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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.
While it is exhilarating to see AI researchers pushing the performance of cutting-edge models to new heights, the costs of such processes are also rising at a dizzying rate.
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Head of R&D of Google Cloud AI Jia Li has left her position with the company. Li informed Synced in a text message yesterday and the Google team confirmed her departure this morning.
Google Cloud announced today that Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Dean Dr. Andrew Moore will join Google Cloud to lead its AI efforts at the end of this year. The company also announced that its Chief AI Scientist Dr. Fei-Fei Li will return to Stanford University this fall.
Google Cloud Chief Scientist Fei-Fei Li is one of the most popular and influential AI figures today. The woman behind the large-scale image dataset Image.Net is a visionary and an authority on AI’s development.
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The reason why TensorFlow is so widely used is due to its automatic derivation of functions and distributed computing capability. This increase in interest can also be found in commercial applications.
Between March 8-10, Synced was invited as media guest to attend the Google Cloud NEXT ’17 conference in San Francisco.