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: George Axberg VAST Data appointed George Axberg to lead the company’s data protection strategy with its global customers. Prior to joining VAST Data, Axberg spent 16 years at Dell ...Full article
Enterprise AI vendor C3 AI announced the receipt of a $500 million AI modeling and simulation software agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) that aims to help the military accelerate its use of AI in the nation’s defense. For C3 AI, the five-year deal could not have come at a better time as ...Full article
As networks and applications become more complex, so does the process of unravelling performance problems. And as the complexity grows, even finding common errors in an SD-WAN infrastructure can be a challenge in our virtual-everything world. To help solve this conundrum, IBM launched its SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) services on Dec. 9 (Thursday). The new ...Full article
Edge Impulse, which offers a SaaS-based machine learning platform for creating projects for edge devices, has received $34 million in new Series B funding to grow its operations, marketing and staff. The two-year-old startup announced the additional funding, which was led by Coatue, on Dec. 9 (Thursday). Also joining the latest funding round are existing ...Full article
When it comes to language models, the name of the game is the development of ever more powerful models that push the boundaries of generating accurate and usable text generation from large stores of data. The latest research comes from Alphabet’s DeepMind division, which unveiled its new 280 billion parameter language model named Gopher and ...Full article
Quantum Origin, a service to deliver “completely unpredictable cryptographic keys” that are based on random numbers generated by a quantum computer, has been unveiled by the newly-created quantum computing vendor, Quantinuum. The new Quantum Origin service is being described by the company, which was formed in the recent merger of Honeywell’s quantum computing division and ...Full article
Nvidia’s 14-month-long, $40 billion proposal to acquire chip IP vendor Arm has hit another potential regulatory roadblock after being hit with two earlier challenges in Europe since October. This time it was the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which filed an administrative complaint on Dec. 2 to attempt to block the blockbuster transaction. The administrative ...Full article
As a serious shortage of enterprise AI and ML developers continues across a wide range of businesses, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to jumpstart AI and ML education to help fill the immediate gaps and inspire students and others to join the lucrative and in-demand field. To accomplish these goals, AWS has announced two ...Full article
MLCommons today released its fifth round of MLPerf training benchmark results and Nvidia GPUs again dominated the rankings, but competitors were not taking those results sitting down. One of the other AI accelerator companies that participated, Graphcore, stood its ground by holding a separate media and analyst briefing to tout its own MLPerf performance, contending ...Full article
Three years after unveiling the first generation of its AWS Graviton chip-powered instances in 2018, Amazon Web Services just announced that the third generation of the processors – the AWS Graviton3 – will power all-new Amazon Elastic Compute 2 (EC2) C7g instances that are now available in preview. Debuting at the AWS re:Invent 2021 conference ...Full article
As Amazon Web Services (AWS) opened its re:Invent 2021 technology conference in Las Vegas this week, the news was not only about cloud computing. Also getting top billing are the company’s strategic moves in advancing its offerings in the growing world of enterprise robotics. To help companies and robotics developers build and deploy applications that ...Full article
As the 2021 AWS re:Invent conference opens this week live and virtually in Las Vegas, Adam Selipsky, who took over the CEO position with the departure of Andy Jassy earlier this year, will begin to make his own mark on the company. When Jassy left his AWS post to take Jeff Bezos’ old chair at the head ...Full article
Artificial intelligence can help companies solve complex business challenges and identify new opportunities — but businesses need to be able to trust the technology. Currently, only 25 percent of businesses have processes fully enabled by AI and only 20 percent of companies have an ethical AI framework. This can create serious business consequences. In today’s ...Full article
Large global energy companies have a seriously challenging technology problem – due to varying compliance and data residency regulations around the world, they have business data that must be maintained in diverse ways in multiple locations. That results in critical business data being stored in separate silos, making it much harder to find needed data ...Full article
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been added to the growing list of government agencies around the world that are reviewing the proposed $40 billion acquisition of U.K.-based Arm Ltd. by Nvidia. The FTC perusal was noted briefly by Nvidia chief financial officer Colette Kress on Nov. 17 as she presented the company’s recent Q3 ...Full article
As the panelists gathered onstage for SC21’s first plenary talk, the words of the so-called Peter Parker principle – “with great power comes great responsibility” – cycled across the background slideshow. For the following hour, five panelists confronted this dilemma: with the transformative power of HPC (and, in particular, HPC-enabled AI) increasingly mainstreamed and deployed by ...Full article
When OpenAI first debuted its powerful GPT-3 natural language model in June of 2020, it debuted in a limited beta capacity and featured a waiting list where developers could sign up to use its infrastructure and capabilities. Now, the waiting list has been dropped and GPT-3’s capabilities are immediately available to developers and enterprises to ...Full article
Since coming online in the fall of 2019 in Paris, the Jean Zay supercomputer has been one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers available to HPC and AI researchers. And now, through the addition of new Nvidia A100 80GB GPUs and other hardware, the Jean Zay will soon offer double its present compute capacity for AI ...Full article
For years, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange – one of the world’s most diverse financial derivatives marketplaces – has run its IT systems and infrastructure in its own data centers and on-premises to keep them secure and running at peak performance. But in the last few years, the company – known formally as the CME Group ...Full article
With antitrust and national security concerns continuing amid the proposed $40 billion acquisition of U.K.-based Arm Ltd. by Nvidia, the British government today (Nov. 16) ordered an in-depth, 24-week “Phase Two” investigation into the proposed deal. The U.K.’s deepened investigation, which will be conducted by the government’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), follows a similar ...Full article
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