When it comes to AI compute, the big cloud platform providers are chip-agnostic, adopting processors from the big chip companies (mostly NVIDIA) along with their own custom-designed GPUs ….
OpenAI Wins $200M Contract Targeting Defense Department Efficiency
OpenAI announced it has won a $200 million, one-year pilot project contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to help DOD “identify and prototype how frontier AI can transform its administrative operations, from improving how service members and their families get health care, to streamlining how they look at program and acquisition data, to supporting […]
Report: $15B OpenAI Data Center in Texas Will House up to 400,000 Blackwells
Amid reports of hundreds of billions in AI data center investments in the Middle East, development of AI factories in the U.S. continues apace. The Wall Street Journal reported today that OpenAI has secured ….
Sandia Rolls out Custom Instance of ChatGPT — SandiaAI Chat
In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories began providing its employees with a large language model chatbot, called SandiaAI Chat, which the lab said is the first facility within the U.S. nuclear security enterprise to do so, enabling Sandia staff to ask sensitive, unclassified questions. Rather than buying a corporate ….
The AI Revolution: How Machine Learning has Changed the World in Two Years
In this contributed article, Ashley Marron, CEO of MindGenius, observes that as we approach the second anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT, it’s important to look at the impact AI has had on business technology, radically changing how companies and industries work, in that short time.
Intel Unveils Next-Gen Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3 Aimed at AI
Amid swirling reports of a multi-billion capital infusion offer from an investment firm along with a reported acquisition attempt, Intel proceeded today with launches of the Xeon 6 CPU and the Gaudi 3 AI GPU, both chips aimed at exploding demand for AI compute — and at competitors Nvidia and AMD. Intel said the Xeon 6 (“Granite Rapids”) with Performance-cores (P-cores) delivers twice the performance of its predecessor and features increased core count, double the memory bandwidth ….
Conversational Internet is Digitizing the Other Half of the World
In this contributed article, Beerud Sheth, co-founder and CEO of Gupshup, discusses the future of Generative AI beyond ChatGPT. In this new era of Conversational Internet, the chatbot is the new website, and the messaging app the new browser
Overcoming the Technical and Design Hurdles for Proactive AI Systems
In this contributed article, George Davis, founder and CEO of Frame AI, howlights how we find ourselves at an early, crucial stage in the AI R&D lifecycle. Excitement over AI’s potential is dragging it into commercial development well before reliable engineering practices have been established. Architectural patterns like RAG are essential in moving from theoretical models to deployable solutions.
SambaNova Says It’s First with Trillion-Parameter GenAI Model
Feb. 28, 2024 — AI technology company SambaNova Systems said today its Samba-1 is the first 1 trillion (1T) parameter generative AI model. “This past fall, we announced the SN40L, the smartest AI chip (rivaling Nvidia), and today we’ve integrated that chip with the first 1T parameter model for the enterprise,” said Rodrigo Liang, co-founder […]
AI Governance Proposal: Control AI by Controlling Compute
To control compute – to squeeze or open the spigot of processing power – is to control AI. In doing so, AI can be steered toward beneficial results while avoiding, or punishing, bad ones. That’s the argument forwarded in a white paper from 15 research centers and universities in the U.S., Canada and the UK – and OpenAI….













