Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs

The race for fasterAI inferenceis on, and markets gave Cerebras and its purpose-built chipsa warm welcomein its IPO debut in May. But French startupKogis betting that there’s a lot more power to be squeezed out of conventional GPUs. The startuphit the front page of Hacker Newsin May with atech previewaimed at proving that “extremely fast … Devamını oku

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

This scenario recently played out with AI big-data company Databricks and its latest $5 billion raiseannouncedThursday, co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi (pictured above) told TechCrunch. “We wanted to raise $1 billion, but then The Information printed this article saying that Databricks is doing a big fundraise. They did that in the middle of our conference. … Devamını oku

IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push

IBM on Thursday announced its partnership with OpenAI to bring the AI company’s models and tools to more enterprise customers, opening another avenue for OpenAI to connect with some of the world’s largest companies through IBM’s global consulting business as competition for corporate AI spending intensifies. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed,comesless than … Devamını oku

OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues

OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the job, tapping Wiz president and chief operating officer Dali Rajic to take on frontier lab’s top sales job. The move comes as part of a broader shake-up in the organization in the last month, which has seen the departures ofCOO Brad … Devamını oku

Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps

Two years ago,Microsoft described AIas a “generational shift” in technology that it wanted to lead. Today, the company is merging its Copilot-branded consumer and business apps, and ditching a number of unsuccessful AI features. As initially reported byGeekWireand detailed inMicrosoft’s support documentation, the tech giant will combine the functionality of its consumer-facing Copilot app and … Devamını oku

Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs

Nvidiaannouncedthis week that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR were willing to commit up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. That eye-popping figure got a lot of the attention, but the bigger story is Nvidia’s effort to create a secondary market for aging GPUs. To convince those big-name financial companies, Nvidia … Devamını oku