Happy April Fool’s Day! It was as always an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, this edition of HPC News Bytes includes commentary on: Microsoft and….
AI Robotics Startup Attracting $675M from Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Bezos
March 1, 2024 by
Start up robotics company Figure, founded in 2022 and based in Sunnyvale, CA, is in the process of attracting $675 million in venture funding from the likes of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, OpenAI and Nvidia, along with a slew….
AI Governance Proposal: Control AI by Controlling Compute
February 16, 2024 by
To control compute – to squeeze or open the spigot of processing power – is to control AI. In doing so, AI can be steered toward beneficial results while avoiding, or punishing, bad ones. That’s the argument forwarded in a white paper from 15 research centers and universities in the U.S., Canada and the UK – and OpenAI….
HPC News Bytes 20240212: Honda Taps Cadence CFD HPC, Chip Industry Gyrations, Yelick in ISC Spotlight
February 12, 2024 by
Good day-after-Super-Bowl morning to you! It was an interesting week in HPC-AI last week, here’s a quick (5:47) run through some of the latest goings on: Honda taps Cadence supercomputer for air taxi R&D, chip industry gyrations, Kathy Yelick to deliver ISC 2024 keynote, Google settles patent infringement case….
Trillions for Chips: A Roiled Semiconductor Industry Strains to Meet AI Demand
February 9, 2024 by
We’re seeing the chip industry’s version of the scientific aphorism: “nature hates a vacuum.” The vacuum is the short supply of – and vast demand for – AI chips, and it’s roiling the semiconductor industry. Chip foundry companies TSMC, Intel and Samsung are straining to expand GPU fab capacity….
Mona Introduces Free, Self-Service Monitoring for GPT Applications
June 29, 2023 by
ATLANTA & TEL AVIV, June 29, 2023 – Mona, maker of an intelligent monitoring platform, has unveiled a new monitoring solution for GPT-based applications. The free, self-service offering provides businesses with granular visibility into GPT-based products and valuable insights into costs, performance, and quality. Large language models (LLMs), and specifically OpenAI’s GPT models, have attracted […]
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 […]
OpenAI Annouces GPT-4, Scores in Top 10% on Bar Exam
March 14, 2023 by
Whatever your initial impression were of ChatGPT, the capabilities of the generative AI application from OpenAI appear poised to move significantly forward.
The company has announced a follow-up to GPT-3.5: GPT-4, described by the company as “….a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance….
Microsoft Introduces Generative AI VM on Azure with Scaling up to Thousands of GPUs
March 13, 2023 by
Microsoft today introduced the ND H100 v5 VM on the Azure cloud, a virtual machine for development generative AI applications. The VM can scale from eight to thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs with Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, Microsoft said, and the adoption of H100’s, NVIDIA’s latest data center GPUs, will accelerate performance for AI models over […]
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Subscription Offering
February 2, 2023 by
OpenAI, maker of the generative AI application ChatGPT that has created an internet sensation, has announced a subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, for $20/month that pays for access to the app during peak time. “ChatGPT Plus is available to customers in the United States, and we will begin the process of inviting people from our waitlist […]
