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Nvidia announces availability of DGX Cloud on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for generative AI training 

July 26, 2023
Nvidia announced today the wide accessibility of its cloud-based AI supercomputing service, DGX Cloud. This service will grant users access to thousands of virtual Nvidia GPUs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), along with infrastructure in the U.S. and U.K. DGX Cloud was announced during Nvidia’s GTC conference in March. It promised to provide enterprises with the infrastructure and…
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Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation

July 26, 2023
A coalition of a half-dozen open source AI stakeholders, — Hugging Face, GitHub, EleutherAI, Creative Commons, LAION and Open Future — are calling on EU policymakers to protect open source innovation as they finalize the EU AI Act, which will be the world’s first comprehensive AI law. In a policy paper released today, “Supporting Open Source and Open Science in the EU AI Act,” the…
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Generative AI and Web3: Hyped nonsense or a match made in tech heaven

July 22, 2023
Did I write this, or was it ChatGPT? It’s hard to tell, isn’t it? For the sake of my editors, I will follow that quickly with: I wrote this article (I swear). But the point is that it’s worth exploring generative artificial intelligence’s limitations and areas of utility for developers and users. Both are revealing. The same is true for Web3 and blockchain. While we’re already seeing the…
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White House gets AI firms to agree to voluntary safeguards, but not new regulations

July 21, 2023
Today, the Biden-⁠Harris Administration announced that it has secured voluntary commitments from seven leading AI companies to manage the short- and long-term risks of AI models. Representatives from OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta and Microsoft are set to sign the commitments at the White House this afternoon. The commitments secured include ensuring products are safe before…
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