Samsung and AMD earnings got a boost from the AI boom
Submitted by Priya Khosla on August 1, 2024 - 5:51am
Samsung and AMD both beat Wall Street's expectations as demand for AI chips remains strong.
Nvidia shares soar 13% after Microsoft quells fears that AI buildout is too fast
Submitted by Priya Khosla on August 1, 2024 - 5:38am
Nvidia shares popped 13% after remarks from top customer Microsoft and rival chipmaker AMD signaled there wouldn’t be a slowdown in the multibillion-dollar buildout of AI servers based around GPUs.
AMD sold $1B of Instinct GPUs last quarter, driving triple-digit datacenter growth
Submitted by Priya Khosla on July 31, 2024 - 7:27am
AMD has told investors that its Instinct MI300X GPUs – the chip designer's alternative to Nvidia AI accelerator hardware – landed over $1 billion of datacenter revenues in Q2 this year.
Baidu’s self-reasoning AI: The end of ‘hallucinating’ language models?
Submitted by Priya Khosla on July 31, 2024 - 6:59am
Baidu created a novel “self-reasoning” framework, enabling AI systems to critically evaluate their own knowledge and decision-making processes.
Ankur Mehrotra
Director and GM, Amazon SageMaker
AWS
Ankur is a GM at AWS Machine Learning and leads foundational SageMaker services such as SageMaker Studio, Notebooks, Training, Inference, Feature Store, MLOps, etc. Before SageMaker, he led AI services for personalization, forecasting, healthcare & life sciences, edge AI devices and SDKs, as well as thought leadership programs such as AWS DeepRacer. Ankur has worked at Amazon for over 15 years. Before joining AWS, he spent several years in Amazon’s Consumer organization, where he led the development of automated marketing/advertising systems, as well as automated pricing systems.