Tag: performance hardware
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Hacker News: Every Flop Counts: Scaling a 300B LLM Without Premium GPUs
Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05139 Source: Hacker News Title: Every Flop Counts: Scaling a 300B LLM Without Premium GPUs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This technical report presents advancements in training large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models, namely Ling-Lite and Ling-Plus, highlighting their efficiency and comparable performance to industry benchmarks while significantly reducing training…
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The Register: Microsoft walking away from datacenter leases (probably) isn’t a sign the AI bubble is bursting
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/microsoft_ai_apocalypse/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft walking away from datacenter leases (probably) isn’t a sign the AI bubble is bursting Feedly Summary: Why lease space that can’t power or cool 120kW racks – or the next-gen 600kW monsters? Comment Microsoft has walked away from negotiations to lease two gigawatts worth of datacenter capacity…
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Cloud Blog: Anyscale powers AI compute for any workload using Google Compute Engine
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/anyscale-powers-ai-compute-for-any-workload-using-google-compute-engine/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Anyscale powers AI compute for any workload using Google Compute Engine Feedly Summary: Over the past decade, AI has evolved at a breakneck pace, turning from a futuristic dream into a tool now accessible to everyone. One of the technologies that opened up this new era of AI…
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The Register: Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone’s game
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/training_inference_shift/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone’s game Feedly Summary: When it’s all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what’s behind the curtain? Comment With the exception of custom cloud silicon, like Google’s TPUs or Amazon’s Trainium ASICs, the vast majority…
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Hacker News: AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models
Source URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Intella-Open-Source-LM Source: Hacker News Title: AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: AMD has announced the open-sourcing of its Instella language models, a significant advancement in the AI domain that promotes transparency, collaboration, and innovation. These models, based on the high-performance MI300X GPUs, aim…
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Cloud Blog: Best practices for achieving high availability and scalability in Cloud SQL
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/understanding-cloud-sql-high-availability/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Best practices for achieving high availability and scalability in Cloud SQL Feedly Summary: Cloud SQL, Google Cloud’s fully managed database service for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server workloads, offers strong availability SLAs, depending on which edition you choose: a 99.95% SLA, excluding maintenance for Enterprise edition; and a…
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Cloud Blog: Introducing A4X VMs powered by NVIDIA GB200 — now in preview
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/new-a4x-vms-powered-by-nvidia-gb200-gpus/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing A4X VMs powered by NVIDIA GB200 — now in preview Feedly Summary: The next frontier of AI is reasoning models that think critically and learn during inference to solve complex problems. To train and serve this new class of models, you need infrastructure with the performance and…