AI & Robotics

The quest for the ultimate battery has just taken a significant leap forward. Microsoft and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have announced a new multi-year collaboration to accelerate scientific discovery and sustainable energy research using artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Their tool of choice? Microsoft’s Azure Quantum platform is a…

Unistellar is extending its pursuit of backyard astronomers with the launch of a new generation of its AI telescopes dubbed the Odyssey Smart Telescope. This new generation from Marseille, France and San Francisco-based Unistellar is being unveiled at CES 2024, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. The promise is to bring the cosmos closer than ever before through a transformative stargazing…

Siemens and Microsoft have teamed up to drive cross-industry adoption for artificial intelligence. The companies made the announcement at CES 2024 during the opening keynote speech of Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens, as they announced the Siemens Industrial Copilot. That’s a generative AI-powered assistant aiming to amplify human-machine collaboration and productivity across various sectors. The…

The industry shift towards deploying smaller, more specialized — and therefore more efficient — AI models mirrors a transformation we’ve previously witnessed in the hardware world. Namely, the adoption of graphics processing units (GPUs), tensor processing units (TPUs) and other hardware accelerators as means to more efficient computing.  There’s a simple explanation for both cases, and…