Lenovo and AMD join forces and introduce a series of ‘AI-proof’ servers
Lenovo is launching the ThinkSystem SR685a V3 8GPU server, which the company developed with chip manufacturer AMD. According to Lenovo, the server is particularly well suited for high-computation performance, such as GenAI and Large Language Models (LLM). Additionally, Lenovo offers other AMD-equip... Read more
FlexAI arranges multi-cloud AI infrastructure ‘as-a-service’ for developers
French AI startup FlexAI will release its first solution later this year. It will allow AI developers 'as-a-service' and 'pay-as-you-go' access to various multi-cloud environments for running (AI) workloads. The startup raised 28.5 million euros in investment for this purpose.
FlexIAI has been a... Read more
New HPE Aruba WiFi 7 access points suitable for AI edge applications
HPE Aruba has launched new HPE Aruba 700 Series WiFi 7 access points specifically suited for supporting AI and IoT applications in edge environments.
According to the company, the new access points from HPE Aruba are especially suitable for AI and IoT applications at the edge of the enterprise n... Read more
SAP’s AI push leads to higher quarterly revenue in first quarter 2024
SAP's focus on delivering more AI services to ease customers' cloud ERP transition seems to be paying off. In the first quarter of this year, the company saw its revenue increase.
In the first quarter, SAP saw its revenue increase to 8.04 billion euros, eight percent more than in the same quarte... Read more
Databricks sees sales grow 70 percent in EMEA
Databricks has seen strong revenue growth in the EMEA region over the past year. Sales in this region increased 70 percent over the past 12 months, mainly due to increased business demand for AI solutions.
Databricks reports that sales increased by this percentage in the EMEA region. The main re... Read more
Google moves part of operations and lays off employees once more
For the second time this year, Google is laying off a large number of employees. The round of layoffs mainly affects the finance and real estate departments of Alphabet, Google's parent company.
The layoffs follow an earlier major round of layoffs this year. Last year, Google and other Alphabet ... Read more
French AI startup Mistral AI again looking for investors
French AI startup Mistral appears to have an unquenchable appetite for investor capital. The company is reportedly looking for hundreds of millions of euros, based on an assumed market valuation of over 4.6 billion euros.
The company sees such a valuation as feasible, partly because of the perf... Read more
SAS wants to make AI models and AI modeling as accessible as possible
AI models sometimes have an almost mythical status. You can do a lot with them, but building and deploying them is no easy task. If it were up to SAS, that wouldn't be necessary at all. How does it want to achieve that? Some announcements during SAS Innovate shed light on this question.
Organiza... Read more
Google hints at breakthrough for LLMs with Infini-attention
Google researchers claim they've cracked the code to give large language models (LLMs) the literary equivalent of an endless appetite. Their latest paper unveils 'Infini-attention,' a technique that supposedly lets models munch on input of infinite length without getting indigestion from memory ove... Read more
Deepmind CEO expects to spend more than $100 billion on AI
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's AI subsidiary Deepmind, estimates that the company will spend more than $100 billion on AI, given enough time.
He was responding to questions from the audience at a TED conference in Vancouver, Canada. Someone asked about Google Deepmind's response to the announce... Read more