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At this year's PyTorch conference, scientists from IBM Research are presenting new advances that will make it easier than ever for developers to train AI models on the open-source platform. One of these achievements is a training milestone, which they reached with fully sharded data parallel (FSDP), a strategy to enable faster model training on fewer GPUs. The other is a PyTorch-native data loader that will help developers coordinate and reconfigure training workloads as needed, eliminating a common bottleneck in the model training pipeline. https://lnkd.in/ehmxrs2z

On this day in 1984, IBM announced volume production of the 256,000-bit memory chip. This 256-kilobit memory chip allowed for the assembly of more than 4 million characters of information on a single circuit card, making it the densest computer memory package ever offered to IBM customers at the time. The 256K-bit chip could store four times as much data and occupied only about twice the space of the IBM 64K-bit chip it replaced. The chip was manufactured using optical lithography techniques that produced circuit patterns, the smallest of which were geometric features just 1.5 micrometers wide. Increasing the storage density of computer memory chips was a big step in reducing the cost of component manufacturing, leading to lower costs for computer users during the burgeoning PC era. Stay tuned for more moments in IBM's research history. #IBMHistory 

The annual Quantum Industry Day in Switzerland, co-organised by IBM Research and hosted by Quantum Basel in Arlesheim, will take place this year on September 23, 2024. Join us there, registration is still open at the link below! IBM researchers will take part in several sessions meant to provide insights into various aspects of quantum computing and its impact on the industry sector. Heike Riel, IBM Fellow, Head Science of Quantum & Information Technology, will host the morning session with several keynote speakers including Cleveland Clinic’s Dr Lara Jehi and Unesco’s Amal Kasry. She will also moderate a panel discussion with speakers from finance, science & technology, and the public sector. In addition, Marco Brenner, Quantum Safe Program Executive, will contribute to a Quantum-Safe Security session to talk about the cybersecurity implications of quantum computers. We hope to see you there! #IBM #IBMResearch #quantumcomputing #quantumsafe https://ibm.co/4gG77td

In this week's newsletter, we're sharing how IBM is making Granite AI models even easier to use. We take a special look inside the world of science at this year's Hudson Forum, showcase IBM's new demo site, Granite Playground, and we introduce the new Granite Docs site for developers. Read more on the latest news and subscribe here:

Last week, we were pleased to welcome this year's Hudson Forum hosted to our headquarters in New York. Leaders from across academia, industry, and government came together for a day of discussions diving into a range of deep scientific topics, jointly hosted by IBM, Duality Group, and the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute. Talks and chats covered the state of AI, quantum computing, the future of gene editing, and neurotechnology — to name a few. Learn more about the Hudson Forum building the future with collaboration and math: https://ibm.co/47qVS3u

This week, IBM Research was on the ground at SEMICON India to share our latest advances in logic scaling, packaging technology, intelligent fab and more. As part of this engagement, Mukesh Khare, GM of IBM Semiconductors and VP of Hybrid Cloud Research, and Sandip Patel, Managing Director of IBM India, had the opportunity to demonstrate to Prime Minister Narendra Modi how IBM is a leader in AI through innovations like our geospatial AI model with NASA and IBM AIU Spyre chip. IBM also signed a memorandum of understanding with India semiconductor leader Larsen & Toubro to collaborate on designing advanced processors.

IBM’s new AI filter for hateful, abusive, and profane (HAP) text is built for speed! 🚀 Small enough to run on a CPU, and quick enough to catch HAP-related text at each phase of the LLM lifecycle, from pre-processing to inferencing. IBM just open sourced granite-guardian-hap-38m on Hugging Face as part of a larger goal to make HAP detection as fast and straightforward as a spellcheck. https://ibm.co/3zhGGcd

This week on The Short, IBM is setting the stage for new platforms and functions in AI and quantum. We're sharing exciting news on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI launch, learning more about how Qiskit Serverless works and the scientists propelling its research, and taking a look at IBM’s new AI filter for hateful, abusive, and profane (HAP) text. Find out more on the latest news and subscribe here:

In this week's newsletter, we're taking an exclusive look inside the new IBM Research Think Lab. We introduce our lab for the future of computing, we explore the latest processors announced at Hot Chips, and we take a look at watsonx in action at this year's US Open. Read more on the latest news and subscribe here:

In a lab an hour north of New York City sits the most advanced quantum computer in the world, and a cluster of revolutionary prototype AI chips. This new lab reflects the convergence of computing platforms that we see as the future of computing. But, why did IBM spend the better part of 2023 building a new lab in Yorktown Heights, New York? Check out the new Think Lab at IBM Research's headquarters to find out: https://ibm.co/47mNr9v