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EdgeQ exits stealth with $51M to fuse 5G and AI at the edge
5G system-on-a-chip startup EdgeQ Inc. exited stealth mode today armed with $51 million in funding that includes $38.5 million from a Series A round of funding. Threshold Ventures, Fusion Fund, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures) and an unannounced strategic customer led investments, which will enable EdgeQ to address what it says is an ...
Google announces improved COVID-19 forecast models
Google LLC and the Harvard Global Health Institute have made some big improvements to their artificial intelligence-generated COVID-19 Public Forecasts that are used by healthcare organizations and first responders to help plan their response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In a blog post today, Tomas Pfister, head of Google Cloud AI Research, said the COVID-19 Public Forecasts have ...
Nvidia doubles the memory of its A100 GPU for AI workloads
Nvidia Corp. is widely held to be the leader in powering artificial intelligence workloads, but it’s refusing to rest on its laurels. Today it said that it has supercharged what is already the world’s fastest graphics processing unit, adding twice as much memory as before. The new Nvidia A100 80-gigabyte GPU (pictured) comes with double the memory ...
IBM open-sources Kubeflow Pipelines on Tekton for portable machine learning models
IBM Corp. said today it’s hoping to provide a standardized solution for developers to create and deploy machine learning models in production and make them portable to any cloud platform. To do so, it said it’s open-sourcing the Kubeflow machine learning platform on Tekton, a continuous integration/continuous development platform developed by Google LLC. It’s popular ...
Palantir raises revenue guidance, citing geopolitical uncertainty
Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. saw it stock bounce around today after reporting revenue growth of 52% in its first earnings call since going public in September. The company a reported third-quarter profit before certain costs of 8 cents per share on revenue of $289 million. That was better than expected, with analysts modeling earnings of ...
Cisco’s revenue falls again but its stock rises anyway
Cisco Systems Inc.’s stock is on the rise today after the company came up with first-quarter earnings and revenue that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations and made a strong forecast for the next three-month period. The networking giant reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 76 cents per share on revenue of $11.9 ...
Android’s Neural Networks API adds support for PyTorch to enable on-device AI processing
Google LLC’s Android team today added support for a new prototype feature that makes it possible for developers to perform “hardware accelerated inference” on mobile devices using the PyTorch artificial intelligence framework. The addition of support for PyTorch, first built by Facebook Inc., means that thousands more developers will be able to leverage the Android Neural Network ...
Dell, Switch and FedEx to build edge infrastructure hubs across the US
Dell Technologies Inc. has set its sights on becoming a major provider of exascale multicloud edge infrastructure services for its enterprise clients, and it will be working with Fedex Corp. and the data center colocation services provider Switch Inc. to achieve that goal. Edge infrastructure is becoming important because it makes it possible for data ...
Amazon makes data handling easier with AWS Glue DataBrew tool
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced an extension to its AWS Glue data cleansing service, adding a visual user interface that helps automate some of the steps involved in cleaning and normalizing data without writing any code. The new tool launched today is called AWS Glue DataBrew, and it simplifies the extract, transform and load or ...
Synthesized debuts a free tool for identifying and removing biased data
Artificial intelligence startup Synthesized Ltd. today launched a tool for companies to detect and remove bias in the data they use for their AI projects. Data bias is a big problem when it comes to AI models, which are usually trained using enormous datasets. It refers to a kind of error in which certain elements of ...