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31 Oct 23

Nvidia Is Piloting a Generative AI for its Engineers

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In a keynote address at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design Monday, Nvidia chief technology officer Bill Dally revealed that the company has been testing a large-language model AI to boost the productivity of its chip designers.“Even if we made them five percent more productive, that’s a huge win,” Dally…

27 Jul 23

Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source

Computer & Information Technology

Social media and advertising-technology company Meta recently released an update to its large language model Llama. Llama 2 was released as open source, providing users access to the model’s weights, evaluation code, and documentation. Meta states the open-source release was intended to make the model “accessible to individuals, creators, researchers,…

29 Jun 23

Intel and Nvidia Square Off in GPT-3 Time Trials

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

For the first time, a large language model—a key driver of recent AI hype and hope—has been added to MLPerf, a set of neural-network training benchmarks that have previously been called the Olympics of machine learning. Computers built around Nvidia’s H100 GPU and Intel’s Habana Gaudi2 chips were the first…

31 Mar 23

When AI’s Large Language Models Shrink

Computer & Information Technology

Building ever larger language models has led to groundbreaking jumps in performance. But it’s also pushing state-of-the-art AI beyond the reach of all but the most well-resourced AI labs. That makes efforts to shrink models down to more manageable sizes more important than ever, say researchers. In 2020, researchers at…