Year: 2024
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Generative AI at the Edge Gets a New Hailo Product
Israeli startup Hailo unveiled the Hailo-10 edge-AI NPU. Rated at 40 TOPS, it offers 50% more peak performance than the earlier Hailo-8, purportedly to handle gen AI.
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NeuReality NR-1: AI-Processing Revolution or Time to Accept the Old Reality?
NeuReality, an Israeli startup, challenges the AI-processing landscape with the NR-1. Calling it a network-addressable processing unit (NAPU), the company aims to streamline AI inference by managing data flow, scheduling tasks, and potentially reducing reliance on CPUs.
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Nvidia Blackwell GPU Promises 30× Speedup, but Expect 3×
Nvidia Blackwell promises performance leaps but at what cost? Are are the claims realistic, and can competitors keep up? Dive into the specs, anticipated release timing, competition, and potential impact on the AI hardware landscape.
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Hell Hath No Fury Like an Engineer Bored
A software developer turned hardware homebrewer, Dylan Barrie has developed his own GPU.
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Cerebras WSE-3 Targets the Biggest AI Models with Twice WSE-2’s FP16 Performance
Unique wafer-scale Cerebras WSE-3 AI accelerator with capacious memory and unusual service business tackles AI projects, such as GPT and generative AI.
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Extropic Exploits Thermodynamics
Traditional computers provide definitive answers, but AI thrives on probabilities. Extropic tackles AI with a novel processor design employing thermodynamics, aiming to accelerate probabilistic machine learning like generative AI and potentially revolutionizing the field.