MindsDB AI Company Secures Funding from NVIDIA

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8, 2023 — MindsDB, an artificial intelligence virtual database, today announced an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, bringing total seed funding raised to $46.5 million. The latest round – which includes existing investors Benchmark, Mayfield, Y Combinator, OpenOcean and Walden Catalyst – will be used to advance MindsDB’s mission, making AI more accessible to […]

Livermore Lab Team Boosts Trust in AI for Science by Making Machine Learning Explainable

As machine learning techniques become increasingly used in the sciences, a team of researchers in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Computing and Physical and Life Sciences directorates are trying to provide a reasonable starting place for scientists who want to apply machine learning but lack a strong ML background. The goal is to help users understand […]

Metabob Launches New AI Generative VSCode Extension

PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 4, 2023 – Metabob announced today a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual studio code (VSCode) extension for its debugging and refactoring tool that the company says speeds software development code review by 60 percent. It provides users with functional context-sensitive code recommendations to fix errors right in the integrated development […]

Study Says Companies Lack Resources to Deliver Enterprise AI/ML Goals

SAN FRANCISCO – March 14, 2023 – Domino Data Lab, provider of an enterprise MLOps platform, has released a industry report, “Build A Winning AI Offense: C-Level Strategies for an ML-Fueled Revenue Engine.” The study determined that while data science is now a key revenue and innovation engine for the enterprise, most enterprise data and […]

DOE Announces $33M Funding Opportunity for ML, AI and Data Resources for Fusion Energy Sciences

The DOE SC program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) has announced its interest in applications in the areas of machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and data resources for fusion energy and plasma sciences. The goal of this FOA is to support multi-disciplinary teams aiming to apply advanced and autonomous algorithms to address high-priority research […]

MIT AI Policy Forum Virtual Summit Sept. 28 to Explore Challenges Surrounding AI Deployment 

Cambridge, MA — Sept. 22, 2022 — On Wednesday, Sept. 28 from 9 am to 5 pm Eastern Time, the MIT AI Policy Forum will host a free, virtual summit convening leading voices from government, business, and academia to explore the global policy challenges surrounding the implementation of AI technologies. The summit will feature a live […]

BRV China-backed HPC-AI Tech Completes $6M Seed and Angel Round Financing 

BEIJING, Sept. 14, 2022 — HPC-AI Tech, an artificial intelligence high-performance optimization platform, recently closed $6 million seed and angel rounds with BlueRun Ventures China (BRV China) acting as the lead investor for the angel round. The funds, which were raised within a year, will be mainly used to bring in more talented teams and […]

Accelerating the Modern Data Center – Gear Up for AI

Modern applications are transforming every business. From AI for better customer engagement, to data analytics for forecasting, to advanced visualization for product innovation, the need for accelerated computing is rapidly increasing. But enterprises face challenges with using existing infrastructure to power these applications.

@HPCpodcast: Google’s Lifelike LaMDA AI Chatbot and Questions of Being or Nothingness

When a tech news story gets talked about on sports radio, you know it’s gone very viral. That’s what happened last week with the story about a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, who declared that the company’s AI chatbot, LaMDA, is a person with rights. Lemoine promptly got suspended by Google for his trouble, and he says he won’t be surprised if he gets fired. In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin Khan of OrionX.net and insideHPC editor-in-chief Doug Black talk about LaMDA’s amazingly lifelike conversational capability, how it can ingest books and research papers and share insights about them in real time (i.e., during conversations), deep fake-related ethical questions raised by LaMDA, the urgency of thoughtful social policies based on ethical and legal frameworks and philosophical issues of sentience, being and nothingness – artificial and otherwise.

Nova Southeastern Univ. Wins $1.94M In National Defense Authorization Act Community Projects

Fort Lauderdale, FL — March 22, 2022 — Nova Southeastern University (NSU) has been awarded $1.94 million in National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Community Projects Funding (CPF), as requested by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz for the full year 2022. The funding is specifically dedicated to adding emerging technology equipment to the Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center […]