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Andrew Jolly

HPCwire 35 Legends Luncheon Held During SC24

November 20th, 2024 Comments Off on HPCwire 35 Legends Luncheon Held During SC24
On Tuesday, November 19th, 2024, HPCwire hosted a special luncheon to honor the inaugural HPCwire 35 Legends, an annual list recognizing 35 individuals who have profoundly shaped the high-performance computing (HPC) community. The luncheon celebrated the remarkable achievements of researchers, inventors, ...

Broadcom Debuts VeloRAIN in VeloCloud Portfolio for Optimized AI and Edge Workloads

November 5th, 2024 Comments Off on Broadcom Debuts VeloRAIN in VeloCloud Portfolio for Optimized AI and Edge Workloads
BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 5, 2024 -- Broadcom Inc. today announced significant advancements to its VeloCloud portfolio and introduced a new partner program aimed at equipping enterprises to better support AI and non-AI workloads. The updates include the debut of ...

DataPelago Unveils Universal Engine to Unite Big Data, Advanced Analytics, HPC, and AI Workloads

October 7th, 2024 Comments Off on DataPelago Unveils Universal Engine to Unite Big Data, Advanced Analytics, HPC, and AI Workloads
DataPelago last week emerged from stealth with a new virtualization layer that it says will allow users to move AI, data analytics, and ETL workloads to whatever physical processor they want, without making code changes, thereby bringing potentially large ...

California Bill Seeks to Regulate AI Use of Celebrity Likenesses

September 4th, 2024 Comments Off on California Bill Seeks to Regulate AI Use of Celebrity Likenesses
The California Senate has passed a bill that could have severe ramifications for how AI is used within the entertainment industry. California Assembly Bill 2602 is headed to the Governor of the state for a signature, with many people ...

Amazon’s New AI Assistant Is an Editor to Prevent Hallucinations

May 1st, 2024 Comments Off on Amazon’s New AI Assistant Is an Editor to Prevent Hallucinations
Large-language models regularly spit out off-the-rails answers, and companies are introducing editors and guardrails to ensure that responses from AI are more on point. Amazon this week announced the general availability of Amazon Q, an in-between gatekeeper that reduces ...

Anthropic in Talks with Menlo Ventures to Raise $750M

December 22nd, 2023 Comments Off on Anthropic in Talks with Menlo Ventures to Raise $750M
Another influx of cash might be on the horizon for Anthropic. The OpenAI competitor is hoping to raise $750 million in a new round of funding, according to Bloomberg and originally reported by The Information. The AI startup is ...

AWS Unveils Major Bedrock Upgrade: More AI Models and Enhanced User Flexibility

December 8th, 2023 Comments Off on AWS Unveils Major Bedrock Upgrade: More AI Models and Enhanced User Flexibility
As the generative AI landscape continually evolves with new use cases emerging, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is keeping pace by enhancing its Bedrock platform. This upgrade significantly broadens the range of AI models available, offering users more choices and ...

AI for Everyone: UiPath’s Autopilot Levels the Playing Field in Business Automation

October 16th, 2023 Comments Off on AI for Everyone: UiPath’s Autopilot Levels the Playing Field in Business Automation
AI, particularly generative AI, is poised to play a crucial role in future business strategies, potentially introducing new product or service offerings, enabling data monetization, and allowing for increased personalization in offerings. Enterprise automation software company UiPath wants to ...

AI Trifecta – MLPerf Issues Latest HPC, Training, and Tiny Benchmarks

November 10th, 2022 Comments Off on AI Trifecta – MLPerf Issues Latest HPC, Training, and Tiny Benchmarks
MLCommons yesterday issued its latest round of MLPerf benchmarks – for Training, HPC, and Tiny. Releasing three sets of benchmarks at the same time makes parsing the results, never an easy chore, even more so. Top line: Nvidia accelerators ...
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