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 ….
SambaNova Says It’s First with Trillion-Parameter GenAI Model
February 28, 2024 by
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
February 16, 2024 by
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….
HPC User Forum: ‘Lawyers Who Use AI Will Replace Lawyers Who Don’t’
September 26, 2023 by
“Lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers who don’t.” That was the coda of a presentation given at the recent HPC User Forum in Tucson by Arizona State University law professor Gary Marchant, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a professor at ASU since 1999. Marchant’s presentation at the Forum, hosted by Hyperion Research, was one of the conference’s most talked-about sessions. In this interview, Marchant shares his observations on how generative AI and large language models….
Cerebras, Databricks Stoke Generative AI Arena with Open Source LLMs
March 28, 2023 by
In few other areas of the global economy are the rounds of creative destruction more rapid and more intense than the HPC-AI sector. We see this today with the generative AI sensation: OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November has created a firestorm of competitive responses. At least two companies – Cerebras, maker of the dinner-plate […]
@HPCpodcast: The AI Gold Rush, Virtual Quantum, an Advance for Silicon Photonics and Nuclear Energy for Future Supercomputers
March 7, 2023 by
In what may become a regular segment of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug cover important recent developments in HPC and AI that signal changes in markets and policies. Always, we keep an eye on where these developments fit into the big picture, what it all means. This time, we look at what may be AI’s “iPhone moment” (you guessed it: ChatGPT) and the ensuing AI gold rush that’s been gaining massive investment momentum since about 2015, much to the happiness of NVIDIA shareholders; virtual quantum computers; and how advances in silicon photonics could change the chip – and therefore the technology – industry….
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Subscription Offering
February 2, 2023 by
OpenAI, maker of the generative AI application ChatGPT that has created an internet sensation, has announced a subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, for $20/month that pays for access to the app during peak time. “ChatGPT Plus is available to customers in the United States, and we will begin the process of inviting people from our waitlist […]
Microsoft Announces GA of Azure OpenAI Service, ChatGPT on Way
January 17, 2023 by
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure OpenAI Service, the result of a partnership with OpenAI whose ChatGPT generative AI application has created a sensation since its late November launch that generated 1 million-plus downloads in its first week. The announcement follows last week’s news that Microsoft was in talks to invest $10 billion […]
