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VMware, Nvidia target businesses that want their own AI
23Aug By adminNo Comments
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VMware, Nvidia target businesses that want their own AI

[ad_1] VMware Inc on Tuesday said it has developed a new set of software tools in partnership with Nvidia Corp aimed at businesses which want to develop generative artificial intelligence in their own data centers rather than the cloud.VMware, which is close to being acquired by chip firm Broadcom Inc in a $69 billion deal, makes software that corporations use to run their privately owned data centers. For more than two decades, VMware's tools have been used by businesses to divvy up the computing power in central processor chips, which are the brains of traditional servers. On Tuesday, the company released a new set of tools help designed to manage Nvidia chips, which dominate the market for AI systems that can read and write text in human-like ways. Companies like Microsoft Corp, for ...
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AI Startup Anthropic Releases a New Version of Its ChatGPT Rival, Claude
12Jul By adminNo Comments
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AI Startup Anthropic Releases a New Version of Its ChatGPT Rival, Claude

[ad_1] Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup positioning itself as the builder of a safer kind of chatbot, has released a new version of its AI bot, named Claude.Anthropic said that Claude 2 is available to anyone in the US or UK online at claude.ai, and businesses can access it via an application programming interface. The new release on Tuesday comes several months after Anthropic began offering an earlier version of Claude to businesses that wanted to add it to their products. Previously, the bot was tested by a handful of companies including Quora Inc., which built it into an app called Poe that lets users ask questions. Like its predecessor, Claude 2 is built atop a large language model and can be used for written tasks like summarizing, searching, answering questions and c...
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Macron demands French AI ‘champions’
15Jun By adminNo Comments
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Macron demands French AI ‘champions’

[ad_1] President Emmanuel Macron made a pitch on Wednesday for France to become a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) as he spoke at VivaTech in Paris, one of Europe's biggest technology trade shows. He announced 500 million euros ($543 million) in new funding to "create champions" in AI and praised projects targeting French speakers, as concern grows about Silicon Valley firms fuelling English-language domination of AI systems. Twitter and Tesla boss Elon Musk is scheduled to appear at VivaTech on Friday, when he is likely to talk about his company Neuralink, which recently won US approval for human testing of technology that uses implants to link brains with computers. More than 2,000 firms are displaying at VivaTech, which runs from Wednesday to Saturday, with products ranging f...
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Scale AI CEO Says US Risks Losing AI ‘Ammunition’ Edge to China
8Jun By adminNo Comments
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Scale AI CEO Says US Risks Losing AI ‘Ammunition’ Edge to China

[ad_1] The head of Scale AI, which helps companies like the designer of ChatGPT improve the data that feed their systems, said the US risks losing its edge to China in the quality of data used as “ammunition” for the powerful new tools.The US is at a “critical moment” in its race for AI supremacy against China, Scale AI Chief Executive Officer Alexandr Wang said at summit for government officials organized by his company, a start-up he founded in 2016 after dropping out of MIT. “We're risking America falling behind,” Wang said, adding that China is investing more in AI, both in absolute terms and relative to its larger defense budget. In his presentation, Wang said China's People's Liberation Army invested at least $1.6 billion in the technology in 2020, compared to the US Defense Depar...
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AI chips are hot. Here’s what they’re for and why investors see gold
2Jun By adminNo Comments
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AI chips are hot. Here’s what they’re for and why investors see gold

[ad_1] The hottest thing in technology is an unprepossessing sliver of silicon closely related to the chips that power video game graphics. It's an artificial intelligence chip, designed specifically to make building AI systems such as ChatGPT faster and cheaper.Such chips have suddenly taken center stage in what some experts consider an AI revolution that could reshape the technology sector — and possibly the world along with it. Shares of Nvidia, the leading designer of AI chips, rocketed up almost 25% last Thursday after the company forecast a huge jump in revenue that analysts said indicated soaring sales of its products. The company was briefly worth 80 billion transistors — about 13 million more than Apple's latest high-end processor for its MacBook Pro laptop. Unsurprisingly, thi...
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Nvidia’s CEO Plans Trip to Meet China Executives Despite US Curbs
1Jun By adminNo Comments
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Nvidia’s CEO Plans Trip to Meet China Executives Despite US Curbs

[ad_1] Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang is heading to China to meet with tech executives in the world's biggest chip market, despite rising tensions between Washington and Beijing, according to people familiar with the matter.Huang, who headlined a trade show in Taiwan this week, plans to travel to China for the first time in years in June, said the people, who asked not to be identified because his schedule is private. Companies on his itinerary include gaming leader Tencent Holdings Ltd. and TikTok-owner ByteDance Ltd., one of the people said. Nvidia is emerging as a critical player in the booming field of artificial intelligence, but its position in China has been complicated by geopolitics. US sanctions unveiled by the Biden administration last year prevent the semi...
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OpenAI offers $100,000 grants for ideas on AI governance
26May By adminNo Comments
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OpenAI offers $100,000 grants for ideas on AI governance

[ad_1] OpenAI, the startup behind the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, said Thursday it will award 10 equal grants from a fund of $1 million for experiments in democratic processes to determine how AI software should be governed to address bias and other factors.The $100,000 grants will go to recipients who present compelling frameworks for answering such questions as whether AI ought to criticize public figures and what it should consider the “median individual” in the world, according to a blog post announcing the fund. Critics say AI systems like ChatGPT have inherent bias due to the inputs used to shape their views. Users have found examples of racist or sexist outputs from AI software. Concerns are growing that AI working alongside search engines like Alphabet Inc's...
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