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Meta AI’s New Data Set to Accelerate Renewable Energy Catalyst Discovery for Hydrogen Fuel
Meta AI recently announced that it will soon release an entirely new data set for green hydrogen fuel ML modeling and simulation, focused on oxide catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), a critical chemical reaction used in green hydrogen fuel production via wind and solar energy.
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DeepMind Introduces Gato, A New Generalist AI Agent
Gato, as the agent is known, is DeepMinds’s generalist AI that can perform many different tasks that humans can do, without carving a niche for itself as an expert on one task. Gato can perform more than 600 different tasks, such as playing video games, captioning images and moving real-world robotic arms. Gato is a multi-modal, multi-task, multi-embodiment generalist policy.
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Mammoths Stumping in the Cloud Era: Meeting EU Regulations by Being Cloud Native and Cloud Agnostic
Financial institutions are famous for their conservative approach in multiple areas, technology being no exception. Many of them are still running mainframe solutions built a long time ago. But together with times, the banks are changing too: at KubeConEU mBank, a polish bank showed how it managed to marry Cloud Native and Cloud Agnotisc principles to also satisfy the EU regulation in the field.
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LAION Releases Five Billion Image-Text Pair Dataset LAION-5B
The Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) released LAION-5B, an AI training dataset containing over five billion image-text pairs. LAION-5B contains images and captions scraped from the internet and is 14x larger than its predecessor LAION-400M, making it the largest freely available image-text dataset.
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Google Announces General Availability of Cloud TPU VMs
Last year Google introduced Cloud TPU Virtual Machines (VMs), which provide direct access to TPU host machines in preview. Today, Cloud TPU VMs are generally available, including the new TPU Embedding API, which can accelerate ML Based ranking and recommendation workloads.
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Green Software Development: Terminology and Climate Commitments Explained by Microsoft at Devoxx UK
As a side effect of the accelerated move towards the cloud, the software industry is contributing more and more to global warming. Companies have taken on different commitments: Net-Zero, Carbon Neutral, etc. Asim Hussain, Green Cloud Advocacy Lead @ Microsoft deciphers them during the Devoxx UK keynote. Understanding them will help developers move the needle for each type of commitment.
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DeepMind Trains AI Controller for Nuclear Fusion Research Device
Researchers at Google subsidiary DeepMind and the Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL have developed a deep reinforcement learning (RL) AI that creates control algorithms for tokamak devices used in nuclear fusion research. The system learned control policies while interacting with a simulator, and when used to control a real device was able to achieve novel plasma configurations.
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Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced that SageMaker Serverless Inference is generally available. Designed for workloads with intermittent or infrequent traffic patterns, the new option provisions and scales compute capacity according to the volume of inference requests the model receives.
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Amazon MSK Serverless Now Generally Available
AWS recently announced that Amazon MSK Serverless is now generally available. The serverless option to manage an Apache Kafka cluster removes the need to monitor capacity and automatically balances partitions within a cluster.
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Serving Deep Networks in Production: Balancing Productivity vs Efficiency Tradeoff
A recently published work provides an alternative modality for serving deep neural networks. It enables utilizing eager-mode model code directly at production workloads by using embedded CPython interpreters. The goal is to reduce the engineering effort to bring the models from the research stage to the end-user and to create a proof-of-concept platform for migrating future numerical libraries.
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Microsoft Rebrands its Data Governance Service to Microsoft Purview
Recently, Microsoft announced Microsoft Purview, a new product branding bringing together the Azure Purview data governance service with various Microsoft 365 compliance solutions.
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NVIDIA Announces Next Generation AI Hardware H100 GPU and Grace CPU Superchip
At the recent GTC conference, NVIDIA announced their next generation processors for AI computing, the H100 GPU and the Grace CPU Superchip. Based on NVIDIA's Hopper architecture, the H100 includes a Transformer engine for faster training of AI models. The Grace CPU Superchip features 144 Arm cores and outperforms NVIDIA's current dual-CPU offering on the SPECrate 2017_int_base benchmark.
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AWS Releases its Digital Twin Service IoT TwinMaker into General Availability
During the recent AWS Summit in San Francisco, AWS announced the general availability of its IoT TwinMaker service – AWS IoT TwinMaker.
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Google Trains 540 Billion Parameter AI Language Model PaLM
Google Research recently announced the Pathways Language Model (PaLM), a 540-billion-parameter AI natural language processing (NLP) model that surpasses average human performance on the BIG-bench benchmark. PaLM outperforms other state-of-the-art systems on many evaluation tasks, and shows strong results on tasks such as logical inference and joke explanation.
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Google Announces AI-Generated Summaries for Google Docs
Google has announced a new feature for their Docs app that will automatically generate a summary of the document content. The summarization is powered by a natural language processing (NLP) AI model based on the Transformer architecture.
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