Hardware
GPU Data Centers Strain Grid Power: AI's electricity demands spur an expansion of power sources.
The AI boom is taxing power grids and pushing builders of data centers to rethink their sources of electricity.
Hardware
Hardware
Industrial Strength Language Model: Siemens and Microsoft launch GPT-powered Copilot for manufacturing machinery.
ChatGPT is pitching in on the assembly line. Siemens and Microsoft launched a joint pilot program of a GPT-powered model for controlling manufacturing machinery. German automotive parts manufacturer Schaeffler is testing the system in its factories, as is Siemens itself.
Hardware
More Cloud GPUs on the Way: Voltage Park offers Nvidia GPUs at $1.89/hour for startups and researchers
A new cloud-computing company promises to provide scarce AI processing power to startups and researchers. Voltage Park, a nonprofit north of Silicon Valley, will offer processing power from 24,000 top-of-the-line Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPUs)...
Tech & Society
Cruise Control: Cruise shuts down self-driving cars due to California safety concerns.
The state of California pulled the parking brake on Cruise driverless vehicles. The DMV suspended Cruise’s permit to operate vehicles in the state without safety drivers. The General Motors subsidiary responded by halting its robotaxi operations across the United States.
Hardware
GPU Shortage Intensifies: All about Nvidia's GPU shortage
Nvidia’s top-of-the-line chips are in high demand and short supply. There aren’t enough H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) to meet the crush of demand brought on by the vogue for generative AI, VentureBeat reported.
Machine Learning Research
Deep Learning at (Small) Scale: How to run PilotNet on a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller
TinyML shows promise for bringing deep learning to applications where electrical power is scarce, processing in the cloud is impractical, and/or data privacy is paramount.
Business
Restricted Chips Slip Through: Loopholes help Chinese companies get U.S. chips.
Chinese companies have found loopholes to sidestep United States limits on AI chips. Facing severe limits on U.S. exports of high-performance chips, Chinese AI firms are purchasing them through subsidiaries and using them through cloud services, the Financial Times reported.
Hardware
Built to Scale: Andromeda Supercomputer from Cerebras Speeds up AI
A new computing cluster delivers more bang per chip. Cerebras unveiled Andromeda, a supercomputer based on its processors. Unlike conventional clusters, the system’s processing speed rises linearly with additional processors.
Hardware
No More GPUs: Confronting the Fear of a Global Chip Shortage
Advanced AI requires advanced hardware. What if the global supply of high-end AI chips dries up? Most of the world’s advanced AI processors are manufactured in Taiwan, where tension with mainland China is rising.
Hardware
Transformer Accelerator: Nvidia's H100 is Designed to Train Transformers Faster
Is your colossal text generator bogged down in training? Nvidia announced a chip designed to accelerate the transformer architecture, the basis of large language models such as GPT-3.
Hardware
New Supercomputer on the Block: All about Meta's AI Research Supercluster
Facebook’s parent company is staking its future on a new compute cluster. Meta unveiled AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), which is designed to accelerate training of large models for applications like computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition.
Hardware
Chips at Risk: How the chip shortage impacts AI.
The hardware that runs the latest AI systems faces rising uncertainty as models grow larger and more computationally intensive. The U.S. Commerce Department sounded an alarm over bottlenecks in the availability of semiconductor chips.