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Guide: Our top four AI Hypercomputer use cases, reference architectures and tutorials
AI Hypercomputer is a fully integrated supercomputing architecture for AI workloads – and it’s easier to use than you think. In this blog, we break down four common use cases, including reference architectures and tutorials, representing just a few of the many ways you can use AI Hypercomputer today. Short on time? Here’s a quick summary. Why…
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How Swift’s server support powers Things Cloud
You might be familiar with Things, a delightful personal task manager that has won two Apple Design Awards and is available across Apple devices including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. At Cultured Code, the team behind Things, we care about a great user experience across every aspect of the product. This extends…
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Introducing GitHub Copilot agent mode (preview)
Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted coding. Acting as an autonomous peer programmer, it performs multi-step coding tasks at your command — analyzing your codebase, reading relevant files, proposing file edits, and running terminal commands and tests. It responds to compile and lint errors, monitors terminal and test output, and auto-corrects in…
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Why a decades old architecture decision is impeding the power of AI computing
AI computing has a reputation for consuming epic quantities of energy. This is partly because of the sheer volume of data being handled. Training often requires billions or trillions of pieces of information to create a model with billions of parameters. But that’s not the whole reason — it also comes down to how most…
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Deep dive into AI with Google Cloud’s global generative AI roadshow
The AI revolution isn’t just about large language models (LLMs) – it’s about building real-world solutions that change the way you work. Google’s global AI roadshow offers an immersive experience that’s designed to empower you, the developer, to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI. The global roadshow is a hands-on event. Forget the abstract…
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This Month in Julia World
A monthly newsletter, mostly on julia internals, digestible for casual observers. A biased, incomplete, editorialized list of what I found interesting this month, with contributions from the community. The deadline for submitting a proposal to JuliaCon 2025 is extended to Feb 14th. “Internals” Fora and Core Repos (Slack/Zulip/Discourse/Github): In search of contributors and new maintainers (specify…
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Updating the Visual Studio Code extension for Swift
Today, we are excited to announce a new version of the Swift extension for Visual Studio Code – now published to the extension marketplace as an official supported release of the Swift team. The aim of this extension is to provide a high-quality, feature-complete extension that makes developing Swift applications on all platforms a seamless experience. As…
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How the UK’s plans for AI could derail net zero – the numbers explained
Tom Jackson, Loughborough University and Ian R. Hodgkinson, Loughborough University The UK government’s goal to increase public-controlled artificial intelligence computing power twentyfold by 2030 would significantly raise electricity demand. Can renewable energy supply meet it – and still have enough left over to electrify sectors like heating and transport, which must be fully decarbonised by…
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DeepSeek R1 is now available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
DeepSeek R1 is now available in the model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, joining a diverse portfolio of over 1,800 models, including frontier, open-source, industry-specific, and task-based AI models. As part of Azure AI Foundry, DeepSeek R1 is accessible on a trusted, scalable, and enterprise-ready platform, enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate advanced AI while meeting…
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Boost processing performance by combining AI models
Leveraging the strengths of different AI models and bringing them together into a single application can be a great strategy to help you meet your performance objectives. This approach harnesses the power of multiple AI systems to improve accuracy and reliability in complex scenarios. In the Microsoft model catalog, there are more than 1,800 AI…