AMD Unveils 5th Gen EPYC, Instinct MI325X & More at Advancing AI 2024

Today at the Advancing AI event in San Francisco, AMD announced the latest AI and high-performance computing solutions, including the 5th Gen AMD EPYC and AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators and processors, alongside leading customers and partners including Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Oracle, Google Cloud and more.

At 2024 AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit: Elio Van Puyvelde, CIO, Nscale

At the recent 2024 AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit in San Jose, Calif., I caught up with Elio Van Puyvelde, CIO, Nscale, the hyperscaler engineeried for AI where you can access thousands of GPUs tailored to your requirements using the Nscale AI cloud platform.

At 2024 AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit: Vasudev Lal, Principal AI Research Scientist, Cognitive AI, Intel Labs

At the recent 2024 AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit in San Jose, Calif., I caught up with Vasudev Lal, Principal AI Research Scientist, Cognitive AI, Intel Labs, who took us on a tour of the happenings at Intel Labs, specifically around the field of Cognitive AI. He discussed some key projects that the Intel Cognitive AI team is running at this time, and how his team is advancing with Intel Gaudi AI accelerators.

Video Highlights: Gemini Ultra — How to Release an AI Product for Billions of Users — with Google’s Lisa Cohen

In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, is joined by Lisa Cohen, Google’s Director of Data Science and Engineering, to discuss the launch of Gemini Ultra. Discover the capabilities of this cutting-edge large language model and how it stands toe-to-toe with GPT-4.

Video Highlights: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Maximizing Profits — with Prof. Barrett Thomas

In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, is joined by Dr. Barrett Thomas, an esteemed Research Professor in at the University of Iowa’s College of Business, to delve deep into Markov decision processes and how they relate to Deep Reinforcement Learning.

Video Highlights: Gradient Boosting: XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost — with Kirill Eremenko

In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, is joined by Kirill Eremenko to walk listeners through why decision trees and random forests are fruitful for businesses, and he offers hands-on walkthroughs for the three leading gradient-boosting algorithms today: XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost.

Video Highlights: The Best AI Startup Opportunities — with Venture Capitalist Rudina Seseri

In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, sits down with Rudina Seseri from Glasswing Ventures to answer the question: “What has Glasswing Ventures done for the company beyond capital investment?” Rudina describes how her company uses data to assess venture capital investments, the secret sauce of successful AI startups, and why she feels generative AI is only the start of a much broader impact that AI will make in communities and businesses.

Video Highlights: Open-Source LLM Libraries and Techniques — with Dr. Sebastian Raschka

In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, sits down with industry luminary Sebastian Raschka to discuss his latest book, Machine Learning Q and AI, the open-source libraries developed by Lightning AI, how to exploit the greatest opportunities for LLM development, and what’s on the horizon for LLMs.

Video Highlights: NumPy, SciPy and the Economics of Open-Source — with Dr. Travis Oliphant

In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, explores the origins of NumPy and SciPy with their creator, Dr. Travis Oliphant. Dr. Oliphant shares his journey from personal need to global impact, the challenges overcome, and the future of these essential Python libraries in scientific computing and data science.

Video Highlights: The 3 Steps of LLM Training with Lisa Cohen

In this video presentation, our good friend Jon Krohn, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula, is joined by Lisa Cohen, Google’s Director of Data Science and Engineering, to discuss the capabilities of the cutting-edge Gemini Ultra LLM and how it stands toe-to-toe with GPT-4.