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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
New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Promises Return to Engineering Innovation in Major Address
In his first major address since taking over the CEO job at Intel, Lip-Bu Tan explained why he took the job, recounted the challenge that Intel faces, and detailed how he’ll work to turn the chipmaker around. Tan co Read more…
Nvidia Cranks Up the DGX Performance with Blackwell Ultra
At its GTC event in San Jose today, Nvidia unveiled updates to its AI infrastructure portfolio, including its next-generation datacenter GPU, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra. Expanding on the Blackwell architecture introd Read more…
NVIDIA GTC 2025: What to Expect From the Ultimate AI Event?
All eyes are on NVIDIA this week as the chip manufacturer gears up for its biggest event of the year - the GPU Technical Conference (GTC). Starting this Monday in San Jose, CA, the week-long conference is highly anticipa Read more…
Google Launches Data Science Agent for Colab
Getting started with data science and AI often means spending a lot of time setting things up - loading libraries, organizing data, and setting environments. This tedious work can often take away focus from tasks that tr Read more…
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…
This Just In
LOS ANGELES, April 11, 2025 — Vast.ai has announced it has successfully completed its SOC 2 Type I audit, demonstrating the company’s commitment to maintaining robust security protocols that meet SOC 2 compliance requirements for data security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Read more…
LAS VEGAS, April 11, 2025 — Significant advancements in computing power have fundamentally reshaped the scientific process. Computational tools now enhance both theoretical and experimental workflows, driving discoveries across scientific disciplines through numerical simulations and data analysis. Read more…
TOKYO, April 11, 2025 — NTT Corporation has announced a new, large-scale integration (LSI) for the real-time AI inference processing of ultra-high-definition video up to 4K-resolution and 30 frames per second (fps). Read more…
LAS VEGAS, April 10, 2025 — At Google Cloud Next 25, Google introduced Ironwood, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). Ironwood is the company’s most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator to date—and the first designed specifically for inference. Read more…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 9, 2025 — AMD today announced the new Google Cloud C4D and H4D virtual machines (VMs) are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors. Read more…