LLMs Llama 3 is in training – as Meta vows to add another 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to its infrastructure this year Goldman Sachs CIO says "there’s a great opportunity for capital to move towards the application layer, the toolset layer. I think we will see that shift happening..."
Members only AI “We’re not going to be chasing shiny objects” – What leaders at America’s biggest banks are saying about AI
AI Microsoft open-sources “TaskWeaver” AI framework Stateful. A Web UI. Customisable plugins. Six LLMs supported. Nice work, Microsoft.
AI It’s time for enterprise SQL systems to take their turn in the AI sandbox... "The addition of pgvector for the SQL database specialist is also good news for users in sectors like financial services" says technology veteran David Walker.
Sponsored The Future of AI: From the world’s "most powerful cat" to transformative enterprise apps "Builders are creatives, if you unlock their creative power; empower them to compose with API services, new architectures… infinite possibilities emerge."
AI AI predictions for 2024? "No serious user-facing product will display GPT-4-generated output given its legal issues that will continue and become even more serious throughout 2024; new architectures competing with Transformer, such as Mamba, will appear..."
Bristol Supercomputer city: How Bristol became one of the UK’s hottest AI hubs The UK’s fastest supercomputer, Isambard-AI, will open in Bristol in 2024. Owen Hughes explores how the city’s unique blend of academia, entrepreneurship and engineering heritage made it a national hub for AI development.
AI Dropbox’s AI integration with OpenAI turns into a messaging mess – as Amazon’s CTO apologises over data protection post "To data scientists and developers in the domain, the answers to these questions may be laughably obvious and the questions naive, but to most end-users they will not be."
AMD AMD makes its AI hardware leap as clouds cook up accelerators AMD, late to the GPU and AI accelerator party, showcases some impressive specs with its M1300X and M1300A, now shipping.
Members only pharma Merck says it's releasing a new AI-powered SaaS - trained on proprietary data CTO says new platform "enables any laboratory to count on generative AI to identify the most suitable drug-like candidates in a vast chemical space."
AI Apple quietly open sources AI tools in a landmark move Release under an MIT licence "may be Apple's biggest move on open-source AI so far" says one senior NVIDIA research scientist.
Members only Cloud GPU-centric cloud provider CoreWeave raises at a $7 billion valuation, as NVIDIA backs buyers "We like big bursts and we cannot lie..."
Amazon AWS launches AI assistant “Amazon Q”, offers fine tuning for models on Bedrock "Administrators can also configure allowed topics and blocked topics and words so that the responses are controlled. In addition, administrators can enable or disable the upload file feature for their end users..."
AI AI startup Imbue spends $150m on Dell servers as it eyes foundation model progress The startup is running workloads in the data centres of non-profit AI compute provider Voltage Park.
NVIDIA NVIDIA sees a sovereign AI infrastructure race – as Europe plans 24,000-chip supercomputer "National investment in compute capacity is a new economic imperative... countries are awakening to the need to invest in sovereign AI infrastructure" says Jensen Huang
NVIDIA NVIDIA looks to bring monster AI capabilities to cloud, enterprise, with HGX H200 An eight-way HGX H200 provides over 32 petaflops of FP8 deep learning compute and 1.1TB of aggregate high-bandwidth memory
GitHub "Refounded" GitHub boasts new AI tools to spot insecure code in real-time, let devs use natural language “Our model targets the most common vulnerable coding patterns, including hardcoded credentials, SQL injections, and path injections" says "refounded" company.
AI EU investors including Bosch, SAP pump $500 million into "sovereign" AI firm Aleph Alpha The investment comes as a Google DeepMind paper poured some cold water on the AI hype, finding "various failure modes of transformers and degradation of their generalization for even simple extrapolation tasks" if these are out of its training data domain.
AI Biden's AI Executive Order to create standards for identifying "AI-generated content and authenticating official content" Order also demands "strong new standards for biological synthesis screening" and follows UK concerns around
Members only AI OpenAI, peers warn in Red Team report that AI could support “misuse” of biology Report comes as nation states fret over risk, UK's PM says AI companies shouldn't "mark their own homework"
AI Alphabet, Microsoft earnings show AI rewriting cloud businesses AI, says Microsoft, is "redefining our role in business applications” with partners adding Copilots as a “process transformation layer" on top of existing systems.
News A local, free, open source, generative AI stack for developers? Docker and friends aim to cover all the bases Package includes Ollama, which lets you download a range of open source LLM model packages, bundling weights, configuration and data into a single portable file
AI ICO slaps Snap over AI chat ICO suggests a "worrying failure" to assess privacy risks but says "no conclusion should be drawn" it issues a preliminary enforcement notice over ChatGPT-based chatbot...
Members only MongoDB A flurry of welcome new MongoDB tools show how powerful AI can be for developer productivity