Swedish Telecom Giant Ericsson: 5G Users are Expected to Reach 3.5 Billion in 2026
At the Mobile World Congress held in Shanghai on February 28, Telecommunications company Ericsson revealed numbers for the fast-paced development of 5G networks.
Category: Cloud & ML Ops
Dell Opens Global Innovation Facility in Singapore, the First Outside US
Dell Technologies has opened a new innovation facility in Singapore, to focus on R&D for edge computing, data analytics and augmented reality.
Apple Reveals Design of Its On-Device ML System for Federated Evaluation and Tuning
Apple has laid out the design characteristics of a new generic system that enables federated evaluation and tuning (FE&T) systems on end-user devices.
Chinese AI Firm 4Paradigm Raises $700M for Series D
On January 22, Beijing-based AI firm 4Paradigm announced USD 700 million series D investments from Boyu Capital, Primavera Capital and Hopu Investments.
IBM Closes China Research Laboratory
IBM has closed off its Beijing-based China Research Laboratory (CRL) after 25 years of operation.
2020 in Review With Tatsuya Nagata
Synced has invited Mr. Tatsuya Nagata, the COO of Navier Inc., to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
2020 in Review: 10 AI Failures
This is the fourth Synced year-end compilation of “Artificial Intelligence Failures.” Our aim is not to shame nor downplay AI research, but to look at where and how it has gone awry with the hope that we can create better AI systems in the future.
2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Tools Tackling COVID-19
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI-powered efforts that contributed to the fight against COVID-19 in 2020.
Baidu Releases ML Bio-computing Framework PaddleHelix
At the Wave Summit 2020 held on December 20, Baidu unveiled the company’s newest ML-based bio-computing framework named “PaddleHelix”.
A Look at Google’s Efforts to Earn Public Trust Through ML Fairness and Responsible AI
“Trust in AI systems is becoming, if not already, the biggest barrier for enterprises — as they start to move from exploring AI or potentially piloting or doing some proof of concept works into deploying AI into a production system”
PyTorch / XLA Library Reaches General Availability on Google Cloud
It was announced yesterday in a PyTorch blog post that the PyTorch / XLA library, a package that enables PyTorch to connect to Google TPUs and use TPU cores as devices, is now generally available on Google Cloud, with support for a broad set of entry points for developers.
Insilico Releases Pandomics, AI-Powered Platform for Novel Therapeutic Target Discovery
A novel end-to-end AI-hypothesis generation engine that seamlessly interprets OMICS and text-based data for the discovery and analysis of novel therapeutic targets.
Microsoft Gets Exclusive License for OpenAI’s GPT-3 Language Model
Microsoft announced today that it has teamed up with OpenAI to exclusively license the AI research institute’s GPT-3 language model.
University of Toronto Spinoff Bridge7 Uses AI to Improve Cancer Treatment
Launched via the U of T Early-Stage Technology program (UTEST), Canadian startup Bridge7 is applying AI to improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of cancer treatments.
Fujitsu and Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital Embark on Joint Research and Development of AI Technology to Support Diagnosis of COVID-19 Pneumonia
Fujitsu and Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital to develop an AI-based technology to facilitate the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia.
Tencent Cloud Releases New 5g Products; To Build 300 Edge-Computing Centres by the End of 2020
Tencent Cloud announced the company’s latest efforts in the new 5G infrastructure.
Tesla Video Data Processing Supercomputer ‘Dojo’ – Building a 4D System Aiming at L5 Self-Driving
Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla is recruiting AI or chip talents for the company’s neural network training supercomputer project “Dojo.”
Alibaba Cloud Deploys Three New Super Data Centre, to Invest US$28 Billion in Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud wraps up the deployment three data centres in Nantong, Hangzhou, and Ulanqab city, plans to add over one million servers to expedite regional infrastructure development.
Preferred Networks Releases PFRL Deep Reinforcement Learning Library for PyTorch Users
PFRL succeeds ChainerRL as comprehensive library with cutting-edge deep reinforcement learning algorithms and features.
MLPerf Training v0.7 Results Released: Google & NVIDIA Lead the Race
The industry-standard MLPerf benchmark today released the results of the third round of its ongoing ML Training Systems competition.
Alibaba and Accenture Report Share Insights on Post-COVID AI Development in China
On July 27, 2020, Alibaba Cloud Research Center and Accenture jointly launched the “The Penetrative and Explosive Power of AI Dividend” white paper, as part of the “China Enterprise 2020” series report.
Top US AI Research Institutes and Tech Companies Support National AI Research Cloud
Leading US universities engaged in AI research have joined tech giants in backing legislation aimed at establishing a roadmap for the creation of a national AI research cloud.
GitHub Actions Facilitate MLOps on Repositories
GitHub recently introduced a series of free and open-source GitHub Actions that merge data science and machine learning workflows with a software development workflow.
AI Offers Video Game Design Possibilities Far Beyond Virtual Reality
Advanced computer vision technology is supercharging virtual and augmented reality, one of the latest milestones in video game design.
Toronto Machine Learning Society Presents MLOps: Production & Engineering 2020
Toronto Machine Learning Society (TMLS) hosts MLOps, Production & Engineering 2020 through an interactive conference to enable attendees the opportunity to virtually engage with speakers and establish a stronger network within the AI community.
Microsoft Build 2020 | World Top-5 Supercomputer With OpenAI, Microsoft Turing Models, Responsible ML Capabilities in AI Systems
The 48-hour digital event kicked off yesterday, and the company wasted no time making impactful announcements that included a new supercomputer, a family of large AI models, and a Responsible ML on Microsoft Azure initiative.
Neural Network AI is the Future of the Translation Industry
Recent advances in deep learning, also known as using neural machine learning, has proven to achieve state of the art results in machine translation.
Jensen Huang Serves Up the A100: NVIDIA’s Hot New Ampere Data Centre GPU
The A100 represents the largest leap in performance across the company’s eight GPU generations - a boost of up to 20x over its predecessors.
Japanese Unicorn Preferred Networks Releases First PyTorch Library
Japanese artificial intelligence startup Preferred Networks (PFN) today debuted its PyTorch library pytorch-pfn-extras (PPE).
Fujitsu Verifies AI Technology to Predict Vessel Collision Risks in Marine Traffic Control, Improves Maritime Safety
Fujitsu Limited announced the results of a joint field trial with the Japan Coast Guard to predict vessel collisions with AI technology