03/10/2024 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure News:
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] Groq Acquires Definitive Intelligence to Launch GroqCloud. Groq, a company specializing in generative AI solutions, has acquired Definitive Intelligence, a company that transforms how businesses use data with AI. Sunny Madra, the Co-founder, and CEO of Definitive Intelligence, will now lead the new GroqCloud business unit, expanding access to the Groq LPU Inference Engine (recently a winner in the latest large language model benchmark) through GroqCloud.
[Link] Intel is on track to receive $3.5 billion in US CHIPS Act funding to produce advanced semiconductors for American military and intelligence programs.
[Link] BrainChip has achieved a significant milestone as its Akida AI technology was sent into low earth orbit aboard the Optimus-1 spacecraft, built by the Space Machines Company. This successful launch marks a crucial advancement for BrainChip's AI acceleration solution within the rapidly growing SpaceTech sector, catering to the demand for sophisticated learning and decision-making capabilities in challenging space environments.
[Link] The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) research group has successfully created the world's inaugural AI semiconductor designed to handle extensive language models (LLMs) while consuming minimal power, as announced by the science ministry on Wednesday. The team at the KAIST PIM Semiconductor Research Center developed a "Complementary-Transformer" AI chip, which processes GPT-2 with an ultra-low power consumption of 400 milliwatts and a high speed of 0.4 seconds.
[Link] During the 2024 SIEPR Economic Summit at Stanford, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed that the next iteration of the company's DGX server family will be liquid-cooled.
AWS announced it will launch an AWS infrastructure Region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and HPE announced the availability of ‘Saudi Made’ HPE servers, following the opening of its new Riyadh production facility.
[Link] Bloom and Shell to investigate opportunities for large-scale, renewable hydrogen energy projects. Bloom Energy announced a collaboration with Shell, with the goal of developing replicable, large-scale, solid oxide electrolyzer (SOEC) systems that would produce hydrogen for potential use at Shell assets.
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