Open Innovation AI and Nscale Partner for AI GPU Cloud Services

July 16, 2024 — Open Innovation AI, a GPU orchestration platform, and Nscale, an AI cloud service provider, today announced a partnership designed to deliver AI Cloud services and AI workloads at scale. This alliance will combine Nscale’s GPU infrastructure with Open Innovation AI’s end-to-end AI platform. The partnership aims to enhance the performance, scalability, […]

Chilldyne Launches Liquid Cooling Starter Kit AI in Data Centers

CARLSBAD, Calif., July 16, 2024 – Chilldyne, a provider of direct-to-chip liquid cooling solutions, has  released its data center liquid cooling starter kit designed to prepare data centers for the workloads being driven by AI computing. With high-density racks of up to 150 kW and higher in the future, data center operators need to be […]

SMART Global Holdings to Become Penguin Solutions

NEW YORK – July 16, 2024 – Today, at its Nasdaq MarketSite Analyst Day event, SMART Global Holdings, Inc. (“SGH”) (NASDAQ: SGH) announced its intention to become Penguin Solutions, Inc. This rebranding is a continuation of the company’s transformation over the past several years and reflects its focus on delivering leading-edge solutions that solve the complexity of AI. […]

HPC News Bytes 20240715: AI Maturity ROI, OpenAI’s 5 Levels of AI, SoftBank Acquires Graphcore

Much has happened of late in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (5:55) run through of the news, including: survey commissioned by Vultr points to AI maturity ROI, OpenAI proposes five levels of AI based on capability, SoftBank ….

BSC Wins €50M to Develop Spain’s AI Training Program

July 11, 2024 — The Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) will receive 50 million euros to develop the programs designed to attract and retain talent that are part of the Artificial Intelligence Strategy, approved by the Spanish government last May. The resolution includes the training in the BSC of 158 professionals […]

SoftBank Acquires AI Chip Company Graphcore

July 12, 2024 — Graphcore has confirmed that the Japan-based SoftBank investment firm has acquired the specialty AI chip company. Terms were not disclosed, but news reports estimate the acquisition at roughly $600 million. Graphcore has struggled in recent years, according to a Reuters report, the company was valued at $2.8 billion in 2020, but […]

Research from Vultr on Mature AI ROI

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.– Cloud computing platform Vultr has released an industry report, The New Battleground: Unlocking the Power of AI Maturity with Multi-Model AI. The study reveals a correlation between an organization’s AI maturity and its ability to achieve better business outcomes, outpacing industry peers in revenue growth, market share, customer satisfaction and operational […]

AMD in $665M Acquisition of Silo AI

AMD announced it will acquire Helsinki-based Silo AI, which AMD said is the largest private AI lab in Europe, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $665 million. AMD said the acquisition is part of its efforts to deliver end-to-end AI solutions based on open ….

Palantir’s Foundry and AI Platform Certified on Oracle Cloud

Austin, Texas—July 9, 2024 — Oracle today announced that Palantir’s Foundry Platform and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) are certified on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and generally available across all of Oracle’s distributed cloud deployment options. Oracle’s distributed cloud, AI infrastructure, and sovereign AI capabilities, combined with Palantir’s leading AI and decision acceleration platforms, help businesses and governments accelerate their AI initiatives. […]