Three well-known generative AI pioneers have formed Safe Superintelligence Inc., a startup that will focus on safe superintelligence (SSI). There are plenty of open questions to ponder, according to Constellation Research's Chirag Mehta.
Dell Technologies and Supermicro are building an AI factory with Nvidia for Elon Musk's xAI.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nvidia teamed up to launch a set of private cloud offerings and integrations designed for generative AI workloads. Nvidia AI Computing by HPE will be available in the fall.
OpenAI has built momentum by closing a big partnership with Apple, a channel deal with PwC and a series of enterprise wins. These events put an exclamation point on the enterprise traction that OpenAI is seeing directly and raise a big question: Will OpenAI eventually compete with its primary investor Microsoft?
GPU instances are taking a larger share of cloud enterprise spending and now are 14% of compute costs compared to 10% a year ago, according to a Datadog report analyzing AWS customer usage.
Adobe reported a better-than-expected second quarter as the company expanded its customer base due to generative AI features.
Brian Ames, senior manager of production AI and data products at General Motors, said the company has stood up its data factory and plans to layer in generative AI capabilities in the next year.
With generative AI, Databricks is creating a Data Intelligence Platform that includes Delta Lake, a unified data storage system, Tabular, which will bridge Databricks with the Iceberg crowd, the generally available Unity Catalog, and Mosaic AI, Databricks SQL, dashboards and other tools.
Here are the details of the Oracle and Google Cloud tie-up followed by the OpenAI deal and the not-too-surprising strong cloud results.
Apple CEO Tim Cook outlined the company's generative AI strategy at Apple WWDC that revolves around Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system, on-device processing of large language models and a private cloud model to go along with an OpenAI partnership.
Don't look now, but AI-optimized servers and infrastructure may be the most trendy innovation corner of technology. And the release cycle looks like it was ripped out of the Apple and Samsung playbooks.
Don't forget the non-technical costs with generative AI projects as there are a bevy of ongoing maintenance to consider, said Lori Walters, Vice President, Claims and Operations Data Science at The Hartford.
