Nvidia Adds Arm Support to Its 5G Aerial Platform, Partners with Google on AI-on-5G Innovation Lab

Deepening its ongoing integration of AI and 5G, Nvidia will be giving customers the option to use Arm-based CPUs with its growing Aerial A100 AI-on-5G platform, while also partnering with Google to establish an AI-on-5G Innovation Lab to accelerate the creation of 5G and AI applications. Both announcements were unveiled June 28 (Monday) at the ... Full article

Intel CEO Gelsinger Makes Exec Changes, Revamps AI and Data Center, Network and Edge Groups

Four months after taking over the reins of Intel Corp., CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced a string of executive leadership changes as he works to shake things up inside a company that leads its marketplace but could use a boost in energy. The executive changes, unveiled on June 22 (Tuesday), include the promotions of two ... Full article

Intel Unveils Help for Busy Cloud Service Provider CPUs With Its New Infrastructure Processing Units

To boost the performance of busy CPUs hosted by cloud service providers, Intel Corp. has launched a new line of Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) that take over some of a CPU’s overhead to let it do more processing for revenue-generating tasks. The IPUs are described by Intel as programmable networking devices that are designed and ... Full article

Mythic AI Targets the Edge AI Market with Its New Smaller, More Power-Efficient M1076 Chips

It has been a busy seven months for AI chip startup Mythic AI. Seven months ago, the company unveiled its first M1108 Analog Matrix Processor (AMP) for AI inferencing. Then one month ago Mythic AI announced a new $70 million Series C investment round to bring its chips to mass production and to develop its ... Full article

Nvidia Expands Its Certified Server Models, Unveils DGX SuperPod Subscriptions at Computex 2021

Nvidia is busy this week at the virtual Computex 2021 Taipei technology show, announcing an expansion of its nascent Nvidia-certified server program, a range of new Nvidia BlueField DPU-equipped server models and the coming availability of its Base Command Platform which will include a subscription option for its DGX SuperPods so customers can give them ... Full article

LG AI Research Adds Another $89M Investment To Its Super-Giant AI Dreams

In December of 2020, consumer electronics giant LG quietly launched an LG AI Research division in South Korea to develop new kinds of AI technologies that can bring increased value and intriguing services to consumer and business customers around the world. LG AI Research was created with $180 million (200 billion Korean won) in funding ... Full article

Toyota, GM Sign Tech Partners to Expand Vehicle Advanced Driver-Assistance Capabilities

With cars and trucks constantly gaining new driver-assistance features to increase on-the-road safety, two of the world’s largest automakers are bringing in new partners to help boost their technologies. In the latest moves, Toyota has signed on ZF and Mobileye to develop advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for several of its vehicle platforms in the next ... Full article

Google Cloud Data Centers to Host Ground Stations for SpaceX’s Starlink Satellite Internet Services

As Elon Musk’s SpaceX continues to build out and test its beta Starlink high-speed, satellite-based internet services, Google Cloud has signed up as a partner to host ground stations within its data centers to link up with the fledgling satellite network. The deal will highlight some of the expertise of both companies – from SpaceX’s ... Full article

With $70M in New Series C Funding, Mythic AI Plans Mass Production of Its Inferencing Chips

Six months after unveiling its first M1108 Analog Matrix Processor (AMP) for AI inferencing, Mythic AI has just received a new $70 million Series C investment round to bring the chips to mass production and to develop its next hardware and software products. The new investment round, which was led by led by BlackRock and ... Full article

AI Startup NeuReality Aims Its Inference Platform to ‘Replace Outdated AI System Architecture’

Only three months after emerging from stealth with $8 million in seed funding, Israeli AI startup NeuReality has revealed plans for its all-new NR1-P novel AI-centric inference platform, which the company claims will provide a 15X improvement in performance per dollar compared to the GPUs and ASICs from other deep learning chip vendors. NeuReality says ... Full article

How the USPS Is Finding Lost Packages More Quickly Using AI Technology from Nvidia

With hundreds of millions of pieces of mail to process and deliver daily, the U.S. Postal Service is always looking for ways to streamline its technology systems to improve its services. Since the early 2000s, those technologies have included bringing in HPC and machine learning, which have continued to be added incrementally over the years ... Full article

Dell Jumps Into Growing As-a-Service Marketplace With New APEX Data Storage Services

DELL TECHNOLOGIES WORLD 2020 – Eight months after announcing in September 2020 that Dell Technologies would make all of its IT products and services available through as-a-service offerings in the future, the company today (May 5) unveiled the first part of that strategy by introducing the general availability of its APEX data storage as-a-service option. ... Full article

Nvidia GTC21 Wrap-up: Nvidia AI and 5G, Autonomous Vehicles and More

Nvidia GTC21 – Here at Nvidia’s virtual spring GPU Technology Conference (GTC) this week Nvidia had big news about its two new AI-targeted GPUs and its all-new Grace data center CPU. But the company also made a myriad of other announcements about new products and services, from the combined use of AI and 5G to ... Full article

Tune In to Watch Nvidia’s GTC21 Keynote with Jensen Huang — Recording Now Available

Update: the LIVE Nvidia keynote is over now, but you can watch the on-demand, recording below. And read our live coverage at EnterpriseAI.news. Join EnterpriseAI this morning at 8:30 AM PT, Monday April 12 to see the Nvidia GTC21 keynote from Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, livestreamed in its entirety. Hosted by EnterpriseAI.news, you can click ... Full article

IBM Expanding AI, ML Capabilities in IBM Cloud Satellite Through the Cloud Pak for Data Add-On

With the recent release of its IBM Cloud Pak for Data, IBM is quickly expanding the tools it offers to enterprise customers that want to put their workloads onto IBM’s Cloud Satellite. The IBM Cloud Pak for Data, which became generally available to customers on March 26, is the first major add-on for Cloud Satellite ... Full article

Israeli AI Startup Razor Labs Bypasses VC Route, Instead Going Public on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

AI startups based in Israel have had little difficulty raising venture funding. Some are now following the lead of their U.S. counterparts by going public. Among the first is industrial AI specialist Razor Labs, which also raised $36 million while launching an initial public offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, operating with the ticker ... Full article

IBM, Cleveland Clinic Begin 10-Year AI, Quantum, Cloud Partnership to Boost Clinical Research

Fueled by the need for faster life sciences and healthcare research, especially in the wake of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, IBM and the 100-year-old Cleveland Clinic are partnering to bolster the Clinic’s research capabilities by integrating a wide range of IBM’s advanced technologies in AI, quantum computing and the cloud. For the Cleveland Clinic, the ... Full article

Here’s An AI-Powered, Voice-Activated Backpack That Aims to Help Visually-Impaired People ‘See’

An open-source AI initiative has come up with a prototype system in the form of a voice-activated backpack that promises to help the visually impaired perceive and navigate their surroundings. The project, which is sponsored by Intel Corp., draws not only on AI hardware and software but also on open-source development kits and critical input ... Full article

Investors Bet Flex Logic Embedded FPGAs will Catch Edge AI Wave With $55M New Funding

Geoff Tate, CEO and cofounder of Flex Logix Technologies, told us several years back that edge AI inferencing would be the embedded FPGA vendor’s biggest market through about 2023. Among the reasons was the crying need for an affordable inference engine that could also handle a range of applications as data processing and storage shifts ... Full article

California’s Sonoma County Adds AI to Wildfire Alert Network to Detect Destructive Blazes

California continues to prepare for another round of wildfires by deploying AI-based early-warning systems designed to spot outbreaks before they become infernos. Sonoma County is the latest to adopt AI technology in the Golden State’s ongoing efforts to monitor and prevent the spread of deadly wildfires that have previously scorched entire towns. County officials announced ... Full article

Intel CEO Gelsinger Makes Exec Changes, Revamps AI and Data Center, Network and Edge Groups

Toyota, GM Sign Tech Partners to Expand Vehicle Advanced Driver-Assistance Capabilities

Google Cloud Data Centers to Host Ground Stations for SpaceX’s Starlink Satellite Internet Services

AI Startup NeuReality Aims Its Inference Platform to ‘Replace Outdated AI System Architecture’

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