Read full article about: UK government invests $273M in Isambard-AI, their most powerful supercomputer yet
The UK government is investing $273 million to build Isambard-AI, its most powerful supercomputer to date, powered by 5,448 of Nvidia's GH200 Grace Hopper superchips. The machine will deliver 21 exaflops of AI performance, making it one of the top AI supercomputers in the world. Isambard-AI, which is being built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is expected to be operational in the summer of 2024 and will be hosted by the University of Bristol.
The supercomputer will be 10 times faster than the UK's current fastest supercomputer and will be used in conjunction with other supercomputers to further boost performance. The announcement was made during the UK's AI Security Summit.
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Source: University of Bristol
Read full article about: Alibaba unveils GPT-4 competitor "Tongyi Qianwen 2.0" and eight industry-specific models
Alibaba has announced an update to its GPT-4-like model, Tongyi Qianwen, and launched a series of eight industry-specific AI models. The update was announced by Alibaba's cloud computing arm at its annual conference in Hangzhou. The new version, Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, reportedly has hundreds of billions of parameters, making it one of the world's most powerful AI models by that measure. The industry-specific models are designed for the entertainment, finance, healthcare, and legal sectors. Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai also revealed that about half of China's large-scale AI models are now running on Alibaba Cloud, and that Alibaba's AI model-sharing platform, ModelScope, has 2,300 models and 2.7 million contributing developers.
Read full article about: ChatGPT heralds "new era of cybercrime" with staggering 1265% increase in phishing emails
The SlashNext State of Phishing Report 2023 has revealed a 1265% increase in malicious phishing emails since Q4 2022, "signaling a new era of cybercrime fueled by generative AI." The SlashNext Threat Labs report links this increase to the growing use of tools like ChatGPT in crafting sophisticated phishing messages. The study also found an average of 31,000 phishing attacks per day, with 68% identified as text-based Business Email Compromise (BEC). The analysis looked at threads delivered through email, mobile, and browser channels for the 12-month period from Q4 2022 to Q3 2023.
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Source: Slashnext.com