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Vultr Expands AI Training and Inference Capacity in Singapore Through Partnership With Singtel

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Vultr , the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Singtel to expand its capacity of NVIDIA GPUs in Singapore and across Southeast Asia.

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  • Vultr , the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Singtel to expand its capacity of NVIDIA GPUs in Singapore and across Southeast Asia.
  • This partnership will support the development of AI factories for model training and inference using Vultr’s cloud GPU platform, powered by NVIDIA, which will integrate with Singtel’s Paragon platform to leverage Singtel’s NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU capacity in Singapore for Vultr’s customer workloads.
  • Based in Singapore, Singtel is a leading communications technology group in Asia Pacific and Africa.
  • Vultr users will be able to deploy large-scale clusters of NVIDIA H100 GPUs in Vultr’s Singapore region, powered by Singtel in Q3 2024.

Vultr Launches Cloud Inference to Simplify Model Deployment and Automatically Scale AI Applications Globally

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Vultr , the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, today announced the launch of Vultr Cloud Inference .

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  • Vultr , the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, today announced the launch of Vultr Cloud Inference .
  • This new serverless platform revolutionizes AI scalability and reach by offering global AI model deployment and AI inference capabilities.
  • “The launch of Vultr Cloud Inference enables AI innovations to have maximum impact by simplifying AI deployment and delivering low-latency inference around the world through a platform designed for scalability, efficiency, and global reach.”
    With the capability to self-optimize and auto-scale globally in real-time, Vultr Cloud Inference ensures AI applications provide consistent, cost-effective, low-latency experiences to users worldwide.
  • For models developed on Vultr Cloud GPUs powered by NVIDIA, in users’ own data center, or on another cloud, Vultr Cloud Inference enables hassle-free global inference.

At NVIDIA GTC 2024: Liqid Unveils UltraStack Whitepaper Showcasing Breakthrough AI Server Performance

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Liqid, a leader in composable infrastructure technology, announced today at NVIDIA GTC , a global AI conference, the release of its technical whitepaper for the groundbreaking UltraStack AI server with the latest MLPerf benchmark results showing exceptional performance.

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  • Liqid, a leader in composable infrastructure technology, announced today at NVIDIA GTC , a global AI conference, the release of its technical whitepaper for the groundbreaking UltraStack AI server with the latest MLPerf benchmark results showing exceptional performance.
  • Unprecedented GPU Density and Performance:
    UltraStack’s integration of up to 20x NVIDIA L40S GPUs delivers exceptional computational efficiency for AI applications, surpassing traditional server limitations.
  • Featuring NVIDIA L40S GPUs, UltraStack delivers powerful performance to accelerate NVIDIA’s full software stack, including the NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse platforms.
  • UltraStack is now available in 8-, 10-, 16-, and 20-GPU configurations, setting a new standard in AI server performance.

ServiceNow Advances Enterprise-Grade Generative AI Through Expanded Partnership With NVIDIA

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Monday, March 18, 2024

NVIDIA GTC — ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the leading digital workflow company making the world work better for everyone, today announced an expansion of its partnership with NVIDIA to advance the use of enterprise-grade generative AI (GenAI).

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  • NVIDIA GTC — ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the leading digital workflow company making the world work better for everyone, today announced an expansion of its partnership with NVIDIA to advance the use of enterprise-grade generative AI (GenAI).
  • ServiceNow is using NIM to serve its Now LLMs – domain specific LLMs that power capabilities within Now Assist, ServiceNow’s generative AI experience.
  • “ServiceNow and NVIDIA are building a future where businesses can break through every barrier,” said ServiceNow Chairman and CEO Bill McDermott.
  • “Together, NVIDIA and ServiceNow are helping enterprises everywhere embrace generative AI within the platforms they use to serve customers, manage employees, enhance their operations, and transform their industries.”
    NVIDIA and ServiceNow announced their initial partnership to develop powerful enterprise-grade generative AI capabilities in May 2023.

NetApp Empowers Customers to Securely “Talk to Their Data” in Collaboration with NVIDIA

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Monday, March 18, 2024

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to advance retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for generative AI applications.

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  • NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to advance retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for generative AI applications.
  • NetApp and NVIDIA have developed a simple solution with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices technology for RAG that can leverage any data stored on NetApp ONTAP—on-premises and in the leading public clouds.
  • “As the leader in unstructured data management, NetApp makes data infrastructure intelligent to securely turbocharge AI innovation.
  • Together with NVIDIA, we have helped accelerate over 500 data-driven businesses to become AI-ready,” said George Kurian, CEO at NetApp.

ArcBest Helps Bridge the Gap Between Robotics and Logistics Using NVIDIA Technology

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Monday, March 18, 2024

ArcBest is bringing the NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor platform for AMRs — cutting-edge machine vision technology — to its newly launched Vaux Smart Autonomy ™ autonomous forklifts and reach trucks.

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  • ArcBest is bringing the NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor platform for AMRs — cutting-edge machine vision technology — to its newly launched Vaux Smart Autonomy ™ autonomous forklifts and reach trucks.
  • “Innovation is critical to our long-term growth strategy and our customers’ success,” said Judy R. McReynolds, ArcBest chairman, president and CEO.
  • Customers across industries need logistics providers to develop innovations to solve their most pressing challenges — now and in the future.
  • Customers have expressed a need for greater efficiency and improved safety,” said Michael Newcity, chief innovation officer of ArcBest and president of ArcBest Technologies.

Rockwell Automation to Increase Scale and Scope of AI in Manufacturing with NVIDIA

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK), the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to accelerate a next-generation industrial architecture.

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  • Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK), the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to accelerate a next-generation industrial architecture.
  • Rockwell plans to evolve the industry by creating the factory of the future, making it easier for automation customers to digitalize industrial processes.
  • A recent survey from Rockwell Automation shows AI ranks as the top feature that manufacturers believe will drive the biggest business outcomes.
  • Rockwell technology will be showcased in a collaboration with NVIDIA and Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC , a global AI conference running March 18-21, 2024, in San Jose, California.

Spire Global to Enhance AI-Driven Weather Prediction in Collaboration with NVIDIA

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to advance AI-driven weather prediction.

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  • Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to advance AI-driven weather prediction.
  • Through this collaboration, Spire’s Radio Occultation (RO) data and proprietary data assimilation (DA) capabilities will be integrated with NVIDIA Earth-2 Cloud APIs to leverage AI to accelerate climate and weather predictions.
  • The field of weather prediction is changing rapidly due to advances in AI.
  • “Aligning Spire’s proprietary data and unmatched global weather coverage with NVIDIA’s cutting-edge technology and expertise positions us to markedly elevate the accuracy of weather prediction.

DataStax to Deliver High-performance RAG Solution with 20x Faster Embeddings and Indexing, at 80% Lower Cost, Using NVIDIA Microservices

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Monday, March 18, 2024

With this integration, users will be able to create instantaneous vector embeddings 20x faster than other popular cloud embedding services and benefit from an 80% reduction in cost for services.

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  • With this integration, users will be able to create instantaneous vector embeddings 20x faster than other popular cloud embedding services and benefit from an 80% reduction in cost for services.
  • The urgency of generating embeddings in near-real time and effectively indexing data within a vector database on standard hardware further compounds these challenges.
  • DataStax is collaborating with NVIDIA to help solve this problem.
  • With embedded inferencing built on NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server software, DataStax AstraDB vector performance of RAG use cases running on NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs achieved 9.48ms latency embedding and indexing documents, which is a 20x improvement.

QuantexAI Secures $1M Pre-Seed Funding

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Monday, March 18, 2024

QuantexAI, an innovative startup in the field of Generative AI and Data Science, announced that it has successfully secured $1 million during its pre-seed funding round.

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  • QuantexAI, an innovative startup in the field of Generative AI and Data Science, announced that it has successfully secured $1 million during its pre-seed funding round.
  • Founded by a team of seasoned experts and led by a faculty member from the National University of Singapore, QuantexAI boasts a strong academic pedigree.
  • QuantexAI is also a proud member of the NVIDIA Inception Program, which has been instrumental in the startup's journey.
  • With its innovative AI-driven solutions, QuantexAI is not just forecasting data trends, it's forecasting a new era in business intelligence.