HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240812: UK Cuts Exascale, Big Round for AI Inference, Llama 3.1 and Open AI, SC24

A good mid-August morn to you! Here’s a rapid (6:30) romp through recent HPC-AI developments, including:

Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center

– The UK government cuts more than £1 billion in funding for an exascale-class system in Edinburgh and AI projects.

– Groq scores major investment round for its AI inference technology.

– Meta’s Llama 3.1 model: the debate over open potential dangers of source AI.

– Will SC24 be the largest supercomputing event ever?

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