A good mid-August morn to you! Here's a rapid (6:30) romp through recent HPC-AI developments, including: the UK government cuts more than 1 billion for an exascale-class system in Edinburgh and AI projects; Groq scores major investment round for its AI inference technology; Llama 3.1 model and the debate over open source AI; will SC24 be the largest ever?The post HPC News Bytes 20240812: UK Cuts Exascale, Big Round for AI Inference, Llama 3.1 and Open AI, SC24 the Biggest Ever? appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.