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Rasa Announces Open Source AI Assistant Framework 2.0
Rasa, the customizable open source machine learning framework to automate text and voice-based AI assistants, has released version 2.0 with significant improvements to dialogue management, training data format, and interactive documentation. In addition, the latest release reduces the learning curve to get started while expanding configuration options for advanced users.
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AWS Announces EC2 P4d Instances for ML and HPC
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the availability of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) P4d instances with UltraClusters capability. These GPU-powered instances will deliver faster performance, lower cost, and more GPU memory for machine learning (ML) training and high-performance computing (HPC) than previous generation of P3 instances.
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Large-Scale Multilingual AI Models from Google, Facebook, and Microsoft
Researchers from Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have published their recent work on multilingual AI models. Google and Microsoft have released models that achieve new state-of-the-art performance on NLP tasks measured by the XTREME benchmark, while Facebook has produced a non-English-centric many-to-many translation model.
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Tesla Releases Full Self-Driving Mode Beta Update
Tesla has enabled new full-self driving features for certain customers. The new features include the ability to automatically steer the vehicle while on city streets, and Tesla plans to increase the price of the package by $2,000 in the near future.
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10 Reasons Why You Can’t Miss QCon Plus This Nov 4-20
As software developers ourselves, we designed QCon Plus to be practical, actionable, and software-focused. This is not just another virtual conference; it's an online experience where senior software engineers, architects, and team leads connect, gather new ideas, and hear from software leaders who are constantly pushing the boundaries.
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Sidewalk Labs Launches Machine Learning Tool for Urban Design
Sidewalk Labs recently released Delve, a generative design tool powered by machine learning (ML), which helps developers, architects, and planners design urban neighborhoods. The ML algorithms can generate design options from minimal user input about the space and the goals of the project, while also measuring the impact of each design choice.
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Join Gene Kim, Michael Nygard, Elisabeth Hendrickson, and 54 Other Software Leaders at QCon Plus
QCon Plus, the virtual conference for senior software engineers and architects that covers the trends, best practices, and solutions leveraged by the world's most innovative software organizations, is less than two weeks away.
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NVIDIA's AI Reduces Video Streaming Bandwidth Consumption by 10x
GPU-manufacturer NVIDIA announced their Maxine platform for AI-enhanced video-conferencing services, which includes a technology that can reduce bandwidth requirements by an order of magnitude. By moving much of the data processing to the cloud, end-users can take advantage of the compression without needing specialized hardware.
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NVIDIA Releases a $59 Jetson Nano 2GB Kit to Make AI More Accessible to Developers
With the Jetson series of devices and software SDKs, NVIDIA creates a coherent development environment to learn and develop GPU-based AI applications.
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Udacity and Microsoft Launch ML Engineer on Azure Course
Microsoft and Udacity have joined forces to launch a machine learning (ML) engineer training program focused on training, validating, and deploying models using the Azure Suite. The program is open to students with minimal coding experience and will focus on using Azure automated ML.
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Facebook Open-Sources Machine-Learning Privacy Library Opacus
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) has announced the release of Opacus, a high-speed library for applying differential privacy techniques when training deep-learning models using the PyTorch framework. Opacus can achieve an order-of-magnitude speedup compared to other privacy libraries.
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ML-Assisted Biochip Used for Real-Time Single Cancer Cell Analysis
Researchers and engineers at UCI recently created a machine learning-assisted biochip that can both examine and differentiate between cancers and healthy tissues at the single cell level. The data produced by the device can be used to study tumor heterogeneity, which can help reduce resistance to cancer therapies.
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AI Training Method Exceeds GPT-3 Performance with 99.9% Fewer Parameters
A team of scientists at LMU Munich have developed Pattern-Exploiting Training (PET), a deep-learning training technique for natural language processing (NLP) models. Using PET, the team trained a Transformer NLP model with 223M parameters that out-performed the 175B-parameter GPT-3 by over 3 percentage points on the SuperGLUE benchmark.
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AWS Releases Amazon Timestream into General Availability
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon Timestream, a serverless purpose-built database that exposes time-series data through SQL. With Amazon Timestream, customers can save time and costs in managing the lifecycle of time series data by keeping recent data in memory and moving historical data to a cost-optimized storage tier based on user-defined policies.
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Microsoft Obtains Exclusive License for GPT-3 AI Model
Microsoft announced an agreement with OpenAI to license OpenAI's GPT-3 deep-learning model for natural-language processing (NLP). Although Microsoft's announcement says it has "exclusively" licensed the model, OpenAI will continue to offer access to the model via its own API.