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Thursday, April 18- SAS Viya Expands Generative AI Capabilities with New Data Maker and Industry-Specific Assistants
- Kore.ai Introduces Experience Optimization Platform V11.0, Accelerating AI Deployment
- SAS Advances Industry Solutions with Packaged AI Models
- Oracle to Invest More Than $8B in Cloud Computing and AI in Japan
- AI Squared Raises $13.8M to Accelerate Widespread AI Adoption Within Organizations
- NeuReality Launches Developer Portal for NR1 Inference Platform, Expanding Affordable AI Access
- General Assembly Report: Tech Firms Pay Top Dollar to Secure Competent AI Professionals
- Loft Labs Raises $24M in Series A Funding to Enhance Multi-Cloud and AI Infrastructure Capabilities
- Seekr and Intel Collaborate to Deliver Trusted, Responsible AI Solutions for Enterprise Customers
- Linux Foundation Launches Margo to Deliver Long-Awaited Edge Interoperability
- MLCommons Announces AI Safety v0.5 Proof of Concept
- Qdrant Announces an Industry-First Hybrid Cloud Offering for Enterprise AI Applications
- Bearing AI Launches First AI-Powered Planning Tool for Shipping Liners
- Microsoft Invests $1.5B in Abu Dhabi’s G42 to Accelerate AI Development and Global Expansion
- Privacera Enhances AI Governance with New Access Control and Data Filtering for Vector DB/RAG
- NVIDIA Celebrates Groundbreaking of New $213M Research Complex at Oregon State University
- Argonne and RIKEN to Develop Next-Gen AI Tech for Global Scientific Challenges
- H2O-Danube2-1.8B Achieves Top Ranking on Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard for 2B Parameters Range
- Snorkel AI Unveils Snorkel Custom to Accelerate Enterprise AI Deployment with Customized Data Tuning
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Author Archives: Doug Black
Doug Black
Blockchain: Streamlining Disrupted Supply Chains During COVID Crisis
May 7th, 2020 Comments Off on Blockchain: Streamlining Disrupted Supply Chains During COVID Crisis
Supply chains are increasingly subject to disruption in recent years from trade wars and pandemics, as well as from new demands driven by new technologies, regulations and materials. Modern supply chains have become long and complex and oriented around ...
Pure, Dell EMC, Backblaze, Vast Announce New Storage Products
May 6th, 2020 Comments Off on Pure, Dell EMC, Backblaze, Vast Announce New Storage Products
Four storage vendors announced new products over the past week, here’s a news roundup: Storage-as-a-Service vendor Pure Storage has announced FlashBlade Purity 3.0, a scale-out, all-flash platform for AI and analytics workloads that unifies file and object storage. Designed ...
IBM Launches AIOps, 5G Network Edge, Financial Cloud Products at Digital Think
May 4th, 2020 Comments Off on IBM Launches AIOps, 5G Network Edge, Financial Cloud Products at Digital Think
IBM issued several product announcements this morning to kick off the company’s annual Think conference (this year called Think Digital) that include automated IT infrastructure monitoring and diagnosis (i.e., AIOps) across on-prem data centers and multi-cloud environments, as well ...
‘Natural Language Understanding’ Appliance Targets the Email Deluge
April 28th, 2020 Comments Off on ‘Natural Language Understanding’ Appliance Targets the Email Deluge
“Eighty percent of customer service should go to the other 20 percent.” - Yogi Berra Like many things he said, Yogi never said that. But the statement gets at a serious point about the 80/20 rule in customer ...
GPU-Driven Near-time Valuation Coming to Derivatives Market – Microsoft
April 27th, 2020 Comments Off on GPU-Driven Near-time Valuation Coming to Derivatives Market – Microsoft
Microsoft Azure and an AI startup named Riskfuel – along with Nvidia GPUs – have teamed to deliver deep learning based near-time valuations of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, a capability long established in exchange traded stocks, treasuries and currencies but ...
Liqid’s Off-the-Shelf AI Supercomputer Takes on DGX-2
April 23rd, 2020 Comments Off on Liqid’s Off-the-Shelf AI Supercomputer Takes on DGX-2
This article has been updated, with information added on April 24 to the original version. Composable infrastructure specialist Liqid has taken on Nvidia’s DGX-2, the 2 petaFLOPS superstar of AI computing, and the upstart says it has built a ...
Chemical Discovery for Industry, Medical with Carnegie Mellon’s Neural Network Tool
April 21st, 2020 Comments Off on Chemical Discovery for Industry, Medical with Carnegie Mellon’s Neural Network Tool
For industrial and medical companies, a central question in modern chemistry is how to identify and synthesize molecules to create useful applications. Even with high performance computing, the research is expensive both in terms of cost and computer time ...
WekaIO Launches DataOps AI Pipeline for Data-Starved GPUs
April 21st, 2020 Comments Off on WekaIO Launches DataOps AI Pipeline for Data-Starved GPUs
WekaIO, the high-performance file storage specialist, today launched Weka AI, a DataOps “storage solution framework” designed to cut friction in edge-core-cloud data AI pipelines. The company said the offering enables a single namespace for data pipeline visibility while addressing ...
Virtualized AI: Deep Learning Needs More than Just More Compute Power
April 20th, 2020 Comments Off on Virtualized AI: Deep Learning Needs More than Just More Compute Power
Is the recent progress in deep learning true artificial intelligence? A widely-discussed article by Google’s Francois Chollet discusses the skill acquisition-based approach to gathering intelligence – the one currently in use in modern DL. He argues that with huge ...
China OK’s Nvidia Acquisition of Mellanox
April 17th, 2020 Comments Off on China OK’s Nvidia Acquisition of Mellanox
With Chinese regulators issuing their approval, the final piece has fallen into place for Nvidia’s $6.9 billion acquisition of high performance interconnect provider Mellanox, announced in March 2019. The deal has already gone through the regulatory process in the ...