The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s (MassTech) Innovation Institute announced the launch of the Massachusetts (MA) AI Models Innovation Challenge, a flagship initiative under the newly established Massachusetts AI (Artificial Intelligence) Hub.
Toward AGI: AI Innovation Will Be Driven by Applications, Not LLMs
February 13, 2025 by
DeepSeek’s LLM caused a stir, but … companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are aiming higher, their sights are set on artificial general intelligence (AGI), for which LLMs will be a component. No matter how fast, powerful, or efficient they get, LLMs alone won’t be enough to achieve AGI.
Toward AGI: AI Innovation Will Be Driven by Applications, Not LLMs
February 13, 2025 by
DeepSeek’s LLM has caused a stir, but … companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are aiming higher, their sights are set on artificial general intelligence, for which LLMs will be a component. No matter how fast, powerful, or efficient they get, LLMs alone won’t be enough to achieve AGI.
Balancing Innovation and Risk: Current and Future Use of LLMs in the Financial Industry
February 6, 2025 by
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized how we interact with clients, partners, our teams, and technology within the finance industry. According to Gartner, the adoption of AI by finance functions has increased significantly in the past year, with 58 percent ….
QCT Leverages NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Platform to Enhance AI Powerhouses
December 5, 2024 by
When we last took a close look at QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology), the data center, hyperscale and cloud server maker based in Taiwan, we pointed out that the company is a bigger player in the server industry than ….
AWS Announces EC2 UltraCluster and GA of Trainium2 Instances
December 3, 2024 by
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3, 2024 — At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, introduced new Trn2 UltraServers, enabling customers to train ….
HPC News Bytes 20241202: Do LLM’s Understand?, Agentic AI, Simulating the Universe, France Adding Reactors, TSMC 2nm Chips
December 2, 2024 by
A happy December start to you! From the world of HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (7:38) romp through recent news, including: LLMs and “emergent” understanding, collaborative Agentic AI, Frontier exascale ….
Oriole Networks Raises $22M for Photonics to Cut LLM Energy Use
October 21, 2024 by
London, 21st October: Oriole Networks – a company using light to train Large Language Models with low energy consumption – has raised an additional $22 million from investors to scale its “super-brain” solution. The round was led by Plural with all existing investors – UCL Technology Fund, XTX Ventures, Clean Growth Fund, and Dorilton Ventures – reinvesting. Oriole Networks addresses […]
HPC News Bytes 20241014: AMD Rollout, Foxconn’s Massive AI HPC, AI Drives Nobels, Are LLM’s Intelligent?
October 14, 2024 by
A good mid-October morn to you! Here’s a brief (6:30) run-through of developments from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD’s products rollout, Foxconn’s big Blackwell AI HPC in Taiwan, AI for science drives Nobel Prizes, Meta AI guru’s AGI skepticism
Cerebras Claims Fastest AI Inference
August 27, 2024 by
AI compute company Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is the fastest AI inference solution. Cerebras Inference delivers 1,800 tokens per second for Llama3.1 8B and 450 tokens per second for Llama3.1 70B, according to the company, making it 20 times faster than GPU-based solutions in hyperscale clouds.
