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 […]
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….
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 […]
Exascale Computing Project: Leveraging HPC and Neural Networks for Cancer Research
March 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment
What happens when Department of Energy (DOE) researchers join forces with chemists and biologists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). They use the most advanced high-performance computers to study cancer at the molecular, cellular and population levels.
@HPCpodcast at GTC 2024: Taking in the Scene at Nvidia’s Week at the Center of the Tech World
March 21, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Live from Nvidia’s GTC 2024 AI-everywhere show, Doug and Shahin get together in the usual coffee shop chat of the @HPCpodcast. We cover a wide range of announcements from Nvidia headlined by their new Blackwell GPU architecture, discuss the contrast between the Nvidia model and thoe of other players, and share some observations (including celebrity sitings and a stare-down between a dog and a robot….
Dell Offers NVIDIA-Powered AI Factory Solutions
March 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
NVIDIA GTC 2024 – SAN JOSE – March 18, 2024: Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is strengthening its collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises adopt AI technologies. By expanding the Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio, including with the new Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, organizations can accelerate integration of their data, AI tools and on-premises infrastructure to […]
Lenovo Unveils Hybrid GenAI Solutions in Collaboration with NVIDIA
March 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
March 18, 2024 – At NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference, Lenovo announced new hybrid AI solutions, built in collaboration with NVIDIA, designed to deliver the power of tailored generative AI applications to enterprises and cloud. Stemming from the expanded engineering collaboration announced with NVIDIA during Lenovo Tech World, the innovations help enterprises and cloud providers […]
