California's deal with Google to fund local newsrooms has faced significant delays, budget cuts, and bureaucratic hurdles, resulting in only $20 million allocated in the first year instead of the promised $250 million over five years, raising doubts about its future effectiveness and impact on local journalism.
Intel has launched its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator, aiming to compete with Nvidia’s H100. The Gaudi 3 is claimed to offer 50% faster time-to-train across Llama2 models with better efficiency and at a fraction of the cost of the H100. It will be available to companies like Dell, HPE, and Lenovo in the second quarter of this year.
Intel introduces the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator, the next-generation of Gaudi high-performance AI accelerators from its subsidiary, Habana Labs, aiming to compete in the AI market. With a heavy focus on AI, Intel is shipping samples to customers and expects to outperform NVIDIA's flagship Hopper architecture accelerators in some critical large language models. The Gaudi 3 features 1835 TFLOPS of FP8 compute throughput and is set to launch in the third quarter of 2024. It comes with a dual-die setup, 200Gb Ethernet interconnect, and will be available in both OAM and PCIe form factors, with the PCIe version set to launch in the fourth quarter of this year.
Intel's upcoming Gaudi 3 AI accelerator, built on TSMC's 5nm process, is expected to compete with NVIDIA's H100 and AMD's MI300X in terms of AI performance. The Gaudi 3 is projected to offer 1.5 times higher performance than its predecessor, the Gaudi 2, along with increased memory capacities and improved compute capabilities. Intel's focus on inferencing and collaboration with Al chip Technologies indicate a promising future for the architecture. The Gaudi 3 is set to launch in 2024.