With keynote speakers such as Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad Group, and Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, ai-PULSE highlighted the growing importance of AI solutions.Scaleway, as organizer, not only facilitated these enriching discussions, but also played a leading role in announcing significant innovations. These announcements, ranging from the announcement of the new open source AI laboratory Kyutai to the new Cloud Native Processors of Ampere, position AI as a major topic especially in the French innovation ecosystem.
ai-PULSE: Europe’s flagship AI conference
The event 'ai-PULSE', organised by Scaleway at StationF, has been the scene of several major announcements in the field of artificial intelligence. Since then, the Golem.ai team has been able to discover announcements which describe the trends of AI in France, but also in Europe.
New Cloud Native Processor from Ampere
In 2023, 94% of companies use a cloud service, in a global cloud computing industry estimated at 832.1 billion dollars by 2025. The challenge is clear: optimize the technologies used in the Cloud combining performance and low energy consumption.
During ai-PULSE, the Ampere® Altra® processor was introduced as an alternative to x86 processors, offering optimized performance and low power consumption in the cloud. New ARM-based Ampere® Altra® instances improve real-time AI inference performance while reducing power consumption. Technical optimization of infrastructure becomes essential in the development of new technologies and the future management of consumption.
Quantum As A Service (QaaS)
At the ai-PULSE conference in Paris, Scaleway CEO Damien Lucas announced the company’s partnership with quantum computing leader Quandela, marking Scaleway’s entry into the field.
This strategic partnership follows a recent funding of 50 million euros for Quandela and the delivery of its first quantum computer. Scaleway launches a Quantum On Demand Service (QaaS) equipped with a Quandela circuit simulator, powered by GPUs NVIDIA H100. This initiative positions Scaleway as a key player in the European AI ecosystem, preparing industries for the quantum age.
The “Nabu” supercomputer
Scaleway, a subsidiary of the iliad Group, has launched its AI supercomputer, the 2023 Nebuchadnezzar, based on the NVIDIA DGX H100 infrastructure. This supercomputer, named «Nabu», is equipped with 127 NVIDIA DGX H100 systems with 1016 GPUs and NVIDIA NVLink technology, Quantum-2 InfiniBand, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
Scaleway also offers the Jeroboam, a smaller version of the supercomputer. These offerings enhance Scaleway’s AI capabilities, including GPU instances, AI-enabled storage solutions, and orchestration tools. The supercomputer is hosted in Scaleway’s DC5 data center, which is eco-efficient and energy and water efficient.
Scaleway aims to become an AI leader in Europe, offering a comprehensive cloud portfolio and AI products for all businesses, while focusing on technological sovereignty European and eco-responsibility.
Kyutai: the open source laboratory LLM
This is the amount allocated to Iliad Group, CMA CGM Group and Schmidt Futures to launch
Kyutai, a non-profit laboratory dedicated to open research in artificial intelligence (AI). Its goal is to meet the major challenges of modern AI, notably by developing multimodal models (text, sound, images, etc.) and creating new algorithms to improve their capabilities, reliability and efficiency. A further step for the development of French and European innovation.
Use generative AI and analytical AI for sensitive and critical markets.
Killian Vermersch, CEO of Golem.ai, at his conference at ai-PULSE, highlighted the challenges and opportunities of AI in critical environments, such as Defence, Health and National Security. He stressed the importance of managing sensitive data in these sectors, given their specific legal and technical constraints.
Importantly, a distinction must be made between analytical and generative AI. Uses are not the same, but can remain complementary. Analytical AI, being more predictable, is a good starting point to determine acceptable use cases for generative AI in these environments. In short, “Improvements to AI systems to meet the requirements and restrictions of critical environments will improve AI applications in general, even in common use cases.” Killian vermersch CEO of Golem.ai.
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