Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Thursday, November 21, 2024
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Without Data Context, There is No AI

Approximately 80% of data has a location attribute associated with it – and that location data provides a connection with the physical world.

For Generali Real Estate*, the addition of alternative forms of data, such as spatial data, created greater context for its data and helped to power highly accurate AI-driven insights for data-driven decision-making.

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On Tuesday, November 19th, 2024, HPCwire hosted a special luncheon to honor the inaugural HPCwire 35 Legends, an annual list recognizing 35 individuals who have profoundly shaped the high-performance computing (HPC) community. The luncheon celebrated the remarkable achievements of researchers, inventors, and executives who have driven advancements in technology, science, and innovation over the past 35 years. ... Full article
Nvidia is showing keen interest in the Top500 list and says it will put more systems with its GPUs and technologies on the list. However, Nvidia’s interest is to give credibility to its networking technologies, not to prove the performance of its GPUs. Two supercomputing systems with Nvidia’s Spectrum-X networking are debuting in the Top ... Full article
The supercomputing world — or shall we call it the HPC and AI world — will convene in Atlanta this week to attend the Supercomputing 24 show. SC24 is a celebration of scientific computing and high-performance hardware. The cream of hardware and cloud companies — Nvidia, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle – are all there. The ... Full article
MinIO is one of the most popular open-source S3-compatible object storage systems in the world. Thanks to its combination of performance and simplicity, it’s been adopted to store data for a wide range of applications. But with the rapid emergence of generative AI, the MinIO company recognized there exists an opportunity to deliver an AI-centered ... Full article
US President-elect Donald Trump made plenty of ambitious promises during his presidential campaign, but it will be tough for him to fulfill all his pledges. His stance on artificial intelligence (AI) and climate largely aligns with his commitment to "America First" policies, focusing on economic growth, energy independence, and minimizing regulations on domestic industries. However, ... Full article
Red Hat has announced a signed agreement to acquire Neural Magic, a developer of software and algorithms that accelerate generative AI (gen AI) inference workloads. Red Hat mentions Neural Magic’s expertise in inference performance engineering and commitment to open source aligns with Red Hat’s vision of high-performing AI workloads that directly map to customer-specific use cases and data across the ... Full article
Perplexity, the AI search engine platform, is reportedly finalizing the details of a new funding round that will boost its valuation to a staggering $9 billion. This would triple its valuation from just a few months ago. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the new funding round.  The reported $500 million ... Full article
Fastino, a new foundation model provider, emerged from stealth today with a $7 million pre-seed funding round. The company says it offers a family of task-optimized language models that are more accurate, faster, and safer than traditional LLMs.  Fastino claims to have a differentiated approach to generative AI. Fastino CEO and co-founder Ash Lewis explained ... Full article
Amazon is rumored to be negotiating a second multibillion-dollar investment deal with AI startup Anthropic, the maker of the Claude family of LLMs and a rival to OpenAI.  Amazon previously invested $2.75 billion in the startup in March, adding on to an initial $1.25 billion backing in September 2023.  According to the latest report, Amazon ... Full article
GPUs have an insatiable desire for data, and keeping those processors fed can be a challenge. That’s one of the big reasons that WEKA launched a new line of data storage appliances last week that can move data at up to 18 million IOPS and serve 720 GB of data per second. The latest GPUs ... Full article
The rapid advancement of digital technologies has led to the proliferation of electronic devices and systems, resulting in an alarming increase in electronic waste (e-waste).  GenAI, in particular, requires substantial computational resources for model training and inference, but the impact of this on e-waste is not fully understood.  The latest Global E-Waste Monitor by the ... Full article
Editor's Note: In this insightful commentary, Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), explores the unique trajectories of AI research within academic and commercial realms. Gropp delves into the differing motivations and methodologies of these sectors, highlighting how academia prioritizes innovation and understanding, while the commercial sector drives rapid, scalable applications. ... Full article
With this being an election year, concerns have long been raised about the potential threats artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the integrity of the electoral process. According to a recent poll by Pew, more than half of US adults are "extremely or very concerned" about the negative influence of AI on the elections.  The 2024 ... Full article
The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements around openness for training data leaves a gap that eventually will need to be filled. The OSAID was unveiled this week after two years of development ... Full article
A boom in AI has created a problem for the organizers of the NeurIPS conference, which is considered an essential machine-learning research conference. The sheer number of registrations has overwhelmed organizers, who are moving to a lottery system to determine attendees. “Due to high demand for registrations, NeurIPS will be moving towards a randomized lottery system, ... Full article
Customers now have access to Google’s homegrown hardware — its Axion CPU and latest Trillium TPU — in its Cloud service.  At the same time, Google gave customers a teaser on Nvidia’s Blackwell coming to Google Cloud, which should arrive early next year. “We’re… eagerly anticipating the advancements enabled by Nvidia’s Blackwell GB200 NVL72 GPUs, ... Full article
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