IBM, Moderna to Use AI, Hybrid Cloud to Track COVID-19 Vaccine Supply
Seeking ways to boost vaccinations against COVID-19, IBM and vaccine developer Moderna will leverage AI, hybrid cloud and other technologies to address nagging supply chain and distribution challenges. The ...Full Article
C3 AI Launching a Technology Licensing Office After Getting Broad AI Software Patent
Enterprise AI software platform vendor C3 AI will begin licensing its model-driven architecture and other technologies later this year after receiving a broad, new “omnibus” U.S. patent for its ...Full Article
Deloitte’s Upcoming Center for AI Computing Aims to Help Customers Grow AI Use
With AI use continuing to grow in adoption throughout enterprise IT, Deloitte is creating a new Deloitte Center for AI Computing to advise its customers, explain the technology and ...Full Article
Startup Symbio Robotics Gets $30M Funding to Extend Factory Automation Using AI
The modern factory floor is increasingly automated, but manufacturers are looking for ways to make industrial robots more flexible. Symbio Robotics, a Bay Area startup, is aiming to solve ...Full Article
IBM Reportedly Looking to Sell its Unprofitable Watson Health Business
IBM’s Watson Health business brings in $1 billion a year in revenue, but because the unit still isn’t profitable, Big Blue is reportedly looking to sell it to focus ...Full Article
IBM’s Latest Prototype Low-Power AI Chip Offers ‘Precision Scaling’
IBM has released details of a prototype AI chip geared toward low-precision training and inference across different AI model types while retaining model quality within AI applications. In a ...Full Article
With Long-Delayed JEDI Contract Stalled By Legal Fight, DoD May Go Multi-Cloud
The Pentagon is signaling it may embrace a multi-cloud strategy long favored by commercial users seeking to avoid vendor lock-in. With its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract award ...Full Article
LyteLoop Wants to Take Data Storage Beyond the Clouds Into Orbit Around Earth
Diminishing returns on costly data center investments—facilities already bulging at the seams—are engendering novel architectures for storing data. Early prototypes such as Microsoft’s submersible data center address cooling requirements ...Full Article
NASA’s Latest Mars Rover, Perseverance, Will Get Help from AI on the Red Planet
As NASA’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, prepares to land on the Martian surface Feb. 18 (Thursday) after a seven-month flight to the red planet, the use of AI will ...Full Article
Sunlight’s AI Hypervisor Gains Nvidia GPU Support to Boost Edge Deployments
Sunlight, the U.K.-based specialist in virtualizing data-intensive applications, announced Nvidia GPU support for its “lightweight” hypervisor designed to boost the performance of edge AI deployments. GPU support for its ...Full Article
