Architecture
Introducing Theseus, A Library For Encoding Domain Knowledge In End To End AI models
What the research is: Meta AI is open-sourcing Theseus, a library for an optimization technique called differentiable nonlinear least squares (NLS) that is particularly useful for applications like robotics and computer vision. Built on PyTorch, Theseus enables researchers to easily incorporate expert domain knowledge into modern AI architectures. It does this by expressing that knowledge as …
New Snapdragon X70 Modem-RF Harnesses World’s First 5G AI Processor For Industry Leading Performance And Experiences
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced the Snapdragon X70 5G Modem-RF System, its 5th generation modem-to-antenna 5G solution. Snapdragon X70 introduces the world’s first 5G AI processor in a modem-RF system, to harness the power of AI for breakthrough 5G performance with 10 Gigabit 5G downloads, incredible upload speeds, low latency, coverage, and power efficiency. The unrivaled capabilities …
Intelligent Carpet Gives Insight Into Human Poses
The sentient Magic Carpet from Aladdin might have a new competitor. While it can’t fly or speak, a new tactile sensing carpet from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can estimate human poses without using cameras, in a step towards improving self-powered personalized healthcare, smart homes, and gaming. Many of our daily activities involve physical …
Connecting Urban Environments With IoT And Digital Twins
As urbanization continues to take hold and cities face challenges to become more sustainable and livable, urban planning and operations strategies must adapt. The current pandemic has changed the way we live, accelerating cities’ future vision as a necessity of the present and what it means to live in a connected and resilient urban environment. …
Los Alamos Announces Details Of New Computational Storage Deployment
Los Alamos National Laboratory announced an industry-first computational storage deployment targeting a next-generation storage system for HPC sited at Los Alamos. This new system will support the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program responsible for ensuring the performance, safety, and reliability of nuclear weapons. “We believe that emerging non-volatile memory express (NVMe) …
Intel Building The Future Of High Performance Computing
At Supercomputing 2020 (SC20), Intel highlighted how the company’s hardware and software technologies are enabling the future of high performance computing (HPC). Companies around the world are selecting Intel® XPUs (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and accelerators) and oneAPI programming environment to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced computing systems. 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (code-named “Ice Lake”) In her keynote presentation to kickoff SC20, Trish Damkroger, vice president …
System Brings Deep Learning To “Internet Of Things” Devices
Deep learning is everywhere. This branch of artificial intelligence curates your social media and serves your Google search results. Soon, deep learning could also check your vitals or set your thermostat. MIT researchers have developed a system that could bring deep learning neural networks to new — and much smaller — places, like the tiny …
Intel To Acquire SigOpt To Scale AI Productivity And Performance
Intel announced it will acquire SigOpt, a San Francisco-based provider of a leading platform for the optimization of artificial intelligence (AI) software models at scale. SigOpt’s AI software technologies deliver productivity and performance gains across hardware and software parameters, use cases and workloads in deep learning, machine learning and data analytics. Intel plans to use SigOpt’s software technologies across Intel’s …
C3.ai, Microsoft, And Adobe Combine Forces To Re-invent CRM With AI
C3.ai, Microsoft Corp., and Adobe Inc. announced the launch of C3 AI® CRM powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365. The first enterprise-class, AI-first customer relationship management solution is purpose-built for industries, integrates with Adobe Experience Cloud, and drives customer-facing operations with predictive business insights. The partners have agreed to: Integrate Microsoft Dynamics 365, Adobe Experience Cloud (including …
PathAI Chooses Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL To Deploy AI Workloads
Digital Realty, a leading global provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced that PathAI, a global provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology for use in pathology research, has selected Digital Realty’s data hub solution on PlatformDIGITAL® to deploy its AI workloads. PathAI’s platform uses machine learning and deep learning AI-based techniques to assist pathologists’ …