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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Trillion Parameter Consortium and TPC25 But Were Afraid to Ask

Since its inception, many questions about the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) have been asked. Rapid changes in AI technology and the emergence of large language models (LLM) have created many opportunities for intel Read more…

Fine-Tuning LLM Performance: How Knowledge Graphs Can Help Avoid Missteps

Fine-tuning is a crucial process in optimizing the performance of pre-trained LLMs. It involves further training the model on a smaller, more specific dataset tailored to a particular task or domain. This process allows Read more…

Ambari Hadoop Cluster Manager is Back on the Elephant

The term "Hadoop Cluster" can have many meanings. In the most simple sense, it can refer to the core components: HDFS (Hadoop Distributed FileSystem), YARN (Resource scheduler), Tez, and batch MapReduce (MapReduce proces Read more…

Hammerspace Raises $100M as the Big Data Poles Flip

The capability to virtually combine far-flung data silos into a single global namespace and access it at HPC-class speed has enabled Hammerspace customers to solve tough data problems. It also has caught the attention of Read more…

Groups Step Up to Rescue At-Risk Public Data

Public data is the lifeblood of open research and scientific inquiry. But the possibility of losing public datasets--including academic, government, and scientific data generated as part of research--is now spurring seve Read more…

News In Brief

AI Agents To Drive Scientific Discovery Within a Year, Altman Predicts

At the current pace of AI development, AI agents will be able to drive scientific discovery and solve tough technical and engineering problems within a year, OpenAI CEO and Founder Sam Altman said at the Snowflake Summit Read more…

AI Jobs Jump Amid IT Job Slump

If you’re looking for a job in IT, chances are good that it’s an AI-related job, according to data from the University of Maryland and LinkUp, which found that the number of AI jobs has increased dramatically since t Read more…

Acceldata Bolsters Anomaly Detection in Data Observability Tool

Acceldata this week unveiled a major update to its data observability platform that it claims can automatically detect hard-to-spot anomalies hidden in customers’ data. The update to the xLake Reasoning Engine comes as Read more…

Reltio Gooses Entity Resolution with AI

With the latest update to its data unification and management software, Reltio is employing one-shot learning techniques using large language models (LLMs) to resolve identities of objects in organizations' data, which w Read more…

Cloudian Partners with Lenovo for EPYC All-Flash ‘HyperStore’

Cloudian and Lenovo today announced they’re teaming up to deliver a new HyperStore cluster designed to run big data, AI, and HPC workloads. Each HyperStore cluster will be composed of six Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 V3 Read more…

This Just In

Basecamp Research Identifies Over 1M New Species to Power Generative Biology

Jun 13, 2025 |

LONDON and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 13, 2025 — Basecamp Research, an AI company dedicated to using nature to solve the most pressing challenges in the life sciences, has announced the discovery of over 1 million new species as part of BaseData, the world’s largest biological protein sequence database, and the first to be purpose-built to power the next era of generative biology. Read more…

John Snow Labs Acquires WiseCube to Enhance Medical AI Models with Knowledge Graphs

May 27, 2025 |

New, Enhanced Capabilities Enable Accelerated Drug Discovery, Enhanced Biomedical Literature Review, and Improved Hallucination Detection in LLMs

LEWES, Del., May 27, 2025 — John Snow Labs has announced the acquisition of WiseCube, a pioneer in biomedical knowledge graphs and AI-powered literature analysis. Read more…

COMPUTEX 2025 Keynotes to Highlight AI, Accelerated Computing, and Edge Innovation

Apr 10, 2025 |

TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 10, 2025 – COMPUTEX 2025, one of the world’s leading exhibitions for AIoT and startup innovation, will take place May 20–23 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Halls 1 and 2. Read more…

Google Cloud and Ai2 Pledge $20M to Support AI Infrastructure for Cancer Research

Apr 7, 2025 |

SEATTLE and SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 7, 2025 — Google Cloud and Ai2 announced they have partnered with the Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA), a pioneering consortium uniting leading cancer research institutions and technology companies to harness artificial intelligence (AI) in the fight against cancer. Read more…

Trillion Parameter Consortium Partners with Tabor Communications to Launch Global AI for Science Conference, TPC25

Mar 28, 2025 |

SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2025 — Tabor Communications, the publisher of leading technology websites HPCwire, AIwire, and BigDATAwire, today announced a partnership with the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) to produce and promote TPC’s first large-scale all-hands meeting, TPC25, which will take place July 28-31 in San Jose, California. Read more…

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