Thursday, November 21, 2024

Computing

Amazon
On November 12, 2024, Amazon announced a $110 million investment to support university-led research in generative AI. Through the "Build on Trainium" program, Amazon will provide compute hours to enable researchers to develop new AI architectures, machine learning libraries, and performance optimizations using AWS Trainium UltraClusters—large-scale collections of AI...
NVIDIA
NVIDIA announced that Japan cloud leaders SoftBank Corp., GMO Internet Group, Highreso, KDDI, Rutilea and SAKURA internet are building AI infrastructure with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking and software to accelerate transformation across the nation’s robotics, automotive, healthcare and telecom industries. The services from Japan’s cloud providers are supported through a...
Fastino
Fastino, a new foundation AI model provider, launched to provide a family of task-optimized language models that are more accurate, faster, and safer than traditional LLMs. The company also announced its $7 million pre-seed funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners and M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, with...
Nutanix
Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, announced that it extended the company's AI infrastructure platform with a new cloud native offering, Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI), that can be deployed on any Kubernetes platform, at the edge, in core data centers, and on public cloud services like AWS EKS,...
RoundUp
Here is AITech365’s Weekly Roundup of the top news from global markets. In this fast-paced world, breaking down information helps readers grasp the nuances that follow the news. In Cybersecurity news this week… Patronus AI Launches Industry-First Self-Serve API for AI Evaluation and Guardrails Patronus AI announced the launch of the Patronus API, the first...
RoundUp
Here is AITech365’s Weekly Roundup of the top news from global markets. In this fast-paced world, breaking down information helps readers grasp the nuances that follow the news. In Cybersecurity news this week… Aviatrix Enhances Threat Intelligence and Network Performance Across Clouds Aviatrix®, the cloud network security company, unveiled new features and functionality...
WEKA
WekaIO, the AI-native data platform company, unveiled two new WEKApod™ data platform appliances : the WEKApod Nitro for large-scale enterprise AI deployments and the WEKApod Prime for smaller-scale AI deployments and multi-purpose high-performance data use cases. WEKApod data platform appliances provide turnkey solutions combining WEKA® Data Platform software with...
MinIO
MinIO, the leader in high-performance storage for AI, announced compelling new optimizations and benchmarks for Arm-based chipsets powering on its object store. These optimizations underscore the relevance of low power, computationally dense chips in key AI-related tasks and demonstrates the readiness and superiority of the Arm architecture for modern...
NVIDIA
NVIDIA announced that xAI’s Colossus supercomputer cluster comprising 100,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs in Memphis, Tennessee, achieved this massive scale by using the NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet networking platform, which is designed to deliver superior performance to multi-tenant, hyperscale AI factories using standards-based Ethernet, for its Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)...
RoundUp
Here is AITech365’s Weekly Roundup of the top news from global markets. In this fast-paced world, breaking down information helps readers grasp the nuances that follow the news. In Cybersecurity news this week… Concentric AI Secures $45M Series B to Grow in DSPM Market Concentric AI, a leading vendor of intelligent AI-based solutions for...