We spoke with Eviden’s Group Senior Vice President, Head of Advanced Computing, HPC, Quantum, AI Solutions Emmanuel Le Roux, who asserted that Atos’ financial troubles have had no impact on Eviden, that Eviden is winning deals, growing and hiring.
Eviden: No Impact from Atos’s Financial Difficulties – ‘We Are Growing and Hiring’
March 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Photonic Fabric Company Celestial AI Closes $175M Series C
March 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Fabric optical interconnect technology platform, announced it raised $175 million in its Series C funding round led by Thomas Tull’s U.S. Innovative Technology Fund (USIT). In addition to USIT, the round included participation from new and existing investors including AMD Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), Temasek, […]
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe Issues Letter of Farewell as Director of DOE Office of Science
March 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Following the news last week of her departure as director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science since May 2022, Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe has issued a letter of farewell to her agency and White House colleagues. Dr. Berhe is currently on leave from the….
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. […]
Advania Expands into Second atNorth Data Center in Iceland
March 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Reykjavík, Iceland– March 26th, 2024 – HPC and AI colocation atNorth announced an expansion of its partnership with Nordic IT services corporation, Advania, providing additional capacity at its state of the art ICE03 site in Iceland which opened last year. Advania is a long-standing customer of atNorth at its ICE01 site in Reykjavík in addition to some of atNorth’s other […]
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 […]
Exascale Software and NASA’s ‘Nerve-Racking 7 Minutes’ with Mars Landers
March 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
NASA supercomputers have helped several Mars landers survive the nerve-racking seven minutes of terror. During this hair-raising interval, a lander enters the Martian atmosphere and needs to automatically execute many crucial actions in precise order….
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 […]
