Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Tuesday, June 23, 2026
The rapid adoption of generative AI appears to be having a transformative effect on businesses, according to a new joint survey released by Dataiku and Databricks. The "AI, Today" survey report found over 70% of senior AI professionals report seeing a positive ROI for data science, analytics, and AI initiatives. Over half (54%) reported seeing ... Full article
There is no one way to buy AI services, but a few purchase models are emerging. One is like shopping for groceries: you can have it delivered to your doorstep or see options in a store and checkout with a customized experience. The top cloud makers have distinctly different AI storefronts with responsive chatbots, image ... Full article
AI is shaping up to be a true paradigm shift across all industries. OpenAI's groundbreaking GPT technology is the most widely known example of how AI is reshaping our daily experiences in ways we couldn’t predict just a few years ago. Although AI has been around for decades, its practical application to real-world problems has ... Full article
In the gaming world, a hammerspace is an instantly accessible storage location that allows characters to seemingly grab objects out of thin air. If you have ever pulled a refrigerator out of your pocket while playing Nintendo’s “Animal Crossing,” you’ve seen a hammerspace in action. When it comes to the vast troves of data enterprises ... Full article
Nvidia is now renting out its homegrown AI supercomputers with its newest GPUs in the cloud for those keen to access its hardware and software packages.  The DGX Cloud service will include its high-performance AI hardware, including the H100 and A100 GPUs, which are currently in short supply. Users will be able to rent the ... Full article
President Biden met with seven artificial intelligence companies last week to seek voluntary safeguards for AI products and discuss future regulatory prospects. Now, four of those companies have formed a new coalition aimed at promoting responsible AI development and establishing industry standards in the face of increasing government and societal scrutiny. “Today, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, ... Full article
Esperanto Technologies has ambitious plans for its next RISC-V processor: to undo the accelerator model and build a chip that has both CPU and GPU capabilities for machine learning and high-performance computing. "X86 is just too heavyweight to serve as both main CPU. The accelerators and the GPUs are just too hard to program and ... Full article
Editors Note: In the wake of rising concerns about AI’s potential impact after the introduction of ChatGPT and other generative AI applications, HPCwire asked Steve Conway, senior analyst at Intersect360 Research, to interview Paul Muzio, former vice president for HPC at Network Computing Systems, Inc., and current chair of the HPC User Forum, an organization Conway helped to ... Full article
Tesla will spend $1 billion on its Dojo supercomputer through the next year as it beefs up video recognition capabilities for its autonomous cars. "I think we will be spending something north of $1 billion over the next year on – through the next year, it’s well over $1 billion in Dojo," said Elon Musk, ... Full article
At its .conf23 event in Las Vegas this week, Splunk unveiled a collection of new AI-powered tools across its portfolio of security and observability solutions. Splunk is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Splunk CEO Gary Steele, who joined the company in March 2022, acknowledged in a keynote how much the digital world has changed ... Full article
DataStax just announced the general availability of its vector search capability in Astra DB, its DBaaS built on Apache Cassandra. Vector search is a must-have capability for building generative AI applications. In machine learning, vector embeddings are the distilled representations of raw training data and act as a filter for running new data through during inference. Training ... Full article
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to punch Elon Musk in the face but is also looking to beat down AI rivals with his company's latest large-language model. The Llama 2 model, which was announced by Meta on Tuesday, joins a rash of open-source software AI available for users to download. The model is available for ... Full article
As AI continues to advance, the industry will begin to see a distinction between two categories: horizontal and vertical applications. While horizontal models offer versatile solutions applicable across domains, vertical models cater to specific industries, providing specialized AI capabilities. This is where an AI App Store enters the picture, revolutionizing the way niche markets and ... Full article
The artificial intelligence space has been characteristically busy this week. Elon Musk is officially throwing his hat into the AI ring, Anthropic has released a more powerful version of its Claude chatbot, and OpenAI is under an FTC investigation for data privacy concerns while rumors abound that the company has redesigned GPT-4, lowering its performance. ... Full article
What’s the next generation of enterprise AI going to look like? If you ask DataRobot CEO Debanjan Saha, enterprises will see the most business benefits by combining new generative AI tools and techniques with the classical AI and machine learning approaches that customers have honed over the past decade. Saha, who joined DataRobot as president and COO ... Full article
Worldwide revenue for the public cloud services market totaled $545.8 billion in 2022, an increase of 22.9% over 2021, according to new data from the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker. SaaS applications were the largest source of public cloud services revenue, accounting for over 45% of the total in 2022. Infrastructure as a ... Full article
An emerging AIOps use case for generative AI is incident analysis for IT response teams. Identifying the root cause of incidents and anomalies in IT systems can be time and resource intensive, and complex alerts often go unnoticed or uncommunicated to downstream staff and systems. Generative AI for Automated Incident Analysis is a new capability from AIOps ... Full article
Mixpanel, a platform for event analytics, announced it has integrated generative AI capabilities into its services to allow companies to “chat with their data.” Using a new feature called Spark, Mixpanel users can now conduct a natural language chat with their data to receive immediate insights into customer experience and the impact of their product ... Full article
Crypto companies that loaded up on GPUs in data centers for coin mining are now investigating whether to sell or repurpose the idle hardware to the exploding artificial intelligence market. Hive Blockchain, which has 38,000 Nvidia GPUs, is repurposing the hardware for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence applications. The company started rethinking about what to ... Full article
In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Chris Boehmler Quantum Computing Inc. a nanophotonic-based quantum technology company, appointed Chris ... Full article