Research Notes

Research Note: Databricks DBRX LLM

Steve McDowell April 3, 2024

Databricks launched DBRX, a new open, general-purpose Large Language Model (LLM) that sets a new benchmark for performance and efficiency.

DBRX surpasses the capabilities of existing models like GPT-3.5 while also demonstrating competitive performance with closed models such as Gemini 1.0 Pro, making it a formidable player in general-purpose applications and specialized coding tasks.

Research Note: Arm’s New Automotive Cores

Steve McDowell March 26, 2024

Arm recently launched new safety-enabled AE processors incorporating Armv9 technology and server-class performance. These processors are tailored for AI-driven applications to enhance autonomous driving and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).

Research Note: Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA

Steve McDowell March 20, 2024

At the 2024 NVIDIA GTC conference, Dell Technologies unveiled the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia, a comprehensive set of enterprise AI solutions aimed at simplifying the adoption and integration of AI for businesses.

Dell also announced enhancements to its flagship PowerEdge XE9680 server, including introducing Dell’s first liquid-cooled server solution, which allows the server to deliver the full capabilities of NVIDIA’s newly announced AI accelerators.

Research Note: NVIDIA & AWS’s Broad AI-Focused Collaboration

Steve McDowell March 20, 2024

At the Nvidia GTC event in San Jose, Nvidia and Amazon Web Services made a series of wide-ranging announcements that showed a broad and strategic collaboration to accelerate global AI innovation and infrastructure capabilities.

The joint announcements included the introduction of NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances, NVIDIA DGX Cloud integration, and, most critically, a pivotal collaboration called Project Ceiba.

Research Note: Google Cloud AI-Enabled Healthcare Announcements

Steve McDowell March 18, 2024

At the recent HIMSS24 event in Orlando, Google Cloud unveiled a set of new solutions designed to enhance interoperability, establish a robust data foundation, and deploy generative AI tools within the healthcare and life sciences sectors. These solutions promise to improve patient outcomes.

Research Note: Oracle Globally Distributed Autonomous Database

Steve McDowell March 12, 2024

Oracle released its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database. The new offering enhances the management and processing of distributed data, ensuring top-tier scalability, availability, and adherence to data sovereignty laws for users of Oracle Database.