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GPU-Armed Scientists Solve A Quantum Annealing Debate

There is a seemingly endless list of problems to be solved and issues to be addressed in vendors’ steady march toward quantum computing. …

GPU-Armed Scientists Solve A Quantum Annealing Debate was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Scaling The Datacenter: Five Best Practices For CSPs

In today’s dynamic technological environment, service providers such as cloud service providers (CSPs), managed service providers (MSPs), software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, and enterprise private cloud operators face a myriad of challenges in the modern datacenter. …

Scaling The Datacenter: Five Best Practices For CSPs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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AI Era Datacenters Need AI-Ready Ethernet Switching

SPONSORED POST: The rapid breakout of Artificial Intelligence is driving business opportunities across verticals – but there’s one sector for which AI presents some formidable challenges, and that’s the datacenter industry itself. …

AI Era Datacenters Need AI-Ready Ethernet Switching was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Meta Lets Its Largest Llama AI Model Loose Into The Open Field

A scant three months ago, when Meta Platforms released the Llama 3 AI model in 8B and 70B versions, which correspond to the billions of parameters they can span, we asked the question we ask of every open source tool or platform since the dawn of Linux: Who’s going to profit from it and how are they going to do it? …

Meta Lets Its Largest Llama AI Model Loose Into The Open Field was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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IBM Lays Its GenAI Foundation With Software And Services

When you are International Business Machines and you do corporate IT deals in 185 countries around the world, political and economic uncertainty is always a problem. …

IBM Lays Its GenAI Foundation With Software And Services was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Stacking Up AMD Versus Nvidia For Llama 3.1 GPU Inference

Training AI models is expensive, and the world can tolerate that to a certain extent so long as the cost inference for these increasingly complex transformer models can be driven down. …

Stacking Up AMD Versus Nvidia For Llama 3.1 GPU Inference was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy

For Mark Zuckerberg, the decision by Meta Platforms – and way back when it was still known as Facebook – to open much of its technology – including server and storage designs, datacenter designs, and most recently its Llama AI large language models – came about because the company often found itself trailing competitors when it came to deploying advanced technologies. …

For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Your AI Strategy Called: It Wants You To Free The Data

Commissioned: The importance of data has never been more salient in this golden age of AI services. …

Your AI Strategy Called: It Wants You To Free The Data was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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So Who Is Building That 100,000 GPU Cluster For xAI?

The companies under the control of Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and X (formerly known as Twitter) – all need a hell of a lot of GPUs, and all for their own specific AI or HPC projects. …

So Who Is Building That 100,000 GPU Cluster For xAI? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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AMD Breaks $1 Billion In Datacenter GPU Sales In Q2

As expected, AMD has once again raised its sales forecast for sales of its Instinct MI300 series GPUs, and as it has broken through $1 billion in revenues for its “Antares” line of compute engines in the second quarter, it is now expecting to surpass $4.5 billion in sales of these devices for all of 2024. …

AMD Breaks $1 Billion In Datacenter GPU Sales In Q2 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Ampere Arm Server CPUs To Get 512 Cores, AI Accelerator

With all of the hyperscalers and major cloud builders designing their own CPUs and AI accelerators, the heat is on those who sell compute engines to these companies. …

Ampere Arm Server CPUs To Get 512 Cores, AI Accelerator was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Resurrection Of Intel Will Take More Than Three Days

Intel’s second quarter is pretty much a carbon copy of the first three months of 2024 when it comes to revenues across its newly constituted groups, and with an operating loss that is twice as big. …

The Resurrection Of Intel Will Take More Than Three Days was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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GenAI Only As Good As Its Data And Platforms

COMMISSIONED: Whether you’re using one of the leading large language models (LLM), emerging open-source models or a combination of both, the output of your generative AI service hinges on the data and the foundation that supports it. …

GenAI Only As Good As Its Data And Platforms was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

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The Sugar Daddy Boomerang Effect: How AI Investments Puff Up The Clouds

Here’s a question for you: How much of the growth in cloud spending at Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud in the second quarter came from OpenAI and Anthropic spending money they got as investments out of the treasure chests of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google? …

The Sugar Daddy Boomerang Effect: How AI Investments Puff Up The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.