RelationalAI, a startup that applies artificial intelligence directly to relational data, today announced the general availability of its Knowledge Graph Coprocessor on the Snowflake Data Cloud. The offering, first previewed last year (which we covered in-depth here), enables Snowflake customers to build knowledge graphs and leverage advanced AI and analytics capabilities without moving data out…
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…
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 annual data cloud summit, CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy shared several enhancements for the Cortex AI service and Snowflake ML to make…
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…
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 available in the 6700 and 6900 platform offerings. However, only the 6700 E-core version will launch on June 4. The 6900 P-core…
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…
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 processing unit GPU architectures powering end-to-end AI infrastructure from the data center to PCs.
AMD unveiled an expanded AMD…
