The 178MB Speech Model With a Hidden Catch
Moondream released Parakeet Redux, a speech-to-text model that compresses NVIDIA's 1.2 GB Parakeet 0.6B v3 to 178 MB via ternary quantization of the encoder weights, cutting Word Error Rate on seven E…
Moondream released Parakeet Redux, a speech-to-text model that compresses NVIDIA's 1.2 GB Parakeet 0.6B v3 to 178 MB via ternary quantization of the encoder weights, cutting Word Error Rate on seven E…
Xinnor released xiNAS 3.13, the current stable version of its RAID-based NFS-over-RDMA NAS product, adding a single control plane for storage provisioning, NFS configuration, health inspection and con…
Taiwanese server and storage provider AIC is exhibiting server motherboards powered by AMD EPYC processors and high-availability storage servers at the AMD Embedded Summit Taipei 2026, extending a lon…
At the AI Infra Summit, AMD argued that AI infrastructure should be designed around adaptability rather than any single chip or fabric, citing three auditable properties — adaptable, economical and op…
A developer built SetrixDB, an exact set engine in Go that performs presence checks and intersections over uint64 IDs using a from-scratch Minimal Perfect Hash Function (CHD v2) and AVX-512-accelerate…
F-Secure and AMD Silo AI demonstrated a joint approach that routes each piece of data to on-device or cloud AI models based on sensitivity, cost, model capability and performance, with F-Secure planni…
AMD claims enterprises can consolidate 100 five- to seven-year-old Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 dual CPU servers into 14 AMD EPYC 9965 CPU-based servers, an 86% reduction, while maintaining total performa…
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a procurement contract with Bull to deliver LUMI-AI, a next-generation supercomputer at the CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd. data center in Kajaani, Finland, p…
AMD, Cisco, and HUMAIN launched a joint venture to build up to 1 GW of AI data center infrastructure in Saudi Arabia by 2030, starting with a 100 MW deployment using AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs and Cisco …
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a 387.8 million euro contract with Bull to deliver LUMI-AI, a supercomputer powered by AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and 6th Gen AMD EPYC 256-core processors, at CS…
AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN, a PIF company, announced that AMD Instinct MI355X GPU-based AI infrastructure built on Cisco Silicon One-based AI networking is now live in Saudi Arabia and serving HUMAIN custo…
DigitalOcean introduced v5 Droplets, a new generation of compute built on 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 30% higher performance per core than previous-generation Droplets. For the first…
Intel detailed the package design of its next-generation Xeon 7 "Diamond Rapids" server processor at HOT CHIPS, targeting enterprise-scale agentic AI with up to 256 P-cores and 1.28 GB of last-level c…
Linux 7.2, released by Linus Torvalds on August 16, introduces cache-aware load balancing for chiplet-based servers like AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon 6, but the feature is opt-in via CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE. Th…
Liqid unveiled its UltraStack 30 platform, pooling up to 30 AMD Instinct MI350P GPUs in a single AMD EPYC-based server, with 4.3 TB of aggregate HBM3E memory and up to 69 PFLOPS of FP8 performance. Th…
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced on Aug. 6, 2026, a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based pioneer in specialized AI inference silicon founded in 2023, to strengthen its long-term AI roadm…
AMD, Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Supermicro) and Spectro Cloud announced AMD Instinct Coder, a turnkey enterprise AI coding solution designed to scale AI-assisted software development with local-first…
AMD reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $11.5 billion, up 50% year-over-year, with record profitability driven by Data Center revenue more than doubling to $6.7 billion. Non-GAAP diluted earnings …
VAST Data and AMD announced a collaboration claiming 9x faster time-to-first-token for AI inference by offloading KV cache to AMD Instinct GPUs, combining the VAST AI Operating System with 6th Gen AMD…
Dell Technologies Inc. senior vice president Varun Chhabra said enterprises face out-of-control token-based pricing costs, data governance challenges, and security concerns when scaling AI from proof …