今日主播周明陽:
當地時間周三,超威半導體公司(AMD)舉行“Advancing AI”發布會,發布了備受期待的MI300系列芯片產品,包括Instinct MI300X加速器和Instinct MI300A加速處理單元,兩款新產品可用于訓練和運行大型語言模型,比前代產品擁有更好的內存容量和更高的能效。
MI300X擁有超過1500億個晶體管,內存是英偉達H100芯片的2.4倍,據稱在訓練大型語言模型方面與H100芯片相當,但在推理方面表現更好。MI300A則能提供更高性能的計算、更快的模型訓練以及30倍的能效提升,其內存容量是H100芯片的1.6倍。Instinct MI300X加速器從發布會之日起開始發貨,Instinct MI300A加速器也已經進入量產階段。
目前,多家企業宣布將采用AMD的新型人工智能芯片。微軟宣布將MI300X放入其Azure虛擬機中;META宣布將在其數據中心部署MI300處理器;甲骨文也稱將在云服務中使用AMD的新款芯片。AMD首席執行官蘇姿豐(Lisa Su)表示,預計新產品將使其潛在市場總額增長至450億美元。
那么,AMD的芯片將給AI行業帶來哪些新變化,友商們又將如何應對?值得期待。
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AMD 推出新型人工智能芯片
AMD Launches New AI Chip
據外媒報道,當地時間12月6日,超威半導體(AMD)股價收漲9.9%,報每股128.37美元,市值達2073億美元。
According to foreign media reports, on December 6, AMD shares rose 9.9% to close at $128.37, with a market value of $207.3 billion.
報道稱,這是該股自5月份以來表現最好的一天,也是自6月份以來的最高收盤價。
It was the stock’s best day since May and the highest close since June.
在當天舉行的“Advancing AI”發布會上,AMD表示,其新型高端芯片將于明年開始大量出貨。
At the "Advancing AI" launch event, AMD said it’s new high-end chip starts shipping in significant quantities next year.
該公司還表示,未來四年,人工智能芯片的總市場規模可能會攀升至4000億美元,是該公司此前預期的兩倍。
The company also said that the company believes the total market for AI chips could climb to $400 billion over the next four years, twice as high as the company previously believed.
有分析指出,發布會凸顯出AMD在利用迅速擴張的人工智能市場方面仍然處于非常有利的地位,該公司最終可能占據整個人工智能芯片市場的10%左右。
Some analysis points out that AMD’s event highlighted how AMD remains extremely well positioned to take advantage of the rapidly expanding AI TAM, and AMD could end up with about 10% of the total AI chip market.
谷歌公司發布人工智能模型“雙子座”
Google announces Gemini AI mode
谷歌公司12月6日宣布推出該公司所謂“規模最大、功能最強”的人工智能模型“雙子座”。
On December 6, Google announced the launch of Gemini, the company's "largest and most powerful" artificial intelligence model.
美國銀行分析師表示,谷歌母公司Alphabet今年一直面臨著外界對谷歌人工智能能力的擔憂,因此“品牌良好”、具有競爭力的模式可能對其消費者搜索活動和云企業銷售有好處。
Analysts at Bank of America said that Alphabet, parent company of Google has been under pressure from concerns over Google’s AI capabilities this year, so a “well-branded,” competitive model could have upsides for its consumer search activity and Cloud enterprise sales.
還有分析指出,“雖然現在還為時過早,但‘雙子座’的推出代表了谷歌的重大創新,因為我們進入了生成式人工智能商業化和廣泛分布的第二年。”
“While it remains early, the Gemini launch represents significant innovation for Google as we enter year 2 of commercialized and widely distributed availability of Generative AI,” another analyst noted.
谷歌高管表示,Gemini的性能優于OpenAI的GPT-3.5聊天機器人,但該公司沒有透露它與OpenAI的最新型號GPT-4 Turbo的比較。盡管如此,Gemini仍表明人工智能有進一步變現的機會。
Google executives said Gemini outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 chatbot, but the company didn’t share how it compares with OpenAI’s latest model GPT-4 Turbo. Still, Gemini shows there’s an opportunity to further monetize AI.