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Today, IBM announces a major breakthrough in co-packaged optics that will bring the speed of light to generative AI: https://lnkd.in/gyD94Aua IBM Researchers have invented a way for fiber optics to connect chips on a circuit board, which promises to improve energy efficiency, boost bandwidth and accelerate generative #AI computing development.   This co-packaged optics technology introduces an all-new blueprint for how we transmit information. By enabling chipmakers to add six times as many optical fibers at the edge of a chip (a measure called “beachfront density”) compared to the current state-of-the-art, IBM’s optical structures have the potential to massively boost the bandwidth between chips.    As IBM distinguished engineer John Knickerbocker said about his team’s development of this new technology:     “Even the most capable semiconductor components are only as fast as the connections between them.”  ---- #IBM #Reserach #Chips #Semiconductors #FiberOptics #DataCenter

#OnThisDay in 1979, IBM scientists reported the creation of the smallest electronic circuit elements. At the IBM Research headquarters in Yorktown Heights, NY, researchers fabricated and systematically tested these experimental electronic circuit elements, which were the smallest reported at that time. The devices, known as "superconducting niobium nanobridges", featured ultra-fine lines with widths and thicknesses measuring only 100 to 200 atomic diameters — far smaller than human nerve fibers. The researchers, pictured from right to left, are: Dr. Robert B. Laibowitz, Dr. Alec N. Broers (standing), Dr. James T. Yeh, and Mr. Joseph M. Viggiano (seated). ---- #IBM #Research #History #Circuits

Today, Arvind Krishna joined Governor JB Pritzker in Chicago to announce IBM's partnership with the State of Illinois to build the new National Quantum Algorithm Center in the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP). This center will be fueled by IBM’s Quantum System Two and made possible by our collaboration with the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The new National Quantum Algorithm Center will allow Illinois’ top innovators to accelerate quantum research and discovery — bringing us closer towards systems that have the ability to tackle complex industry and global challenges. This announcement builds on IBM’s longstanding partnerships with industry, government, and academic leaders across Illinois to advance quantum innovation. With the addition of the National Quantum Algorithm Center, I have no doubt that Illinois’ powerful quantum ecosystem will only continue to grow and evolve. Learn more about today’s announcement:  https://lnkd.in/dpU2NUMD

We are thrilled to be continuing our ongoing collaboration with the State of Illinois through the newly announced National Quantum Algorithm Center. Read the official announcement here: https://ibm.co/41wkCGH The National Quantum Algorithm Center will be anchored by a next-generation IBM Quantum System Two, which is set to be deployed and housed within the forthcoming Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in 2025. In placing our most performant quantum hardware and software in this new center, we expect Illinois’ growing ecosystem of quantum innovators to provide significant acceleration in both quantum algorithm discovery and quantum research more broadly. We are proud to have long-standing relationships with the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, members of the Chicago Quantum Exchange, and the U.S. Economic Development Administration-designated Bloch Quantum Technology Hub that will help further strengthen the quantum ecosystem in Illinois. We look forward to seeing the research, development, and discovery that come out of this new initiative. Learn more at the press release linked above. Photos: 1. L-R: Harley Johnson, Director and CEO of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, and Founder Professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urabna-Champaign; Arvind Krishna, Chairman and CEO, IBM; JB Pritzker, Governor of Illinois; Paul Alivisatos, President of the University of Chicago 2. Arvind Krishna, Chairman and CEO, IBM (L) shaking hands with JB Pritzker, Governor of Illinois (R) at the December 12, 2024 press conference to announce a collaboration to establish the new National Quantum Algorithm Center in the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago. 3. IBM Quantum System Two is the company’s first modular quantum computer and cornerstone of IBM’s quantum-centric supercomputing architecture. This photo taken at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY is of the first IBM Quantum System Two, which began operations in 2023 with three IBM Heron processors and supporting control electronics.

Scientists from IBM Research and chipmaker Rapidus Corporation announce a new chip construction process, called “selective layer reductions,” intended to help overcome some of the critical challenges of producing 2-nanometer transistors at scale within the decade: https://lnkd.in/gg5jJiKD     Image: Stacked nanosheets make it possible to fit more transistors into a given space, and two new approaches pave the way to assembling them more reliably.    “The new production process we propose is simpler than the approach used previously, and we’re confident it will make it easier for our partner Rapidus to reliably make chips with 2nm nanosheet technology at scale." - Ruqiang Bao, IBM Research  -----  #IBM #Research #Semiconductors #Chips #FinFET

Today, we announce the public Beta of 🐝 Bee, an experimental app that helps business users unlock greater levels of productivity and creativity. Bee is built on our #opensource platform and speaks to our commitment to being the platform of choice for building production-grade agents. https://lnkd.in/e9c4UNgV Bee will be available as a public beta starting next week. ✅ Sign up to get access here: https://iambee.ai/ 📹 Get a preview of all the cool features dropping next week: https://lnkd.in/e99KNXvw

📢 Come visit us at the IBM Research booth at NeurIPS! Check out our demos, papers, and posters on generative AI and connect with our researchers to learn about the latest innovations in AI. 🔗 IBM @ NeurIPS 2024 : https://lnkd.in/d9tQQ5Dk 📅 Tue, 10 Dec - Thur, 12 Dec #NeurIPS2024 #IBMResearch #Granite #IBM

What does the cutting edge of #AI look like? Bookmark this visualization tool – developed by IBM researchers Hendrik Strobelt and Benjamin Hoover – to make browsing all +4,000 papers accepted by NeurIPS this year much easier to navigate: https://lnkd.in/gSdCp5Nv ---- 📚 - Details behind the tool here: https://lnkd.in/g5dB9_ZC ---- #IBM #Research #NeurIPS

In this week's edition, we discuss an optics breakthrough that could revolutionize how we train generative AI. We examine clearing hurdles on the path to 2-nanometer chip production, explore bringing light speed to generative AI, celebrate the AI Alliance’s first anniversary, and discuss bringing foundation models to the power grid. ➡ Read more for the latest updates and subscribe here:

Today IBM, Meta and +140 organizations around the world, celebrate the one-year anniversary of The AI Alliance! 🎉 The AI Alliance – made up of companies, startups, universities, research institutions, government organizations, and non-profit foundations – champions a shared goal: to develop #AI collaboratively, transparently, and with a focus on safety, ethics, and the greater good. 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰: • 23 countries • 93 active projects • 1,200 collaborators • 12 working groups • 5 published AI Alliance Guides to AI 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: Explore the AI Alliance 2025 initiatives – Trust and Safety Evaluation Initiative (TSEI) and the Open Trusted Data Initiative (OTDI) – here: https://lnkd.in/eBpN_3n8 ---- #IBM #Reserach #MachineLearning #Safety #Accessability