Cerebras

Cerebras, Petuum, and MBZUAI Announce New Open-Source CrystalCoder and LLM360 Methodology to Accelerate Development of Transparent and Responsible AI Models

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Monday, December 11, 2023

While previous models were suitable for either English or coding, CrystalCoder achieves high accuracy for both tasks simultaneously.

Key Points: 
  • While previous models were suitable for either English or coding, CrystalCoder achieves high accuracy for both tasks simultaneously.
  • Trained on Condor Galaxy 1, the AI supercomputer built by G42 and Cerebras, CrystalCoder-7B has been released under the new reproducible LLM360 methodology that promotes open source and transparent, responsible use.
  • CrystalCoder and the LLM360 release methodology are available now on Hugging Face.
  • "Petuum and MBZUAI are excited to announce the release of the CrystalCoder-7B large language model (LLM).

Cerebras Systems Hires Industry Luminary Julie Shin Choi as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Cerebras Systems , the pioneer in accelerating generative AI, today announced that it has hired industry expert Julie Shin Choi as its Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.

Key Points: 
  • Cerebras Systems , the pioneer in accelerating generative AI, today announced that it has hired industry expert Julie Shin Choi as its Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.
  • Choi will also join the Cerebras executive team where she will help accelerate the growth and adoption of Cerebras technology into existing markets, as well as new ones.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231129709810/en/
    Choi joins Cerebras from MosaicML where she was Chief Marketing and Community Officer and the company’s first exec hire.
  • Previously, Julie led product marketing roles at HPE, Mozilla, and Yahoo, where she focused on enterprise customers and developers.

Cerebras Systems Announces 130x Performance Improvement on Key Nuclear Energy Simulation over Nvidia A100 GPUs

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Monday, November 13, 2023

Cerebras Systems , the pioneer in accelerating generative AI, today announced the achievement of a 130x speedup over Nvidia A100 GPUs on a key nuclear energy HPC simulation kernel, developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory.

Key Points: 
  • Cerebras Systems , the pioneer in accelerating generative AI, today announced the achievement of a 130x speedup over Nvidia A100 GPUs on a key nuclear energy HPC simulation kernel, developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory.
  • This result demonstrates the performance and versatility of the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE-2) and ensures that the U.S. continues to be the global leader in supercomputing for energy and defense applications.
  • This kernel represents the most computationally intensive portion of the full simulation, accounting for up to 85% of the total runtime for many nuclear energy applications.
  • “These published results highlight not only the incredible performance of the CS-2, but also its architectural efficiency,” said Andrew Feldman, CEO and co-founder of Cerebras Systems.

Core42 Sets New Benchmark for Arabic Large Language Models with the Release of Jais 30B

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Thursday, November 9, 2023

ABU DHABI, UAE, Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Core42, a G42 company and the UAE-based national-scale enabler for cloud and generative AI, announced the launch of Jais 30B, the newest and most proficient version of its open-source Arabic Large Language Model (LLM). Featuring 30 billion parameters, this new iteration of Jais follows the release in August 2023 of the 13 billion parameter model, underscoring Core42's commitment to provide a rich linguistic and culture-focused generative AI experience for the over 400 million Arabic speakers worldwide.

Key Points: 
  • Jais 13B went from concept to fine-tuned, leading open-source model in less than four months.
  • It offers 160% longer and more detailed answers in Arabic and a 233% increase in English, reflecting significant improvements in language generation.
  • Jais 30B performance is now on par with monolingual English models and outperforms most open-source models in Foundation Model evaluations.
  • To know more about how Jais 30B was trained and benchmarks against other models, you can read the model's blog post on G42's website: https://www.g42.ai/resources/publications/Jais-30B

Core42 Sets New Benchmark for Arabic Large Language Models with the Release of Jais 30B

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023

ABU DHABI, UAE, Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Core42, a G42 company and the UAE-based national-scale enabler for cloud and generative AI, announced the launch of Jais 30B, the newest and most proficient version of its open-source Arabic Large Language Model (LLM). Featuring 30 billion parameters, this new iteration of Jais follows the release in August 2023 of the 13 billion parameter model, underscoring Core42's commitment to provide a rich linguistic and culture-focused generative AI experience for the over 400 million Arabic speakers worldwide.

Key Points: 
  • Jais 13B went from concept to fine-tuned, leading open-source model in less than four months.
  • It offers 160% longer and more detailed answers in Arabic and a 233% increase in English, reflecting significant improvements in language generation.
  • Jais 30B performance is now on par with monolingual English models and outperforms most open-source models in Foundation Model evaluations.
  • To know more about how Jais 30B was trained and benchmarks against other models, you can read the model's blog post on G42's website: https://www.g42.ai/resources/publications/Jais-30B

Cerebras Systems Selects VAST Data to Accelerate the Next Wave of Data Intensive Generative AI Workloads

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Monday, October 16, 2023

Cerebras Systems , the pioneer in accelerating generative AI, today announced that it has selected VAST Data , the AI data platform company, to help deliver advanced data solutions that will accelerate the training and accuracy of generative AI workloads.

Key Points: 
  • Cerebras Systems , the pioneer in accelerating generative AI, today announced that it has selected VAST Data , the AI data platform company, to help deliver advanced data solutions that will accelerate the training and accuracy of generative AI workloads.
  • “The data requirements for training generative AI workloads continues to increase at an exponential and unprecedented pace,” said Andrew Feldman, CEO and co-founder of Cerebras Systems.
  • “The VAST Data team have industry-leading expertise in managing exabytes of data from edge to cloud, and helping evolve that data into information.
  • The VAST Data Platform provides scalable, secure, and efficient access to the massive amount of data required for training workloads conducted on Condor Galaxy.

M42 Announces New Clinical LLM to Transform the Future of AI in Healthcare

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

M42, a global tech-enabled healthcare network, has unveiled an impactful advancement in healthcare technology with the launch of Med42, a new open-access Clinical Large Language Model (LLM).

Key Points: 
  • M42, a global tech-enabled healthcare network, has unveiled an impactful advancement in healthcare technology with the launch of Med42, a new open-access Clinical Large Language Model (LLM).
  • The 70 billion parameter, generative artificial intelligence (AI) model is poised to transform the future of AI across the healthcare sector and create a direct impact on patient care outcomes.
  • The model has been developed to exponentially enhance clinical decision-making and increase access to synthesized medical knowledge for healthcare professionals, patients, and medical researchers through to regulators.
  • M42 aims to catalyze global innovation in AI for healthcare, empowering experts across the globe to refine and expand the model's applications in various medical domains.

M42 Announces New Clinical LLM to Transform the Future of AI in Healthcare

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

The 70 billion parameter, generative artificial intelligence (AI) model is poised to transform the future of AI across the healthcare sector and create a direct impact on patient care outcomes.

Key Points: 
  • The 70 billion parameter, generative artificial intelligence (AI) model is poised to transform the future of AI across the healthcare sector and create a direct impact on patient care outcomes.
  • The model has been developed to exponentially enhance clinical decision-making and increase access to synthesized medical knowledge for healthcare professionals, patients, and medical researchers through to regulators.
  • Med42 has the potential to revolutionize the pace of clinical decision-making, acting as an AI assistant for healthcare professionals.
  • Today, we helped bring another state-of-the-art LLM to the world, Med42, with huge benefits for the healthcare landscape."

KAUST and Cerebras Named Gordon Bell Award Finalist for Solving Multi-Dimensional Seismic Processing at Record-Breaking Speeds

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

“In partnership with KAUST researchers, we are honored to be recognized by Gordon Bell for setting a new record in what is possible for multi-dimensional seismic processing.

Key Points: 
  • “In partnership with KAUST researchers, we are honored to be recognized by Gordon Bell for setting a new record in what is possible for multi-dimensional seismic processing.
  • Modern seismic processing techniques are computationally challenging because they require repeated access to the entire collection of multi-dimensional data.
  • The work conducted by KAUST and Cerebras validates the Cerebras CS-2 as a viable alternative that can achieve record-breaking performance for historically memory-bound applications.
  • More information on this multi-dimensional seismic processing workload can be found at https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/694388 .

Cerebras Systems Promotes Dhiraj Mallick to Chief Operating Officer

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Cerebras Systems , the pioneer in accelerating generative AI, today announced it has promoted Dhiraj Mallick to serve as the company’s chief operating officer (COO).

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  • Cerebras Systems , the pioneer in accelerating generative AI, today announced it has promoted Dhiraj Mallick to serve as the company’s chief operating officer (COO).
  • Mallick joined Cerebras in 2018 and had previously been senior vice president of engineering and operations.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230912015681/en/
    Cerebras Systems Promotes Dhiraj Mallick to Chief Operating Officer (Photo: Business Wire)
    “Dhiraj has made a significant impact on our business over the past five years,” said Andrew Feldman, CEO and co-founder, Cerebras Systems.
  • Prior to Cerebras, he was chief technology officer and vice president of architecture for Intel’s $20B data center business.