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Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration
GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still u Read more…
What Are Reasoning Models and Why You Should Care
The meteoric rise of DeepSeek R-1 has put the spotlight on an emerging type of AI model called a reasoning model. As generative AI applications move beyond conversational interfaces, reasoning models are likely to grow i Read more…
Inside Nvidia’s New Desktop AI Box, ‘Project DIGITS’
At the 2025 CES event, Nvidia announced a new $3000 desktop computer developed in collaboration with MediaTek, which is powered by a new cut-down Arm-based Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU Superchip. The new system is called Read more…
Big Data Career Notes for December 2024
It’s that time of month again–time for Big Data Career Notes, a monthly feature where we keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, ne Read more…
Nvidia Touts Lower ‘Time-to-First-Train’ with DGX Cloud on AWS
Customers have a lot of options when it comes to building their generative AI stacks to train, fine-tune, and run AI models. In some cases, the number of options may be overwhelming. To help simplify the decision-making Read more…
News In Brief
Sahara AI’s New Platform Rewards Users for Building AI Training Data
As AI applications become more advanced, the demand for specialized data grows. Simple tasks like tagging images or classifying text have given way to more advanced needs, such as understanding sentiment and aligning mul Read more…
Nvidia Debuts Enterprise Reference Architectures to Build AI Factories
The advent of generative AI has supersized the appetite for GPUs and other forms of accelerated computing. To help companies scale up their accelerated compute investments in a predictable manner, GPU giant Nvidia and se Read more…
Nvidia Introduces New Blackwell GPU for Trillion-Parameter AI Models
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 Read more…
This Just In
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 18, 2025 — Vultr today announced the deployment of the AMD Instinct MI325X GPUs in its Chicago data center region, making it the first cloud provider to offer these cutting-edge AI solutions. Read more…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 12, 2025 — Netris, an innovative software company specializing in cloud-like network automation and abstraction, is excited to announce a partnership with XENON Systems, a premier high-performance computing and AI infrastructure specialist based in Australia. Read more…
RENO, Nev., Feb. 12, 2025 — Positron, a rising force in AI inference technology for artificial intelligence computing, has raised $23.5 million in funding from a group of investors, including Flume Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, and Resilience Reserve. Read more…
BERLIN and NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2025 — Qdrant, a leading high-performance open-source vector database, today introduced its platform-independent GPU-accelerated vector indexing. This new feature delivers up to 10x faster index-building times while leveraging cost-effective GPUs that rival or surpass CPUs in both cost and efficiency. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23, 2025 — Pipeshift today announced its $2.5 million seed round to solve this challenge, launching a new-age Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables engineering teams to orchestrate AI workloads across any infrastructure – Read more…