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OSI Open AI Definition Stops Short of Requiring Open Data

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

Lottery to Determine Major AI Conference Attendees Amid Registration Boom

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

Role Reversal: Google Teases Nvidia’s Blackwell as It Softens TPU Rivalry

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

Sam Altman Says No GPT-5 This Year in Reddit AMA

A small team of OpenAI executives participated in an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit today. The company’s CEO Sam Altman and CPO Kevin Weil most frequently replied to Reddit users’ questions, with others answering as well. OpenAI's AMA post encouraged users to “Ask us anything about” topics like the new o1 and o1-mini ... Full article

UT San Antonio Secures $4 Million NSF Grant for Neuromorphic Computing Project

The MATRIX AI Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced this week it received a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund “The Neuromorphic Commons (THOR)” project. The THOR project is a multi-university initiative giving researchers access to large-scale heterogeneous neuromorphic computing hardware systems. “Our vision is to ... Full article

OpenAI Develops New AGI Benchmark to Assess Potential Risks of Advanced AI

As artificial intelligence systems grow more advanced, there is increasing concern over models capable of modifying their own code and enhancing their abilities without human oversight. Such AI agents, if left unchecked, could progress at a rate that surpasses human understanding, potentially leading to unpredictable or even catastrophic outcomes. Researchers from OpenAI have developed MLE-bench ... Full article

Nvidia Debuts Enterprise Reference Architectures to Build AI Factories

The advent of generative AI has supersized the appetite for GPUs and other forms of accelerated computing. To help companies scale up their accelerated compute investments in a predictable manner, GPU giant Nvidia and several server partners have borrowed a page from the world of high performance computing (HPC) and unveiled the Enterprise Reference Architectures ... Full article

Report from HALO Details Issues Facing HPC-AI Industry

Intersect360 Research has released a comprehensive new report concerning the challenges facing the combined fields of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). Titled “Issues Facing the HPC-AI Industry: Insights from the Advisory Committees of the HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO),” this report – which was based on extensive interviews conducted with members of the HALO Advisory ... Full article

Google Deepmind Open Sources Its AI Text Watermarking Tool

In an age where AI-generated content is increasingly common, concerns around authorship and authenticity are on the rise. The ease with which AI can create realistic text, images, and other forms of media has led to challenges distinguishing between human-created and AI-generated work. As a result, issues such as plagiarism, copyright infringement, and the spread ... Full article

SCIDS: UC San Diego’s New Hub for Data Science and AI

UC San Diego has taken a bold step to meet the growing demand for skills in artificial intelligence and data science. The university’s new School of Computing, Information, and Data Sciences (SCIDS) unites the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI), positioning the university at the forefront of transformative research ... Full article

AI Has a Data Problem, Appen Report Says

AI may be a priority at American companies, but the difficulty in managing data and obtaining high quality data to train AI models is becoming a bigger hurdle to achieving AI aspirations, according to Appen’s State of AI in 2024 report, which was released yesterday. AI is dependent on data. Whether you’re training your own ... Full article

Spotting AI Hallucinations: MIT’s SymGen Speeds Up LLM Output Validation

Imagine if your LLM could not only provide answers but also show you exactly where those answers came from—like a scholar meticulously citing sources. A new validation tool created at MIT aims to do just that, giving human validators the ability to trace every piece of information back to its origin in a dataset, which ... Full article

White House Mulls Expanding AI Chip Export Bans Beyond China

The Biden administration is reportedly considering capping sales of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips from US-based manufacturers like AMD and NVIDIA to certain countries, including those in the Middle East. The move represents concerns over the use of advanced AI chips for surveillance and military applications. AI technologies can be used to enhance the capabilities of ... Full article

Archetype AI’s Newton Model Masters Physics From Raw Data

Physicists have developed a deep understanding of the fundamental laws of nature through careful observations, experiments, and precise measurements. However, what if artificial intelligence (AI) could uncover governing laws of the physical world by analyzing data on its own? Researchers at Archetype AI have developed a foundational AI model, called the “Newton AI Model”, capable ... Full article

Nvidia’s Newest Foundation Model Can Actually Spell ‘Strawberry’

A new AI model from Nvidia knows just how many R’s are in the word strawberry, a feat that OpenAI’s GPT-4o model has yet to achieve. In what is known as the "strawberry problem," GPT-4o and a few other established models often give the false answer that ‘strawberry’ only has two R’s. Launched on Hugging ... Full article

AI Exascale: In This Club, You Must ‘Earn the Exa’

There have been some recent press releases and headlines with the phrase “AI Exascale” in them. Other than flaunting the word exascale or even zettascale, these stories do not provide enough information to justify using the term exascale. Those in the HPC community understand words like exascale, which means the computer in question has achieved ... Full article

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