Tech Times

Qualcomm Closes $3.9 Billion Modular Deal: Meta Validates Full-Stack CUDA Challenge

Qualcomm confirmed a $3.92 billion all-stock deal to buy AI software startup Modular, paired with a Meta Platforms CPU ...
SDxCentral

Qualcomm acquires AI startup Modular in open ecosystem bet to challenge CUDA

Founded by the mind behind the Swift programming language, Modular’s 'write once, run anywhere' stack looks to accelerate ...

Microsoft debuts Surface RTX Spark Dev Box to run large AI models without cloud costs

Microsoft’s new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box packs Nvidia Blackwell AI power and 128GB of unified memory to run large AI models locally, helping developers cut cloud costs and rethink enterprise AI ...

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box Features, Price, Specs, Where to buy, Release date

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is a compact, small-form-factor desktop PC that is built specifically for developers and data ...
Network World

Qualcomm’s $3.9 billion purchase of Modular aims to change the data center dynamic

Qualcomm paints the deal as delivering ‘a silicon-agnostic compute layer’ to make data centers more flexible and cost-effective.
eLife

SqueakPose Studio: An end-to-end platform for pose estimation and real-time edge-AI deployment

This important work introduces an integrated open-source platform for behavioral acquisition and pose estimation that substantially improves the accessibility and speed of real-time animal tracking ...
GitHub

CUda Matrix Multiply library.

0.3.1: tv::DType enum value changed, this will affect all binary code of tv::Tensor user. you must recompile all code if upgrade to cumm >= 0.3.1. We offer python 3.9-3.13 and cuda 11.4/11.8/12.1/12.4 ...
GitHub

GitHub - facebookincubator/AITemplate: AITemplate is a Python framework which renders neural network into high performance CUDA/HIP C++ code. Specialized for FP16 TensorCore ...

High performance: close to roofline fp16 TensorCore (NVIDIA GPU) / MatrixCore (AMD GPU) performance on major models, including ResNet, MaskRCNN, BERT, VisionTransformer, Stable Diffusion, etc. Unified ...
The Next Platform

Three HPC Gurus Ask: Do We Still Need GPUs?

Yes, that simple question is, in the modern Nvidia world that has come to dominate AI training and to a certain extent HPC simulation and modeling, heretical. But given that CPUs are in many cases ...