Artificial Intelligence
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Introducing OpenAI o1-preview
A new series of reasoning models for solving hard problems. Available starting 9.12 We’ve developed a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. They can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math. Today, we are releasing the first of…
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Apple introduces iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus
Built for Apple Intelligence with the all-new A18 chip, both models feature Camera Control, powerful upgrades to the advanced camera system, the Action button to quickly access useful features, and a big boost in battery life CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, built for Apple Intelligence, the easy-to-use personal intelligence system that…
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First AI + Education Summit Is An International Push For “AI Fluency”
Andrew Whitacre | RAISE InitiativeMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/first-ai-education-summit-0827) This summer, 350 participants came to MIT to dive into a question that is, so far, outpacing answers: How can education still create opportunities for all when digital literacy is no longer enough — a world in which students now need to have AI fluency? The AI + Education…
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With 10x growth since 2023, Llama is the leading engine of AI innovation
Key Takeaways: It’s been just over a month since we released Llama 3.1, expanding context length to 128K, adding support across eight languages, and introducing the first frontier-level open source AI model with our Llama 3.1 405B. As we did with our Llama 3 and Llama 2 releases, today we’re sharing an update on the momentum and adoption we’re seeing…
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Palantir and Microsoft Partner to Deliver Enhanced Analytics and AI Services to Classified Networks for Critical National Security Operations
Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) announce today a significant advancement in their partnership to bring some of the most sophisticated and secure cloud, AI and analytics capabilities to the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community. This is a first-of-its-kind, integrated suite of technology that will allow critical national security missions to operationalize…
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Transforming the Developer Experience for Every Engineering Role
In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, ambitious goals, complex technologies, and shifting priorities can lead to frustrated developer experience. However, the pressure to deliver faster, operate efficiently, and maintain robust security continues to intensify. What if there was a way to break through those barriers? A way to inject new energy into your projects, inspire…
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IBM and The All England Lawn Tennis Club Launch New Generative AI Feature for Personalised Player Stories at Wimbledon
– ‘Catch Me Up’ feature – built and trained using IBM’s Granite LLM, through the watsonx platform – helps fans stay up to date on players across all ladies’ and gentlemen’s singles matches – New IBM survey finds 55% of global tennis fans1 polled think Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have a positive impact on sports…
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This AI Was Not Our AI Dream.
So the idea was/is … To generate a ton of good enough and mediocre stuffs and potentially misused scam(-ish) materials at scale(-ish), at disproportionately enormous amount of energy, attention, and intellectual hijack to level the playing field on a lower level playing field … Then … To create of a lot of validation and verification…
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Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus and tool use are generally available on Vertex AI
In April, we made Anthropic’s most intelligent model, Claude 3 Opus, available in public preview on Vertex AI Model Garden for customers to start experimenting with. Now, we’re announcing that Claude 3 Opus is generally available on Vertex AI. We’re also excited to announce that tool use is available for all Claude 3 models on Vertex AI,…
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IBM Expands watsonx Portfolio On AWS, Adds watsonx.governance to Help Clients Scale Responsible AI
ARMONK, N.Y., May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — During the annual IBM Think conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make the full portfolio of IBM offerings within the watsonx artificial intelligence (AI) and data platform available for use with AWS services. Today’s news will make it easier to scale AI in the enterprise using an open,…
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IBM Study: As CEOs Race Towards Gen AI Adoption, Questions Around Workforce And Culture Persist
– More than half of CEO respondents say they are pushing their organization to adopt gen AI more quickly than some employees are comfortable with – Half of CEOs surveyed say they are hiring for gen AI-related roles that didn’t exist last year, but more than half have not yet assessed the impact of the…
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To Build A Better AI Helper, Start By Modeling The Irrational Behavior Of Humans
A new technique can be used to predict the actions of human or AI agents who behave suboptimally while working toward unknown goals. Adam Zewe | MIT NewsMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/building-better-ai-helper-starts-with-modeling-irrational-behavior-0419) To build AI systems that can collaborate effectively with humans, it helps to have a good model of human behavior to start with. But humans tend to…
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Sui Teams Up with Google Cloud to Drive Web3 Innovation with Enhanced Security, Scalability and AI Capabilities
Collaboration focuses on tackling key Web3 challenges through data-driven insights, AI-powered development tools and zero knowledge proofs PALO ALTO, Calif. and SUNNYVALE, Calif. [April 30, 2024] – Sui, the Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform created and launched by the core research team responsible for building Facebook’s Libra and Diem projects, is collaborating with Google…
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The Coca-Cola Company And Microsoft Announce Five-year Strategic Partnership To Accelerate Cloud And Generative AI Initiatives
The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives. Editor’s note – April 23, 2024 – The quotation from Judson Althoff was updated following initial publication. ATLANTA and REDMOND, Wash. — April 23, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. and The Coca-Cola Company on Tuesday announced a five-year strategic partnership to align Coca-Cola’s core…
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Intel Brings AI-Platform Innovation to Life at the Olympic Games
PARIS, April 17, 2024 – Today, Intel announced its plans for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024. Bringing AI Everywhere, Intel will implement artificial intelligence technology powered by Intel processors on the world’s biggest stage. As the Official Worldwide AI Platform Partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, Intel will introduce new,…
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Leading Companies Launch Consortium To Address AI’s Impact On The Technology Workforce
News Summary: Leuven, Belgium, April 4, 2024 – Cisco and a group of eight leading companies including Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM (NYSE: IBM) , Indeed, Intel, Microsoft and SAP as well as six advisors today announced the launch of the AI-Enabled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Workforce Consortium focused on upskilling and reskilling roles most likely to…
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IBM Watsonx Brings New Generative AI Capabilities To Masters Tournament Digital Platforms
AI-powered Hole Insights and Spanish-language AI narration to further connect fans to one of golf’s most iconic events. ARMONK, N.Y., April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Masters Tournament today announced several new fan features coming to the Masters app and Masters.com digital experience for this year’s event. Powered by generative AI capabilities built from watsonx – IBM’s AI and…
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MIT Launches Working Group On Generative AI And The Work Of The Future
New initiative is convening leading companies and nonprofits with support from Google’s Community Grants Fund. MIT Industrial Performance CenterMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-launches-working-group-generative-ai-and-work-of-the-future-0328( From students crafting essays and engineers writing code to call center operators responding to customers, generative artificial intelligence tools have prompted a wave of experimentation over the past year. At MIT, these experiments have…
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Huawei Cloud and Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau Announce Regional AI Model
[Shenzhen, China, March 25, 2024] Huawei Cloud and the Meteorological Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality jointly announced that their regional AI weather forecasting model has officially been put into use. The regional model is one of the first of its kind. It enables the rapid generation of five-day forecasts for a precise 3 km range. The…
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Technology’s Tipping Point: Why Now Is The Time To Earn Trust In AI
Technology companies are in a position to increase trust in AI. The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) offers technology companies endless opportunities for progress and growth. However, the tech industry can only seize the moment if it earns the public’s trust in developing and rolling out AI innovations. The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer, an…
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Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet And Claude 3 Haiku Are Now Generally Available On Vertex AI
Earlier this month, we shared the news that Anthropic’s Claude 3 family of models would soon be available to Google Cloud customers on Vertex AI Model Garden. Today, we’re announcing that Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku are generally available to all customers on Vertex AI. Claude 3 Opus, Anthropic’s most capable and intelligent model to date, will also be available on Vertex…
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Canonical Collaborates With NVIDIA To Simplify Enterprise AI Deployments With NVIDIA Bluefield-3 Operating An Optimised, Ubuntu-Based Linux OS
The NVIDIA BlueField-3 networking platform – powering the latest data processing units (DPUs) and SuperNICs, and transforming data centre performance and efficiency – runs BlueField OS, an optimised Linux operating system (OS) derived from Ubuntu. With Ubuntu’s signature maintenance and support guarantees, the comprehensive Ubuntu Pro software infrastructure stack, and bespoke optimisation, the collaboration between NVIDIA and…
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Canonical Accelerates AI Application Development With NVIDIA AI Enterprise
Charmed Kubernetes support comes to NVIDIA AI Enterprise Canonical’s Charmed Kubernetes is now supported on NVIDIA AI Enterprise 5.0. Organisations using Kubernetes deployments on Ubuntu can look forward to a seamless licensing migration to the latest release of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform providing developers the latest AI models and optimised runtimes. NVIDIA AI Enterprise 5.0 NVIDIA…
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Accelerate AI Development With Ubuntu And NVIDIA AI Workbench
Canonical expands its collaboration with NVIDIA through NVIDIA AI Workbench. NVIDIA AI Workbench is supported across workstations, data centres, and cloud deployments. NVIDIA AI Workbench is an easy-to-use toolkit that allows developers to create, test, and customise AI and machine learning models on their PC or workstation and scale them to the data centre or…
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AI vs. elections: 4 essential reads about the threat of high-tech deception in politics
Like it or not, AI is already playing a role in the 2024 presidential election. kirstypargeter/iStock via Getty Images Eric Smalley, The Conversation It’s official. Joe Biden and Donald Trump have secured the necessary delegates to be their parties’ nominees for president in the 2024 election. Barring unforeseen events, the two will be formally nominated…
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NVIDIA Launches Blackwell-Powered DGX SuperPOD for Generative AI Supercomputing at Trillion-Parameter Scale
Scales to Tens of Thousands of Grace Blackwell Superchips Using Most Advanced NVIDIA Networking, NVIDIA Full-Stack AI Software, and Storage Features up to 576 Blackwell GPUs Connected as One With NVIDIA NVLink NVIDIA System Experts Speed Deployment for Immediate AI Infrastructure GTC—NVIDIA today announced its next-generation AI supercomputer — the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ powered by NVIDIA…
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TSMC and Synopsys Bring Breakthrough NVIDIA Computational Lithography Platform to Production
NVIDIA cuLitho Accelerates Semiconductor Manufacturing’s Most Compute-Intensive Workload by 40-60x, Opens Industry to New Generative AI Algorithms GTC—NVIDIA today announced that TSMC and Synopsys are going into production with NVIDIA’s computational lithography platform to accelerate manufacturing and push the limits of physics for the next generation of advanced semiconductor chips. TSMC, the world’s leading foundry,…
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NVIDIA Announces New Switches Optimized for Trillion-Parameter GPU Computing and AI Infrastructure
GTC—NVIDIA today announced a new wave of networking switches, the X800 series, designed for massive-scale AI. The world’s first networking platforms capable of end-to-end 800Gb/s throughput, NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum™-X800 Ethernet push the boundaries of networking performance for computing and AI workloads. They feature software that further accelerates AI, cloud, data processing and HPC applications in every…
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Generative AI Could Offer A Faster Way To Test Theories Of How The Universe Works
IBM and CERN are using time-series transformers to model particle collisions at the world’s largest collider; it’s part of a larger goal to turn raw observational data into actionable insights. Ordinary matter gives shape to everything we know of the world, but it represents just 5% of the universe. The rest is made up of…
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6 Ways Generative AI Helps Improve Accessibility For All With Azure
In the rapidly evolving world of technology, generative AI stands out, especially in its potential to transform the lives of people with disabilities. The past year has witnessed unparalleled advances in this domain, catalyzing significant breakthroughs in accessibility. The excitement surrounding generative AI is not just about the convenience it offers to the general populace,…