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Nvidia revamps its AI software platforms to advance speech, recommender systems and inference
Nvidia Corp. today announced a major upgrade to its Nvidia AI and Nvidia AI Enterprise platforms, with new features designed to advance workloads such as speech, recommendation systems, hyperscale inference and more. The upgrades were announced at Nvidia GTC 2022 alongside the launch of Nvidia’s new AI Accelerated program, which is aimed at guaranteeing the ...
Nvidia debuts next-generation H100 GPUs, its most powerful chips yet
Nvidia Corp. announced the next generation of its powerful graphics processing units at its 2022 GPU Technology Conference today. The new GPUs are based on the Nvidia Hopper architecture (pictured) and the company is promising an order of magnitude performance leap over its previous-generation Ampere chips, which debuted two years ago. The first GPU built ...
Anch.AI launches free Ethical Governance Platform to encourage adoption of responsible AI practices
Swedish startup anch.AI announced the availability of its Ethical Governance Platform today, bundling a number of useful tools for companies seeking responsible artificial intelligence governance. Anch.AI said its platform offers capabilities around screening, assessment, auditing, mitigation and reporting, essentially providing everything an organization needs to manage compliance and detect and remedy risks around AI-based discrimination, ...
Lightlytics raises $26M to help DevOps teams continuously model cloud-native infrastructure
DevOps startup Lightlytics Ltd. said today it’s looking to expand its go-to-market strategy after raising $26 million in a new round of funding. The Series A round was led by EIP with participation from Cervin Ventures and previous investors TLV Partners VC and Glilot Capital Partners VC, bringing Lightlytic’s total amount raised to $30 million. ...
Google’s revamped Contact Center AI Platform provides tighter integration with CRMs
Google Cloud said today it’s bundling its Contact Center AI suite of tools into a comprehensive, out-of-the-box offering that can be tightly integrated with the most popular customer relationship software platforms. By doing so, Google said, customers will benefit from cloud scalability and the ability to unify their sales, marketing and support teams around a ...
Snowflake targets healthcare firms with new industry vertical data cloud offering
Cloud-based big data company Snowflake Inc. today announced its latest industry vertical data-sharing platform, this time targeting the healthcare and life sciences sectors. The new offering integrates Snowflake’s core cloud data warehouse, analytics and business intelligence services with a live data marketplace and on-demand consulting. Snowflake said the Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud platform ...
NLRB pushes for Amazon to reinstate employee ahead of union vote next week
The National Labor Relations Board said today it’s suing Amazon.com Inc., asking a federal judge to take action against what it said were “flagrant unfair labor practices” ahead of a union vote at one of its warehouses in Staten Island next week. The case relates to the firing of a former Amazon employee, Gerald Bryson, ...
Clockwork raises $21M and says it’s time to solve network latency issues
Clockwork Systems Inc., the creator of technology that makes it possible to optimize the performance of time-sensitive applications, is hoping to make a big splash following the launch of its first product today. The launch came as the company announced it had received $21 million in a Series A funding round led by the venture ...
Report: Google acquires MicroLED startup Raxium to aid AR headset ambitions
Google LLC has big ambitions in the augmented reality business, if reports that it has just paid $1 billion to acquire a startup called Raxium are to be believed. The Information, which broke the story, said Google’s acquisition of Raxium is a sign that it’s seriously focused on building the components required to make AR ...
PagerDuty posts strong earnings, revenue and guidance and its stock surges
Observability company PagerDuty Inc. did everything right today, reporting fourth-quarter earnings and revenue that topped expectations plus a strong outlook for the next three months, sending its stock higher in after-hours trading. PagerDuty’s stock had already gained more than 8% in the regular trading session, before gaining more than 14% after the report. The company ...