The University of Bristol will host the new AI Research Resource, dubbed Isambard-AI, the UK announced, part of a £900 million supercomputing initiative made public last March. The UK said the system will be one the most powerful in Europe. “The world-class AIRR cluster will vastly increase the UK’s compute….
UK AI Supercomputer, ‘One of the Most Powerful in Europe,’ to Be Installed at Univ. of Bristol
September 14, 2023 by Leave a Comment
SiMa.ai Debuts Palette Edgematic for Edge ML Applications
September 12, 2023 by Leave a Comment
SAN JOSE, Sept. 12, 2023 — SiMa.ai, an embedded edge machine learning company, today launched Palette Edgematic, a free visual development environment designed for organizations to get started with ML at the edge. With Palette Edgematic, SiMa is delivering an onramp to AI and ML at the edge via a no-code approach to creating, evaluating […]
HPC News Bytes 20230911: NVIDIA LLM Inferencing; Honeywell and Quantinuum; TSMC in Silicon Photonics; Microsoft Copilot AI Indemnification
September 11, 2023 by Leave a Comment
As we reflect on the events of 9/11/2001 (it’s still living hell no matter how long ago it happened), let’s quickly (4:52) review last week’s HPC news highlights, including: NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM for faster AI inferencing; Honeywell integrates quantum-hardened encryption keys from Quantinuum; TSMC enters the silicon photonics arena; Microsoft to defend Copilot AI customers; Hyperion Research hosts HPC User Forum
NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH: DGX Integration with Hugging Face for LLM Training; Announcement of AI Workbench
August 8, 2023 by Leave a Comment
At the the SIGGRAPH conference this morning in Los Angeles, NVIDIA made several generative AI-related announcements, including a partnership with Hugging Face intended to broaden access to generative AI supercomputing (NVIDIA’s DGX cloud hardware) for developers building large language models (LLMs) and other AI applications on the Hugging Face platform. The companies said the combination […]
Introducing the HPC News Bytes Podcast, A Quick Compendium of the Latest HPC News
July 13, 2023 by
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 […]
