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Graphcore unveils next-generation AI chips and plans for powerful supercomputer

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. As large, powerful AI models like OpenAI’s text-generating GPT-3 come into wider use, the hardware traditionally used to train these models — mostly GPUs — will have to be replaced with more efficient solutions. In a 2020 study, MIT researchers found that reducing the error rate on a popular image…
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Gecko Robotics, which captures data to protect critical infrastructure, raises $73M

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Gecko Robotics, a company that provides industrial robotics and asset management software for businesses such as BP and Duke Energy, has raised $73.3 million in a series C round of funding. The raise comes shortly after the American Society of Civil Engineers issued its latest U.S. Infrastructure Report…
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Robots to the rescue: 5 tips to automate effectively

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. By Nate Medoff, managing partner and cofounder of ContinuServe. The US is experiencing a major labor shortage, caused by a variety of factors, such as the shift toward single…
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Meta describes how AI will unlock the metaverse

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. It’s not news that Mark Zuckerberg wants to lead the charge in the emergent metaverse with his company, Meta (formerly Facebook). The recently concluded Meta event titled “Inside the lab: Building for the metaverse with AI” was another step in Meta’s quest to unlock the metaverse with AI, after…
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Breaking down the AI wizardry of 'Microsoft Flight Simulator'

There are some wild stats about Microsoft Flight Simulator. In the sim, all 117 million lakes in the world are rendered in their appropriate places. Each plane has more than 1,000 points that respond to a variety of conditions at any given time, including wind, atmosphere and player input. Developers pushed 2.5 petabytes of Bing Maps satellite photo data through Azure’s machine learning systems…
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