AI
Intel Buys Vision Chip Developer Movidius
Intel Corp. is acquiring low-power machine vision specialist Movidius in a bid to bolster its embedded visual computing capabilities. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced Tuesday (Sept. 6) it was buying ...Full Article
NVIDIA Cries Foul on Intel Phi AI Benchmarks
This week saw the eruption of a vendor spat when NVIDIA, developer of GPUs widely used in the AI/machine learning market, alleged foul play against Intel in recent comparative ...Full Article
Intel Launches Silicon Photonics Chip, Previews Next-Gen Phi for AI
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager Diane Bryant announced the launch of Intel’s Silicon Photonics product line and ...Full Article
Intel to Acquire AI Startup Nervana Systems
If we needed another sign that Intel is serious about mining AI market opportunities, it came today when the chip company announced it had inked a “definitive agreement” to acquire ...Full Article
Onset of AI Prompts New Security Concerns
Intelligent, often autonomous, systems are making headway in the datacenter as developers, struggling to keep up, seek to offload manual processes by adopting new approaches, such as prescriptive IT ...Full Article
Facebook AI Effort Looks to Extend Search Engines
Facebook is rolling out a "deep-learning based text understanding engine" that leverages neural network architectures and promises to challenge the Google search engine by bringing "near-human accuracy" to the ...Full Article
Cloud Security Gets a Boost From Deep Learning
A range of new cyber security approaches is emerging that seek to shield cloud applications from attack. Some emphasize a human intelligence approach as a way of staying ahead ...Full Article
New NVIDIA GPU Drives Launch of Facebook’s ‘Big Sur’ Deep Learning Platform
Facebook continues to pour internet-scale money into Deep Learning and AI, announcing its new “Big Sur” computing platform designed to double the speed for training neural networks of twice ...Full Article
Machine Learning Will Transform Business: How to Benefit
This past year there was a major debate in tech media over the future of artificial intelligence in business. The battle centered on whether AI should be feared and ...Full Article
Ex-Baidu Researcher Ren Wu Denies Wrongdoing
Dr. Ren Wu vigorously denies the charges of cheating that led Baidu to reportedly fire the head of its Heterogeneous Computing team after the Chinese search engine developer's supercomputer team ...Full Article
