Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile. Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach. Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

HPE debuts its Nvidia GPU-powered on-premises supercomputer for generative AI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has taken the lid off its highly anticipated generative artificial intelligence supercomputer platforms, designed to help companies create, fine-tune and run powerful large language models in their own data centers. The announcement came as HPE and its rival Supermicro Inc. announced significant updates to their portfolios for generative artificial intelligence workloads. ...

Report: Nvidia could pay up to $1B to acquire AI infrastructure startup Run:ai

Nvidia Corp. is reportedly holding talks to acquire a startup called Run:ai Labs Ltd., which has built a novel virtualization infrastructure to accelerate artificial intelligence training. Calcalist, which first reported the news, said the deal could ultimately be worth many hundreds of millions of dollars, and could even be as high as $1 billion. The ...

Kinetica ramps up RAG for generative AI, empowering enterprises with real-time operational data

Kinetica DB Inc., which sells a real-time analytics database for time-series and spatial workloads, took to the stage at Nvidia Corp.’s GTC conference today to unveil a new generative artificial intelligence tool for enterprise customers that delivers big advantages for retrieval-augmented generation workloads. RAG is a technique that allows generative AI models such as OpenAI’s ...

Nvidia’s newest cloud service promises to accelerate quantum computing simulations

Computer chipmaker Nvidia Corp. is beefing up its efforts to advance quantum computing with the debut of a new service aimed at researchers and developers. According to the company, Nvidia Quantum Cloud provides advanced quantum computing technologies that will push the boundaries of research in areas such as chemistry, biology and materials science. Nvidia Quantum ...

Nvidia’s new microservices APIs promise to speed up AI development

Nvidia Corp. said today it’s adding a new, microservices-based layer to its popular Nvidia AI Enterprise platform, giving generative artificial intelligence model developers, platform providers and others the ability to run custom AI models in any location. The new microservices were announced at the Nvidia GTC 2024 conference in San Jose alongside a major update to the ...

Blackwell: Nvidia’s GPU architecture to power new generation of trillion-parameter generative AI models

Generative artificial intelligence models will become more powerful than ever, thanks to a new, more advanced architecture for graphics processing units announced by Nvidia Corp. today. The company unveiled its all-new Blackwell GPU architecture (pictured) at its GTC 2024 event today, saying it’s based on six transformative new technologies that will bring accelerated computing to the ...

Intel’s new Core i9-14900KS ‘Special Edition’ chip breaks records with fastest desktop clock speed

Intel Corp. climbed further up the speed clock ladder today as it launched a “special edition” Core i9-14900KS desktop central processing unit that it claims has the fastest clock speed of any currently available PC chip. The Intel Core i9-14900KS clocks in at an impressive 6.2 gigahertz, but despite that record-breaking speed, the company admitted ...

Soft guidance and concerns over generative AI threat send Adobe’s stock lower

Shares of the creative software provider Adobe Inc. fell more than 10% in extended trading today after it reported strong fiscal first-quarter results but offered weak guidance, amid growing fears from investors that the rise of artificial intelligence could hurt its business. There has been a growing debate on Wall Street around whether generative AI ...

AI-focused big data startup Unstructured raises $40M to make raw data LLM-ready

Generative artificial intelligence data processing startup Unstructured Technologies Inc. has closed on its second major funding round in less than a year, announcing a $40 million fundraising. Today’s Series B round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from a host of big-name backers, including Nvidia Corp.’s venture capital arm, IBM Ventures, Databricks Ventures and ...

Google DeepMind’s SIMA AI agent can play video games its never seen before

Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind today revealed it has been experimenting with a new kind of AI agent that can carry out multiple kinds of tasks in 3D video games that it has never played before. The research organization has long been known for its achievements in games, building intelligent AI systems that can ...