March 11 news, according to Tencent cloud news today, Tsinghua University, Tencent cloud, Intel on March 7 in Beijing announced the launch of the "database AI joint innovation program", around the database and the intersection of large models of technology to carry out in-depth research, to promote the intelligent upgrade of the database, and at the same time for the AI application to build a highly efficient data infrastructure. This is also the first industry-university-research joint program in the field of database AI in China. With the explosion of large language modeling technology, database systems are facing the challenge of transforming from "passive storage" to "active service". Traditional databases rely on manually writing complex query statements, while ...

The recent launch of DeepSeek's open-source AI inference model, called R1, has caused an uproar in the tech industry. On one hand, NVIDIA's stock plummeted, while on the other, DeepSeek's consumer app quickly climbed to the top of the app store charts. Last month, DeepSeek announced that they had completed training the model in just about two months at a cost of about $5.5 million using a data center containing about 2,000 NVIDIA H800 GPUs. Last week, DeepSeek published a thesis...

According to the "Intel News" public number, recently, Smart Spectrum released the Intel Core Ultra exclusive version, which can utilize the AI algorithm provided by the Intel Core Ultra processor to run Smart Spectrum's end-side model locally on PCs without Internet connection, and can still be used in the case of weak or disconnected networks. The AI assistant can still be used in the case of weak or disconnected network. According to the introduction, Wisdom Spectrum Qingyin covers both mobile and PC, and is an AI assistant based on a large model in the cloud, with many additional functions. When used on PC, some users will have some personal or organizational private data or have a...

November 26 Intel new quality productivity technology ecological conference opened in Chengdu. Wisdom Spectrum said that based on the Intel Core Ultra chip optimization, Wisdom Spectrum Qingyin, which originally needed to be connected to the Internet, has the ability to run offline. Officially, Wisdom Spectrum and Intel jointly created the end-side of the Wisdom Spectrum Qingyin will soon be officially launched, with the following capabilities: offline, the end-side of the Wisdom Spectrum Qingyin can cope with AI conversations, processing of long document analysis, knowledge base Q&A and other complex tasks Provide local processing "privacy mode" options, to protect the user's data and personal documents and other information Data Security Combined with cloud-based capabilities, End-Side Wisdom...

Intel published a blog post on November 21st, reporting that although the purpose of AI PCs is to improve productivity, the actual use of AI PCs is less effective than that of traditional PC users, and the key to this is the lack of relevant training. The report concluded that the speed of users in completing daily tasks is slower than traditional PC users, the root cause of which is the lack of understanding of AI functions and the resulting communication barriers, the study not only reveals the challenges facing the popularization of AI computers, but also triggers a deeper reflection on the application of AI technology. Survey Respondents Intel commissioned a survey of ...

According to foreign media HPCwire reports, Intel in SC24 conference in an academic seminar presentation revealed that the company will launch the future of AI chips called "Jaguar Shores". The presentation slides shared by the foreign media show that "Jaguar Shores" is considered to be the successor to Intel's Gaudi AI gas pedal family, in which "Jaguar Shores" and the currently released Gaudi 3...

Intel announced in a blog post on October 1 that it has upgraded its AI Playground application for the Intel Core Ultra 200V family of "Lunar Lake" notebook processors. Intel AI Playground Introduction Intel's AI Playground is an open source application designed to provide easy-to-use artificial intelligence capabilities, especially for users with Intel Arc graphics cards. The official description is as follows: AI Playground can...

After the announcement in June, Intel today officially launched the Beta version of the AI Playground open source software. AI Playground currently supports running on Windows computers with Arc graphics cards with 8GB or more video memory, and will also support Intel Core Ultra-H processors in the future. According to reports, AI Playground is a free and open source AI PC entry application that supports running AI image generation and enhancement, AI chatbot functions locally…

Intel launched a new artificial intelligence tool, AI Playground, at the Taipei International Computer Show. It aims to help generative AI novices quickly get started. The software is expected to be available for free download this summer. It is worth mentioning that AI Playground needs to be paired with the Intel AI XMX engine, so an Intel Core Ultra processor with Arc Iris discrete graphics or integrated Arc GPU is required. Intel said that AI Playground can be used like other Windows applications…

Intel recently announced the release window for its new Lunar Lake chip laptop processor, which is expected to be officially launched in the third quarter of this year. It is designed to bring a new AI experience to Copilot Plus PC. Intel's announcement coincides with Microsoft's Surface and AI event, where Microsoft adopted Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips to provide high performance and longer battery life. However, Intel claims that its Lunar Lake processors are more powerful than Stabl…

Intel made it clear at its first quarter earnings conference call at the end of last month that the Falcon Shores GPU will be launched in late 2025. According to foreign media HPCwire, the processor is being redesigned to meet the needs of the AI industry. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said that Falcon Shores will combine a fully programmable architecture with the excellent system performance of the Gaudi 3 accelerator, allowing users to achieve a smooth and seamless upgrade transition between two generations of hardware. Intel said that the AI industry is turning to Python…

Intel Corporation announced first quarter results under its new financial structure model, which aims to establish itself as a leader in artificial intelligence hardware. The company today reported first quarter revenue of $12.7 billion, a year-over-year increase of 9%. It forecast second quarter 2024 revenue of $12.5 to $13.5 billion. Although the first quarter exceeded analysts' expectations, the company's second quarter outlook sent shares down 8% as it missed analysts' expectations of $13.63 billion for the upcoming quarter. Its adjusted EPS was $0.18 on revenue of $12.72 billion. Intel…

At the Intel Vision 2024 conference, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger revealed that Intel has shipped 5 million AI PC chips and is expected to ship 40 million AI PCs in 2024, with more than 230 designs covering thin and light PCs and game handheld devices. Intel's goal is to supply processors for more than 100 million AI PCs by 2025. At the end of last month, Intel announced two new artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives in its "AI PC Acceleration Program"...

AMD recently released a series of benchmarks, claiming that its Ryzen mobile 7040 Phoenix series and 8040 series processors can outperform Intel's latest Core Ultra Meteor Lake CPUs by up to 79% in running large language models (LLMs). This test compares the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U and Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processors, both of which are equipped with hardware neural network processing units (NPUs). AM…

Intel's chip manufacturing division accumulated a $7 billion loss in 2023, up from a $5.2 billion loss in 2022. Although Intel achieved $18.9 billion in revenue in 2023, that figure is down 311 TP3T from last year's $27.49 billion. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told investors that these losses are partly a consequence of Intel's past poor decision-making, which resulted in the chip manufacturing business having to outsource about 301 TP3T of its wafer production to other fabs such as TSMC, one of Intel's current competitors. However, now Intel has decided to invest...

Intel announced that they will further advance their AI PC acceleration program with the launch of a new AI PC Developer Program, providing a variety of new toolkits and development kits for software and hardware AI developers. Initially launched on October 23, Intel's goal is to maximize the potential of AI applications and software and broaden the entire AI-focused PC ecosystem by deploying AI in 100 million Intel-powered AI PCs by 2025. AI PC Developer Program...

According to the Securities Times, Gao Yu, general manager of Intel's China Technology Department, said at the 2024 China Flash Market Summit that the entry-level AI PC will have 32GB of memory as the standard in the future, while the current 16GB memory will definitely be eliminated, and 64GB PCs will start shipping next year. At the same time, AI PCs place very high demands on SSD performance and capacity. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, AI PCs (artificial intelligence personal computers) have become a new development direction for personal computers, enabling users to perform complex artificial intelligence calculations locally without relying on the cloud…

AI-enabled personal computers (AI PCs) are expected to revolutionize the PC market landscape in the next three to five years, becoming a watershed moment for the industry, reveals a new study by Canalys. The study further states that AI PCs will account for more than 60% of the PC market by 2027, with business applications leading the way. An AI PC is defined as a personal computer equipped with a dedicated chipset/block to host end-side AI runtime loads. While almost all PCs can run cloud-based AI applications, AI PCs are unique because they are equipped with end-side neural processing...

At today's "Make AI Everywhere" event, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger also unveiled the Intel Gaudi3 series AI accelerator to the public for the first time. This is a tool designed for deep learning and large-scale generation of artificial intelligence models, which is scheduled to be launched next year. According to Intel, the new generation of Gaudi3AI accelerators is expected to occupy a larger market share in 2024 with its outstanding performance advantages and highly competitive total cost of ownership and pricing. In terms of technology, the new generation of Gaudi3 will adopt advanced...

Stability AI, the U.K. artificial intelligence startup behind the Stable Diffusion image generator, is exploring a sale of the company as management faces mounting investor pressure over its finances. The London-based company has positioned itself as a potential acquisition target in recent weeks and has had preliminary conversations with a number of companies, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The people requested anonymity because of the private nature of the discussions. They said that no deal has yet been reached and that the company may terminate the process without a sale. This dynamic ...

It's time for Intel to squeeze the toothpaste again. On September 19, the 2023 Intel ON Technology Innovation Conference opened in San Jose, California, USA. The most obvious feature is that the entire conference revolves around AI. In the words of Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel wants to make AI ubiquitous. Intel actually knows what everyone wants to see. So this time they announced a series of new technologies and drew a lot of "cakes", but almost all of them are related to AI. The AI chip roadmap was announced for the first time. Now everyone is rolling up big models, and Intel certainly doesn't want to fall behind,...