Nvidia launched its 80GB version of the A100 graphics processing unit (GPU), targeting the graphics and AI chip at supercomputing applications. The chip is based on the company’s Ampere graphics architecture and is aimed at helping businesses and government labs make key decisions more quickly by enabling better real-time data analysis. Nvidia made the announcement […]
How Google built its AI-powered Hum to Search feature
In October, Google announced it would let users search for songs by simply humming or whistling melodies, initially in English on iOS and in more than 20 languages on Android. At the time, the search giant only hinted at how the new Hum to Search feature worked. But in a blog post today, Google detailed […]
Google’s AI lets users search language-agnostic knowledge bases in their native tongue
Entity linking fulfills a key role in grounded language understanding. Given a text mention of an entity (e.g., the word “helpful”), an algorithm identifies the entity’s corresponding entry in a knowledge base (such as a Wikipedia article). To extend its usefulness, researchers at Google propose a new technique where language-specific mentions resolve to a language-agnostic […]
Kinetic raises $11.25 million for wearables that aim to prevent workplace injuries
Wearable device startup Kinetic today nabbed $11.25 million in funding ($8.25 million in equity and $3 million in debt) that the company says will help it grow and scale its engineering, sales, and marketing teams and support R&D. New York-based Kinetic aims to measure and improve industrial and warehouse workplace safety. A total of 5,250 […]
Best practices for a successful AI Center of Excellence: A guide for both CoEs and business units
Presented by As AI becomes table stakes, companies are rallying around building AI Centers of Excellence. Certainly, they’re needed to create early wins, build demand, and scale AI initiatives. Yet, AI CoEs cannot operate in a silo. To be successful, they must collaborate with business teams in the organization — all of which have their […]
AI Weekly: The election
In the United States, there was nothing else this week except for the presidential election. More people voted in this election than in any other previous U.S. presidential election — a total of 143,518,226 votes and counting. As we close out a long, stressful week, it appears all but a formality that Joe Biden and […]
Google launches Document AI suite of parsing and processing tools in preview
Google this morning launched the Document AI (DocAI) platform, a console for document processing hosted in Google Cloud, in preview. The company says it’s aimed at automating and validating documents by extracting data from documents and making them available to business apps and users. Companies spend an average of $20 to file and store a […]
Researchers propose ‘safe’ reinforcement learning algorithm for dangerous scenarios
Researchers have proposed a method for allowing reinforcement learning algorithms to accumulate knowledge while erring on the side of caution. The team, which hails from the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and the University of California, Berkeley, claims this approach can achieve competitive performance while incurring lower catastrophic failure rates during training compared to […]
Live-action Assassin’s Creed show coming to Netflix
Castlevania, Cuphead, two Resident Evil shows, The Witcher (kinda sorta) — when it comes to adapting video games to TV, Netflix is the leading competitor. Now the company can add another notch to the belt. On Tuesday, Netflix announced that it would team up with Ubisoft to “develop content” based on the Assassin’s Creed franchise. […]
Lightmatter details Passage, a light-based chip interconnect that enables 1Tbps data transfers
Photonic computing technology startup Lightmatter today detailed Passage, a “wafer-scale” programmable chip interconnect fabric that uses light to boost performance while reducing energy usage. Lightmatter says Passage, which allows arrays of heterogeneous chips — including processors, graphics cards, memory, and AI accelerators — to communicate with each other, operates at “unprecedented speeds” compared with existing […]