chain: drug discovery, development, manufacturing, and quality control. This ...
SandboxAQ AI Platform Enhances Understanding of Cellular Transport in Parkinson’s Research
January 15th, 2025
LEUVEN, Belgium and PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 15, 2025 -- The lab of Professor Peter Vangheluwe at KU Leuven is collaborating with SandboxAQ to expedite the discovery and testing of candidate drugs to restore the function of ATP10B, a ...
Fermata Secures $10M Series A to Advance AI-Driven Crop Management
January 13th, 2025
TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 13, 2025 -- Fermata, a data science company specializing in computer vision agriculture solutions, closes $10 million in a Series A funding round backed by Raw Ventures. This investment will support the company's strategic vision ...
NVIDIA Partners with Industry Leaders to Advance Genomics, Drug Discovery and Healthcare
January 13th, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13, 2025 -- NVIDIA today announced new partnerships to transform the $10 trillion healthcare and life sciences industry by accelerating drug discovery, enhancing genomic research and pioneering advanced healthcare services with agentic and generative AI. The convergence ...
Numenta Creates Independent Nonprofit with Thousand Brains Project to Advance AI Research
January 7th, 2025
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 7, 2025 -- Numenta Inc., a leader in neuroscience-based AI technology, has announced the creation of its open-source Thousand Brains Project as a new, non-profit entity. Grounded in decades of research at Numenta, the Thousand Brains ...