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Missing The Moat With AI

Google is a big company with thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of software engineers, who all hold their own opinions about what AI means to the future of business and the future of their own jobs and ours. …

Missing The Moat With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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There’s Still A Long Way To Go With Generative AI

The tech world is awash with generative AI, which for a company like Nvidia, is a good thing. …

There’s Still A Long Way To Go With Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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AI Hype Will Drive Datacenter GPU Prices Sky High

Like many HPC and AI system builders, we are impatient to see what the “Antares” Instinct MI300A hybrid CPU-GPU system on chip from AMD might look like in terms of performance and price. …

AI Hype Will Drive Datacenter GPU Prices Sky High was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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How ZeroPoint Optimizes Performance And Energy Use In Datacenters With Memory Compression

Sponsored Feature: Computers are taking over our daily tasks. For big tech, this means an increase in IT workloads and an expansion of advanced use cases in areas like artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), the Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR). …

How ZeroPoint Optimizes Performance And Energy Use In Datacenters With Memory Compression was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

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The Silicon Valley Co-Los Know What’s Really Going On With AI

If you want to get a sense of what companies are really doing with AI infrastructure, and the issues of processing and network capacity, power, and cooling that they are facing, what you need to do is talk to some co-location datacenter providers. …

The Silicon Valley Co-Los Know What’s Really Going On With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Full Steam Ahead for AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit in California

Sponsored Post: In an IT industry where technologies are habitually hyped beyond reason and sense, Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands out as a genuine game changer: something that has the potential to profoundly shape and disrupt the world. …

Full Steam Ahead for AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit in California was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

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When Push Comes To Shove, Google Invests Heavily In GPU Compute

A year ago, at its Google I/O 2022 event, Google revealed to the world that it had eight pods of TPUv4 accelerators, with a combined 32,768 of its fourth generation, homegrown matrix math accelerators, running in a machine learning hub located in its Mayes County, Oklahoma datacenter. …

When Push Comes To Shove, Google Invests Heavily In GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Roads To Zettascale And Quantum Computing Are Long And Winding

In the United States, the first step on the road to exascale HPC systems began with a series of workshops in 2007. …

The Roads To Zettascale And Quantum Computing Are Long And Winding was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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The Future Of AI Training Demands Optical Interconnects

Artificial intelligence has taken the datacenter by storm, and it is forcing companies to rethink the balance between compute, storage, and networking. …

The Future Of AI Training Demands Optical Interconnects was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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With Project Beacon, Nutanix Opens Up And Reins In Cloud Infrastructure

Here is a question for you. Which is more proprietary? The Nutanix hyperconverged compute, storage, and networking platform or a cloud like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure? …

With Project Beacon, Nutanix Opens Up And Reins In Cloud Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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India Declares CPU Independence With Aum HPC Processor

At the moment, the most powerful Arm processor on the planet is the 48-core A64FX processor from Fujitsu, which was created as the heavily vectored compute engine for the “Fugaku” supercomputer at RIKEN Lab in Japan. …

India Declares CPU Independence With Aum HPC Processor was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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AI Is Coming In The Front Door To Get The Back Office

Large language models can be fun, as shown by the wild popularity of ChatGPT since OpenAI tossed the generative AI chatbot into the public sphere in late November and let people have at it. …

AI Is Coming In The Front Door To Get The Back Office was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.