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ARM DynamIQ: Expanding the possibilities for artificial intelligence

“In the past four years alone, we have witnessed an amazing expansion of compute. Go inside the numbers of the recent 100 billion ARM-based chips milestone and you will see that 50 billion were shipped by our partners from …

Surrounded by AI Devices that Do Everything from Flying to Farming, NVIDIA Launches Jetson TX2

“Powerful factory robots. Commercial drones. Smart cameras. NVIDIA Tuesday unveiled the NVIDIA Jetson TX2, a credit card-sized platform that puts AI computing to work in the world all around us. Over the past five years, the mobile revolution has brought …

Announcing Google Cloud Video Intelligence API, and more Cloud Machine Learning updates

“Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly essential role in the enterprise, however, more and more businesses find themselves struggling to keep up. One of our most important goals is to make machine learning a transformational tool for organizations of any …

NVIDIA and Microsoft Boost AI Cloud Computing with Launch of Industry-Standard Hyperscale GPU Accelerator

“NVIDIA with Microsoft today unveiled blueprints for a new hyperscale GPU accelerator to drive AI cloud computing. Providing hyperscale data centers with a fast, flexible path for AI, the new HGX-1 hyperscale GPU accelerator is an open-source design released …

AI beats professional players at Super Smash Bros. video game

“AI has earned another victory against humans, this time in Nintendo fighting game Super Smash Bros. Melee. A team led by Vlad Firoiu at Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained an AI to play the game using deep learning algorithms and …

AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other programs

“OUT of the way, human, I’ve got this covered. A machine learning system has gained the ability to write its own code. Created by researchers at Microsoft and the University of Cambridge, the system, called DeepCoder, solved basic challenges …

Tokyo Tech supercomputer TSUBAME3.0 scheduled to start operating in summer 2017

“The Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) has started development and construction of TSUBAME3.01—the next-generation supercomputer that is scheduled to start operating in the summer of 2017. The theoretical performance of …

Neural network trained to solve quantum mechanical problems

“It’s notoriously difficult to make sense of Quantum mechanics, and it’s equally difficult to calculate the behavior of many quantum systems. That’s due in part to the description of a quantum system called its wavefunction. The wavefunction …

Intel Unveils Deep Learning Library for Apache Spark

“Intel today announced the open-source BigDL, a Distributed Deep Learning Library for the Apache Spark* open-source cluster-computing framework. The deep learning library is part of Intel Corporation’s strategy for enabling state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence in the industry. Announced last November …

New Google Brain research brings the ‘zoom and enhance’ trope to reality

“Re-creating a pixelated image is the holy grail of impossible CSI technology. And while zooming in on grainy footage, enhancing the image, and seeing the culprit reflected in the victim’s iris is still the stuff of fantasy, some new …