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Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
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.
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.
Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. …
Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
This week is another major conference for a server OEM, and that must mean it is another time for an OEM to announce its tight partnership with AI compute engine juggernaut Nvidia. …
HPE Goes After Enterprise AI With Nvidia GPU Engines was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Murray Thom, vice president for quantum technology evangelism for D-Wave, knows that his company for more than two decades has played a key role in a somewhat unusual industry. …
D-Wave Is Still Making The Case For Annealing Quantum Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Richard Solomon has heard the rumblings over the years. As vice president of PCI-SIG, the organization that controls the development of the PCI-Express specification, he has listened to questions about how long it takes the group to bring the latest spec to the industry. …
The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In those heady months following OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, much of the IT industry’s focus was on huge and expensive cloud infrastructures running on powerful GPU clusters to train the large language models that underpin the chatbots and other generative AI workloads. …
Cisco Pushes Nvidia Enterprise AI, But Has Its Own Network Agenda was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Several years ago, Subaru set a goal to stop fatal accidents involving its cars in 2030 and is leaning heavily on AI to reach the target. …
Subaru Drives Its EyeSight System Forward With AI Augmentation was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
No surprises here: Reviewing first quarter earnings calls of S&P 500 companies, London-based analytics firm GlobalData found that generative AI was a key point of discussion among a growing number of the public companies. …
Dell Wants To Help You Build Your AI Factory was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Generative AI and the various capacity and latency needs it has for compute and storage is muscling out almost every other topic when conversations turn to HPC and enterprise. …
Companies Need On-Premise HPC – And For More Than AI, Too was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
A theme snaking its way through conversations these days about generative AI is the need for open source models, open platforms, and industry standards as ways to make the emerging technology more accessible and widely adopted by enterprises. …
Red Hat Saddles Up For The Wide Open GenAI Horizons was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
More than a decade ago, executives at Arm Ltd saw the energy costs in datacenters soaring and sensed an opportunity to extend the low-power architecture of its eponymous systems-on-a-chip that has dominated the mobile phone markets from the get-go and took over the embedded device market from PowerPC into enterprise servers. …
Power Efficiency, Customization Will Drive Arm’s Role In AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There was a time – and it doesn’t seem like that long ago – that the datacenter chip market was a big-money but relatively simple landscape, with CPUs from Intel and AMD and Arm looking to muscle its way in and GPUs mostly from Nvidia with some from AMD and Intel looking to muscle its way in. …
AWS Hedges Its Bets With Nvidia GPUs And Homegrown AI Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The steady rise of AI over the past several years – and the accelerated growth with the introduction generative AI since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 – has shifted Intel’s status as a challenger in a chip market that it long had dominated. …
Gelsinger: With Gaudi 3 and Xeon 6, AI Workloads Will Come Our Way was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
As we have noted before, vector databases aren’t new even though people talk about them that way, and in fact can trace their origins back a few decades. …
Couchbase Joins The Vector Search In Database Fray was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The edge is continuing to become a place where IT infrastructure vendors need to be, and that includes chip makers, all of whom have strategies to push their silicon to where the data is increasingly being generated and needs to be stored, processed, and analyzed. …
AMD Flexing Spartan FPGA Muscles In Clouds And At Edges was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Ethernet roadmap has had a few bumps and potholes in the four and a half decades since the 10M generation was first published in 1980. …
Synopsys Shepherds Circuits Towards 1.6T Ethernet was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In the ten years since Google released Kubernetes to the open source community, it has become the dominant platform for orchestrating and managing software containers and microservices, along the way muscling out competitors like Docker Swarm and Mesosphere. …
Kubernetes Clusters Have Massive Overprovisioning Of Compute And Memory was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The vibe around generative AI is still one of a land rush since OpenAI unleased ChatGPT into the public sphere in late November 2022, with investors dishing out millions of dollars, vendors big and small pumping out products and services, and organizations trying to integrate them into their back-office and user-facing operations. …
You Can Build GenAI From Scratch, Or Go Straight To SaaS was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Four years ago, Google engineers boasted of achieving “quantum supremacy” following experiments that showed its 53-qubit Sycamore quantum system solving problems that classical supercomputers either can’t or take a very long time to accomplish. …
The post Google Gives A Peek At What A Quantum Computer Can Do first appeared on The Next Platform.
Google Gives A Peek At What A Quantum Computer Can Do was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.