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Innatera unveils its groundbreaking ultra-low power neuromorphic microcontroller at CES 2024

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Donnerstag, Januar 11, 2024

DELFT, Netherlands, Jan. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Innatera, the pioneer in ultra-low power intelligence, is proud to announce the unveiling of its neuromorphic microcontroller - the Spiking Neural Processor T1 - at CES 2024.

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  • DELFT, Netherlands, Jan. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Innatera, the pioneer in ultra-low power intelligence, is proud to announce the unveiling of its neuromorphic microcontroller - the Spiking Neural Processor T1 - at CES 2024.
  • At CES 2024, Innatera will showcase the Spiking Neural Processor T1 through live demonstrations of radar and audio applications from Innatera's partners.
  • The Spiking Neural Processor is a versatile neuromorphic processing technology that mimics the brain's mechanisms for processing sensory data.
  • To learn more about Innatera and book a meeting at CES, please visit

AMD Delivers Leadership Portfolio of Data Center AI Solutions with AMD Instinct MI300 Series

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Mittwoch, Dezember 6, 2023

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the availability of the AMD Instinct™ MI300X accelerators – with industry leading memory bandwidth for generative AI1 and leadership performance for large language model (LLM) training and inferencing – as well as the AMD Instinct™ MI300A accelerated processing unit (APU) – combining the latest AMD CDNA™ 3 architecture and “Zen 4” CPUs to deliver breakthrough performance for HPC and AI workloads.

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  • “AMD Instinct MI300 Series accelerators are designed with our most advanced technologies, delivering leadership performance, and will be in large scale cloud and enterprise deployments,” said Victor Peng, president, AMD.
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure plans to add AMD Instinct MI300X-based bare metal instances to the company’s high-performance accelerated computing instances for AI.
  • Dell showcased the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 server featuring eight AMD Instinct MI300 Series accelerators and the new Dell Validated Design for Generative AI with AMD ROCm-powered AI frameworks.
  • Supermicro announced new additions to its H13 generation of accelerated servers powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct MI300 Series accelerators.

Latest Top500 List Highlights Several World's Fastest and Most Efficient Supercomputers Powered by AMD

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Dienstag, November 14, 2023

AMD EPYC™ processors and AMD Instinct™ accelerators continue to be the solutions of choice for many of the most innovative, energy efficient and fastest supercomputers in the world.

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  • AMD EPYC™ processors and AMD Instinct™ accelerators continue to be the solutions of choice for many of the most innovative, energy efficient and fastest supercomputers in the world.
  • AMD now powers 140 supercomputers on the latest Top500 list representing a 39% year-over-year increase.
  • Additionally, AMD powers eight of the top ten most energy efficient supercomputers in the world based on the latest Green500 list .
  • Visit the AMD booth #1117 at Supercomputing 2023 to learn more about AMD solutions for HPC and speak with AMD experts.

Protect AI Named to 2023 Fortune Cyber 60 List

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Donnerstag, Dezember 14, 2023

Protect AI , the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security company, today announced it has been named to the inaugural edition of the Fortune Cyber 60 List , which recognizes the top 60 cyber security companies in the world.

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  • Protect AI , the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security company, today announced it has been named to the inaugural edition of the Fortune Cyber 60 List , which recognizes the top 60 cyber security companies in the world.
  • Protect AI is profiled in the Fortune Cyber 60 report , and was selected for helping organizations see, know and manage security risk in ML systems and AI applications, end-to-end, so they can defend against unique AI security vulnerabilities, data breaches and emerging threats.
  • “Being named to the Fortune Cyber 60 List in our first year of operation, alongside some of the largest security vendors in the industry is a tremendous honor, and speaks to the importance of the problem we are addressing in securing AI,” said Ian Swanson, co-founder and CEO of Protect AI.
  • Protect AI ModelScan is an open source project that scans models to determine if they contain unsafe code.

Intel Accelerates AI Everywhere with Launch of Powerful Next-Gen Products

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Donnerstag, Dezember 14, 2023

At its “AI Everywhere” launch in New York City today, Intel introduced an unmatched portfolio of AI products to enable customers’ AI solutions everywhere — across the data center, cloud, network, edge and PC.

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  • At its “AI Everywhere” launch in New York City today, Intel introduced an unmatched portfolio of AI products to enable customers’ AI solutions everywhere — across the data center, cloud, network, edge and PC.
  • Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger showed for the first time an Intel® Gaudi®3 AI accelerator, arriving on schedule next year.
  • “Intel is on a mission to bring AI everywhere through exceptionally engineered platforms, secure solutions and support for open ecosystems.
  • With partners and a broad ecosystem, Intel is unlocking new growth opportunities fueled by AI, bringing AI everywhere.

Lightning AI Introduces Lightning AI Studios; its Enterprise-Grade Platform for Rapid-prototyping, and Deploying AI Products

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Mittwoch, Dezember 13, 2023

Lightning AI , the company behind PyTorch Lightning, with over 91 million downloads, today announced the introduction of Lightning AI Studios, the culmination of three years of research into the next-generation development paradigm for the age of AI.

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  • Lightning AI , the company behind PyTorch Lightning, with over 91 million downloads, today announced the introduction of Lightning AI Studios, the culmination of three years of research into the next-generation development paradigm for the age of AI.
  • Using this knowledge the team at Lightning AI rethought from the ground up what AI development on the cloud should feel like.
  • “What we did for AI frameworks with PyTorch Lightning, we’re doing for AI development with Lightning AI Studios,” said Will Falcon, founder and CEO of Lightning AI and creator of PyTorch Lightning.
  • – Lightning AI Studios brings together everything needed to build and deploy AI products at scale in one, easy-to-use platform.”
    Developers today, string together 20 platforms to monitor, train, serve, prep data, host apps, etc.

Kinara Edge AI Processor Tackles the Monstrous Compute Demands of Generative AI and Transformer-Based Models

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Dienstag, Dezember 12, 2023

Kinara™, Inc. , today launched the Kinara Ara-2 Edge AI processor, powering edge servers and laptops with high performance, cost effective, and energy efficient inference to run applications such as video analytics, Large Language Models (LLMs), and other Generative AI models.

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  • Kinara™, Inc. , today launched the Kinara Ara-2 Edge AI processor, powering edge servers and laptops with high performance, cost effective, and energy efficient inference to run applications such as video analytics, Large Language Models (LLMs), and other Generative AI models.
  • The Ara-2 is also ideal for edge applications running traditional AI models and state-of-the-art AI models with transformer-based architectures.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231212788210/en/
    The Kinara Ara-2 edge AI processor is targeted at applications running traditional AI models and state-of-the-art AI models with transformer-based architectures.
  • And as an example of its capabilities for processing Generative AI models, Ara-2 can hit 10 seconds per image for Stable Diffusion and tens of tokens/sec for LLaMA-7B."

Lightning AI Joins AI Alliance to Advance Open, Safe, Responsible AI

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Donnerstag, Dezember 7, 2023

Lightning AI , the company behind PyTorch Lightning, today announced it has joined the AI Alliance, which includes more than 50 leading organizations across industries that are coming together to support open AI research, development, innovation and science.

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  • Lightning AI , the company behind PyTorch Lightning, today announced it has joined the AI Alliance, which includes more than 50 leading organizations across industries that are coming together to support open AI research, development, innovation and science.
  • Lightning AI has supported open-source AI since 2019 by building and making public PyTorch Lightning, torchmetrics, lit-gpt and lit-llama, enterprise-grade tools available to the general developer community.
  • In accordance with the Alliance, Lightning AI believes that open and transparent innovation is essential to effectively advance AI that prioritizes safety, diversity, economic opportunity and benefits for everyone.
  • “As a longtime advocate for open-source adoption, Lightning AI is in complete alignment with the AI Alliance in supporting transparent and responsible innovation,” said Will Falcon, founder and CEO of Lightning AI.

Tachyum Prodigy Complete Software Package Enters Testing

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Dienstag, November 28, 2023

Tachyum software engineers have worked hard to enable the full potential of Prodigy with the development of a rich ecosystem of applications, system software, frameworks and libraries that are ported to run natively on Prodigy hardware.

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  • Tachyum software engineers have worked hard to enable the full potential of Prodigy with the development of a rich ecosystem of applications, system software, frameworks and libraries that are ported to run natively on Prodigy hardware.
  • Once the software package completes its testing and runs cleanly on the FPGA, the company can fully transition to advancing the Universal Processor into production.
  • Included in the software distribution package as part of alpha testing are:
    System software including UEFI, Linux, SE-Linux, FreeBSD, KVM, XEN, GCC, LLVM, TensorFlow and PyTorch.
  • Having it available for alpha testing is a massive step towards revolutionizing the data center.”
    A video demonstrating the alpha release of Tachyum’s Prodigy software distribution package is available for viewing at https://youtu.be/XLNcOuepbUM.

VMware Collaborates with Intel to Unlock Private AI Everywhere

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Dienstag, November 7, 2023

VMware and Intel are working to deliver a jointly validated AI stack that will enable customers to use their existing general-purpose VMware and Intel infrastructure and open source software to simplify building and deploying AI models.

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  • VMware and Intel are working to deliver a jointly validated AI stack that will enable customers to use their existing general-purpose VMware and Intel infrastructure and open source software to simplify building and deploying AI models.
  • Private AI empowers customers with all three, enabling them to accelerate AI adoption while future-proofing their AI infrastructure,” said Chris Wolf, vice president of VMware AI Labs.
  • This VMware Private AI reference architecture with Intel AI will include:
    4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors with Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) deliver up to 10x significant out-of-box performance improvements using standard industry frameworks and libraries, end-to-end data science productivity tools, and optimized AI models.
  • VMware Private AI will be supported by servers from Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo running 4th Gen Xeon CPUs with Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) and Intel Max Series GPUs.