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Nvidia, NERSC claim Perlmutter is world’s fastest AI supercomputer

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Nvidia and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) on Thursday flipped the “on” switch for Perlmutter, billed as the world’s fastest supercomputer for AI workloads. Named for astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter, the new supercomputer boasts 6,144 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and will be tasked with…
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Baidu debuts updated AI framework and R&D initiative

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. At Wave Summit, Baidu’s bi-annual deep learning conference, the company announced version 2.1 of PaddlePaddle, its framework for AI and machine learning model development. Among the highlights are a…
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Eys3D raises $7M for AI edge sensor technology

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Eys3D Microelectronics, a company producing chips and sensors for autonomous operations including security, touchless control, autonomous vehicles, and smart retail, today announced that it’s raised $7 million in a series A round led by strategic partners Arm IoT Capital, WI Harper Group, and Marubun Corporation. The…
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Microsoft uses GPT-3 to add AI features to Power Apps

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. During its Build developer conference, Microsoft unveiled the first features in one of its products — Power Apps — powered by GPT-3, the natural language model developed by OpenAI. Microsoft says this will make it easier for users to build apps without needing to know how to write computer code or formulas, and the…
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Facebook’s Dynabench now scores NLP models for metrics like ‘fairness’

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Last September, Facebook introduced Dynabench, a platform for AI data collection and benchmarking that uses humans and models “in the loop” to create challenging test datasets. Leveraging a technique called dynamic adversarial data collection, Dynabench measures how easily humans can fool AI, which Facebook believes is…
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