NVIDIA, Oracle CEOs in Fireside Chat Light Pathways to Enterprise AI

Speeding adoption of enterprise AI and accelerated computing, Oracle CEO Safra Catz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang discussed their companies’ expanding collaboration in a fireside chat live streamed today from Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas.

Oracle and NVIDIA announced plans to bring NVIDIA’s full accelerated computing stack to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It includes NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA RAPIDS for Apache Spark and NVIDIA Clara for healthcare.

In addition, OCI will deploy tens of thousands more NVIDIA GPUs to its cloud service, including A100 and upcoming H100 accelerators. Read More

#nvidia

GitHub Users Want to Sue Microsoft For Training an AI Tool With Their Code

“Copilot” was trained using billions of lines of open-source code hosted on sites like Github. The people who wrote the code are not happy.

Open-source coders are investigating a potential class-action lawsuit against Microsoft after the company used their publicly-available code to train its latest AI tool.

On a website launched to spearhead an investigation of the company, programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick writes that he has assembled a team of class-action litigators to lead a suit opposing the tool, called GitHub Copilot. Read More

#devops, #legal