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Facebook’s PyTorch AI framework adds support for mobile app deployment
Facebook Inc. today updated its popular artificial intelligence software framework PyTorch with support for new features that enable a more seamless AI model deployment to mobile devices. PyTorch is used by developers to research and build AI models for software applications, and then move those apps straight to production thanks to its integration with leading ...
OpsRamp beefs up alert capabilities with machine learning-based inference
Hybrid cloud infrastructure management company OpsRamp Inc. today is updating its event management platform and intelligent correlation machine learning capabilities. In addition, the OpsRamp Fall 2019 also provides new multicloud infrastructure monitoring functions for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s and Google LLC’s public cloud platforms. OpsRamp’s infrastructure monitoring platform enables companies to map out the different components ...
Diveplane launches ‘twin datasets’ for AI training to anonymize personal information
Startup Diveplane is trying to fix privacy issues around data used in artificial intelligence training with the launch of what it says is the industry’s “first verifiable twin dataset.” The company’s product, called GEMINAI, is meant to help organizations sell, share and analyze sensitive datasets without worrying about any of the information being lost or ...
AI sales software firm Clari raises $60M in late-stage funding round
Artificial intelligence-powered sales software company Clari Inc. said today it has raised $60 million in a new round of funding led by Sapphire Ventures. New investor Madrona Venture Group and existing investors Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Tenaya Capital also participated in the Series D round, which brings Clari’s total funding to $135 million. The ...
GitHub vows to keep dealing with ICE despite employee backlash
GitHub Inc. is facing a backlash from its own employees after insisting it will renew a $200,000 contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, despite having concerns over some of its policies. In an open letter sent to The Washington Post, employees from GitHub said that by continuing to work with ICE, the ...
SUSE ditches OpenStack to focus on applications
Linux company SUSE Group is killing off its OpenStack Cloud product, stopping development in order to focus more on application delivery. SUSE OpenStack Cloud is the company’s distribution of the open-source OpenStack platform that provides a framework to create and manage both public cloud and private cloud infrastructure. The surprise announcement comes just a few ...
IBM and MIT break new ground in video recognition model training
IBM Corp. has teamed up with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create a new method for training “video recognition” deep learning models more efficiently. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning that aims to replicate how the human brain solves problems. It has led to major breakthroughs in areas such as ...
Nutanix and HPE team up on hybrid cloud management
Data storage company Nutanix Inc. is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. to provide an alternative to Dell EMC and VMware Inc. when it comes to hybrid cloud management. The companies announced today at the Nutanix .NEXT conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the general availability of a new hyperconverged infrastructure system that integrates HPE’s GreenLake hybrid ...
Arm aims to make it easier to customize its low-powered processor chips
British chipmaker Arm Ltd. today said it’s adding an “Arm Custom Instructions” feature set to its latest Armv8-M architecture. The idea is to give customers a way to add special instructions for specific embedded and “internet of things” applications to its central processing units. The Armv8-M architecture is the basis of Arm’s current family of M33 ...
Microsoft and Pivotal launch Azure Spring Cloud service in preview
Microsoft Corp. and Pivotal Software Inc. are making it easier for developers to build microservices-based applications atop the Spring Boot framework. The companies today launched a private preview of a new service called Azure Spring Cloud. It’s a fully managed and production-ready Azure cloud service that can be used to build scalable microservices without worrying ...