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ChatGPT: Massive Disruption

Our relationship with computers will never look the same. Here are the winners and losers. The web, the media, and my email are entirely full of ChatGPT missives and questions. I’ve spent hours with scores of investors, all wanting to understand the impact on...

Qualcomm Touts Eight AI “Firsts”

The AI research group at Qualcomm Technologies has pioneered innovations from on-device learning to wireless AI, and has ambitious plans for the next set of “firsts”. Whenever people take photos or speak to a digital assistant using a mobile phone, they often don’t...

IBM Teams With AMD For Cloud AI Acceleration

This could be quite telling, as IBM had previously been using Nvidia for it’s internal cloud AI research. IBM has selected AMD to provide AI accelerators for the IBM Cloud. This is another milestone for AMD, which needs cloud adoption to achieve its goals. And IBM...

New Cerebras Wafer-Scale Cluster Eliminates Months Of Painstaking Work To Build Massive Intelligence

The architecture eliminates the need to decompose large models for distributed computing to train: Push-button AI? The hottest trend in AI is the emergence of massive models such as Open AI’s GPT-3. These models are surprising even its developers with capabilities...

Could Graphcore’s Second Chip Challenge NVIDIA?

Graphcore, a UK-based startup, launched its first Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI acceleration in 2018. Today it introduced its second-generation product for AI, a massively parallel chip with 59.4 billion transistors that delivers some 250 Trillion...

An Update On Intel And Habana Labs

Last week, I reported that Intel plans to switch its AI acceleration from Nervana technology to Habana Labs, which it acquired in December. Since Intel had planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions of Nervana’s second generation, this came as...

IBM Research And The Full Stack Approach To Innovation

IBM’s vaunted research organization, one of the largest in the industry, thinks the path to innovation is to be taken as a team with clients and partners exploring the full stack needed to address a business challenge. We had a chance this week to hear how IBM...

HPE Adds Support For Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Inference Accelerator

HPE’s endorsement for the Qualcomm Technology Cloud AI 100 is a huge step for most efficient and high-performance AI inference engines in market today. When I was working at AMD to get the first generation EPYC server SoC added to HPE servers, I learned that the...

Xilinx Enters The SmartNIC Market

The CPU in today’s data center is increasingly burdened by the need to process networking jobs. According to Xilinx’s VP Marketing for Data Center Products, Donna Yasay, networking stacks can tax CPUs up to 30%, robbing them of the cycles needed to run users’...

Meta Builds World’s Largest AI Supercomputer With NVIDIA For AI Research And Production

There are big implications, for both companies, beyond just bragging rights. Facebook, I mean Meta, has always been one of the industry leaders when it comes to AI research and deployment. The company processes hundreds of trillions (yes, trillions with a “T”) of...