Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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Nvidia used its GTC conference today to introduce new GPU superchips, including the second generation of its current Grace Blackwell chip, as well as the next generation, dubbed the Vera Rubin. Jensen Huang, the company’s founder and CEO, also touted new DGX systems and discussed how the power crunch is driving Nvidia to use photonics ... Full article
At its GTC event in San Jose today, Nvidia unveiled updates to its AI infrastructure portfolio, including its next-generation datacenter GPU, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra. Expanding on the Blackwell architecture introduced last year, Nvidia is integrating its new Blackwell Ultra GPUs into two DGX systems: the NVIDIA DGX GB300 and the NVIDIA DGX B300. The ... Full article
As artificial intelligence reshapes the modern world, its influence is reaching every corner of life. The AI landscape is evolving at a dizzying pace, pushing industries and societies into an unrelenting race to adapt and innovate. Organizations are racing to leverage AI’s capabilities, and the emergence of GenAI has only amplified this competition. The swift ... Full article
All eyes are on Nvidia this week as the chip manufacturer gears up for its biggest event of the year – the GPU Technical Conference (GTC). Starting this Monday in San Jose, CA, the week-long conference is highly anticipated. Investors, analysts, tech enthusiasts, and representatives from other leading companies are eagerly awaiting updates on Nvidia’s ... Full article
While subjects such as OpenAI, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek grab the headlines, practical applications are often subtle in their impact, take time to develop, and may get lost in the background noise. The examples provided below illustrate the growing importance of AI. They also show that human ingenuity, work, and time are required to develop important ... Full article
VAST Data is quietly assembling a single unified platform capable of handling a range of HPC, advanced analytics, and big data use cases. Today it unveiled a major update to its VAST Data Platform engine aimed at enabling enterprises to run retrieval augmented generation (RAG) AI workloads at exabyte scale. When solid state drives went ... Full article
Intel announced that its board of directors has appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a technology veteran with deep semiconductor industry experience, as chief executive officer, effective March 18. He succeeds Interim Co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle (MJ) Johnston Holthaus. Tan was previously on Intel’s board of directors (BOD) but stepped down in August of 2024, citing “This is a ... Full article
Retail is undergoing a massive transformation, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence. The convergence of generative AI and agentic AI is reshaping operations, enabling customized experiences, boosting productivity, and creating new revenue streams. Retailers are leveraging predictive and prescriptive AI to optimize inventory planning, enhance demand forecasting accuracy, intelligently manage inventory, and streamline supply chains. ... Full article
As Nvidia and its partners prepare for the upcoming GTC event, another AI infrastructure company, Cerebras Systems, is making strategic moves to expand its role in high-speed AI inference. This week, Cerebras announced two developments: a new partnership with Hugging Face to offer developers access to its inference platform, and the planned launch of six ... Full article
Microsoft, one of OpenAI’s most powerful backers, is reportedly building its own large language models (LLMs) to compete directly with the company it has invested billions in. Internally, these LLMS are being referred to as MAI, a name that could potentially stand for “Microsoft Artificial Intelligence.”  The initiative, first reported by The Information, indicates a ... Full article
CoreWeave, a cloud-based AI infrastructure company offering GPU cloud services to simplify AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, has deepened its foothold in the AI development space by reaching an agreement to acquire Weights & Biases. The acquisition, which is reported by The Information to be valued at $1.7 billion, strengthens CoreWeave’s position by integrating Weights ... Full article
This article was first published by Los Alamos National Laboratory and is reproduced here with permission. Neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence modeled on the connectivity of the human brain, are driving critical breakthroughs across a wide range of scientific domains. But these models face a significant threat from adversarial attacks, which can derail ... Full article
A little-known Chinese startup has created a new AI product that has gone viral. Feeling a sense of déjà vu? No, we are not talking about DeepSeek-R1, which caused major panic amongst the Western tech companies. This is a new AI agent named Manus, which is rapidly becoming the talk of the global AI community.  ... Full article
The conversation around AI governance has often been frustratingly vague. Organizations talk the talk about AI ethics and regulatory compliance, but when it comes to practical implementation, many are paralyzed by uncertainty. Governance, as it stands today, is often a high-level corporate directive rather than a concrete, practicable plan. What if AI governance wasn’t just ... Full article
In response to readers’ questions about AI, BigDATAwire asked me to write a series of columns on AI, a topic that is generating excitement and concern in the worldwide HPC community and beyond. The introductory column appeared in January. As I said in the intro column, the series doesn’t aim to be definitive. The goal is to lay ... Full article
AI cloud infrastructure provider Nebius is expanding its U.S. footprint with its first major datacenter in New Jersey, a facility designed to scale up to 300 MW of capacity. The Amsterdam-based company, which specializes in AI-optimized cloud computing, is making an aggressive push into the U.S. market, putting it in competition with other hyperscalers catering ... Full article
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