Applause Announces Generative AI Training, Testing and Validation through Crowdtesting Services

Boston – June 08, 2023 – Testing and digital quality company Applause today announced capabilities in assisting clients with the training, testing and validation of generative AI models. Applause has been empowering global organizations to deliver advanced and reliable AI-driven solutions for many years, and is now at the forefront of helping companies test their […]

Monster API Says Its Platform Cuts AI Development Costs Up to 90%

Palo Alto, Calif., June 8, 2023 – Today Monster API is launching its platform to provide developers access to GPU infrastructure and pre-trained AI models at a lower cost than other cloud-based options, designed to deliver ease of use and scalability. It utilizes decentralized computing intended to enable developers to efficiently create AI applications, saving […]

AWS Announces GA of EC2 Trn1 Instances for ML Model Training 

SEATTLE — Oct. 10, 2022 — Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances powered by AWS-designed Trainium chips. Trn1 instances are built for high-performance training of machine learning models in the cloud. AWS said the offering saves up to 50 percent cost-to-train savings over comparable […]

MLPerf: Latest Results Highlight ‘More Capable ML Training’

Open engineering consortium MLCommons has released new results from MLPerf Training v2.0, which measures how fast various platforms train machine learning models. The organizations said the latest MLPerf Training results “demonstrate broad industry participation and up to 1.8X greater performance ultimately paving the way for more capable intelligent systems….” As it has done with previous […]

Cerebras Claims Record for Largest AI Models Trained on a Single Device

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 22, 2022 — AI computing company Cerebras Systems today announced that  a single Cerebras CS-2 system is able to train models with up to 20 billion parameters on – something not possible on any other single device, according to the company. By enabling a single CS-2 to train these models, Cerebras said […]

Azure Adopts AMD Instinct MI200 GPU for Large-Scale AI Training

SANTA CLARA, Calif. May 26, 2022 — Microsoft has announced the use of AMD Instinct MI200 GPU accelerators for large-scale AI training workloads. Microsoft also announced it is working with the PyTorch Core team and AMD data center software team to optimize the performance and developer experience for customers running PyTorch on Microsoft Azure. AMD […]