Advanced Computing in the Age of AI | Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Nvidia's latest and fastest GPU, code-named Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company's AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from its predecessors, including the red-hot H100 and A100 GPUs. Customers demand more AI performance, and the GPUs are primed to succeed with pent up demand for higher performing GPUs.   The GPU ... Full article
Apple seems to be in discussions with Google to integrate Google's Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) engine into the iPhone. This move signifies Apple's interest in enhancing the capabilities of its upcoming iPhone iOS 18 through generative AI features, such as assisting with tasks like writing and image creation based on simple prompts. While Apple is ... Full article
While GenAI offers enormous potential to transform our world, there are some concerns, including security risks. To help overcome these challenges, Sentra Inc., a cloud-native security startup, announced Sentra Jagger, a new large language model (LLM) assistant for cloud data security.  The new capability is designed to provide organizations with real-time security insights and recommendations. ... Full article
We know that GenAI has great potential to transform businesses and the economy. However, we don’t know how much impact it will have. Would the hype fizzle away in a few years or would have a most lasting impression?  Cognizant, a provider of information technology (IT), consulting, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, predicts GenAI ... Full article
Week after week, we express amazement at the progress of AI. At times, it feels as though we’re on the cusp of witnessing something truly revolutionary (singularity, anyone?). But when AI models do something unexpected or bad and the technological buzz wears off, we’re left to confront the real and growing concerns over just how ... Full article
Data and large language models (LLMs) can save banks and other financial services millions by enhancing automation, efficiency, accuracy, and more. McKinsey reports that the productivity lift from generative AI can lead to an increase of 3-5% of annual revenue in the banking sector, which is equivalent to $200 billion to $340 billion of additional annual revenue. ... Full article
The AI boom has catapulted Nvidia’s stock to an all-time high. The GPUs by Nvidia are the best-in-class hardware for supporting AI workloads. The remarkable rise of the company has resulted in the greater influence of the founder and CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, on the AI market. At the recent World Governments Summit in ... Full article
In recent times, generative AI (GenAI) has emerged as a transformative force, revolutionizing the way we work, live, and learn. GenAI refers to a class of AI that is used to generate content, such as text, images, and videos. One of the most promising use cases for GenAI is in the field of coaching, where ... Full article
Generative AI is a fundamental breakthrough that will have far-reaching implications for computing, according to MinIO CEO and co-founder Anand Babu “AB” Periasamy. But the biggest impact GenAI will have, he said, is reminding businesses of their most important asset: their data. There’s no denying that GenAI has generated its share of hoopla over the ... Full article
The explosive growth of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) heralds opportunity and disruption across industries. It is transforming how we interact with technology itself. During this early phase of GenAI technology, organizations are exploring new ways to leverage this technology to unlock business value. While there is enormous promise, there are also some concerns.  The 2024 ... Full article
OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT and Dall-E, has joined the text-to-video AI content generation race by launching Sora, which has the ability to generate videos up to a minute long based on the user’s prompt.  The company showed several impressive videos created using Sora including a woman walking down a street in Tokyo and historical ... Full article
While 2023 was the year of GenAI, the adoption rates for GenAI did not match expectations. Most organizations are continuing to invest in GenAI but are yet to derive any substantial value from it. However, the GenAI hype has had a surprising effect on the organizations’ data and analytical culture. In its 12th annual edition Data ... Full article
Google has been investing heavily in AI for several years with a goal to improve Search and other products. The company is known for having a variety of similar products with confusingly different names. However, Google has decided that it would only have one name for all its AI work – Gemini. The tech giant ... Full article
There is big data, and then there is VAST Data, which has emerged as one of the world’s hottest tech firms over the past year. The company, which started out as developer of flash storage arrays, has morphed into a full stack provider of software-defined infrastructure for running AI anywhere. As GenAI workloads go into ... Full article
The U.S. Government made two big announcements this week to help drive development of safe AI, including the creation of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, or AISI, on Wednesday and the creation of a supporting group called the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium today. The new AI Safety Institute, or AISI, was established to ... Full article
The Biden Administration has decided to apply new AI regulations, where all developers of major AI systems will be required to disclose their safety test results to the government. As part of these new rules, tech companies will be required to let the government know when they train an AI model using a significant amount ... Full article
The level of hype around generative AI is off the charts, as we have covered here in Enterprise AI over the past year. The hype is so thick at times, you could cut it with a knife. And yet, there is still the potential that people could be underestimating the impact that GenAI will have ... Full article
The topic of data governance is one that’s been well-trod, even if not all companies follow the widely accepted precepts of the discipline. Where things are getting a little hairy these days is AI governance, which is a topic on the minds of C-suite members and boards of directors who want to embrace generative AI ... Full article
The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence over the last year has sent tech companies scrambling to find new ways to develop and deploy AI technology in their products and processes. Companies that have developed or are in the process of developing something unique or innovative that uses AI technology often seek patents to protect their ... Full article
In a significant development, Google has terminated its multi-million dollar contract with Appen, an Australian data company involved in training large language model AI tools used in several Google products including Search and Bard. Appen has also helped Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft train their AI models.  This is a major blow for Appen, who employs ... Full article
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