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…
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…
6079 aims to decentralize AI services with the help of AI Prize Fight esports tournament
May 31, 2024
The team at AI Layer has an interesting project called 6079, a reference to Winston Smith, the protagonist of the cautionary book 1984 by George Orwell, which warned readers of totalitarian rule.
In similar fashion, the 6079 “free think” movement stands for the inherent right of every individual to think independently, to challenge without fear, to explore without limits. Oddly enough, this…
