AI & Robotics

Nvidia is strengthening its co-sell strategy with Microsoft. Today, at the Ignite conference hosted by the Satya Nadella-led giant, the chipmaker announced an AI foundry service that will help enterprises and startups build custom AI applications on the Azure cloud, including those that can tap enterprise data with retrieval augmented generation (RAG). “Nvidia’s AI foundry service combines our…

Microsoft is moving to strengthen its computing infrastructure play with the announcement of two new in-house chips for enterprises: Azure Maia 100 and Azure Cobalt 100. Showcased at this week’s Microsoft Ignite 2023 conference in Seattle, the tech giant’s largest annual global event, the chips provide enterprises with efficient, scalable and sustainable compute to take advantage of the latest…

The world’s fastest supercomputers are getting faster with both Nvidia and Intel racing to accelerate the most powerful computing systems on Earth, with a big emphasis on AI power. At the Supercomputing 2023 (SC23) conference in Denver today, the list of the world’s fastest 500 supercomputers was released. In one form or another, all the systems have components from Nvidia or Intel, and in…

According to OpenAI, the six members of its nonprofit board of directors will determine when the company has “attained AGI” —  which it defines as “a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.” Thanks to a for-profit arm that is “legally bound to pursue the Nonprofit’s mission,” once the board decides AGI, or artificial general…