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Cisco Live 2024: Cisco Unveils AI Deployment Solution With NVIDIA

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Cisco Live 2024: Cisco Unveils AI Deployment Solution With NVIDIA

Cisco will invest $1 billion in AI and package a new networking solution with NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure, the organization announced at its annual consumer event on June 4. Cisco Live is being held in Las Vegas from June 2 – 6. These and the other announcements from Cisco Live respond to the enterprise trends for AI, plus increased visibility and security. Cisco partners with NVIDIA on Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters A new networking solution from…

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Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot AI Gains ‘Personal Assistant’ Capabilities

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Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot AI Gains ‘Personal Assistant’ Capabilities

Following the announcements of Copilot+ enabled AI PCs at the Microsoft Build developer event on May 20, Microsoft released new developer tools, enhancements to Microsoft Azure AI and new enterprise options for Copilot. GitHub Copilot received a lengthy list of new capabilities enabled by first- and third-party services. Meanwhile, reactions to the AI memory feature Recall include some backlash against its observation of all of the user’s activity. Recall, announced at Microsoft Build on May…

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Google Cloud Next 2024: New Data Center Chip Joins Ecosystem

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Google Cloud Next 2024: New Data Center Chip Joins Ecosystem

Google Cloud announced a new enterprise subscription for Chrome and a bevy of generative AI add-ons for Google Workspace during the Cloud Next ‘24 conference, held in Las Vegas from April 9 – 11. Overall, Google Cloud is putting its Gemini generative AI in place as much as it can; for instance, the company is betting on providing Vertex AI infrastructure for other companies’ AI and hardware like the new Axion CPU. We attended a…

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Building Data Center Infrastructure for the AI Revolution 

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Building Data Center Infrastructure for the AI Revolution 

This is part two of a multi-part blog series on AI. Part one, Why 2024 is the Year of AI for Networking, discussed Cisco’s AI networking vision and strategy. This blog will focus on evolving data center network infrastructure for supporting AI/ML workloads, while the next blog will discuss the Cisco compute strategy and innovations for mainstreaming AI. As discussed in part one of the blog series, Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have recently…

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NVIDIA GTC Keynote: Blackwell Architecture Will Accelerate AI Products in Late 2024

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NVIDIA GTC Keynote: Blackwell Architecture Will Accelerate AI Products in Late 2024

NVIDIA’s newest GPU platform is the Blackwell (Figure A), which companies including AWS, Microsoft and Google plan to adopt for generative AI and other modern computing tasks, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced during the keynote at the NVIDIA GTC conference on March 18 in San Jose, California. Figure A The NVIDIA Blackwell architecture. Image: NVIDIA Blackwell-based products will enter the market from NVIDIA partners worldwide in late 2024. Huang announced a long lineup of additional…

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Why 2024 is the Year of AI for Networking 

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Why 2024 is the Year of AI for Networking 

“This is the year of AI,” declared Chuck Robbins recently at Mobile World Congress. With demand growing from a broad range of enterprise customers who plan to build out their own artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, the market is changing and expanding rapidly. Consider the key results of the Cisco AI Readiness Index, based on detailed surveys of more than 8,000 business and IT leaders around the world, which revealed that 84% of organizations surveyed expect…

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NIST Establishes AI Safety Consortium

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NIST Establishes AI Safety Consortium

Image: Adobe/Grandbrothers The National Institute of Standards and Technology established the AI Safety Institute on Feb. 7 to determine guidelines and standards for AI measurement and policy. U.S. AI companies and companies that do business in the U.S. will be affected by those guidelines and standards and may have the opportunity to have input about them. What is the U.S. AI Safety Institute consortium? The U.S. AI Safety Institute is a joint public and private…

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Intel Spins Off Enterprise Generative AI Deployment Firm Articul8

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Intel Spins Off Enterprise Generative AI Deployment Firm Articul8

Intel and the global investment firm DigitalBridge Group have formed an independent generative AI software stack company, Articul8 AI, Inc. (Articul8); Intel announced the new company on Jan. 3. Articul8 will work with Intel and provide solutions for organizations that wish to build and deploy generative AI. Articul8’s product and capabilities Articul8’s product is “a turnkey GenAI software platform that delivers speed, security and cost-efficiency to help large enterprise customers operationalize and scale AI,” according…

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AWS Launches New Chips for AI Training and Its Own AI Chatbot

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AWS Launches New Chips for AI Training and Its Own AI Chatbot

Amazon Web Services announced an AI chatbot for enterprise use, new generations of its AI training chips, expanded partnerships and more during AWS re:Invent, held from November 27 to December 1, in Las Vegas. The focus of AWS CEO Adam Selipsky’s keynote held on day two of the conference was on generative AI and how to enable organizations to train powerful models through cloud services. Jump to: Graviton4 and Trainium2 chips announced More must-read AI…

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