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.
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
PM RishGPT delivers something good for the UK, really; thanks.
A proper supercomputer, gadzooks!
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
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"