Foundation models have revolutionized the fields of computer vision and natural language processing. Now, a group of researchers believe the same principles can be applied to create foundation agents, AI systems that can perform open-ended decision-making tasks in the physical world. In a new position paper, researchers at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences describe foundation agents as…
After making headlines with the announcement of Polaris, a vendor-neutral open data catalog for Apache Iceberg, Snowflake is launching new tools to help enterprises double down on the development of trusted AI-powered applications. In his second keynote of the company’s…
There’s more than one way to handle AI fine tuning, training and inference at the edge. Among the options beyond just a GPU is using a neural processing unit (NPU), from silicon vendor Kneron. At the Computex conference in Taiwan today, Kneron detailed its next…
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, gave a keynote at the Computex trade show in Taiwan about transforming AI models with Nvidia NIM (Nvidia inference microservices) so that AI applications can be deployed within minutes rather than weeks.
He said the world’s world’s 28 million developers can now download Nvidia NIM — inference microservices that provide models as optimized containers — to deploy…
Intel debuts the Xeon 6 processor, aiming to modernize data centers to tackle enterprise AI workloads
June 4, 2024
Intel has announced its Xeon 6 chip to ensure that data centers can handle the workloads needed as more companies start to deploy AI apps and models. The processor comes with two microarchitectures, an efficient core (E-core) and a performance core (P-core) and will be…
Intel reveals Lunar Lake’s architecture, showing how its flagship AI PC processor will work
June 4, 2024
Qualcomm made headlines when it was named the chipmaker for Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs. However, that hasn’t deterred Intel from innovating for this new form of computing. The company had been working on chips to power AI PCs long before Microsoft’s news. In fact, on…
Research and development (R&D) is really a chimera — the mythological creature with two distinctive heads on one body.
Researchers have strong academic backgrounds and regularly publish papers, apply for patents and work on ideas that are likely to come to fruition over the course of years. Research departments deliver long-term value, discovering the future by asking tough questions and…
Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su talked about her company’s chip architecture strategy for AI data centers and AI PCs at the Computex trade show in Taiwan.She spelled out AMD’s plans for its central processing unit (CPU), neural processing unit (NPU) and graphics…
Nvidia unveiled new RTX technology to power AI assistants and digital humans running on new GeForce RTX AI laptops.
The big AI and graphics tech company unveiled Project G-Assist — an RTX-powered AI assistant tech demo that provides context-aware help for PC games and…
Organizations are in a wild race to adopt generative AI — it is one of the most significant technological innovations in a generation (or multiple generations).
In fact, just a year-and-a-half after ChatGPT was announced — changing the world as we know it — 65% of organizations are regularly using AI, according to a new report from consulting firm McKinsey. This is nearly double the…
