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From edge to cloud: The critical role of hardware in AI applications

CIO Business Intelligence

The world has woken up to the power of generative AI and a whole ecosystem of applications and tools are quickly coming to life. All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution.

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Gen AI without the risks

CIO Business Intelligence

Sajjad Moazeni of the University of Washington calculates that training an LLM with 175 billion+ parameters takes a year’s worth of energy for 1,000 US households. Answering 100 million+ generative AI questions a day can burn 1 Gigawatt-hour of electricity, which is roughly the daily energy use of 33,000 US households. Not at all.

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Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy leads $65M funding round for Stoke Space’s reusable rockets

GeekWire

Breakthrough Energy Ventures , the multibillion-dollar clean-tech initiative created by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is leading a $65 million funding round to back Kent, Wash.-based ” Roberts said rocket reusability could overcome two of the barriers to such applications. Stoke Space Photo).

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Top500: The Supercomputers Advancing Cyber Security, Renewable Energy, and Black Hole Research

CIO Business Intelligence

Among those ranked in the 59 th edition of the TOP500 announced at the 2022 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, are standouts conducting powerful research in energy generation, cyber and physical threats, and astrophysics. Eni, HPC5: The Supercomputer Working for Energy. Rmax [TFlop/s], 51,720.76

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Groq sparks LPU vs GPU face-off

Dataconomy

Groq’s online presence introduces its LPUs, or ‘language processing units,’ as “ a new type of end-to-end processing unit system that provides the fastest inference for computationally intensive applications with a sequential component to them, such as AI language applications (LLMs).

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More on OnLive: New Cloud Solution Delivers Secure Cross-Platform Deployment for Graphics Intensive Applications

CTOvision

NEW ONLIVE CLOUD SOLUTION DELIVERS SECURE CROSS-PLATFORM DEPLOYMENT FOR GRAPHICS INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS. OnLive CloudLift Enterprise PaaS provides the first seamless solution for businesses with Graphics Intensive Applications. With this post we provide an update we just saw in their press release at: [link].

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Zeno demonstrates an innovative type of radioisotope heat source for off-grid power

GeekWire

— took advantage of the energy provided by the radioactive decay of strontium-90. Zeno uses radioisotope heat sources as the building blocks for its power-generating systems, which are designed to convert constant thermal energy into electricity. and in Seattle.

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