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ML Kit Pose Detection Brings Body Movement Tracking to iOS and Android
Initially available under the ML Kit early access program, Pose Detection is now officially part of ML Kit. The library is capable of tracking the human body, including facial landmarks, hands, and feet.
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AWS Introduces a Solution of AI Services to Manage Contact Center Workflows
AWS has recently made Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions available, a combination of services that enables companies to integrate contact centers with AI.
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Amazon Announces ECS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced that customers can now use the Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). The company promises the instances will be high performant and have low, predictable costs.
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AWS Wavelength Now Generally Available
AWS has recently made AWS Wavelength zones in San Francisco and Boston available to provide a subset of their computing services on Verizon datacenters. The new zones will allow developers to build applications that can benefit from the ultra-low latency of the mobile carriers.
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PyTorch 1.6 Released; Microsoft Takes over Windows Version
PyTorch, Facebook's open-source deep-learning framework, announced the release of version 1.6 which includes new APIs and performance improvements. Along with the release, Microsoft announced it will take over development and maintenance of the Windows version of the framework.
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AWS Releases Amazon Fraud Detector into General Availability
Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully-managed service on AWS providing customers with the capability to quickly identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts, loyalty account and promotion code abuse or online payment fraud. The service uses machine learning (ML) and relies on two decades of fraud detection expertise from AWS and Amazon.com.
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Alexa Adds Conversations and Deep-Linking Based Control for Mobile Apps
Alexa Conversations, recently launched in beta, aim to enable the creation of custom skills with fewer code thanks to a new AI-based approach. Alongside Alexa Conversations, Amazon has also announced Alexa for Apps, which allows Alexa users to interact with their mobile phones using Alexa.
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Accelerating Machine Learning Lifecycle with a Feature Store
Feature Store is a core part of next generation ML platforms that empowers data scientists to accelerate the delivery of ML applications. Mike Del Balso and Geoff Sims recently spoke at Spark AI Summit 2020 Conference about the feature store driven ML development.
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Google Launches the First NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud with Computing Engine A2 VMs
In a recent blog post, Google announced the introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) family on Google Compute Engine, based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU. A2 provides up to 16 GPUs in a single VM and is the first A100-based offering in the public cloud.
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon CodeGuru
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru, a developer tool powered by machine learning. It provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code.
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Databricks Contributes MLflow Machine Learning Platform to The Linux Foundation
Databricks, the company behind big data processing and analytics engine Apache Spark, contributes open source machine learning platform MLflow to The Linux Foundation. The announcement was made at the recent Spark AI Summit 2020 Conference which was held as a global virtual event.
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Spark AI Summit 2020 Highlights: Innovations to Improve Spark 3.0 Performance
At the recent Spark AI Summit 2020, held online for the first time, the highlights of the event were innovations to improve Apache Spark 3.0 performance, including optimizations for Spark SQL, and GPU acceleration.
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Paddle Quantum: Bringing Baidu Deep Learning Perform to Quantum Computing
Baidu has announced quantum machine learning toolkit Paddle Quantum, which makes it possible to build and train quantum neural network models. Paddle Quantum aims to support advanced quantum computing applications as well as to allow developers new to quantum machine learning to create their models step-by-step.
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AWS Releases its Machine Learning Powered Enterprise Search Service Kendra into General Availability
Recently Amazon announced the general availability of its enterprise search service Kendra on AWS. With the GA release of Amazon Kendra, the public cloud provider added a few new specialized features and improved service accuracy.
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Concurnas: the New Language on the JVM for Concurrent and GPU Computing
Concurnas is a new open source JVM programming language designed for building concurrent and distributed systems. Concurnas is a statically typed language with object oriented, functional, and reactive programming constructs. With native support for GPU computing and vectorization, Concurnas allows for building machine learning applications and high performance parallel applications.