Cloud Computing

A new cloud-computing company promises to provide scarce AI processing power to startups and researchers. Voltage Park, a nonprofit north of Silicon Valley, will offer processing power from 24,000 top-of-the-line Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPUs)...

Amazon joined big-tech peers Google, Meta, and Microsoft in rolling out services that provide generated text and images. The online retailer launched early access to Bedrock, a cloud platform that offers generative models built by Amazon and its partners.

Chatbot-fueled FOMO is overwhelming cloud-computing services. Cloud providers are struggling to meet sharply rising demand by a crowd of AI startups eager to cash in on generative AI, The Information reported. The surge in demand caught Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and others off guard.

Nvidia, known for chips designed to process AI systems, is providing access to large language models. Nvidia announced early access to NeMo LLM and BioNeMo, cloud-computing services that enable developers to generate text and biological sequences respectively.

A major corporate acquisition could reshape the hardware that makes AI tick.What’s new: U.S. processor giant Nvidia, the world’s leading vendor of the graphics processing units (GPUs) that perform calculations for deep learning, struck a deal to purchase UK chip designer Arm for $40 billion.