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Venture Capital Company Benchmark to Pump $50 Million into Ethereum-Based Fantasy Football Platform Sorare
Benchmark, a venture capital company that earlier backed Ebay Inc., Twitter Inc., and Uber Technologies, plans to invest a whopping $50 million into Ethereum-powered fantasy football platform Sorare.
IBM Introduces Efficient LLM Benchmarking Method, Cutting Compute Costs by 99%
IBM's new benchmarking method drastically reduces costs and time for evaluating LLMs.
Sui's Fastcrypto Library Sets New Speed Records in Cryptography
Sui's Fastcrypto library achieves new speed records in cryptographic functions through continuous benchmarking, as highlighted at the ICPE 2024 conference.
Llama 3.1 Shows Diverse Results Across Providers, Highlighting Benchmarking Challenges
Llama 3.1, an open model, demonstrates varying performance across providers, emphasizing the importance of benchmarking, according to together.ai.
Evaluating AI Systems: The Critical Role of Objective Benchmarks
Learn how objective benchmarks are vital for evaluating AI systems fairly, ensuring accurate performance metrics for informed decision-making.
NVIDIA Launches GenAI-Perf for Optimizing Generative AI Model Performance
NVIDIA introduces GenAI-Perf, a new tool for benchmarking generative AI models, enhancing performance measurement and optimization.
Boosting JSON Lines Processing: NVIDIA cuDF vs. Traditional Libraries
Explore how NVIDIA cuDF accelerates JSON Lines reading, outperforming traditional libraries like pandas and pyarrow, with benchmarks and performance insights.
NVIDIA DGX Cloud Offers New Benchmarking Templates for AI Optimization
NVIDIA DGX Cloud introduces benchmarking recipes to enhance AI platform performance, guiding users in optimizing training workloads with a comprehensive evaluation approach.
Enhancing AI Workload Efficiency with NVIDIA DGX Cloud Benchmarking
NVIDIA introduces DGX Cloud Benchmarking to optimize AI workload performance, focusing on infrastructure, software frameworks, and application enhancements.
Benchmarking NVIDIA NIM with GenAI-Perf: A Comprehensive Guide
Explore how NVIDIA's GenAI-Perf tool benchmarks Meta Llama 3 model performance, providing insights into optimizing LLM-based applications using NVIDIA NIM.
NVIDIA Unveils Exemplar Clouds to Enhance AI Cloud Benchmarking
NVIDIA introduces Exemplar Clouds to standardize AI cloud infrastructure benchmarking, ensuring transparency and performance across cloud providers.
NVIDIA Blackwell Achieves 2.6x Performance Boost in MLPerf Training v5.0
NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture showcases significant performance improvements in MLPerf Training v5.0, delivering up to 2.6x faster training times across various benchmarks.
NVIDIA MLPerf v5.0: Reproducing Training Scores for LLM Benchmarks
NVIDIA outlines the process to replicate MLPerf v5.0 training scores for LLM benchmarks, emphasizing hardware prerequisites and step-by-step execution.
BlackRock Bitcoin Private Trust to Be Benchmarked by Kraken's CF Benchmarks Bitcoin Index
The world’s largest investment management firm BlackRock's Bitcoin Private Trust, will use the Kraken subsidiary CF Benchmarks Bitcoin Index as a benchmark for issuance, The Block reported.
xAI's Grok: Musk's Novel AI Chatbot with Real-Time Insights
Elon Musk's xAI unveiled Grok, an AI chatbot, inspired by 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, providing real-time world knowledge and answering questions with humor, outperforming other models.
ADGM Launches Pioneering DLT Foundations Regime
Abu Dhabi Global Market's Registration Authority has introduced the Distributed Ledger Technology Foundations Regulations 2023, a global legislative framework designed to facilitate token issuance, promote governance, and drive transparency in the crypto sector.
CME Group and CF Benchmarks to Introduce APAC Reference Rates for Bitcoin and Ether
CME Group and CF Benchmarks will launch APAC-specific Bitcoin and Ether reference rates on Sep 11. The rates aim to cater to growing crypto interest in the Asia Pacific, providing daily U.S. dollar values at 4 p.m. HK/SG time.
Cambridge Report: 77% of Enterprise Blockchains Are Not 'Truly Transformational'
Following on from its initial 2017 Global Blockchain Benchmarking Study, the new study underlines the significant changes in the industry landscape since the initial version. According to the findings, the new report states, “Two years ago, the industry landscape was mostly dominated by half-hearted experiments and short-lived proofs-of-concept – often announced with great fanfare and publicity – the hype has gradually given way to genuine development of sustainable blockchain networks that are increasingly being deployed in production environments.”
IBM Unveils NorthPole: An Energy-Efficient AI Chip Prototype
IBM has introduced a new prototype AI chip named NorthPole, exhibiting remarkable speed and energy efficiency, as reported in Science Magazine on October 19, 2023. The chip, showcasing a 25-fold higher energy efficiency and a 22-fold lower time latency on benchmark tests, addresses the longstanding von Neumann bottleneck by melding memory with computation on-chip. This innovation opens up avenues for applications like autonomous surgery and self-driving vehicles, with continued research on this architecture already underway at IBM.
FCA Unveils Guidance on Cryptoasset Promotions Compliance
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has issued a finalised non-handbook guidance on Cryptoasset Financial Promotions, aiming to clarify compliance with new laws and balance consumer protection with innovation for long-term economic growth.
Bitcoin Hash Rate Reaches Peak Amidst Price Fluctuations
The benchmark responsible for the level of confidence that miners have in the Bitcoin network has been seen to reach its all-time high on Thursday.
S&P Dow Jones Indices Plans to Launch Crypto Indexes in 2021
S&P Dow Jones Indices, a provider of investable and benchmark indices to the financial markets has said it will be launching index funds for crypto in Jan 2021.
Ahead of The Ripple (XRP) SEC Court Date, Flare Network Declares its Support
The Flare Network has stated that it is not associated with Ripple, but believes XRP is a virtual currency and not a security despite the United States SEC alllegations.
Huawei Files Patent For Blockchain Ledger Storage and Device
Chinese technology giant Huawei has applied for a patent on a new blockchain-based storage systems.
Bitwise and ETF Trends : 64% of US Financial Advisors expect Bitcoin Price to Appreciate Over Next 5 years
Around half of all wealth in America is managed by financial advisors, but how much of that wealth are they comfortable allocating to cryptoassets?
Institutional Bitcoin Index Launched by MVIS and CryptoCompare
MVIS, the MV Index Solutions, the indexing division of VanEck, a US-based asset manager had partnered with CryptoCompare, a cryptocurrency market data provider, launched the MVIS CryptoCompare Institutional Bitcoin Index, dubbed ticker: MVIBTC.
Bitcoin Futures on CME Breaches The $50,000 Resistance Level
Bitcoin futures on Chicago Mercantile Exchange briefly breached the $50,000 psychological level.
Tech Mahindra Developing India’s Blockchain Education with Idealabs Partnership
Tech Mahindra, an Indian multinational IT company, has inked a partnership with Idealabs, an education technology firm, to boost Indian students and aspiring tech professionals with notable blockchain skillsets. Through the strategic collaboration, curated blockchain professional certification courses will be offered made up of live online classes and expert sessions by gurus in the industry.
Canadian Investment Fund Manager Receives ‘Favourable Ruling’ From Regulators to Offer Bitcoin Fund
Canadian investment fund manager 3iQ Corp. announced on Oct. 30 that it had received approval from its public hearing by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) for a closed-end Bitcoin fund that will be listed for trading on a major Canadian stock exchange.
Huawei Secures Deal with One of China's Districts to Accelerate the Application of Blockchain Technology
The Nanshan government of Shenzhen, in the southern Guangdong province in China, has recently announced an agreement with electronics giant Huawei Technologies to establish an information technology center, accelerating the application of technologies including blockchain, artificial intelligence in the district.
Shenzhen Taxation Bureau to Launch New Blockchain Tax System with Ping An Group
Ping An Insurance and the Shenzhen Taxation Bureau in China signed an agreement to start using blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), big data, cloud computing, and other technologies to develop a management platform for taxation for all types of taxpayers in the Greater Bay Area.