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

Cerebras and G42’s Inception Unveil Jais: A 13B Parameter Arabic LLM Trai...

Condor Galaxy is an AI system recently debuted by Cerebras Systems and Middle Eastern cloud provider G42. ...

3D Internet Building Block Championed by Nvidia and Apple Faces Challenges

3D Internet Building Block Championed by Nvidia and Apple Faces Challenges

Apple and Nvidia want to dominate the 3D universe, and the world of scientific simulation, with a ...

AI in the Cloud: Google, Microsoft, and Amazon’s Divergent Strategies

AI in the Cloud: Google, Microsoft, and Amazon’s Divergent Strategies

There is no one way to buy AI services, but a few purchase models are emerging. One ...

Nvidia CEO Huang: Get Ready for Software 3.0

Nvidia CEO Huang: Get Ready for Software 3.0

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang said that artificial intelligence is ushering in the era of Software 3.0, where ...

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January 23, 2024
While the tech industry is grappling with layoffs, there is no lack of IT spending. The worldwide spending on IT is expected to reach $5 trillion in 2024 marking a jump of 6.8 percent from 2023, according to a new report by Gartner. The latest report by Gartner, one of the leading market research and advisory firms, offers a ... Full article
December 8, 2023
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 greater flexibility for their AI-driven applications. The latest updates to Amazon Bedrock include an expanded selection of AI models from ... Full article
October 3, 2023
A controversial research paper by Google that claimed the superiority of AI techniques in creating chips is under the microscope for the authenticity of its claims. Science publication Nature is investigating Google's claims that artificial intelligence techniques helped floor-plan -- or establish the basics construct of its AI chip -- in under six hours, faster than human experts.  Nature put ... Full article
September 27, 2023
As more companies experiment with Generative AI technology, a crucial question emerges: Can applications that use Generative AI be safe and scalable for an enterprise? With LLM Mesh, the answer is yes. Organizations can use LLM Mesh to effectively build enterprise-level applications mitigating concerns about cost management, technological dependencies, and compliance. Dataiku, the artificial intelligence and machine learning company ... Full article
September 26, 2023
Configuring and provisioning GPUs is a notoriously painful activity. To provide some relief, Vultz announced it has launched the Vultr GPU Stack and Container Registry for AI model acceleration worldwide. This stack and registry will help digital startups and enterprises around the globe to build, test, and operate AI models at scale. It will accelerate the development, collaboration, and ... Full article
September 22, 2023
Vector databases have been all the buzz in the world of Generative AI. Oracle, a giant in the software and cloud computer industry, announced this week its plans to add AI vectors to Oracle Database 23c. The new set of features is called AI Vector Search. It will include vector indexes, vector data types, and vector search SQL operators. ... Full article
September 20, 2023
GenAI developers building atop large language models (LLMs) are the big winners of a new partnership between Anyscale and Nvidia unveiled this week that will see the GPU maker’s AI software integrated into Anyscale’s computing platform. Anyscale is best known as the company behind Ray, the open source library from UC Berkeley’s RISELab that turns any Python program developed on ... Full article
August 31, 2023
The dominance of Nvidia GPUs has companies scrambling to find non-GPU alternatives, and another mainstream option has emerged with Google’s TPU v5e AI chip. The TPU v5e is also Google’s first AI chip being mainstreamed with a suite of software and tools for large-scale orchestration of AI workloads in virtual environments. The AI chip is now available in preview ... Full article
August 30, 2023
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 English dataset. Named after Jebel Jais, the UAE’s highest mountain, the Jais LLM is a collaboration between G42’s Inception, Mohamed ... Full article
August 29, 2023
Generative AI is taking the world by storm, as organizations discover the myriad ways it can be used to serve and entice customers. With today’s enhancements to Vertex AI, Google Cloud is giving its customers more GenAI capabilities to choose from. The pace of adoption of GenAI and large language models (LLMs) has been nothing but astonishing since OpenAI ... Full article
August 29, 2023
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 has turned heads with its capabilities, but the road to this breakthrough was long and winding. This story of gradual ... Full article
August 28, 2023
The world has grown accustomed to the presence of artificial intelligence (AI) in its daily lives. In fact, unless you’ve been asleep for much of 2023, you can see just how AI’s influence on the world is growing with the hype around generative AI. We all know AI has been used for years to recommend your next purchase, but ... Full article
August 25, 2023
Large language models (LLMs) have dominated the data and AI conversation through the first eight months of 2023, courtesy of the whirlwind that is ChatGPT. Despite the consumer success, few companies have concrete plans to put commercial LLMs into production, with concerns about privacy and ethics leading the way. A new report released by Predibase this week highlights the surprisingly low ... Full article
August 24, 2023
Hugging Face announced it has raised $235 million in a Series D funding round led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from a host of tech giants including IBM, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm, as well as Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures. The company is now valued at $4.5 billion. Hugging Face is a developer community and platform with ... Full article
August 23, 2023
VMware kicked off its Explore event in Las Vegas with a series of announcements geared toward enabling enterprise generative AI development. VMware and Nvidia extended their partnership to unveil VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia, an offering that promises to provide enterprises with the software and compute to fine-tune large language models and run AI-enabled applications using proprietary data ... Full article
August 10, 2023
Nvidia once staked its entire future on the promise of artificial intelligence, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told an audience at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles this week. “Twenty years after we introduced to the world the first programmable shading GPU, we introduced RTX at SIGGRAPH 2018 and reinvented computer graphics. You didn’t know it at the time, but we did, ... Full article
August 9, 2023
The capability for machines to learn and get better over time is one of the big selling points for modern artificial intelligence. But new research released last week indicates that ChatGPT may in fact be getting worse at certain tasks as time goes on. According to the first draft of a paper by Stanford University and UC Berkeley researchers, a considerable ... Full article
August 8, 2023
Nvidia's RTX GPUs were largely known for gaming and graphics, but are being configured and repackaged for enthusiasts interested in trying out AI on desktops. The new GPUs are a part of Nvidia’s approach to make GPUs available wherever and whenever customers need them. The company announced RTX GPUs, which can be used for AI inferencing and training. The ... Full article
August 7, 2023
In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Andrew Brown Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open source solutions, appointed Andrew Brown as its ... Full article
August 7, 2023
A grand competition of numerical representation is shaping up as some companies promote floating point data types in deep learning, while others champion integer data types. Artificial Intelligence Is Growing In Popularity And Cost Artificial intelligence (AI) is proliferating into every corner of our lives. The demand for products and services powered by AI algorithms has skyrocketed alongside the ... Full article

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