Global telcos are eager for generative AI solutions but are struggling to make them work, with only half of use cases meeting business goals, according to a new report from the consulting firm Altman Solon and Kyndryl. The report, which included ….
Survey: Less than Half of Telco Gen AI Projects Meet Goals, 80% Are Over Budget
Enhancing Retail AI with RAG-Based Recommendations
The retail industry needs more agile and adaptive recommendation systems. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) presents a promising solution. By combining the power of both information retrieval and generative AI, the RAG-based recommendation system ….
Imandra Inc. Updates Neurosymbolic AI Reasoning Engine
AUSTIN, TX – February 25, 2025 – Imandra Inc., a neurosymbolic reasoning AI startup, today announced ImandraX, the latest release of its Imandra automated reasoning engine. The company said ImandraX marks an advancement in AI-driven logical reasoning, introducing powerful reasoning algorithms and architectural features for integration with AI agents. With the increasing reliance on AI […]
News Bytes Podcast 20250224: Harnessing GPUs on the Internet, France Claims Fusion Record, Microsoft’s Quantum Chip
A good late February morning to you! Here’s a rapid (7:05) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: New in-house-manufactured Microsoft QPU, harnessing idle GPUs anywhere on the internet ….
AI Data Center Workaround? Startups Pursue Networked Aggregation of Idle GPUs
Problems associated with GPU deployment – interminable order wait times, high prices and, particularly, dire need – are leading to new GPU access strategies. An article in today’s Wall Street Journal, “Your Gaming PC Could Help Train AI Models,” reports ….
Survey Finds 25% of Data Managers Greenlight Any Projects Powered by AI
For enterprise data teams, GenAI expectations are sky-high, and a new survey finds that management often leads the charge. A quarter of executives (25 percent) say their leaders will greenlight any project “with AI as a core component,” while the largest group (44 percent) are a bit more ….
Together AI Cloud Raises $305M Series B
SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, 2025 — AI acceleration cloud complany Together AI announced a $305 million Series B investment led by General Catalyst and co-led by Prosperity7. The round saw participation from institutional and strategic investors including Salesforce Ventures, DAMAC Capital, NVIDIA, Kleiner Perkins, March Capital, Emergence Capital, Lux Capital, SE Ventures, Greycroft, Coatue, Definition, Cadenza […]
British Business Investments Commits £10M to Twin Path Ventures for UK AI
20th February 2025, London — Twin Path Ventures, a UK pre-seed investor in AI-first startups, has received support from British Business Investments for its strategy to invest in UK-based tech founders building and launching AI-powered solutions. British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank has committed £10 million alongside Twin Path Ventures […]
CEA Claims Nuclear Fusion Energy Record for Plasma Duration
Feb. 18, 2025 — French research organization CEA reported that on 12 February, the CEA’s WEST tokamak maintained a nuclear fusion plasma for more than 22 minutes, a 25 percent improvement over the previous record. “This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them over longer periods is becoming more […]
Generative Imaging AI Will Use Game Engines and Synthetic Data to Train Models
Imagine an AI capable of transforming a single photograph into a living, breathing scene. Change the lighting, the weather, or even the camera angle with just a few clicks. This is not a distant dream; it is the future of generative imaging AI — and its foundation ….