Suddenly, GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is one of the hot tech companies of the week and likely longer. No sooner did the Roseland, NY, startup announce on Wednesday it had secured $200 million in a series B venture round extension than the news broke the next day that CoreWeave has signed a deal with Microsoft […]
Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions
June 2, 2023 by Leave a Comment
OpenAI Annouces GPT-4, Scores in Top 10% on Bar Exam
March 14, 2023 by
San Francisco — March 14, 2023 — Whatever your initial impression were of ChatGPT, the capabilities of the generative AI application from OpenAI appear poised to move significantly forward. The company has announced a follow-up to GPT-3.5: GPT-4, described by the company as “….a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) […]
Microsoft Introduces Generative AI VM on Azure with Scaling up to Thousands of GPUs
March 13, 2023 by
Microsoft today introduced the ND H100 v5 VM on the Azure cloud, a virtual machine for development generative AI applications. The VM can scale from eight to thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs with Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, Microsoft said, and the adoption of H100’s, NVIDIA’s latest data center GPUs, will accelerate performance for AI models over […]
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 […]
The true cost of AI innovation
April 7, 2020 by
“As the world’s attention has shifted to climate change, the field of AI is beginning to take note of its carbon cost. Research done at the Allen Institute for AI by Roy Schwartz et al. raises the question of whether efficiency, alongside accuracy, should become an important factor in AI research, and suggests that AI scientists ought to deliberate if the massive computational power needed for expensive processing of models, colossal amounts of training data, or huge numbers of experiments is justified by the degree of improvement in accuracy.”
Big Compute Fireside Chat with Sam Altman from OpenAI
February 21, 2020 by
In this video from the Big Compute 2020 event, Sam Altman from the OpenAI research laboratory discusses artificial intelligence Shawn Hansen, COO of Rescale. “I think of the most exciting developments in the field in the last few years has been how good AI for natural language is getting. I think we are going to see an explosion in the next few years of systems that can really process, understand, and interact with general language. It will, I think, be the first way that people really feel powerful AI. Because you’ll be able to interact with the systems like you do by talking to somebody else. You’ll be able to have dialogue that actually makes sense. And computers will be able to process huge volumes of text that are sort of very unstructured.”
Nvidia Donates DGX-1 Machine Learning Supercomputer to OpenAI Non-profit
August 19, 2016 by
This week Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang hand-delivered one of the company’s new DGX-1 Machine Learning supercomputers to the OpenAI non-profit in San Francisco. “The DGX-1 is a huge advance,” OpenAI Research Scientist Ilya Sutskever said. “It will allow us to explore problems that were completely unexplored before, and it will allow us to achieve levels of performance that weren’t achievable.”
