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…
Microsoft goes all-in on Gen AI: Everything it announced at Ignite
November 16, 2023
Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, held in Seattle this year, was packed this morning with announcements and updates on the company’s vision and technology around generative AI.
The announcements, which included everything from new AI chip hardware and software to…
Language is fundamental to human interaction — but so, too, is the emotion behind it.
Expressing happiness, sadness, anger, frustration or other feelings helps convey our messages and connect us.
While generative AI has excelled in many other areas, it has struggled to…
Nvidia and Intel unveil advanced HPC initiatives, bolstering AI capabilities at SC2023
November 15, 2023
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…
What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model launched two weeks before ChatGPT
November 15, 2023
One year ago — and two weeks before OpenAI released ChatGPT — Meta released a research demo called Galactica. An open source “large language model for science” that was trained on data including 48 million scientific papers, Meta touted Galactica’s ability to…
Tangram Vision, a startup building software and hardware for robotic perception, unveiled a new 3D depth sensor today called HiFi that packs powerful computer vision capabilities into an off-the-shelf product priced at $549.
The sensor aims to “make it dead simple to add…
OpenAI’s six-member board will decide ‘when we’ve attained AGI’
November 14, 2023
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…
Report: Enterprise investment in generative AI shockingly low, while traditional AI is thriving
November 14, 2023
Generative AI is all anyone can talk about. It is a breakthrough technology with transformational promises across numerous domains — even human life itself.
And while 2023 was undoubtedly the year that gen AI had its breakout, that has largely been hype, according to a…
Inside Visa’s AI-powered war against holiday fraud
November 14, 2023
The holiday shopping season is a double-edged sword for payments leader Visa. While transaction volumes surge, providing a sales boost, the period also kicks off a relentless assault from cybercriminals looking to exploit vulnerabilities and steal consumer data.
“We know…
Meta’s director of engineering for Generative AI, Sergey Edunov, has a surprising answer to how much more power will be needed to handle the increasing demand for AI applications for the next year: just two new nuclear power plants.
Edunov leads Meta’s training efforts for its Llama 2 open-source foundation model, which is considered one of the leading models. Speaking during a panel session I…
