Tag: performance claims
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The Register: The NPU: Neural processing unit or needless pricey upsell?
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/11/npu_debate/ Source: The Register Title: The NPU: Neural processing unit or needless pricey upsell? Feedly Summary: Tech for tech’s sake with niche uses that traditional hardware can handle Opinion If you haven’t heard of neural processing units (NPUs) by now, you must have missed a year’s worth of AI marketing from Intel, AMD,…
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Slashdot: Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 Surprises Experts With an ‘Intelligence’ Price Increase
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/06/2159204/anthropics-haiku-35-surprises-experts-with-an-intelligence-price-increase?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 Surprises Experts With an ‘Intelligence’ Price Increase Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The launch of Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku AI model comes with a significant price hike, drawing attention and criticism within the AI community. This increase reflects the model’s enhanced capabilities, which…
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The Register: Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/apple_m4_ai_chip/ Source: The Register Title: Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster Feedly Summary: Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCs With the arrival of its M4 silicon on the Mac this week, Apple wants the world to…
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Hacker News: AI PCs Aren’t Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU
Source URL: https://github.com/usefulsensors/qc_npu_benchmark Source: Hacker News Title: AI PCs Aren’t Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text presents a benchmarking analysis of Qualcomm’s Neural Processing Unit (NPU) performance on Microsoft Surface tablets, highlighting a significant discrepancy between claimed and actual processing speeds for…
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The Register: AMD aims latest processors at AI whether you need it or not
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/10/amd_ryzen_ai_pro_300_series/ Source: The Register Title: AMD aims latest processors at AI whether you need it or not Feedly Summary: Ryzen AI PRO 300 series leans heavily on Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC requirements AMD has introduced its latest processors designed for business applications. The line-up includes the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375, Ryzen AI…
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The Register: SambaNova makes Llama gallop in inference cloud debut
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/10/sambanovas_inference_cloud/ Source: The Register Title: SambaNova makes Llama gallop in inference cloud debut Feedly Summary: AI infra startup serves up Llama 3.1 405B at 100+ tokens per second Not to be outdone by rival AI systems upstarts, SambaNova has launched inference cloud of its own that it says is ready to serve up…