PlayAI Lands $21M Seed to Scale Its Human-Like AI Voice Models
AI voice startup PlayAI announced it has raised $21 million in a Seed round. The company says it will use the capital to invest in its generative AI voice ...Full Article
Kempner Institute’s AI Cluster Named One of the World’s Fastest ‘Green’ Supercomputers
Researchers at Harvard now have access to one of the fastest and greenest supercomputers in the world. Built to support cutting-edge research at the Kempner Institute for the Study of ...Full Article
SC2024: A Guide to Get the Most from the Show
The supercomputing world — or shall we call it the HPC and AI world — will convene in Atlanta this week to attend the Supercomputing 24 show. SC24 is ...Full Article
Red Hat Acquisition Charts Path to Open Accelerated AI
Red Hat has announced a signed agreement to acquire Neural Magic, a developer of software and algorithms that accelerate generative AI (gen AI) inference workloads. Red Hat mentions Neural Magic’s expertise in ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
Argonne’s HPC/AI User Forum Wrap Up
As fans of this publication will already know, AI is everywhere. We hear about it in the news, at work, and in our daily lives. It’s such a revolutionary ...Full Article
Breaking Down Global Government Spending on AI
Governments are scrambling to stay ahead of the AI tsunami, and for good reason. Like any other useful technology, AI presents a gigantic economic opportunity for governments worldwide. In ...Full Article
