Machine Learning
Google Nation: $10B for Office, Data Center Expansion in 11 States
Google disclosed in a blog it will invest $10 billion in office and data center expansion around the U.S. this year, generating thousands of new jobs in the process. ...Full Article
Micron Deep Learning Accelerator Gets Memory Boost
Deep learning accelerators based on chip architectures coupled with high-bandwidth memory are emerging to enable near real-time processing of machine learning algorithms. Memory chip specialist Micron Technology argues that ...Full Article
Nvidia Reports Strong Revenue, Earnings Growth
Nvidia is back. Way back. After four straight down quarters, the GPU juggernaut announced blockbuster earnings for the period ended January 26, beating analysts’ expectations for both revenue and ...Full Article
Oracle Touts AI Apps, Expands Cloud Partnership with Microsoft
Corporate finance and IT departments along with supply chain managers are the largest benefactors of AI technology, according to an emerging technologies study released this week by Oracle. Separately, ...Full Article
AI Career Notes: February 2020 Edition
In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires, and accolades. Here's the AI ...Full Article
Detecting Coronavirus: Toronto Start-up’s AI Beat CDC by a Week
As governments, companies, markets and travelers struggle to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, a Toronto start-up used AI to get a jump on the world in issuing warnings about ...Full Article
NVMe, Single Tiering, Data Awareness and Other High Performance Storage Trends for 2020
High performance storage is changing as data (particularly unstructured data) volumes grow, data management becomes increasingly complex, diverse file types proliferate and AI/machine learning is more broadly adopted. According ...Full Article
DAWNBench Gives Way to MLPerf for Training, Inference
As the MLPerf benchmark emerges as an industry standard for measuring the performance of machine learning models, its creators said they will phase out the foundational DAWNBench metric. Stanford ...Full Article
Is AI a Sprint or a Marathon? Development ‘Sprints’ Get Companies to the Starting Line Fast
AI is a complex process that typically takes years to do right, requiring a huge investment in time, resources and money. At costs that can average upwards of $500K ...Full Article
Survey: AI Must Be a ‘Strategic Lever’
Hyper-scalers are racing to deploy AI technologies. Meanwhile, other sectors such as finance, healthcare and transportation ramping up AI initiatives are confronting challenges while considering precisely where automation technologies ...Full Article