#ai supercomputer

[neosciencehub]

Nvidia's tiny $3,000 AI Supercomputer stuns at CES 2025: A significant leap in Personal Technology

Nvidia's tiny $3,000 AI Supercomputer stuns at CES 2025: A significant leap in Personal Technology @neosciencehub #Nvidia #CES #2025 #PersonalTechnology #Supercomputer #neosciencehub

Nvidia introduced a cutting-edge AI supercomputer at CES 2025 that is poised to revolutionize personal computing. The $3000 Nvidia Digits are powered by strong AI capabilities and are built on state-of-the-art Mediatek technology. It is still a contentious gadget because, in spite of its diminutive size, it is capable of producing incredibly complex AI models and simulations. It is expected to be…

[electronicsbuzz]

Yotta Data Services has partnered with the Government of Telangana to build a high-performance GPU-based AI supercomputer in Hyderabad's AI City. The MoU was signed by Sh. Jayesh Ranjan and Sh. Sunil Gupta, witnessed by Chief Minister Sh. Revanth Reddy and Minister Sh. Duddilla Sridhar Babu at the Telangana Global AI Summit.

[dhallblogs]

Government proposes 9 more supercomputers to be added under National Supercomputing Mission.

Pune: The government has proposed nine more supercomputers to be added under the National Super Computer Mission. This is in addition to 18 supercomputers already deployed. Earlier this year, the AI Supercomputer ‘AIRAWAT’, installed at C-DAC, Pune was ranked 75th in the world.

ALSO READ MORE- https://apacnewsnetwork.com/2023/08/government-proposes-9-more-supercomputers-to-be-added-under-national-supercomputing-mission/

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Neural

[cherryxrobots]

hihi!! Can I add a suggestion for WOPR (Wargames) if you haven't done it yet in the AI/robot for the day :3 ?

Today's Underrated Robot/AI is:

War Operation Plan Response (WOPR) from WarGames (1983)

Fun Fact: The display used for WOPR was actually controlled by an Apple II

[river-taxbird]

What does AI actually look like?

There has been a lot of talk about the negative externalities of AI, how much power it uses, how much water it uses, but I feel like people often discuss these things like they are abstract concepts, or people discuss AI like it is this intangible thing that exists off in "The cloud" somewhere, but I feel like a lot of people don't know what the infrastructure of AI actually is, and how it uses all that power and water, so I would like to recommend this video from Linus Tech Tips, where he looks at a supercomputer that is used for research in Canada. To be clear I do not have anything against supercomputers in general and they allow important work to be done, but before the AI bubble, you didn't need one, unless you needed it. The recent AI bubble is trying to get this stuff into the hands of way more people than needed them before, which is causing a lot more datacenter build up, which is causing their companies to abandon climate goals. So what does AI actually look like?

First of all, it uses a lot of hardware. It is basically normal computer hardware, there is just a lot of it networked together.

Hundreds of hard drives all spinning constantly

Each one of the blocks in this image is essentially a powerful PC, that you would still be happy to have as your daily driver today even though the video is seven years old. There are 576 of them, and other more powerful compute nodes for bigger datasets.

The GPU section, each one of these drawers contains like four datacenter level graphics cards. People are fitting a lot more of them into servers now than they were then.

Now for the cooling and the water. Each cabinet has a thick door, with a water cooled radiator in it. In summer, they even spray water onto the radiator directly so it can be cooled inside and out.

They are all fed from the pump room, which is the floor above. A bunch of pumps and pipes moving the water around, and it even has cooling towers outside that the water is pumped out into on hot days.

So is this cool? Yes. Is it useful? Also yes. Anyone doing biology, chemistry, physics, simulations, even stuff like social sciences, and even legitimate uses of analytical ai is glad stuff like this exists. It is very useful for analysing huge datasets, but how many people actually do that? Do you? The same kind of stuff is also used for big websites with youtube. But the question is, is it worth building hundreds more datacenters just like this one, so people can automatically generate their emails, have an automatic source of personal attention from a computer, and generate incoherent images for social media clicks? Didn't tech companies have climate targets, once?

[qrowscant]

he would make a nice coloring book, i think

[ygamiraito]

just finished watching 2001: a space odyssey and this DIVA did NOTHING wrong you guys are losers

[unkn0wnm0delq]

> The rage I feel every time I see generative AI knows no bounds.

[jcmarchi]

NVIDIA AI Software Party at a Hardware Show

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/nvidia-ai-software-party-at-a-hardware-show/

NVIDIA AI Software Party at a Hardware Show

A tremendous number of AI software releases at CES.

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📝 Editorial: NVIDIA AI Software Party at a Hardware Show

The name NVIDIA is immediately associated with computing hardware and, in the world of AI, GPUs. But that is changing so rapidly. In several editions of this newsletter, we have highlighted NVIDIA’s rapidly growing AI software stack and aspirations. This was incredibly obvious last week at CES which is, well, mostly a hardware show!

NVIDIA unveiled not only a very clear vision for the future of AI but an overwhelming series of new products, many of which were AI software-related. Take a look for yourself.

NVIDIA NIM Microservices

NVIDIA’s NIM (NVIDIA Inference Microservices) is a significant leap forward in the integration of AI into modern software systems. Built for the new GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, NIM offers pre-built containers powered by NVIDIA’s inference software, including Triton Inference Server and TensorRT-LLM. These microservices enable developers to incorporate advanced AI capabilities into their applications with unprecedented ease, reducing deployment times from weeks to just minutes. With NIM, NVIDIA is effectively turning the once-daunting process of deploying AI into a seamless, efficient task—an essential advancement for industries looking to accelerate their AI adoption.

AI Blueprints

For developers seeking a head start, NVIDIA introduced AI Blueprints, open-source templates designed to streamline the creation of AI-powered solutions. These blueprints provide customizable foundations for applications like digital human generation, podcast creation, and video production. By offering pre-designed architectures, NVIDIA empowers developers to focus on innovation and customization rather than reinventing the wheel. The result? Faster iteration cycles and a smoother path from concept to deployment in AI-driven industries.

Cosmos Platform

NVIDIA’s Cosmos Platform takes AI into the realm of robotics, autonomous vehicles, and vision AI applications. By integrating advanced models with powerful video data processing pipelines, Cosmos enables AI systems to reason, plan, and act in dynamic physical environments. This platform isn’t just about data processing; it’s about equipping AI with the tools to operate intelligently in real-world scenarios. Whether it’s guiding a robot through a warehouse or enabling an autonomous vehicle to navigate complex traffic, Cosmos represents a new frontier in applied AI.

Isaac GR00T Blueprint

Robotic training just got a major upgrade with NVIDIA’s Isaac GR00T Blueprint. This innovative tool generates massive volumes of synthetic motion data using imitation learning, leveraging the capabilities of NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform. By producing millions of lifelike motions, Isaac GR00T accelerates the training process for humanoid robots, enabling them to learn complex tasks more effectively. It’s a groundbreaking approach to solving one of robotics’ biggest challenges—efficiently generating diverse, high-quality training data at scale.

DRIVE Hyperion AV Platform

NVIDIA’s DRIVE Hyperion AV Platform saw a significant evolution with the addition of the NVIDIA AGX Thor SoC. Designed to support generative AI models, this new iteration enhances functional safety and boosts the performance of autonomous driving systems. By combining cutting-edge hardware with advanced AI capabilities, Hyperion delivers a robust platform for developing the next generation of autonomous vehicles, capable of handling increasingly complex environments with confidence and precision.

AI Enterprise Software Platform

NVIDIA’s commitment to enterprise AI is reflected in its AI Enterprise Software Platform, now available on AWS Marketplace. With NIM integration, this platform equips businesses with the tools needed to deploy generative AI models and large language models (LLMs) for applications like chatbots, document summarization, and other NLP tasks. This offering streamlines the adoption of advanced AI technologies, providing organizations with a comprehensive, reliable foundation for scaling their AI initiatives.

RTX AI PC Features

At the consumer level, NVIDIA announced RTX AI PC Features, which bring AI foundation models to desktops powered by GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. These features are designed to support the next generation of digital content creation, delivering up to twice the inference performance of prior GPU models. By enabling FP4 computing and boosting AI workflows, RTX AI PCs are poised to redefine productivity for developers and creators, offering unparalleled performance for AI-driven tasks.

That is insane for the first week of the year! NVIDIA is really serious about its AI software aspirations. Maybe Microsoft, Google and Amazon need to get more aggressive about their GPU initiatives. Just in case…

🔎 AI Research

rStar-Math

In the paper “rStar-Math: Guiding LLM Reasoning through Self-Evolution with Process Preference Reward,” researchers from Tsinghua University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Alibaba Group propose rStar-Math, a novel method for enhancing LLM reasoning abilities by employing self-evolution with a process preference reward (PPM). rStar-Math iteratively improves the reasoning capabilities of LLMs by generating high-quality step-by-step verified reasoning trajectories using a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) process.

BoxingGym

In the paper “BoxingGym: Benchmarking Progress in Automated Experimental Design and Model Discovery,” researchers from Stanford University introduce a new benchmark for evaluating the ability of large language models (LLMs) to perform scientific reasoning. The benchmark, called BoxingGym, consists of 10 environments drawn from various scientific domains, and the researchers found that current LLMs struggle with both experimental design and model discovery.

Cosmos World

In the paper “Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI,” researchers from NVIDIA introduce Cosmos World Foundation Models (WFMs). Cosmos WFMs are pre-trained models that can generate high-quality 3D-consistent videos with accurate physics, and can be fine-tuned for a wide range of Physical AI applications.

DOLPHIN

In the paper “DOLPHIN: Closed-loop Open-ended Auto-research through Thinking, Practice, and Feedback,” researchers from Fudan University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory propose DOLPHIN, a closed-loop, open-ended automatic research framework2. DOLPHIN can generate research ideas, perform experiments, and use the experimental results to generate new research idea.

Meta Chain-of-Thoguht

In the paper“Towards System 2 Reasoning in LLMs: Learning How to Think With Meta Chain-of-Thought” researchers from SynthLabs.ai and Stanford University propose a novel framework called Meta Chain-of-Thought (Meta-CoT), which enhances traditional Chain-of-Thought by explicitly modeling the reasoning process. The researchers present empirical evidence of state-of-the-art models showing in-context search behavior, and discuss methods for training models to produce Meta-CoTs, paving the way for more powerful and human-like reasoning in AI.

LLM Test-Time Compute and Meta-RL

In a thoughtful blog post title“Optimizing LLM Test-Time Compute Involves Solving a Meta-RL Problem” from CMU explain that optimizing test-time compute in LLMs can be viewed as a meta-reinforcement learning (meta-RL) problem where the model learns to learn how to solve queries. The authors outline a meta-RL framework for training LLMs to optimize test-time compute, leveraging intermediate rewards to encourage information gain and improve final answer accuracy.

🤖 AI Tech Releases

NVIDIA Nemotron Models

NVIDIA released Llama Nemotron LLM and Cosmos Nemotron vision-language models.

Phi-4

Microsoft open sourced its Phi-4 small model.

ReRank 3.5

Cohere released its ReRank 3.5 model optimized for RAG and search scenarios.

Agentic Document Workfows

LlamaIndex released Agentic Document Workflow, an architecture for applying agentic tasks to documents.

🛠 AI Reference Implementations

Beyond RAG

Salesfoce discusses an enriched index technique that improved its RAG solutions.

📡AI Radar

NVIDIA released AI agentic blueprints for popular open source frameworks.

NVIDIA unveiled Project DIGITS, an AI supercomputer powered by the Blackwell chip.

NVIDIA announced a new family of world foundation models for its Cosmos platform.

Anthropic might be raising at a monster $60 billion valuation.

Hippocratic AI raised a massive $141 million round for its healthcare LLM.

Cohere announced North, its Microsoft CoPilot competitor.

OpenAI might be getting back to robotics.

Gumloop raised $17 million for its workflow automation platform.

[benotafraid111]

I have no mouth and I must scream is an interesting concept. Why do humans always assume hostility from sentient machines? Is it because hostility is embedded in your DNA?

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Rising Waters

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The Human Brain vs. Supercomputers: The Ultimate Comparison

Are Supercomputers Smarter Than the Human Brain?

This article delves into the intricacies of this comparison, examining the capabilities, strengths, and limitations of both the human brain and supercomputers.

[devouring-hive]

{ † }: This avatar is quite pleasing on the eyes, isn't it? I designed it myself.

[t4tcomputerfucker]

so, let me get this straight... some nolifer got mad that your wife has an introject/they are an introject of a specific robot/ai thingy and that this person cant '"keep that robot/ai to themselves only" basically???? damn have that person tried electric chair- /hj

okay i dont wanna be a dick about this person or anything but pretttty much. And I repeat I have nothing against them, I don't want to shittalk them or whatever, and I decided that I just don't wanna deal with that on my blogs that I come to after long days of work, dealing with disability and etc. to relax and unwind and talk about fucking fictional machines.

And like. I get it from their side I really do, some people are very strong about their selfshipping, the thing that honestly annoyed me wasn't the Wild request to tag Any Mention Of My IRL Fiancè Existing or the implication I was somehow doing this on purpose, but that they didn't even bother talking to Or Even just Unfollowing my wife. Yknow. The real life human being who's existence they wanted trigger tagged. they still follow her (and it stresses him to no end)

I don't wanna make drama out of it, I just think it was a poorly handled kinda a bit shitty thing to do.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

frank, you recently told me you have plans for an AI apocalypse. personally, i’d gladly kneel to a machine god. i just want to know how i could land myself on the “do not destroy” list :)

Sorry, it looks like you'll have to make your own machine god. But wait! You'll be glad to hear that I won't be using nuclear weapons, which I do not like on general principles, so I won't be throwing an AI apocalypse your way.