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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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IBM’s Blake Johnson on Error Mitigation and Dynamic Quantum Circuits
IBM had several important announcements at the IBM Quantum Summit in NYC on November 9, 2022. Karl Freund, founder of Cambrian AI, spoke with Blake Johnson,...
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The IBM Telum Processor: Integrated AI for Enterprise Workloads
A datacenter designed around Graphcore is strikingly elegant and flexible, enabled by the IPU-Machine and disaggregated servers and storage.
Qualcomm AI Strategy Springs From Mobile [Download the Brief]
Qualcomm Technologies Envisions the Emergence of a Powerful Innovation Spiral Most consumers have no idea that every photo they take with their smartphone uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to...
AI Market Dynamics
Karl Freund presents his market perspective to the International Semiconductor Executive Summit 06.24.21.
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VP Marketing, Graphcore
explore the explosion
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…
