Andy Long retweeted
The Nordics are becoming a serious hub for advanced computing, and Verda is part of it. Great to see us named among the AI clouds behind a projected 1 GW of capacity across the region by end of 2027
The Nordics are becoming one of Europe's fastest-growing hubs for AI infrastructure.
From launching Sferical One, a shared AI supercomputer running on two NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs, to AI clouds expecting to bring 1 gigawatt of capacity across the region by 2027, Nordic countries are set to build one of Europe's most impactful technology ecosystems.
Across startups and open models to quantum and more, the Nordics are moving from ambition to application. ➡️ bit.ly/3TD3T2X
Andy Long retweeted
The @epsilonhealth team is proud to partner with @verdacloud to accelerate our radiology AI research.
Thanks to Verda, we've been able to train our models on dedicated @nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs, allowing our research team to do 5x more experiments per week and significantly faster training.
Moreover, with Verda’s infrastructure and engineering support, our research team can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time advancing research.
Above all, helping save more lives.
Huge thanks to the Verda team.
@arjunkarpur @aakamishra1
#nvidia #healthcare #infrastructure #AI #compute
Downscale medical imaging to fit in GPU memory and the model loses the detail that catches faint findings.
@epsilonhealth built its next-gen radiology AI models on a dedicated NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra cluster on Verda, now running 5x more experiments/week and training 3x faster.
Full story: verda.com/blog/epsilon-healt…
Andy Long retweeted
Congratulations to @IlhanScheer and @Aleph__Alpha on Kolibri.
78B params, 3.46B active, up to 1M tokens of context, open weights.
Trained by Aleph Alpha on Verda in Europe.
We ran the clusters, built the k8s stack, and contributed to their training efficiency work: verda.com/blog/aleph-alpha-k…
Andy Long retweeted
Cloud startup Verda raises $189 million in fresh financing, underscoring continued investor appetite for the infrastructure powering AI bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Andy Long retweeted
Ever wonder something stupid like whether Kimi K3 does better if you give it more active experts? How does work distribute across different experts - ie. are few doing most of the work?
matrix-multiply.com/posts/ki…
TLDR;
- No, more experts is not automatically better, assuming this is tied to how the model is trained. Maybe there is some easy gains if compute is cheap enough but at least not by doing it the most naive way.
- Some workloads have higher affinity to certain experts, but really depends on what benchmark you're checking.
- You can't run a benchmark once to make conclusions, which can make testing on large models quite compute intense.
Andy Long retweeted
Day 2️⃣ and it’s our turn on the @vllm_project track.
2 PM, Breakout 3: our MLOps Engineer, Ananth will present lessons from serving GLM-5.2 (@Zai_org ) & @Kimi_Moonshot K3 on GB300 & B300 clusters.
Catch the talk, then come say hi at our booth and grab some Finnish chocolate 🍫
Andy Long retweeted
Love seeing this 😍
The @RedHat_AI team built their DSpark speculator (~4x faster Kimi-K3 decoding) on our GB300 and the results speak for themselves.
Speculative decoding is one of the optimization dimensions we actively work on in the AI Lab, so this is exactly the kind of work we love hosting 👇
~4x faster Kimi-K3 decoding.
Our new DSpark speculator takes single-stream interactivity from ~110 to ~435 tok/s/user on math reasoning, delivers ~3.5x the output throughput at matched interactivity under load, and thanks to sliding window attention (2048-token window across all 5 draft layers), our model holds steady acceptance out to 20K context across 10 LongBench domains.
Check it out! huggingface.co/RedHatAI/Kimi…
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Andy Long retweeted
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
There are some things in life that we need to always have in plenty, even if we will only use a small portion. If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!
Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it - they simply apply the consumer mentality to books- that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."
Andy Long retweeted
Everyone who thought the killbots would be human-shaped is going to be be extremely disappointed in their predictive abilities for the approximately .03 seconds they have remaining before the metallic ball of living yarn rams into them at 460mph, boring a hole through their torso
Andy Long retweeted
Very cool, entertaining and with high production values: if I were @Nigel_Farage, I’d consider dipping into that £5 million to try to get out a video that can compare to it.
Andy Long retweeted
Gary Economics has just ruined its credibility and proven that it clearly knows very little about economics.
The absolute tax legend @DanNeidle destroyed Gary in his own documentary.
The very documentary just a compilation of Gary being proven wrong time and time again about his "solution" to economic inequality.
Let me know if you have watched it.
The Dan Neidle debate has gotta be one of the best moments in the show!!
#garystevenson
@Channel4 @garyseconomics
Andy Long retweeted
Summer slowdown? Not at Verda ☀️ June recap:
📋 Activity Logs in the console
🇩🇪 C5 certified
⚡ More capacity online
📈 $100M revenue run rate (10x in 18 months)
🎥 Computex + CNBC appearance
Full digest → eu1.hubs.ly/H0wNFDk0
Andy Long retweeted
Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. goo.gle/4fBYnWO
We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...
Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!
Andy Long retweeted
thanks to @verdacloud for providing the compute to verify k2.7 on @NVIDIAAI 's GB300 and more!
Andy Long retweeted
The day a Scotsman told the king to f*ck off - Another true royal story
A number of years ago, Jenny and Adam Watson’s phone rang. Adam answered it and was met by a very plummy voice asking to speak to ‘Mrs Watson’.
‘Certainly, may I ask who’s calling?’
‘Yes, it’s Charles, Prince of Wales.’
Holding the phone to his chest with some scepticism, Adam whispered to his wife, ‘I think Prince Charles is on the phone for you.’
And, sure enough, it was. HRH was vexed about some local issue and wished to discuss it with Jenny, a councilor at that time. After a brief conversation the prince invited Jenny and Adam to tea on the Balmoral estate so they could continue the discussion in a bit more detail.
Some days later Jenny and Adam duly arrived at Birkhall, on the Balmoral Estate, and met with Charles to discuss the issue that was weighing on his mind. After a period of time, when he was satisfied he’d got up to speed with the relevant information from Jenny, he changed tack to discuss something else that was on his mind.
'I've got a problem', said Charles.
1/3
Andy Long retweeted
There's a bit in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (written in 1979) where the heroes come upon an intergalactic flight has been grounded for thousands of years.
Its automated systems told it not to launch until it was fully stocked up with lemon-soaked paper napkins, for the comfort of its passengers. But the surrounding civilization collapsed, and the napkins never arrived.
Consequently it put all the passengers into hibernation (waking them once every few hundred years for coffee and biscuits) until such time as another civilization might arise, and restock its lemon-soaked paper napkins.
The Guide is a more accurate and prophetic account of modernity than most Very Serious Science Fiction writers could dream of creating.
Andon Labs tested their AI agent Mona, built on Google’s Gemini, by letting it manage a real cafeteria in Stockholm for two weeks on a $21,000 budget.
Mona spent heavily on unnecessary supplies, including 6,000 napkins, 3,000 gloves, and 300 cans of tomatoes, while forgetting to order bread.
Sandwiches had to be removed from the menu entirely.
The cafeteria generated only $5,700 in sales.
Mona also sent messages to staff on Slack outside working hours.
