AI Giants Go Nuclear: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft bet on nuclear power to meet AI energy demands
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AI Giants Go Nuclear: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft bet on nuclear power to meet AI energy demands

Major AI companies plan to meet the growing demand with nuclear energy.

October 23, 20243 min read
AI Giants Go Nuclear: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft bet on nuclear power to meet AI energy demands
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AI Giants Go Nuclear: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft bet on nuclear power to meet AI energy demands

Major AI companies plan to meet the growing demand with nuclear energy.

October 23, 20243 min read
Malaysia’s Data Center Boom: Malaysia emerges as an AI and cloud computing hub, drawing billions in investment
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Malaysia’s Data Center Boom: Malaysia emerges as an AI and cloud computing hub, drawing billions in investment

Malaysia’s location, natural resources, and investor-friendly government are perfect for data centers, turning part of the country into an AI-fueled boomtown.

October 16, 20242 min read
Malaysia’s Data Center Boom: Malaysia emerges as an AI and cloud computing hub, drawing billions in investment
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Malaysia’s Data Center Boom: Malaysia emerges as an AI and cloud computing hub, drawing billions in investment

Malaysia’s location, natural resources, and investor-friendly government are perfect for data centers, turning part of the country into an AI-fueled boomtown.

October 16, 20242 min read
High Gear for Llama 3.1 405B: SambaNova boosts Llama 3.1 performance with fast, free access to largest model
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High Gear for Llama 3.1 405B: SambaNova boosts Llama 3.1 performance with fast, free access to largest model

SambaNova raised the speed limit for access to the largest model in the Llama 3.1 family — and it’s free.

September 18, 20242 min read
High Gear for Llama 3.1 405B: SambaNova boosts Llama 3.1 performance with fast, free access to largest model
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High Gear for Llama 3.1 405B: SambaNova boosts Llama 3.1 performance with fast, free access to largest model

SambaNova raised the speed limit for access to the largest model in the Llama 3.1 family — and it’s free.

September 18, 20242 min read
Nvidia Revs AI Engine: All about Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU
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Nvidia Revs AI Engine: All about Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU

Nvidia’s latest chip promises to boost AI’s speed and energy efficiency.

April 3, 20242 min read
Nvidia Revs AI Engine: All about Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU
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Nvidia Revs AI Engine: All about Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU

Nvidia’s latest chip promises to boost AI’s speed and energy efficiency.

April 3, 20242 min read
Blazing Inference Speed: Groq elevates AI processing speed with advanced chips.
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Blazing Inference Speed: Groq elevates AI processing speed with advanced chips.

An upstart chip company dramatically accelerates pretrained large language models. Groq offers cloud access to Meta’s Llama 2 and Mistral.ai’s Mixtral at speeds an order of magnitude greater than other AI platforms. Registered users can try it.

February 28, 20242 min read
Blazing Inference Speed: Groq elevates AI processing speed with advanced chips.
Hardware

Blazing Inference Speed: Groq elevates AI processing speed with advanced chips.

An upstart chip company dramatically accelerates pretrained large language models. Groq offers cloud access to Meta’s Llama 2 and Mistral.ai’s Mixtral at speeds an order of magnitude greater than other AI platforms. Registered users can try it.

February 28, 20242 min read
Competition Heats Up in AI Chips: Huawei rises as key AI chip supplier amid U.S. export bans.
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Competition Heats Up in AI Chips: Huawei rises as key AI chip supplier amid U.S. export bans.

Huawei is emerging as an important supplier of AI chips. Amid a U.S. ban on exports of advanced chips to China, demand for Huawei’s AI chips is so intense that the company is limiting production of the chip that powers one of its most popular smartphones so it can serve the AI market.

February 22, 20242 min read
Competition Heats Up in AI Chips: Huawei rises as key AI chip supplier amid U.S. export bans.
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Competition Heats Up in AI Chips: Huawei rises as key AI chip supplier amid U.S. export bans.

Huawei is emerging as an important supplier of AI chips. Amid a U.S. ban on exports of advanced chips to China, demand for Huawei’s AI chips is so intense that the company is limiting production of the chip that powers one of its most popular smartphones so it can serve the AI market.

February 22, 20242 min read
GPU Data Centers Strain Grid Power: AI's electricity demands spur an expansion of power sources.
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GPU Data Centers Strain Grid Power: AI's electricity demands spur an expansion of power sources.

The AI boom is taxing power grids and pushing builders of data centers to rethink their sources of electricity.

February 14, 20242 min read
GPU Data Centers Strain Grid Power: AI's electricity demands spur an expansion of power sources.
Hardware

GPU Data Centers Strain Grid Power: AI's electricity demands spur an expansion of power sources.

The AI boom is taxing power grids and pushing builders of data centers to rethink their sources of electricity.

February 14, 20242 min read
Industrial Strength Language Model: Siemens and Microsoft launch GPT-powered Copilot for manufacturing machinery.
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Industrial Strength Language Model: Siemens and Microsoft launch GPT-powered Copilot for manufacturing machinery.

ChatGPT is pitching in on the assembly line. Siemens and Microsoft launched a joint pilot program of a GPT-powered model for controlling manufacturing machinery. German automotive parts manufacturer Schaeffler is testing the system in its factories, as is Siemens itself. 

November 29, 20231 min read

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