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AWS Launches SageMaker Studio Lab, Free Tool to Learn and Experiment with Machine Learning
AWS has introduced SageMaker Studio Lab, a free service to help developers learn machine-learning techniques and experiment with the technology. SageMaker Studio Lab provides users with all of the basics to get started, including a JupyterLab IDE, model training on CPUs and GPUs and 15 GB of persistent storage.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2021
After one year as a virtual-only event, re:invent was back last week to Las Vegas with fewer attendees for the 10th edition, and with multiple sessions and keynotes, including a first one for the new CEO Adam Selipsky. AWS announced new features and improvements, with a focus more on packaged solutions than new primitives.
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AMD Introduces Its Deep-Learning Accelerator Instinct MI200 Series GPUs
In its recent Accelerated Data Center Premiere Keynote, AMD unveiled its MI200 accelerator series Instinct MI250x and slightly lower-end Instinct MI250 GPUs. Designed with CDNA-2 architecture and TSMC’s 6nm FinFET lithography, the high-end MI250X provides 47.9 TFLOPs peak double precision performance and memory that will allow training larger deep networks by minimizing model sharding.
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D2iQ Releases DKP 2.0 to Run Kubernetes Apps at Scale
D2iQ recently released version 2.0 of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP), a platform to help organizations run Kubernetes workloads at scale. The new release provides a single pane of glass for managing multi-cluster environments and running applications across any infrastructure including private cloud, public cloud, or at the network edge.
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AWS Announces the Availability of EC2 Instances (G5) with NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs
Recently AWS announced the availability of new G5 instances, which feature up to eight NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs. These instances are powered by second-generation AMD EPYC processors.
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Facebook Develops New AI Model That Can Anticipate Future Actions
Facebook unveiled its latest machine-learning process called Anticipative Video Transformer (AVT), which is able to predict future actions by using visual interpretation. AVT works as an end-to-end attention-based model for action anticipation in videos.
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Google Document Translation Now Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Document Translation, a new feature of Translation API Advanced that allows formatting of documents to be retained throughout the translation process.
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What Machine Learning Can Do for Security
Machine learning can be applied in various ways in security, for instance, in malware analysis, to make predictions, and for clustering security events. It can also be used to detect previously unknown attacks with no established signature.
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Amazon Releases DL1 Instances Powered by Gaudi Accelerators
Amazon recently announced the general availability of the EC2 DL1 instances powered by Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs. The new instances promise better price performances in training deep learning models for use cases such as computer vision, natural language processing, autonomous vehicle perception and recommendation engines.
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Analyze Video Feeds at the Edge with AWS Panorama Appliance
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Panorama Appliance, a new device that customers can install in their facilities to run applications that analyze multiple video streams from existing on-premises cameras.
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Lowering Recovery Time through AI-Enabled Troubleshooting
Machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection can assist DevOps in daily working routines, where generalized ML models are trained and applied to detect hidden patterns and identify suspicious behaviour. Applied machine learning for IT-operations (AIOPs) is starting to move from research environments to production environments in companies.
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TensorFlow Similarity Supports Fast Query Search Index on Pre-trained Models
Francois Chollet and his team recently released a Python library for TensorFlow, called TensorFlow Similarity. Similarity learning is the process of finding similar items, from similar clothes in images to person identification using face pictures. Deep-learning models have used a method called contrastive learning to increase accuracy and efficiency in learning similarity between images.
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Amazon QuickSight Q: Answers to Business Intelligence Questions
Amazon recently announced the general availability of QuickSight Q, a natural language query tool for the enterprise edition of the managed business intelligence service QuickSight.
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Stanford Research Center Studies Impacts of Popular Pretrained Models
Stanford University recently announced a new research center, the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM), devoted to studying the effects of large pretrained deep networks (e.g. BERT, GPT-3, CLIP) in use by a surge of machine-learning research institutions and startups.
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Dedicated ML Track at QCon Plus Nov: Learn All about the Latest ML Innovations
Dio Synodinos, president of C4media (creators of InfoQ and QCon), recently spoke with Frank Greco, senior technology consultant, chairman at NYJavaSIG, and QCon Plus November 2021 committee member, to discuss the topics and tracks he’s looking forward to attending this November at QCon Plus online software conference.