AI archives
159 posts
Hybrid search and reranking: a deeper look at RAG
By robgibbon, 20 April 2026
Many of us are familiar with the retrieval augmented generative AI (RAG) pattern for building agentic AI applications – like digital concierges, frontline...
Canonical announces it will distribute NVIDIA DOCA-OFED in Ubuntu
By Canonical, 16 March 2026
Today Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, announced that it will integrate and distribute the NVIDIA DOCA-OFED networking driver with Ubuntu.
Meet the wildlife conservation AI 5G hotspot at MWC Barcelona 2026
By Benjamin Ryzman, 28 February 2026
From March 2-5 in Barcelona, Canonical will present a working wildlife conservation platform that combines open source 5G, AI, and cloud-native infrastructure...
Open platforms, edge AI, and sovereign telco clouds: Ecrio & Canonical at MWC Barcelona
By Benjamin Ryzman, 12 February 2026
Building telco clouds with open source At MWC Barcelona 2026, Canonical is demonstrating how telecommunications operators and enterprises can design and...
What is RDMA?
By Benjamin Ryzman, 11 February 2026
Modern data centres are hitting a wall that faster CPUs alone cannot fix. As workloads scale out and latency budgets shrink, the impact of moving data between...
How to launch a Deep Learning VM on Google Cloud
By Hugo Huang, 11 December 2025
Setting up a local Deep Learning environment can be a headache. Between managing CUDA drivers, resolving Python library conflicts, and ensuring you have...
Edge Networking gets smarter: AI and 5G in action
By Benjamin Ryzman, 5 November 2025
Organizations everywhere are pushing AI and networks closer to the edge. With that expansion comes a challenge: how do you ensure reliable performance,...
Why we brought hardware-optimized GenAI inference to Ubuntu
By Edoardo Barbieri, 30 October 2025
On October 23rd, we announced the beta availability of silicon-optimized AI models in Ubuntu. Developers can locally install DeepSeek R1 and Qwen 2.5 VL with...
Canonical and NVIDIA BlueField-4: a foundation for zero-trust high performance infrastructure
By Benjamin Ryzman, 28 October 2025
At NVIDIA GTC Washington D.C., Canonical is pleased to support the arrival of the NVIDIA BlueField-4 – the newest generation of the data processing unit (DPU)...
Canonical announces Charmed Feast: A production-grade feature store for your open source MLOps stack
By Canonical, 10 July 2025
July 10, 2025: Today, Canonical announced the release of Charmed Feast, an enterprise solution for feature management with seamless integration with Charmed...
Join Canonical at HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025
By Pedro Lazzarotto, 16 June 2025
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and trusted open source solutions provider, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025. Join us from June 23–26 to...