What’s the ROI? Getting the Most Out of LLM Inference

What’s the ROI? Getting the Most Out of LLM Inference

Large language models and the applications they power enable unprecedented opportunities for organizations to get deeper insights from their data reservoirs and to build entirely new classes of applications. But with opportunities often come challenges. Both on premises and in the cloud, applications that are expected to run in real time place significant demands on … Read More

Apple Explains Its Approach to Device Longevity

Apple Explains Its Approach to Device Longevity

We Apple users tend to believe that our devices usually last longer—both physically and functionally—than Windows PCs and Android smartphones. For instance, Apple’s current operating systems work on nearly all Macs, iPhones, and iPads introduced in 2018 and later, albeit with some feature loss on the oldest devices. In a white paper entitled “Longevity, by … Read More

PCI-SIG Demonstrates PCIe 6.0 Interoperability at FMS 2024

PCI-SIG Demonstrates PCIe 6.0 Interoperability at FMS 2024

As the deployment of PCIe 5.0 picks up steam in both datacenter and consumer markets, PCI-SIG is not sitting idle, and is already working on getting the ecosystem ready for the updats to the PCIe specifications. At FMS 2024, some vendors were even talking about PCIe 7.0 with its 128 GT/s capabilities despite PCIe 6.0 … Read More

Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B Model Delivers Unparalleled Accuracy

Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B Model Delivers Unparalleled Accuracy

This post was originally published August 21, 2024 but has been revised with current data. Recently, NVIDIA and Mistral AI unveiled Mistral NeMo 12B, a leading state-of-the-art large language model (LLM). Mistral NeMo 12B consistently outperforms similarly sized models on a wide range of benchmarks.  We announced Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, one of the most advanced open-access … Read More

Meta Cracks Down on Sextortion on Instagram: No More Screenshots in DMs

Meta Cracks Down on Sextortion on Instagram: No More Screenshots in DMs

Meta’s Instagram has just unveiled updates focused on safeguarding teens from sextortion scams. Central to these updates is blocking users from screenshotting private media sent in direct messages (DMs). Previously, users could take screenshots of temporary photos or videos, but the sender would be notified. Now, Instagram is taking it further by ensuring you can’t … Read More

Meta’s Next-Gen Model for Video and Image Segmentation

Meta’s Next-Gen Model for Video and Image Segmentation

Introduction The era has arrived where your phone or computer can understand the objects of an image, thanks to technologies like YOLO and SAM. Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) can instantly identify objects in images and separate them without needing to be trained on specific images. It’s like a digital magician, able to understand each … Read More

Amazon Finally Ditches Plastic Air Pillows, but Environmentalists Say It’s Not Enough

Amazon Finally Ditches Plastic Air Pillows, but Environmentalists Say It’s Not Enough

After years of pressure from environmental advocates, the global retail giant Amazon announced last week that it has eliminated plastic air pillows from its global network of “fulfillment centers,” as Amazon calls its warehouse and distribution facilities. Around the world, products inside the company’s packages are now cushioned by paper-based padding that can be collected … Read More

The VW ID. Buzz was worth the seven-year wait

The VW ID. Buzz was worth the seven-year wait

Perched in the driver’s seat, I’m not sure why you would need to be, anyway. Nothing about the Buzz’s driving style demands you rag it through the corners, although the car coped very well on the very twisty sections of our route up the shore of the Tomales Bay. Like last week’s Porsche Macan, the … Read More

GFN Thursday: ‘Diablo IV DLC on GeForce NOW

GFN Thursday: ‘Diablo IV DLC on GeForce NOW

Prepare for a devilishly good time this GFN Thursday as the critically acclaimed Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred downloadable content (DLC) joins the cloud, one of six new games available this week. GeForce NOW also extends its game-library sync feature to Battle.net accounts, so members can seamlessly bring their favorite Blizzard games into their cloud-streaming … Read More