At its fall 2021 GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Nvidia unveiled Riva Custom Voice, a new toolkit that the company claims can enable customers to create custom, “human-like” voices with only 30 minutes of speech recording data. According to Nvidia, businesses can use Riva Custom Voice to develop a virtual assistant with a unique voice, while call centers and developers can leverage it to…
Nvidia’s enterprise AI development LaunchPad program goes global
November 9, 2021
At its ongoing GTC conference, computing giant Nvidia has announced the expansion of its AI LaunchPad program, making it available at 10 locations around the world — Silicon Valley, Dallas, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Singapore, and…
Nvidia debuts ReOpt to optimize supply chain routing with AI
November 9, 2021
During a keynote address at its fall 2021 GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Nvidia debuted ReOpt, a software package that combines local search heuristics algorithms and “metaheuristics” to optimize vehicle route planning and distribution. According to the company, ReOpt…
Santa Clara, California-based company, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), says its “Milan-X” AMD EPYC processors with 3D V-Cache, to launch in early 2022, will deliver a “50% average uplift” to technical computing workloads.
It also said its Instinct MI200 GPUs, to also launch in early 2022, will boost high-performance computing (HPC) and AI. AMD made the announcements today at its Accelerated…
AI Weekly: Corporate AI labs’ turn toward commercial research highlights need for investment in basic science
November 9, 2021
Google’s parent company Alphabet last week launched a subsidiary focused on AI-powered drug discovery called Isomorphic Labs. Helmed by Demis Hassabis, the cofounder of DeepMind, Isomorphic will use AI to identify disease treatments that have thus far eluded researchers…
Enterprise adoption of AI technology is increasing, but there is still a substantial amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) among the knowledge workforce that could hamper its deployment and perhaps the ultimate success of key initiatives.
Resistance to new software…
A majority of global executives who have implemented artificial intelligence in some form in their business report that the new-age technology has been instrumental in driving financial and cultural benefits at the team and organizational levels, a new study reported on Tuesday.
According to the joint report, published by MIT’s Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group, more than…
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Palo Alto, California-based Landing AI, the AI startup led by Andrew Ng — the cofounder of Google Brain, one of Google’s AI research divisions — today…
Using AI to verify renter eligibility and risk
November 5, 2021
Imagine a software app that creates peace and understanding between landlords and tenants. How much value would that have in this world of constant rental turnover and strife?
This is the challenge taken on by Obligo, a New York-based fintech company that is using AI and…
Enterprise deployment of AI and machine learning (ML) for cash flow forecasting is expected to increase 450% over the next two years, according to the recently released 2021 Cash Forecasting & Visibility Survey from GTreasury and Strategic Treasurer. The survey of nearly 250 enterprises across industries highlights a growing appetite for AI/ML modernization among finance and treasury teams…
