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Nvidia Speeds Up Large Language Modeling
Natural language processing has been an easy fit for these relatively early days of artificial intelligence. …
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Making AI Accessible To One And All
The democratization of any effective technology happens automatically by virtue of its success, even if the complexity it presents initially overwhelms some of the smartest people who wield it. …
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Precision, Accuracy, Scale – And Experience – All Matter With AI
When it comes to building any platform, the hardware is the easiest part and, for many of us, the fun part. …
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Poor Hardware Utilization Puts Squeeze on AI Compression
One of the most pressing challenges in deploying deep learning at scale, especially for social media giant, Meta, is making full use of hardware for inference as well as training. …
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Neural Networks Are Only As Good As The Data They Are Fed
Like other kinds of computing, if you put garbage data into a machine learning training run and then pour new data through it, what comes out as the answer is puréed garbage. …
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Graphcore Thinks It Can Get An AI Piece Of The HPC Exascale Pie
For the last few years, Graphcore has primarily been focused on slinging its IPU chips for training and inference systems of varying sizes, but that is changing now as the six-year-old British chip designer is joining the conversation about the convergence of AI and high-performance computing. …
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Once Again, Meta Buys Rather Than Builds A Supercomputer
For a company that has been so enthusiastic about designing and building its own infrastructure and datacenters, Meta Platforms, the parent company to Facebook as well as WhatsApp and Instagram and one of the champions of the metaverse virtual reality a lot of us first read about in Burning Chrome, sure has not been building its own AI supercomputers lately. …
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Google Stands Up Exascale TPUv4 Pods On The Cloud
It is Google I/O 2022 this week, among many other things, and we were hoping for an architectural deep dive on the TPUv4 matrix math engines that Google hinted about at last year’s I/O event. …
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Neuromorphic Computing Will Need Partners To Break Into The Datacenter
The emerging field of neuromorphic processing isn’t an easy one to navigate. …
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Intel Pits New Gaudi2 AI Training Engine Against Nvidia GPUs
Nvidia is not the only company that has created specialized compute units that are good at the matrix math and tensor processing that underpins AI training and that can be repurposed to run AI inference. …