Tag: ai

  • NASA+IBM Open Source AI for weather

    NASA+IBM Open Source AI for weather

    IBM says new artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model offers insights beyond forecasting for scientists, developers, and businesses to better understand and analyze weather and climate data.  IBM in Armonk, N.Y. announced the launch of a new open-source AI foundation model designed for various weather and climate applications. Developed in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space…

  • Meta Releases New bots for AI

    Meta Releases New bots for AI

    Meta has 2 new sneaky bots scooping up free AI-training data from the web.Summary: – Generative AI tools are based on models that use huge amounts of content scraped from the web.– Meta has trained several versions of its Llama AI models, which rely heavily on internet content.– The company recently rolled out new bots…

  • NVIDIA’s Kernel Driver Performs Parity vs Proprietary

    NVIDIA’s Kernel Driver Performs Parity vs Proprietary

    With the recently introduced NVIDIA 555 Linux driver stable series their open-source GPU kernel driver modules are in great shape across consumer and professional graphics products. Over the past two years the support has evolved so much that NVIDIA is now promoting their open-source kernel driver usage and with the NVIDIA 560 Linux driver beta…

  • NVIDIA 560 Linux driver (beta)

    NVIDIA 560 Linux driver (beta)

    NVIDIA has released a fresh Beta to get you testing all the latest features and fixes. So here’s what’s new in the NVIDIA 560.28.03 driver Beta for Linux. As NVIDIA said recently, this is the first release that will use the open GPU kernel modules by default, as long as your GPU supports this. Which…

  • 30 Years of Open Source Lessons from FreeDOS

    30 Years of Open Source Lessons from FreeDOS

    Jim Hall is an open source software developer and advocate since 1993. Jim has authored, contributed to, or maintained dozens of open source projects. He is probably best known for his work on the FreeDOS Project, and for usability testing in open source software. He shares his lessons from all these years of working with…

  • Intel’s Software Optimizations for Xeon CPUs

    Intel’s Software Optimizations for Xeon CPUs

    Intel’s Linux Software Optimizations Still Pay Off For Xeon 6700E “Sierra Forest” E-Core CPUs. When testing Intel’s aggressive software Linux optimizations shipped by way of their in-house Clear Linux distribution, I am most often testing it on their high core count Xeon processors with AVX-512… Over the years in dozens of Phoronix articles there have…