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Intel unveils flurry of new Arc GPUs — however serious graphics users will have to wait for more powerful models, as these focus on a completely different and more lucrative market

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Intel unveils flurry of new Arc GPUs — however serious graphics users will have to wait for more powerful models, as these focus on a completely different and more lucrative market

Two years after the debut of its Arc Alchemist GPUs, Intel is launching six new Arc products, but these are designed for edge/embedded systems.  These edge systems, which process data near the source to reduce latency and bandwidth use, are becoming increasingly essential in areas such as IoT, autonomous vehicles, and AI applications. As Intel … Read more

MSI Prestige 13 AI Evo Review: A Lightweight and Powerful Laptop

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MSI Prestige 13 AI Evo Review: A Lightweight and Powerful Laptop

MSI has long been an under-the-radar producer of PCs and laptops, with as many hits as misses in its repertoire. As we enter the “AI laptop” age, MSI’s first volley in the new category lands squarely on the hit side, with its Prestige 13 AI Evo nailing an effective balance among price, performance, and portability. … Read more

Luminar Neo: Punch up your pix with powerful Mac photo editor

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Luminar Neo: Punch up your pix with powerful Mac photo editor

Get an AI-powered photo editor, filters and more for just $159.99. Image: StackSocial Getting just the right shot is exciting, but any professional photographer will tell you that post-production work separates decent vacation snapshots from magazine-worthy images. That requires powerful photo editing software. And photo apps don’t come much more highly recommended than Luminar Neo, … Read more

Horizon Forbidden West at 8K shows how powerful Nvidia DLSS is compared to AMD and Intel’s tech

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Horizon Forbidden West at 8K shows how powerful Nvidia DLSS is compared to AMD and Intel’s tech

Our 8K test system PC built by Stormforce Gaming Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z-790P LGA 1700Processor: Intel Core i9-13900K, 24 Cores / 32 ThreadsCPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE H100i 240mm ELITE CAPELLIX Liquid CPU CoolerGPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090Storage: 1.0TB Seagate FireCuda 530 M.2 NVMe SSDCase: Corsair iCue 5000X RGBRAM: Corsair Vengence 32GB DDR5 4800MHzScreen: LG 55NANO966PA  … Read more

Inside the Creation of DBRX, the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model

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Inside the Creation of DBRX, the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model

This past Monday, about a dozen engineers and executives at data science and AI company Databricks gathered in conference rooms connected via Zoom to learn if they had succeeded in building a top artificial intelligence language model. The team had spent months, and about $10 million, training DBRX, a large language model similar in design … Read more

OpenAI just gave artists access to Sora and proved the AI video tool is weirder and more powerful than we thought

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OpenAI just gave artists access to Sora and proved the AI video tool is weirder and more powerful than we thought

A man with a balloon for a head is somehow not the weirdest thing you’ll see today thanks to a series of experimental video clips made by seven artists using OpenAI’s Sora generative video creation platform. Unlike OpenAI‘s ChatGPT AI chatbot and the DALL-E image generation platform, the company’s text-to-video tool still isn’t publicly available. … Read more

Dyson’s powerful 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum finally lands in the US

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Dyson’s powerful 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum finally lands in the US

Dyson’s latest high-end robot vacuum, the Dyson 360 Vis Nav, has reached the shores of North America after spending more than eight months lingering in the UK and Australia. You can think of it as the successor to the old Dyson 360 Eye model from all the way back in 2017. At the center of … Read more

Best Buy shaves $100 off the powerful Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme gaming handheld

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Best Buy shaves 0 off the powerful Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme gaming handheld

If you’re shopping for a premium gaming handheld with specs that beat out both the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck, then you should check out this excellent Best Buy discount on the ultra-powerful Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme. Right now, you can purchase the Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme for $100 less than its retail … Read more

NVIDIA says its Blackwell GPUs are the world’s most powerful chips

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NVIDIA says its Blackwell GPUs are the world’s most powerful chips

NVIDIA’s H100 chips are used by nearly every AI company in the world to train large language models hooked into services like ChatGPT. It’s been great for business. Now, the company is ready to make those chips look terrible, announcing a next-generation platform called Blackwell. Named for David Harold Blackwell, a mathematician who specialized in … Read more

“The world’s most powerful chip” — Nvidia says its new Blackwell is set to power the next generation of AI

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“The world’s most powerful chip” — Nvidia says its new Blackwell is set to power the next generation of AI

The next generation of AI will be powered by Nvidia hardware, the company has declared after it revealed its next generation of GPUs. Company CEO Jensen Huang took the wraps off the new Blackwell chips at Nvidia GTC 2024 today, promising a major step forward in terms of AI power and efficiency. The first Blackwell … Read more