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White House touts new AI safety consortium: Over 200 leading firms to test and evaluate models

February 9, 2024
One day after appointing a top White House aide as director of the new US AI Safety Institute (USAISI) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Biden Administration announced the creation of the US AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), which it called “the first-ever consortium dedicated to AI safety.” The coalition includes more than 200 member companies and…
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When is ART useful? When it’s IBM’s Adversarial Robustness Toolbox for AI

February 8, 2024
IBM is hoping to advance the state of the art for artificial intelligence (AI) security with an open source project called the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART). Today, ART is being made available on Hugging Face as a set of tools that will help AI users and data scientists reduce potential security risks. While ART on HuggingFace is new, the overall effort is not. ART was started back in 2018…
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NVIDIA and Supermicro on the gen AI tech stack critical for success

February 7, 2024
Generative AI offers real ROI — but also consumes a huge amount of compute and resources. In this VB Spotlight event, leaders from NVIDIA and Supermicro share how to identify critical use cases and the build the AI-ready platform that’s crucial for success. Generative AI could add the equivalent of $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually across industries. But it’s also resource-hungry…
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AMD unveils Embedded+ architecture for edge AI hardware

February 7, 2024
Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its brand new Embedded+ architecture, a fusion of AMD Ryzen Embedded processors with Versal adaptive System-on-Chips (SoCs) on a unified integrated board. These chips — a hybrid of PC processors and Xilinx programmable chips — are…
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Apple’s new AI research promises high performance without the high price tag

February 6, 2024
Language models are powerful tools that can generate natural language for a variety of tasks, such as summarizing, translating, answering questions and writing essays. But they are also expensive to train and run, especially for specialized domains that require high accuracy and low latency. That’s where Apple’s latest AI research comes in. The iPhone maker has just published a major…
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