Microsoft plans to make AI more inclusive of people with disabilities
In a new initiative, Microsoft is launching a new series of AI systems that will make AI more accessible to people with disabilities. The project wants to address what it’s calling a ‘data desert’ that has left machine learning algorithms without adequate, relevant data that can be effective ... Read more
Google announces enhanced AI Platform Prediction
The product now includes new hardware options, increased reliability, flexibility, security and ease of use.
Google has announced the general availability of AI Platform Prediction, a service that allows companies to train their machine learning (ML) models at scale, to host their trained models... Read more
Oracle is spending a lot on its high-performance computing cloud services
Oracle is rolling out new offerings which should be very competitive to other cloud vendors. The new offering focusses on high performance cloud computing which is targeted towards customers who need high power for apps that deal with things like AI, video rendering or 3D visualization.
The comp... Read more
Microsoft makes large deep learning models more cost efficient
Breakthroughs in scaling now allows even smaller developers to work with large deep learning models. Microsofts new DeepSpeed tool is a breaktrough in scaling AI.
Microsoft has released a new version of its open-source DeepSpeed tool that it says will enable the creation of "extremely large" d... Read more
Google Cloud adds new features to Contact Center AI and Document AI
Google Cloud announced that they are adding new capabilities to their Cloud AI portfolio. Contact Center AI and Document AI are getting lot smarter.
New features are added to the Contact Center AI and Document AI. They also announced that they would improve the AI Platform for practitioners in ... Read more
Global AI spend is going to double in less than five years
Over the next four years, businesses worldwide will spend double the current budgets on AI. The new report from IDC claims that global spending will surpass $110 billion by 2024, from the current $50.1 billion.
According to the stats for the 2019-2024 period, the compound annual growth rate will... Read more
Immersive Reader from Azure is now available for the public
Microsoft announced that their Immersive Reader, a service for developers who want to add text-to-speech and other reading comprehension tools to their apps, is now available to the general public.
The Immersive Reader is part of Azure's Cognitive Services suite in Ai products. It allows develop... Read more
Google Anthos update focuses on modernizing applications
Google has further expanded the capabilities of its hybrid cloud development and management platform Google Anthos. The update focuses on modernizing the most critical business applications. This needs to be faster and more flexible.
With the Google Anthos platform, companies can develop c... Read more
Facebook releases tools that will help AI navigate the physical world
Facebook has announced that they are well on their way to creating assistants capable of understanding and interacting with the physical world, in much the same way that people do. The social media giant announced progress that implies the future of their AI program is going to involve exciting adv... Read more
The launch of WorldForge by AWS will enable AI simulations
On Tuesday this week, Amazon Web Services launched WorldForge, a tool that robotics developers can use to test autonomous machines and AI models that power the robots, in simulated environments. The new tool is part of the larger RoboMaker, an AWS-developed service.
RoboMakers was developed to b... Read more