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Intel CEO on NVIDIA AI GPU dominance: they were 'extraordinarily lucky'

Anthony Garreffa | Dec 22, 2023 12:24 AM CST

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is really pushing the fighting words against NVIDIA and its utter AI dominance, where he's said that the company got "extraordinarily lucky" with its AI business.

Intel CEO on NVIDIA AI GPU dominance: they were 'extraordinarily lucky'

In a recent chat with MIT, Gelsinger said: "Jensen worked super hard at owning throughput computing, primarily for graphics initially, and then got extraordinarily lucky. They didn't even want to support their first AI project".

The fun didn't stop there because NVIDIA's Vice President of Applied Deep Learning Research, Bryan Catanzaro, who used to work for Intel, tweeted: "I worked at Intel on Larrabee applications in 2007. Then I went to NVIDIA to work on ML in 2008. So I was there at both places at that time and I can say: NVIDIA's dominance didn't come from luck. It came from vision and execution. Which Intel lacked".

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Microsoft Copilot update now lets you use AI to generate entire songs with lyrics and music

Kosta Andreadis | Dec 21, 2023 1:31 AM CST

Microsoft Copilot, the AI assistant available for Windows and Edge users, just got a fun update in time for the holiday season: the ability to generate a song from your input. The ability arrives thanks to a new partnership with Suno.ai, and accessing the feature is as simple as enabling the Suno plug-in and then describing the type of song you want to hear.

Microsoft Copilot update now lets you use AI to generate entire songs with lyrics and music

Microsoft describes the ability to turn ideas into songs as something for everyone, regardless of musical background. Suno.ai is a leader in artificial intelligence-based music creation, and they have their own standalone AI-powered web app you can use to generate songs. So, if you're looking for a hip-hop song about your loved one for the holidays, be sure to give this a go.

Simplicity is the key, as Suno.ai can generate a song from a single sentence, like this little song called Pickles and Strings, a folksong about a man who loves pickles. What's cool is that you can specify the genre, tempo, the types of instruments you want to hear, and more.

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Researchers train AI to identify the location of photos just by looking at them

Jak Connor | Dec 21, 2023 1:03 AM CST

A group of three graduate students at Stanford built an AI model that is capable of identifying the location of photographs by simply looking at the picture.

Researchers train AI to identify the location of photos just by looking at them

The developers of the AI claim the model, which has been trained on Google Street View data, is capable of correctly predicting the location of where a photograph was taken with 95% accuracy and within 25 miles of the real location. The team noted that this new AI model has real-world applications rather than just being used to track the location of people, as the new model could be used to promptly identify roads with downed power lines or biological surveys of regions.

The trio of engineers got the idea for the new AI model by being fans of the online game GeoGuessr, which places a player somewhere around the globe using Google Street View. The player is then required to guess their location by dropping a pin on the map, and the closer the players get to their actual location, the higher the score they get. To create the new AI model officially called "Predicting Image Geolocations" (PIGEON), the team of engineers used OpenAI's CLIP neural network, which learns about images through text.

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Scientists teach AI to detect autism with photographs of children's eyes

Jak Connor | Dec 21, 2023 12:46 AM CST

A group of scientists taught an artificial intelligence-powered algorithm to detect autism with photos of children's eyes.

Scientists teach AI to detect autism with photographs of children's eyes

A new study published in the JAMA Network Open earlier on December 15 details a team of researchers training an AI algorithm with photos of children's eyes to detect childhood autism. The paper explained that the AI model was trained on 1,890 retina images captured from 958 participants with an average age of 7.8 years.

Notably, half of the participants in the study were already diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and once the model finished analyzing each of the retina images, it was asked if it could spot ASD within the images. According to the study, the AI was able to identify which study participants had autism and those that didn't with "100% accuracy". The team behind the study notes that it limited the participants to ages between 4 and 18, but they believe the algorithm could work on even younger children.

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Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerator is faster than NVIDIA's current-gen H100 AI GPU

Anthony Garreffa | Dec 19, 2023 9:09 PM CST

Intel has had a lot to talk about lately; at its recent AI Everywhere event, the company unveiled its new 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" CPU platform, the new Core Ultra branding and their Meteor Lake CPUs, as well as its next-gen AI accelerator: Gaudi 3.

Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerator is faster than NVIDIA's current-gen H100 AI GPU

But now we've got reports from Korean media that Intel's upcoming Gaudi 3 AI accelerator could compete with NVIDIA's current-gen H100 AI GPU and AMD's just-announced Instinct MI300X AI accelerator. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said: "Our Gaudi roadmap remains on track with Gaudi3 out of the fab, now in packaging and expected to launch next year. In 2025, Falcon Shores brings our GPU and Gaudi capabilities into a single product".

We know that the new Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerator will have 1.5x more performance than the previous-gen Gaudi 2, as well as 4x more BFloat16 performance, twice the compute power, and a 50% bump in memory capacity from 96GB on Gaudi 2 to a much better 144GB on Gaudi 3. We should expect Intel to be using HBM3 or the faster HBM3e memory standard, but that still needs to be confirmed.

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Moore Threads MTT S4000 48GB AI GPU: with MTLink and zero-cost NVIDIA CUDA framework

Anthony Garreffa | Dec 19, 2023 7:02 PM CST

Moore Threads has just announced its new MTT S4000 AI GPU that will work "seamlessly" with NVIDIA's CUDA framework, thanks to an in-house MUSIFY translation tool.

Moore Threads MTT S4000 48GB AI GPU: with MTLink and zero-cost NVIDIA CUDA framework

The new Moore Threads MTT S4000 AI GPU features MTLink 1.0, which is a new multi-GPU connector that we don't have photos of, but it sounds similar to NVIDIA's in-house NVLink connector. The new MTT S4000 AI GPU has 48GB of GDDR6 memory with up to 768GB/sec of memory bandwidth, compared to the 48GB of memory on NVIDIA's RTX 6000 GPU with 960GB/sec of memory bandwidth.

Moore Threads is passively cooling its new MTT S4000 AI GPU, with 25 TFLOPs of FP32 single-precision compute performance, 100 TFLOPs of FP16/BF16, and 200 TOPS in INT8. This is all found on a PCIe Gen5 x16 connector, too.

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AMD MI300X vs NVIDIA H100 battle heats up, AMD says it does have the 'performance advantage'

Kosta Andreadis | Dec 17, 2023 7:31 PM CST

AMD launched its new flagship AI GPU and accelerator, the Instinct MI300X, earlier this month. During the launch event, AMD provided charts and data indicating that the MI300X outperformed NVIDIA's powerful H100 GPU in several tests.

AMD MI300X vs NVIDIA H100 battle heats up, AMD says it does have the 'performance advantage'

It was up to 60% faster in a direct 8 to 8 server comparison; however, NVIDIA followed up with its own data. NVDIA's report shows (with data) that AMD did not use the latest NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM kernel optimizations for NVIDIA Hopper, nor did it show real-world MLPerf server scenarios where DGX H100 hardware delivers impressive "inferences per second" results.

Long story short, NVIDIA's response claims that if AMD benchmarked the H100 GPU properly, it would show that Team Green's flagship was 2X faster. So, where does that bring us to? AMD has reached out with an update showing that the MI300X's performance advantage has increased thanks to its own optimizations. And it's now accounting for latency.

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US news station announces it'll be the first to use AI-generated TV anchors

Jak Connor | Dec 15, 2023 2:17 AM CST

A US news station has announced its plans to release the very first AI-generated news anchors, which will be free and streamed on ad-supported services such as Crackle, Tubi, or Pluto.

US news station announces it'll be the first to use AI-generated TV anchors

The announcement comes from LA-based news station Channel 1, who said that they will be using AI-powered news anchors instead of real human people in what will likely be a world's first for a syndicated news station. A new report from the Daily Mail revealed that Channel 1's news segments will use a combination of AI-generated humans and digital avatars that were created through the use of real actors. Notably, Channel 1 will still be using real humans for its most important news stories.

The founder of Channel 1, Adam Mosam, spoke to The Daily Mail and said that the intention behind releasing AI-generated news anchors was to "get out in front and create a responsible use of technology." As for concerns regarding fake news and the potential impact on society for falsifying the news through the power of AI, Mosam says that Channel 1 intends to be extremely transparent with viewers about what footage is original and what has been generated by artificial intelligence.

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NVIDIA fires back at AMD saying its new MI300X chip is faster than its H100 GPU - it isn't

Kosta Andreadis | Dec 14, 2023 10:34 PM CST

[UPDATE AMD has responded to the below with updated benchmark results and new optimizations of its own to show that the MI300X still has the performance advantage - read all about it here]. AMD, like all of the big players in the chip game, is going all in on AI hardware, and with the company's recent flagship MI300X GPU launch, it made some bold claims that compared performance between the MI300X and NVIDIA's powerful H100 GPU. Up to 20% faster than the H100 in a direct 1 to 1 comparison and up to 60% faster in an 8 to 8 server comparison.

NVIDIA fires back at AMD saying its new MI300X chip is faster than its H100 GPU - it isn't

Every slide in AMD's 'Advancing AI' presentation that covered the performance of the AMD Instinct MI300X to the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU shows the MI300X coming out on top or, at worse, performing on par. And with that, NVIDIA has taken the time to present its own results showing that the H100 GPU is 2X faster than the MI300X.

"At a recent launch event, AMD talked about the inference performance of the H100 GPU compared to that of its MI300X chip," NVIDIA's Dave Salvator and Ashraf Eassa write. "The results shared did not use optimized software, and the H100, if benchmarked properly, is 2X faster."

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Intel CEO swipes at NVIDIA on AI: 'entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'

Anthony Garreffa | Dec 14, 2023 7:20 PM CST

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has some fighting words to NVIDIA and its CUDA standard, where he said: "You know, the entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market".

Intel CEO swipes at NVIDIA on AI: 'entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'

Gelsinger claimed that inference technology will be more important than training for AI, just as it launches its new Intel Core Ultra and Intel 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" CPUs at its "AI Everywhere" event in New York City. Gelsinger continued: "We think of the CUDA moat as shallow and small. Because the industry is motivated to bring a broader set of technologies for broad training, innovation, data science, et cetera".

Gelsinger used examples like MLIR, Google, and OpenAI, where he said they're moving towards a "Pythonic programming layer" that makes AI training more open.

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