New AI innovations and benchmarks are announced every day (often multiple times a day), and enterprises are clamoring to take advantage. But sometimes it can be difficult to bridge the gap between what works in the lab and what works in the enterprise pipeline. To help support the startup system and expand the development of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), Cisco Investments today…
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…
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 generation of silicon and server technology to help advance edge AI inference as well as fine tuning. Kneron got its start back in…
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…
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 that very same day, Intel announced its Lunar Lake processor, a chip that would power more than 80 new laptop designs from 20…
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…
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 apps. The Project G-Assist tech demo debuted with ARK: Survival Ascended from Studio Wildcard.
Nvidia also introduced the first…
