The Falcon family of large language models (LLMs) – developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi – demonstrate impressive capabilities. Falcon LLMs span across a wide variety of parameter sizes, as well as two generations: Falcon 1.3B with 1.3 billion parameters Falcon 7.5B with 7.5 billion parameters Falcon 40B with 40 billion ...Full article
Fraudsters and scammers have had a good run lately according to the FTC, which found Americans lost $10 billion to frauds and scams in 2023, a 14% increase over the year before. But victims and law enforcement are fighting back with data and AI, and two startups named Valid8 and Scamnetic are hoping to make ...Full article
Consider the GPU. An island of SIMD greatness that makes light work of matrix math. Originally designed to rapidly paint dots on a computer monitor, it was then found to be quite useful in large numbers by HPC practitioners. Enter GenAI, and now these little matrix mavens are in huge demand, so much so that we call it the GPU ...Full article
Groundwater is a vital water supply for humanity. It supplies 35% of the drinking water in the U.S. and almost half of all drinking water in the world. Unfortunately, over-extraction, industrial contamination, and pollution from agricultural activities have depleted the groundwater resources. To make things worse, traditional methods for groundwater assessments have proven inadequate for ...Full article
The Llama 3 large language model (LLM) is Meta’s latest and most advanced LLM to date. Succeeding Llama 1 and 2, this most recent model excels at understanding and generating human-like text across a wide range of tasks such as question answering, summarization, translation, and computing programming. Meta AI – the AI assistant built into ...Full article
Anthropic has announced the general availability of the new Tool Use feature for its AI assistant Claude. The new feature enables users to build their own AI-driven solutions. The “AI agents” hook up to any external API allowing users to create an email assistant, a bot for online shopping, or other personalized solutions. The Tool ...Full article
With the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set to publish the first Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standards in a few weeks, attention is shifting to how to put the new quantum-resistant algorithms into practice. Indeed, the number of companies with practices to help others implement PQC is mushrooming and contains familiar (IBM, Deloitte, et ...Full article
Even though we invented it, humans can be pretty bad at science. We need to eat and sleep, we sometimes let our emotions regulate our behavior, and our bodies are easily and irreparably damaged – all of which can stand in the way of scientific achievement. Human researchers will always play a role in science, ...Full article
Scale AI, which provides data labeling and annotation software and services to organizations like OpenAI, Meta, and the Department of Defense, this week announced a $1-billion funding round at a valuation of nearly $14 billion, putting it in a prime position to capitalize on the generative AI revolution. Alexandr Wang founded Scale AI back in 2016 to ...Full article
Fujitsu and Mizuho Financial Group have partnered to track trends in humpback whale migration and promote sustainable tourism for Hachijo Island, a popular tourist destination. The island features historical remnants from different periods of Japanese history and stunning views of the dormant volcano Hachijō-Fuji. The primary goal of the project is to conserve the island's ...Full article
NinjaTech AI, a San Francisco-based startup that offers conversational artificial intelligence for business, has announced the public beta launch of its new AI agent service Ninja. Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) purpose-built machine learning (ML) chips, Ninja goes beyond traditional AI assistants and co-pilots by bringing autonomous agents to market. Ninja has the ability ...Full article
One of the largest hurdles to trustworthy and responsible AI is the concept of the black box, and Anthropic just took a big step towards opening that box. For the most part, humans aren’t able to understand how AI systems output answers. We know how to feed these models large amounts of data, and we ...Full article
Fujitsu, one of the leading technology and business solutions providers, has been chosen for the research and development project for the enhanced infrastructures for post-5G information and communication systems. This project is part of the Generative AI Accelerator Challenge (GENIAC) initiative by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). The goal of the ...Full article
High-intensity and high-repetition lasers emit powerful bursts of light in rapid succession, capable of firing multiple times per second. Commercial fusion energy plants and advanced compact radiation sources are common examples of systems that rely on such laser systems. However, humans are a major limiting factor as the human response time is insufficient to manage ...Full article
Today, IBM declared that it is releasing a number of noteworthy changes to its watsonx platform, with the goal of increasing the openness, affordability, and flexibility of the platform’s AI capabilities. Announced during the Think 2024 conference – an annual event held in Boston this year – these changes are part of an overall strategy ...Full article
With the help of generative AI, researchers from MIT and the University of Basel in Switzerland have developed a new machine-learning framework that can help uncover new insights about materials science. The findings of the study were published in Physical Review Letters. As water transitions from liquid to solid state, it undergoes significant transformation properties, ...Full article
UAE-based Core42 is building an AI supercomputer with 172 million cores which will become operational later this year. The system, Condor Galaxy 3, was announced earlier this year and will have 192 nodes with Cerebras WSE-3 chips. The WSE-3 megachip is over 50 times larger than Nvidia’s GPUs and packs significantly more horsepower. Cerebras WSE2 vs ...Full article
Data engineers historically have toiled away in the virtual basement, doing the dirty work of spinning raw data into something usable by data scientists and analysts. The advent of generative AI is changing the nature of the data engineer’s job, as well as the data she works with–and ETL software developer Matillion is right there ...Full article
On Tuesday May 14th, Google announced its sixth-generation TPU (tensor processing unit) called Trillium. The chip, essentially a TPU v6, is the company’s latest weapon in the AI battle with GPU maker Nvidia and cloud providers Microsoft and Amazon, which have their own AI chips. The TPU v6 will succeed the TPUv5 chips, which came ...Full article
Nvidia’s new Grace Hopper Superchip (GH200) processor has landed in nine new worldwide systems. The GH200 is a recently announced chip from Nvidia that eliminates the PCI bus from the CPU/GPU communications pathway. As announced by Nvidia at ISC 2024, New Grace Hopper-based supercomputers coming online include EXA1-HE, in France, from CEA and Eviden; Helios ...Full article
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