OpenAI has lost ground to rivals
Published in AI
Monday, 21 October 2024 11:49

OpenAI has lost ground to rivals


Still the leader for now

OpenAI's lead over other AI labs has largely eroded as Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google's Gemini 1.5, X's Grok 2, and even Meta's open-source Llama 3.1 405 B model have equalled, or narrowly surpassed on some benchmarks,

MSI releases Nvidia MGX-based AI servers
Published in News
Friday, 18 October 2024 11:22

MSI releases Nvidia MGX-based AI servers


Aimed at AI data centres

MSI has lifted the kimono on its Nvidia MGX-based AI servers which are being pitched to handle scalable, energy-efficient AI workloads in modern data centres.

DoD wants to  use AI to create fake people
Published in AI
Friday, 18 October 2024 10:14

DoD wants to  use AI to create fake people


As if reality was not fake enough 

The US Department of Defense wants technology to fabricate online personas indistinguishable from real people.

AI really does create new jobs
Published in AI
Thursday, 17 October 2024 11:22

AI really does create new jobs


Positions involve spotting deep fakes created by AI

It appears that AI is starting to create work after all – working out how to spot AI deep fakes.

AI code developers work longer hours and don’t produce better code
Published in AI


Still think Copilot helps them

Code developers using Copilot work longer hours and produce less quality code despite thinking that AI helps.

Nvidia wants to employ 50,000 Workers
Published in AI
Wednesday, 16 October 2024 10:23

Nvidia wants to employ 50,000 Workers


100 million AI Assistants

The leather-coated balloon waiting to burst, Nvidia's Jensen Huang wants his company to have 50,000 employees with 100 million, AI assistants.

A.I. is dumber than a cat, claims Meta man
Published in AI
Tuesday, 15 October 2024 11:08

A.I. is dumber than a cat, claims Meta man


Cat says Meta Man is dumber than AI

Meta senior researcher Yann LeCun told the Wall Street Journal that humanity has nothing to fear from A.I. and that it is “dumber than a cat.”

Adobe releases video AI model
Published in News
Tuesday, 15 October 2024 10:48

Adobe releases video AI model


Firefly builds video content from text prompts

Adobe has started publicly distributing an AI model to generate video from text prompts.

AI is pants, claims Apple
Published in AI
Monday, 14 October 2024 09:38

AI is pants, claims Apple


If we can’t invent it no one can

While Apple is unable to get a decent AI product on the market, it has decided to invest in scientific research which claims the whole thing is pants anyway.

AMD launches Instinct MI325X Accelerator for AI workloads
Published in Graphics


With 256GB HBM3E memory and 2.6 PFLOPs of FP8 compute performance

At its Advancing AI event, AMD announced its newest Instinct MI300X series accelerator, the Instinct MI325X. The new AI accelerator is based on CDNA 3 architecture, packs 153 billion transistors, comes with 256GB of HBM3E memory on 16-Hi stacks with up to 6TB/s of memory bandwidth, and offering 2.6 PFLOPs or FP8 and 1.3 PFLOPs of FP16 performance.