2026-08-24
Cerebras unveils CS-4 with double the performance on the same chip
Cerebras has introduced its CS-4 AI accelerator, which CEO Andrew Feldman calls the fastest system in the industry.<br /> The article Cerebras unveils CS-4 with double the performance on the same chip appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
2026-08-24
When AI Reads Between the Lines: OCR vs. VLMs
Can machines truly understand documents, or have they simply become more effective at extracting information from them? With traditional OCR, an error can usually be located and measured, while a VLM may produce a convincing interpretation that is still wrong. For companies, this shifts the first decision away from model selection and toward a more uncomfortable question: what kind of error can th [...]
2026-08-24
IBM’s next-gen mainframe chip is the first to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores
IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades: a processor whose cores can natively execute both IBM's own instruction set and Arm's — switching between the two in nanoseconds.The chip, which will power the next generation of IBM Z and LinuxONE systems, is the first dual-architecture mainframe p [...]
2026-08-24
XPENG’s robotics arm has raised more than $900M ahead of its humanoid production run
XPENG said on Monday that its robotics business has raised more than $900M in what the company described as its first funding round, a substantial sum for a unit that has yet to sell a single robot commercially. The timing is deliberate, since the Chinese carmaker has committed to putting its IRON humanoid into mass […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]