Artificial Intelligence

Six weeks after its announcement, most customers haven’t had a chance to test the technology because they need to secure approval from Amazon first — a highly unusual demand.

At Red Hat Summit, the company announces new Red Hat Ansible and OpenShift AI software, new management features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and new security cloud services.

The Facebook owner unveiled a new chip developed in-house to help train AI faster, a tool that helps coders get suggestions for building products, and a revamped data center design to make it easier to deploy AI technology.

The new AmpereOne chip, featuring up to 192 cores and a custom ARM-compatible design, is aimed at cloud providers and enterprises who build their own private clouds.

Developers can use second-hand, CPU-based legacy hardware to do the compute.

AI applications must be supported by massive compute power, which means larger and more plentiful data centers, but growth will be hindered by lack of available transmission power.

Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, will testify to Congress for the first time as scrutiny of the tools soar in Washington.