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AI Today and Tomorrow Series #2: Artificial General Intelligence
In response to readers’ questions about AI, BigDATAwire asked me to write a series of columns on AI, a topic that is generating excitement and concern in the worldwide HPC community and beyond. The introductory column Read more…
Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration
GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still u Read more…
Watch for New BigDATAwire Column: AI Today and Tomorrow
In response to our readers’ many questions about AI, showing a mix of excitement and concern, we will soon debut a series of monthly articles on the status of AI in the global HPC community and the path toward AGI, art Read more…
The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…
How GenAI Will Impact Jobs In the Real World
There’s been a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about the potential for generative AI to take people’s jobs. The capability of large language models (LLMs) to answer questions and handle digital tasks when p Read more…
News In Brief
Reltio Gooses Entity Resolution with AI
With the latest update to its data unification and management software, Reltio is employing one-shot learning techniques using large language models (LLMs) to resolve identities of objects in organizations' data, which w Read more…
Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage
Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…
Meet MATA, an AI Research Assistant for Scientific Data
Researchers with Southern Methodist University (SMU) and NASA today announced they have received a patent for MATA, an AI-powered research assistant that can answer questions on scientific data. Consumers have grown a Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: August 2023 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
IBM’s New Geospatial AI Model on Hugging Face Harnesses NASA Data for Climate Science
IBM recently announced its watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model for Earth observation is now available on Hugging Face, the popular open source machine learning platform and community. The HLS Geospatial Foundation Read more…
This Just In
April 11, 2025 — Data privacy comes with a cost. There are security techniques that protect sensitive user data, like customer addresses, from attackers who may attempt to extract them from AI models — but they often make those models less accurate. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, 2025 — CodeSignal and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance are teaming up to equip over 20,000 students across the Americas and Asia-Pacific and Japan with in-demand job skills in emerging technology. Read more…
TOKYO, April 11, 2025 — NTT Corporation has announced a new, large-scale integration (LSI) for the real-time AI inference processing of ultra-high-definition video up to 4K-resolution and 30 frames per second (fps). Read more…
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 10, 2025 — NTT Research, Inc. unveiled the Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group, spun off from a group within the NTT Research Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab. Read more…
TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 10, 2025 – COMPUTEX 2025, one of the world’s leading exhibitions for AIoT and startup innovation, will take place May 20–23 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Halls 1 and 2. Read more…