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AI Chip Startup Graphcore Rings Up $200M in Funding
Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, has attracted more investors as it rolls out its intelligent processing unit to enterprise datacenters and cloud services providers. The GPU rival reported ...Full Article
Six Skills Separating Intelligent AI from Basic Automation
Managing the modern customer experience today means most businesses are implementing, or at least investigating, an automated, digital, workforce. Since coming to market almost a decade ago, RPA (robotic ...Full Article
IBM Seeks Transparency into AI Decision Making
Among the stumbling blocks to AI adoption is lack of transparency, understanding, and therefore trust in how machines actually make decisions. How and why AI arrived at an answer ...Full Article
Nvidia Leads Alpha MLPerf AI Benchmarking Round
Seven months after the launch of its AI benchmarking suite, the MLPerf consortium is releasing the first round of results based on submissions from Nvidia, Google and Intel. Of ...Full Article
Is Amazon’s Plunge into Server Chips a Watershed Moment?
For several years now the big cloud providers – Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google, et al – have been transforming from technology consumers into technology creators in hardware and software. ...Full Article
IBM and Nvidia in AI Data Pipeline, Processing, Storage Union
IBM and Nvidia today announced a new turnkey AI solution that combines IBM Spectrum Scale scale-out file storage with Nvidia’s GPU-based DGX-1 AI server to provide what the companies ...Full Article
Using Data Patterns in a Retail Culture of Immediacy
Retailers who have embraced digital disruption and transformed their businesses know two hard truths: consumer expectations can rise quickly; and no seller is safe. Thanks to the “Amazon Effect,” ...Full Article
Mass Shootings, Contraband Cargo in Crosshairs of AI, Advanced Scanning
AI may be on the cusp of combating menaces of American life: mass shootings and terrorism. Two start-ups have technologies under development designed to spot bad actors, and bad ...Full Article
Study: AI’s Not Just in the Future of Work – it’s Big Now
Pundits trumpet AI as the future for U.S. employment, but new research indicates AI's prevalence on the job is already here. How do we know? Because workers told us. ...Full Article
AWS Rolls ‘Inferentia’ Chip Amid Raft of New ML Services, Technologies
Amazon Web Services poured forth a rolling tide of new product announcements today at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, an impressive portfolio of technologies that extend the cloud ...Full Article
