ARMONK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 20, 2025 — IBM and Groq today announced a partnership to provide access to Groq’s AI inference technology, GroqCloud, on watsonx Orchestrate. The partnership is intended to provide high-speed AI inference capabilities at a cost that helps accelerate agentic AI deployment. As part of the partnership, Groq and IBM plan to integrate […]
IBM and Groq Partner on Enterprise AI Deployment on watsonx Orchestrate
October 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Axelera Announces Europa AIPU
October 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Eindhoven, NL – Oct. 21, 2025 – Axelera AI, a provider of AI hardware acceleration technology, today announced Europa, an AI processor unit (AIPU) designed for multi-user generative AI and computer vision applications. The company said Europa’s combination of processing power, energy and thermal efficiency, compact packaging, and multiple form factor options are intended for compute-intensive, multi-modal […]
Achieving AI Scale-Up Supremacy with Co-Packaged Optics
October 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
AI architectures are approaching an inflection point, and that is why a new generation of scale-up architectures is needed. Enabling thousands of XPUs to operate as one massive chip for trillion-parameter AI models demands solutions designed specifically for efficiency, performance, and scale. Ayar Labs has laid out a three-stage roadmap ….
UK’s STFC Launches 24 PLFLOPS AI Supercomputer for Industry
October 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre has launched a supercomputer designed to help UK industry accelerate innovation through artificial intelligence and advanced computing. A 24.41 petaflop system, it can perform 24.41 quadrillion floating-point calculations per second. The GPU-based system is designed for AI workloads and advanced visualisation. Located within STFC’s £30 million […]
Altair Announces HPCWorks 2026
October 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
TROY, Mich., Oct. 21, 2025 — Altair today announced upgrades to the Altair HPCWorks high-performance computing and cloud platform. Altair HPCWorks 2026 is intended to delivere faster discovery with new features, including GPU integration and utilization, expanded AI and machine learning tools and support, and extended reporting so users can understand, tune, and optimize their HPC environments. […]
Valkey 9.0 GA for Real-Time Workloads
October 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21, 2025 — Valkey, an open source key-value database under the Linux Foundation, today announced the general availability of Valkey 9.0. The latest version introduces expiration dates for hash fields, atomic slot migration, and multiple databases in cluster mode, which fortify Valkey’s use at scale. A Valkey 9.0 cluster can support over 1 billion requests per second, […]
Gong Unveils AI to Orchestrate Go-to-Market Workloads
October 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Octo. 21, 2025 — Gong will announce new product innovations at the Gong Celebrate conference, built to unify and orchestrate essential go-to-market workloads across the entire revenue organization. Built into the Gong Revenue AI Operating System, these capabilities are designed to help teams win more deals with greater intelligence, automation, and visibility. The new products […]
HPC News Bytes 20251020: Exascale Day!, Happy 50th and 100th to you Seymour Cray, City-Sized AI Supercomputers, HPC-Quantum Integration
October 20, 2025 by Leave a Comment
A good autumnal morning to you! The future and the past of HPC-AI is much on our minds today as we observe great deeds done and ….
KPMG to Acquire Synthetic Data Startup YData
October 20, 2025 by Leave a Comment
NEW YORK, October 20, 2025 – KPMG today announced an agreement to acquire the intellectual property and technology assets of YData Labs Inc., a synthetic data startup founded in 2019. With this acquisition, KPMG said it will strengthen its artificial intelligence client offerings, harness synthetic data to enhance AI-enabled client delivery for Audit and Assurance, […]
Pangaea Data Launches AI Health Platform
October 20, 2025 by Leave a Comment
South San Francisco, London, October 20, 2025: AI health company Pangaea Data today launched its next-generation platform, designed to help clinicians close care gaps, find untreated and sub-optimally treated patients and drive real improvement in patient outcomes, all with reduced costs and increased revenues for health systems. Pangaea’s platform uses proven capabilities – already being […]