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Jaime Hampton

Sam Altman Says No GPT-5 This Year in Reddit AMA

October 31st, 2024 Comments Off on Sam Altman Says No GPT-5 This Year in Reddit AMA
A small team of OpenAI executives participated in an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit today. The company’s CEO Sam Altman and CPO Kevin Weil most frequently replied to Reddit users’ questions, with others answering as well. OpenAI's ...

UT San Antonio Secures $4 Million NSF Grant for Neuromorphic Computing Project

October 31st, 2024 Comments Off on UT San Antonio Secures $4 Million NSF Grant for Neuromorphic Computing Project
The MATRIX AI Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced this week it received a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund “The Neuromorphic Commons (THOR)” project.  The THOR project is a ...

Report from HALO Details Issues Facing HPC-AI Industry

October 29th, 2024 Comments Off on Report from HALO Details Issues Facing HPC-AI Industry
Intersect360 Research has released a comprehensive new report concerning the challenges facing the combined fields of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). Titled “Issues Facing the HPC-AI Industry: Insights from the Advisory Committees of the HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO),” ...

SCIDS: UC San Diego’s New Hub for Data Science and AI

October 25th, 2024 Comments Off on SCIDS: UC San Diego’s New Hub for Data Science and AI
UC San Diego has taken a bold step to meet the growing demand for skills in artificial intelligence and data science. The university’s new School of Computing, Information, and Data Sciences (SCIDS) unites the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) ...

Spotting AI Hallucinations: MIT’s SymGen Speeds Up LLM Output Validation

October 23rd, 2024 Comments Off on Spotting AI Hallucinations: MIT’s SymGen Speeds Up LLM Output Validation
Imagine if your LLM could not only provide answers but also show you exactly where those answers came from—like a scholar meticulously citing sources. A new validation tool created at MIT aims to do just that, giving human validators ...

Nvidia’s Newest Foundation Model Can Actually Spell ‘Strawberry’

October 21st, 2024 Comments Off on Nvidia’s Newest Foundation Model Can Actually Spell ‘Strawberry’
A new AI model from Nvidia knows just how many R’s are in the word strawberry, a feat that OpenAI’s GPT-4o model has yet to achieve. In what is known as the "strawberry problem," GPT-4o and a few other ...

Nvidia’s Blackwell Platform Powers AI Progress in Open Compute Project

October 15th, 2024 Comments Off on Nvidia’s Blackwell Platform Powers AI Progress in Open Compute Project
Nvidia announced it has contributed foundational elements of its Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project (OCP). Shared at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose today, Nvidia said that key portions of the design of ...

Alps Scientific Symposium Highlights AI’s Role in Tackling Science’s Biggest Challenges

October 4th, 2024 Comments Off on Alps Scientific Symposium Highlights AI’s Role in Tackling Science’s Biggest Challenges
ETH Zürich recently celebrated the launch of the AI-optimized “Alps” supercomputer with a scientific symposium focused on the future possibilities of scientific AI thanks to increased compute power and a flexible architecture designed to tackle some of the largest ...

Cerebras and G42’s Inception Unveil Jais: A 13B Parameter Arabic LLM Trained on Condor Galaxy

August 30th, 2023 Comments Off on Cerebras and G42’s Inception Unveil Jais: A 13B Parameter Arabic LLM Trained on Condor Galaxy
Condor Galaxy is an AI system recently debuted by Cerebras Systems and Middle Eastern cloud provider G42. The system has already been busy with training Jais, a 13-billion parameter Arabic large language model trained on a 395-billion-word Arabic and ...

An Overnight Sensation, 30 Years in the Making: The Parallel Paths of AI and Quantum Computing

August 29th, 2023 Comments Off on An Overnight Sensation, 30 Years in the Making: The Parallel Paths of AI and Quantum Computing
In the world of technology, overnight sensations are rarely born overnight. They are the result of decades of research, development, and perseverance. The recent success of chatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model, is a prime example of this phenomenon. It ...
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