This week, @HPCpodcast introduces HPC News Bytes, a weekly program, just 3-5 minutes, a quick compendium of the most important news in HPC, AI, quantum and other advanced tech. Join us! This first episode includes: LLNL El Capitan installation commencement; LLNL Director Kim Budil named as one of the Most Creative People in Business for 2023 by Fast Company; Inflection AI’s 22,000 GPU system; New York State Department of Financial Services’ plans to buy an AI supercomputer; Intel & Nvidia collaborate on Confidential Computing….
GenAI: Intel Labs Introduces AI Diffusion Model for 360-Degree Images from Text Prompts
June 21, 2023 by
Intel Labs, in collaboration with Blockade Labs, has introduced Latent Diffusion Model for 3D (LDM3D), a diffusion model that uses generative AI to create 3D visual content. Intel said LDM3D is the industry’s “first model to generate a depth map using the diffusion process to create 3D images with 360-degree views that are vivid and […]
Galileo Launches LLM Diagnostics and Explainability Platform
June 20, 2023 by
San Francisco — June 20, 2023 — Today, Galileo, a machine-learning (ML) data intelligence company for LLMs and computer vision, announced a suite of tools called Galileo LLM Studio — now available for waitlist signups here. As organizations of all sizes and across industries begin to consider the potential applications of generative AI, it is more important than ever […]
Parrot Unveils LLM AI Platform for Court Reporting, Raises $11M Series A Funding
June 20, 2023 by
New York — June 20, 2023 – Parrot, a platform for transcribing and managing depositions, made its public debut today announcing $11 million in Series A funding and the release of the first product offering AI-generated deposition summaries to legal professionals. Amplify Partners and XYZ Venture Capital led the round bringing the total funds raised […]
Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions
June 2, 2023 by
Suddenly, GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is one of the hot tech companies of the week and likely longer. No sooner did the Roseland, NY, startup announce on Wednesday it had secured $200 million in a series B venture round extension than the news broke the next day that CoreWeave has signed a deal with Microsoft […]
Photonics Compute and Interconnect Startup Lightmatter Raises $154M Series C Funding, Targets HPC and AI Workloads
June 1, 2023 by
BOSTON – Photonics computing company Lightmatter announced it has raised $154 million in a Series C investment round, bringing to $270 million that the company has raised. Participants in this latest round are SIP Global, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Viking Global Investors, GV (Google Ventures), HPE Pathfinder and existing investors. The company said it will […]
At ISC 2023: A DDN Update on Its Latest High Performance Data Storage/Data Management Solutions for HPC and AI
June 1, 2023 by
At ISC 2023, we caught up with DDN Vice President of Marketing Kurt Kuckein on new product offerings from the high performance storage and data management company. A long-time HPC storage stalwart, many of the same challenges faced by HPC end users are now encountered by companies adopting AI – efficient access and transfer of […]
NVIDIA Teams with Microsoft on Enterprise-Ready Generative AI
May 25, 2023 by
NVIDIA has announced that it is integrating its NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning targeting enterprise AI initiatives. The integration will create a secure, enterprise-ready platform that enables Azure customers worldwide to quickly build, deploy and manage customized applications using the more than 100 NVIDIA AI frameworks and tools that come fully […]
Dell and NVIDIA in Generative AI Initiative
May 24, 2023 by
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) have announced a joint generative AI initiative designed to make it easier for businesses to build generative AI models on premises. Project Helix will offer various solutions with technical support and pre-built tools based on Dell and NVIDIA infrastructure and software. It includes a blueprint to help […]
Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Tens of Thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs
May 11, 2023 by
If a computer’s intelligence can be anthropomorphized, then an AI supercomputer that can scale to 26,000 GPUs (26 exaFLOPS AI throughput) is at the head of the class. That’s the case with Google’s new A3 GPU supercomputers for Google Cloud, introduced at the Google I/O 2023 conference. Google said A3 GPU VMs are designed to […]
