News
Washington demands hyperscalers report foreign users of AI hardware, software
Policy targets China, will likely hit Europe
AI
Britain wants Talent: Will AI whizzes switch to the public sector?
"More and more of the people we speak to want the opportunity to use their skills for the benefit of others"
AI
WEF: AI dominates talks but to what gain?
"Artificial intelligence by the name is not something that you can actually govern," says Dubai Futures CEO. But the World Economic Forum tries, nonetheless.
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..."
AI
“We’re not going to be chasing shiny objects” – What leaders at America’s biggest banks are saying about AI
"We’re starting to see multimodal AI models, and I think one modality that hasn’t been fully exploited yet is that of the time series. This would be using AI to deal with data points attached to a particular timestamp..."
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.