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….
HPC News Bytes 20240401: A $100B AI Data Center, Eviden Says It’s Healthy, Alibaba’s RISC-V Chip, New Optical Interconnect Group, Nvidia Fights CUDA Translation
April 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Lightning AI Announces Availability Compiler for PyTorch
March 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
New York – March 28, 2024 – Lightning AI today announced the availability of Thunder, a source-to-source compiler for PyTorch designed for training and serving the latest generative AI models across multiple GPUs. Thunder is the culmination of two years of research on the next generation of deep learning compilers, built with support from NVIDIA. […]
Zapata AI and Andretti Acquisition Corp. Announce Closing of Business Combination
March 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
BOSTON & INDIANAPOLIS, March 28, 2024 – Industrial generative AI company Zapata Computing, announced today that it has completed its business combination with Andretti Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: WNNR), a special purpose acquisition company. The combined company, which was renamed Zapata Computing Holdings Inc., will operate as Zapata AI and its common stock and warrants will […]
SydeLabs Raises $2.5M for GenAI Security
March 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SAN FRANCISCO – March 28, 2024; Today, security and risk management startup SydeLabs announced a seed funding round of $2.5 million to build solutions aimed at securing GenAI systems for enterprises. The funding round was led by RTP Global and also saw participation from Picus Capital and marquee angel investors. The adoption of Generative AI […]
ALCF Announces Online AI Testbed Training Workshops
March 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced a series of training workshops to introduce users to the novel AI accelerators deployed at the ALCF AI Testbed. The four individual workshops will introduce participants to the architecture and software of the SambaNova DataScale SN30, the Cerebras CS-2 system, the Graphcore Bow Pod system, and the GroqRack […]
Amazon Adds $2.75B to Stake in GenAI Startup Anthropic
March 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Amazon announced it has made its biggest-ever investment, $2.75 billion, in OpenAI/Chat-GPT competitor Anthropic, another indication that the generative AI phenomenon continues to heat up. Today’s news follows Amazon and Anthropic announcing an earlier $1.25 billion investment last September – the announcement today brings the total investment to $4 billion. “We have a notable history with […]
Updated MLPerf AI Inference Benchmark Results Released
March 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Today, MLCommons announced new results from its MLPerf Inference v4.0 benchmark suite with machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking. To view the results for MLPerf Inference v4.0 visit the Datacenter and Edge results pages. The MLPerf Inference….
Oriole Networks Raises £10m for Faster LLM Training
March 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
London, 27 March 2024: Oriole Networks – a startup using light to train LLMs faster with less power – has raised £10 million in seed funding to improve AI performance and adoption, and solve AI’s energy problem. The round, which the company said is one of the UK’s largest seed raises in recent years, was co-led […]
ACM and IMS Release First Issues of Journal of Data Science
March 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
New York, March 27, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IMS, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, have announced the publication of the first issues of the ACM/IMS Journal of Data Science (JDS), a peer-reviewed publication. The scope of the journal is multi-disciplinary and broad, spanning statistics, machine learning, computer systems, and the societal implications […]
Activeloop AI Database Raises $11M Series A
March 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment
March 26, 2024. Mountain View – Calif. – Database AI company Activeloop has raised $11 million in Series A funding from Streamlined Ventures, Y Combinator, Samsung Next, Alumni Ventures, and Dispersion Capital. The round brings Activeloop’s total funding to about $20M. Activeloop’s Deep Lake connects unstructured data — audio, video, images, text and embeddings — to […]
