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Google Integrates TensorFlow Lite with Android, Adds Automatic Acceleration
Google has announced a new mobile ML stack, dubbed Android ML Platform and built around TensorFlow Lite, which aims to solve a number of problems that developers find when using on-device machine learning.
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Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Announces CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions
Amazon recently announced the CI/CD integration of Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer with GitHub Actions. The cloud provider also released 20 new security detectors for Java to identify issues and follow best security practices.
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GitHub Previews Copilot, an OpenAI-Powered Coding Assistant
GitHub recently announced Copilot, an AI-powered pair programmer designed to help developers write code faster and with less effort. The service learns from comments and existing code, suggesting new lines and the implementation of whole functions.
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Performance-Focused Reactive UI Framework Solid.JS Releases First Major Version
Solid.js, a reactive JavaScript UI library, released its first major iteration. Solid replicates many capabilities (e.g., server-side rendering, concurrent rendering) and APIs (e.g., stores, context, directives) present in other frameworks. Developers map the appearance and behavior of user interfaces to a set of reactive dependencies. Solid compiles the statements to imperative DOM operations.
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Google Open-Sources Token-Free Language Model ByT5
Google Research has open-sourced ByT5, a natural language processing (NLP) AI model that operates on raw bytes instead of abstract tokens. Compared to baseline models, ByT5 is more accurate on several benchmark tasks and is more robust to misspellings and noise.
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AWS Introduces AWS Bugbust - a Global Competition to Fix One Million Bugs
Recently, AWS announced a global challenge to fix one million bugs and reduce technical debt by over $100 million with AWS BugBust. The solution utilizes ML-powered developer tools - Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer and Amazon CodeGuru Profiler - to automatically scan code to weed out bugs, and gamifies fixing and eliminating them.
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LinkedIn Open Sources Greykite, a Python-based Forecasting Library
LinkedIn open sourced Greykite, a Python library that promises to provide accurate future forecasts in an interpretable, allowing visualizations of the trend, seasonality, and other effects. Built to be flexible, intuitive and fast, it performed 4 times better than FB’s prophet, providing more accurate results for 1-day and 7-day forecasts.
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InterCon 2021 Panel Discussion: Is AI Really Beneficial for End Users?
The recent InterCon in Las Vegas featured a panel discussion titled "Is AI Really Beneficial For End Users?" Some key takeaways were that AI brings benefits by increasing productivity and assisting with problem solving, and that there is a need for governance and ethics in AI and a concern over bias in training datasets.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure ND A100 V4 Cloud GPU Instances
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure ND A100 v4 Cloud GPU instances—powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These Virtual Machines (VMs) are targeted at customers with high performance and demanding workloads like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads.
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InterCon 2021 Keynote: AI Applications in Business
At the recent InterCon in Las Vegas, the opening keynote session featured two talks focused on AI applications in business. The key takeaways were: identifying the business objective is key, access to good data is a major challenge, and AI has great potential for providing value to end customers.
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Google Introduces New Cloud TPU VMs for Artificial Intelligence Workloads
Recently, Google announced new Cloud TPU Virtual Machines (VMs), which provide direct access to TPU host machines. With these VMs, the company offers a new and improved user experience to develop and deploy TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX on Cloud TPUs.
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Google Trains Two Billion Parameter AI Vision Model
Researchers at Google Brain announced a deep-learning computer vision (CV) model containing two billion parameters. The model was trained on three billion images and achieved 90.45% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet, setting a new state-of-the-art record.
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Facebook Open-Sources Expire-Span Method for Scaling Transformer AI
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) open-sourced Expire-Span, a deep-learning technique that learns which items in an input sequence should be remembered, reducing the memory and computation requirements for AI. FAIR showed that Transformer models that incorporate Expire-Span can scale to sequences of tens of thousands of items with improved performance compared to previous models.
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AI Conference Recap: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Others at ICLR 2021
At the recent International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), research teams from several tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, and Amazon, presented nearly 250 papers out of a total of 860 on a wide variety of AI topics related to deep learning.
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.NET News Roundup: Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, Windows ML, Project Tye, Oqtane
This past week was marked by the release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.10, Windows ML NuGet package 1.8.0, a Visual Studio Code extension for Tye, Oqtane 2.1, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of May 31st, 2021.