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New IBM Granite 4 Models to Reduce AI Costs with Inference-Efficient Hybrid Mamba-2 Architecture
IBM recently announced the Granite 4.0 family of small language models. The model family aims to deliver faster speeds and significantly lower operational costs at acceptable accuracy vs. larger models. Granite 4.0 features a new hybrid Mamba/transformer architecture that largely reduces memory requirements, enabling Granite to run on significantly cheaper GPUs and at significantly reduced costs.
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IBM Cloud Code Engine Serverless Fleets with GPUs for High-Performance AI and Parallel Computing
IBM Cloud Code Engine’s new Serverless Fleets revolutionizes how enterprises tackle compute-intensive tasks. Harnessing integrated GPU support, it simplifies the execution of large-scale workloads with a fully managed, pay-as-you-go model. This efficient platform eliminates operational complexities, enabling developers to focus on innovation while ensuring cost-effectiveness and scalability.
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IBM Releases Granite-Docling-258M, a Compact Vision-Language Model for Precise Document Conversion
IBM Research has recently introduced Granite-Docling-258M, a new open-source vision-language model (VLM) designed for high-fidelity document-to-text conversion while preserving complex layouts, tables, equations, and lists.
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IBM and NASA Trained the First Foundational Model for Heliophysics
Surya is a 366M-parameter model created by IBM and NASA to forecast solar activity, including flare events, solar winds, and precursors to solar eruptions, which can significantly impact astronaut safety in space as well as terrestrial systems such as communications, power distribution, and more.
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IBM Granite 3.2 Brings New Vision Language Model, Chain of Thought Reasoning, Improved TimeSeries
IBM has introduced its new Granite 3.2 multi-modal and reasoning model. Granite 3.2 features experimental chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities that significantly improve its predecessor's performance, a new vision language model (VLM) outperforming larger models on several benchmarks, and smaller models for more efficient deployments.
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Azure Event Grid Supports MQTT Last Will and Testament in Public Preview
Recently, Microsoft announced the public preview release of the Last Will and Testament (LWT) support in Azure Event Grid's MQTT broker capability, which complies with the MQTTv3.1.1 and MQTTv5 specifications.
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Amazon RDS Now Supports IBM Db2
During the recent re:Invent conference, AWS announced that Amazon RDS now offers support for IBM Db2, including both the Standard Edition and Advanced Edition. Db2 becomes the sixth engine supported by this managed database service, joining PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, and Oracle.
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Meta and IBM Lead Formation of AI Alliance to Drive Open-Source Innovation
A new consortium, led by Meta and IBM, has been formed to support open-source AI. The AI Alliance comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic, with the goal of collaboratively developing tools and programs to facilitate open development.
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QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 2: Design for Resilience, Platform Engineering, Modern ML, JVM Trends
The 17th annual QCon San Francisco conference was held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This five-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of three days of presentations and two days of workshops. Day Two, scheduled on October 3rd, 2023, included a keynote address by Neha Narkhede and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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AWS Offers a Mainframe Modernization Service for Customers to Move from Their Mainframes
During re:Invent 2021, AWS launched a mainframe migration service allowing customers to migrate and modernize their on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed and highly available runtime environment on AWS. The service called AWS Mainframe Modernization is currently in preview.
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IBM Develops Hardware-Based Vector-Symbolic AI Architecture
IBM Research recently announced a memory-augmented neural network (MANN) AI system consisting of a neural network controller and phase-change memory (PCM) hardware. By performing analog in-memory computation on high-dimensional (HD) binary vectors, the system learns few-shot classification tasks on the Omniglot benchmark with only 2.7% accuracy drop compared to 32-bit software implementations.
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IBM Introduces the Semeru Runtimes for OpenJ9
IBM introduced the no-cost Semeru Runtimes that use the class libraries from OpenJDK together with the Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The runtimes based on OpenJ9 may be used as an alternative for runtimes based on HotSpot. Previously AdoptOpenJDK produced binaries with OpenJ9, however, that’s no longer legally allowed since their move to the Eclipse Foundation under the name Adoptium.
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IBM Introduces Watson Orchestrate for Task Automation
At the recent Think conference, IBM introduces an AI-powered automation tool called Watson Orchestrate. It is currently in preview in IBM Cloud Paks for Automation and expected to be generally available later in 2021 as an SaaS offering.
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IBM, Red Hat and Cobuilder Develop OpenBuilt, a Platform for the Construction Industry
IBM, Red Hat and Cobuilder recently announced a collaboration to develop OpenBuilt, a platform for the construction industry supply chains built on the hybrid cloud platform Red Hat OpenShift and running on IBM Cloud.
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The Pillars of Future Cryptography at IBM
In a recent webinar, IBM summarized the latest advances in cryptographic technologies the company has been working on, including confidential cryptography, quantum-safe encryption, and fully homomorphic cryptography.