Nearly two years ago, OpenAI’s 175 billion-parameter GPT-3 language model opened the world’s eyes to what large language models (LLMs) could accomplish with relatively little input, sensibly answering questions, translating text, and even generating its own pieces of creative writing. GPT-3’s success in few-shot learning was itself succeeded by models like Google’s LaMDA (137 billion ...Full article
Hardware startup d-Matrix says the $44 million it raised in a Series A round this week (April 20) will help it continue development of a novel “chiplet” architecture that uses 6 nanometer chip embedded in SRAM memory modules for accelerating AI workloads. The goal is to deliver an order of magnitude efficiency boost in inference ...Full article
It’s been six years since European Union (EU) passed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a wide-ranging and complex regulation intended to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the EU. Now, as analogous regulations around artificial intelligence (AI) are fomenting in multiple parts of the world, the business world’s experience with GDPR ...Full article
AI is becoming more ubiquitous, from everyday voice assistants and online shopping to healthcare and workplace management — but can we trust it? That question was the headline of a panel called “Can We Trust AI?” during the Discover Experiential AI event at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI (EAI) this week. The panel was moderated by ...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: Rob Bailer and Brian Gracely Solo.io, the application networking company, appointed Rob Bailer as its chief financial officer and Brian Gracely as its vice president of product strategy. Bailer ...Full article
In this contributed Q&A, ISC’s Nages Sieslack interviews Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at Nvidia, about the use of digital twin technology for science and industry. Lebaredian will be delivering the opening keynote at ISC 2022 in partnership with Michele Melchiorre, senior vice president of production system, technical planning, tool shop ...Full article
MLCommons today released its latest MLPerf inferencing results, with another strong showing by Nvidia accelerators inside a diverse array of systems. Roughly four years old, MLPerf still struggles to attract wider participation from accelerator suppliers. Nevertheless, overall performance and participation was up, with 19 organizations submitting twice as many results and six times as many ...Full article
Further evidence of the blossoming diversity of architectures offered in the cloud arrived this week with the news that Ampere Altra Arm-based processors have been added to Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure. Microsoft says the Arm-based instances, currently in preview, offer up to 50 percent better price-performance than comparable x86-based virtual machines (VMs) for scale-out workloads. “The ...Full article
Enterprises use intelligent automation to automate a wide variety of manual tasks, thereby freeing up their employees to spend more time on creative, higher-level activities. As a result, employees are empowered to deliver their customers better products, services, and experiences. Benefits like these have driven enterprises to rapidly adopt intelligent automation. According to Gartner, “the ...Full article
From weather sensors and autonomous vehicles to electric grid monitoring and cloud gaming, the world’s edge computing is getting increasingly complex — but the world of HPC hasn’t necessarily caught up to these rapid innovations at the edge. At a panel at Nvidia’s virtual GTC22 (“HPC, AI, and the Edge”), five experts discussed how leading-edge HPC applications ...Full article
Over 16 months ago, Pfizer achieved a historic scientific moonshot — the unprecedentedly swift development and authorization of a novel vaccine for a novel virus using methods that hitherto had not been used in approved drugs at scale. Throughout the pandemic, nearly every public research supercomputer pivoted to some form of Covid research, but the ...Full article
An accurate digital twin can be a boon to scientific endeavors, from recreating individual buildings in a city to understand energy use to recreating the Earth’s climate system to understand the effects of policies on climate change. At GTC21, Nvidia made waves by announcing that its Modulus framework for physics-based ML models and its Omniverse ...Full article
Today at its GTC developer conference, Nvidia launched a new computing system for industrial digital twins, the Nvidia OVX. Nvidia OVX was created for the purpose of running digital twin simulations within the Omniverse, Nvidia’s industrial operations metaverse that is “a real-time physically accurate world simulation and 3D design collaboration platform.” "Just as we have ...Full article
At GTC22 today, Nvidia unveiled its new H100 GPU, the first of its new ‘Hopper’ architecture, along with a slew of accompanying configurations, systems and accompanying technology and software. To show off these advances, they also unveiled a new, massive supercomputer set to debut somewhere in the United States in a few months: Eos, named ...Full article
Accenture has released its Accenture Technology Vision 2022, a report examining key technologies under the theme “Meet Me in the Metaverse: The Continuum of Technology and Experience Reshaping Business.” The report combines input from Accenture‘s Technology Vision External Advisory board (comprised of public and private sector experts from academia, venture capital, and business), as well as ...Full article
Run:ai, a provider of an AI virtualization layer that helps optimize GPU instances, yesterday announced a Series C round worth $75 million. The funding figures to help the fast-growing company expand its sales reach and further development the platform. GPUs are the beating heart of deep learning today, but the limited nature of the computing ...Full article
Intel has announced that it is making an “initial” €33 billion (~$36 billion) investment across the semiconductor value chain in Europe. The investment — which spans R&D, manufacturing and packaging — comes at a time when sovereignty is, more than ever, a headline priority for the continent. What was announced? A “Silicon Junction” in Germany ...Full article
Selector, an AIOps, analytics and observability platform provider, has announced it raised $28 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $33 million. Selector will use these new funds for its market strategy and expansion in North America and investment in R&D. AIOps technology uses artificial intelligence to automate IT operations. ...Full article
The study of archaeology is like a key – it unlocks the past through its search for and analysis of ancient items that have survived over the ages. Historically, it has been a discipline that takes time and patience to reveal its secrets. Recent technological revolutions have advanced knowledge in the field. With the help ...Full article
Nvidia has announced that it has acquired Excelero. The high-performance block storage provider, founded in 2014, will have its technology integrated into Nvidia’s enterprise software stack. Nvidia is not disclosing the value of the deal. Excelero’s core product, Excelero NVMesh, offers software-defined block storage via networked NVMe SSDs. NVMesh operates through networked drives on-prem or ...Full article
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