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Facebook makes its Habitat virtual world AI training environment more interactive
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research department today announced a major update to its AI Habitat simulator, a virtual environment that’s used to teach robots how to interact with the physical world. The open-source Habitat simulator was first launched in 2019, giving AI researchers a better way to teach industrial robots how to interact safely and ...
Buoyant announces new cloud service for Linkerd service mesh users
Linkerd service mesh creator Buoyant Inc. is looking to make some money with the public beta launch of its Buoyant Cloud service today. Buoyant is trying to commercialize the open-source Linkerd service mesh platform, which was created in 2016 and is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. That’s the same organization that also houses ...
Secure Access Service Edge startup Versa Networks nets $84M in late-stage round
Network security startup Versa Networks Inc. banked an $84 million late-stage round of funding today that brings its total amount raised to $196 million. Princeville Capital and RPS Ventures co-led the Series D round, which included the participation of several existing investors, including Sequoia Capital. Versa Networks is an emerging player in the Secure Access ...
Rigetti looks to scale up quantum computing with modular processor architecture
Rigetti Computing Inc. believes it has cracked the challenge of scaling quantum computer systems with an entirely new approach that’s based on a modular architecture. The company is one of a number of startups competing in the quantum computing business, alongside more traditional technology giants such as IBM Corp. and Google LLC. Quantum computers are powered ...
Intel announces another chip delay, pushing back Sapphire Rapids CPUs to early 2022
Chipmaking giant Intel Corp. has announced yet another production delay. The company said today its next-generation Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable central processing units aren’t expected to ship until the first quarter of 2022, with production to ramp up by the second quarter. News of the delay came via a blog post by Lisa Spelman, corporate vice ...
Global public cloud infrastructure spending grows more than 40% in 2020
Public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service spending hit $64.3 billion in 2020, up 40.7% from the year before, as the COVID-19 pandemic pushed more companies to move computing workloads online, according to a report today from market research firm Gartner Inc. Amazon Web Services Inc. once again ranked as the top dog among IaaS public cloud services providers in ...
Nvidia soups up its HGX AI supercomputer platform with faster chips, more bandwidth and direct memory access
Nvidia Corp. is turbocharging its Nvidia HGX artificial intelligence supercomputing platform with some major enhancements to its compute, networking and storage performance. Nvidia HGX AI is an architecture for server platforms that’s designed to power high-performance computing workloads. It fuses up to 16 of Nvidia’s most powerful graphics processing units with technologies such as Infiniband networking ...
Nvidia integrates Arm processors with its 5G edge infrastructure platform
Nvidia Corp. is stepping up its bid to power 5G applications at the edge of the network, adding support for Arm central processing units on its Nvidia Aerial A100 AI-on-5G platform. Aerial A100 AI-on-5G is a single, converged platform that’s designed to provide both artificial intelligence computing at the edge and 5G connectivity. Launched in ...
Dell debuts open-source Omnia software to automate deployment of converged AI, data and HPC workloads
Dell Technologies Inc. is pitching a new open-source software suite it created in partnership with Intel Corp. and Arizona State University as a way for customers to manage the convergence of high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and data analytics workloads more easily. The Omnia software stack announced today is meant to automate the provisioning and management ...
IBM’s newest Cloud Pak offering brings automation to 5G network deployments
IBM Corp. is expanding its portfolio of automation software with a new offering for communications service providers that’s meant to help them to stand up and manage new 5G networks faster and more easily. The offering was announced at the Mobile World Congress 2021 event in Barcelona, where IBM also revealed it will partner with ...