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The Latest News in AI
We follow all the moves made by the leaders and challengers in AI semis and services. Here are recent announcements that caught our eye:
Cambrian AI Visions: Meet the Leaders
Karl Freund with Cambrian AI sits down with key newsmakers and influencers in the world of AI.
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neXt Curve: Setting The Stage For AI in 2024 (with Karl Freund)
Welcome to the neXt Curve reThink series that focuses on the state and future of the semiconductor industry - Silicon Futures. In this installment of the Silicon...
Silicon Futures: The state of AI Computing 2023 with with Cambrian AI’s Karl Freund
In this installment of the Silicon Futures series, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research provide discuss the big moments and the state of AI...
Cambrian AI Research Papers
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Digital Twins for Digital Infrastructure: The Key to Optimizing Data Center Operations
Many companies, including Nvidia, use Digital Twins to model data centers, helping to avoid waste and hotspots as data centers move to an AI-capable data center. Karl Freund and Dr. Jonathan Koomey...
The Emerging Memory-Centric Data Center
During the last few years, we have witnessed explosive growth in the data center, driven by the pervasive use of public cloud services, big data analytics, and most recently by the development of...
What If IBM Z Could Help Stop Fraud?
Last year, IBM launched the z16 with an integrated AI accelerator on each CPU chip. Now, with the infusion of AI into IBM z/OS and a robust AI open-source toolkit, IBM Z customers can realize...
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What’s with the “Cambrian-AI” theme?
A few years ago, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang used the term “Cambrian Explosion” to refer to the rapid growth in AI models. I think the term is appropriate to both AI software models and the specialized hardware that accelerates AI. I began publishing an annual blog in January 2019, summarizing the year’s innovations and forecasting what we expect for the coming year. But I am getting ahead of the story…