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Oracle Updates Fusion Cloud ERP And EPM, Racking Up New Customers In The Process

By / AI and Machine Learning, Enterprise Apps, Enterprise SaaS / July 17, 2021

The great thing about the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model is that the innovation keeps rolling with updates delivered quarterly in the cloud to every customer. This latest quarterly update from Oracle is very consistent with previous updates: new integrations across the suite, machine learning features and user experience enhancements.  I have been following the progress of Oracle Fusion …

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IBM CodeNet: Artificial Intelligence That Can Program Computers And Solve A $100 Billion Legacy Code Problem

By / AI and Machine Learning, Research / June 24, 2021

Computer scientists have long toyed with the idea of creating computers that could write programs for other computers. Artificial intelligence is an obvious technology for the task. It has been previously used for programming on a small scale but unfortunately the results have been limited. Artificial intelligence is one of our most powerful and versatile …

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The Finnish Post Reinvents Itself With New Technologies Including Robotic Process Automation And Gamification

By / AI and Machine Learning, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Collaboration, Research / June 23, 2021

The Finnish Postal Service, known locally as the Posti Group, is one of the oldest companies in Finland. A few years ago, Posti realized the traditional postal and letter business was declining rapidly while parcel volumes were increasing. To remain competitive, Posti Group needed to fundamentally change the way it operated, replacing legacy systems and …

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Google’s Data Cloud Summit Serves Up A Breadth Of New Capabilities

By / AI and Machine Learning, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Research / June 23, 2021

I mentioned in my preview of the Google Data Cloud Summit this week that I was expecting some exciting technology announcements for AI, machine learning, data management, and analytics. Google did not disappoint in that department.  The Google Cloud stated mission is to accelerate every organization’s ability to transform through data-powered innovation. A theme that should come as …

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IBM Think 2021- All In On Hybrid Cloud And AI

By / AI and Machine Learning, Hybrid cloud, Research / May 26, 2021

IBM is in the middle of a company transformation. With CEO Arvind Krishna and President Jim Whitehurst at the helm for a year, the company is going all-in on the cloud with its Red Hat and other investments and getting in a better posture for growth and focus with its recent Kyndryl spin-out. At the …

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NVIDIA Crushes Latest Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking Tests

By / AI and Machine Learning, Research / May 4, 2021

In its third round of submissions, MLCommons released results for MLPerf Inference v1.0.  MLPerf is a set of standard AI inference benchmarking tests using seven different applications. These seven tests include a range of workloads that include computer vision, medical imaging, recommender systems, speech recognition, and natural language processing. MLPerf benchmarking measures how fast a trained neural …

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NVIDIA Announces Technology For Training Giant Artificial Intelligence Models

By / AI and Machine Learning, Research / April 29, 2021

NVIDIA GTC is the premier annual conference for developers, scientists, and businesses interested in machine learning or artificial intelligence. According to NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang, over 100,000 attended this year’s virtual event. Following tradition, NVIDIA made GTC 2021 a stage for many significant ML, AI, networking, and data center announcements. One of Huang’s most …

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Synaptics Unsheathes New Katana Low Power Edge AI Platform

By / AI and Machine Learning, Internet of Things IoT, Research / February 11, 2021

While many eyes, including mine, were on CES this week, today, I wanted to talk about a tech announcement that may have flown under the radar in the run-up to the holidays. I’ve been following Synaptics for some time now and watched it progress from Synaptics 1.0 (PC trackpads, etc.) to 2.0 (mobile, fingerprint readers) …

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AI Cambrian Explosion: 2021 Predictions

By / AI and Machine Learning, Research / January 25, 2021

For the last two years, in January, I have published my predictions about the new AI silicon I expect in the coming year. Like the weatherman, I’ve gotten some details wrong but I’ve been reasonably accurate, at least directionally. So, here we go again with a look at likely 2021 advancements and possible failures. I …

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Graphcore Raises Yet Another Round

By / AI and Machine Learning, Corporate, Research / January 15, 2021

One would think, or hope, that a startup shipping its second-generation AI chips and software stack would be content to have over $200M in the bank to fund future development and market penetration. For UK AI startup Graphcore, that is a lot of money. When you are a darling in a fast-growing land grab, though, …

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AI Is More Than A Buzzword And Being Deployed Now On Ships And Golf Carts

By / AI and Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Research / January 15, 2021

More than ever, organizations are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to bring efficiency, productivity gains, and a return on investment. In these uncertain times, AI is a powerful differentiator for companies of all sizes to transform digitally. In recent years, the cloud has become integral in advancing AI as vendors offering years of research and tools …

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Never Heard Of Silicon Lifecycle Management? Join The Club.

By / AI and Machine Learning, Research / January 11, 2021

Product Lifecycle Management offerings have helped companies manage their product lifecycles for decades, reducing costs, improving quality and making customers happy. Surprisingly, though, such a process is not in place for the silicon chips used in almost everything these days. While the semiconductor industry has matured on many fronts, producing vast quantities of faster, cheaper …

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Amazon AWS Ramps New Hardware For AI

By / AI and Machine Learning, Research / January 11, 2021

AWS’s annual re:Invent conference this year included big news from CEO Andy Jassy and AI VP Swami Sivasubramanian. AWS launched two new hardware platforms for AI and significantly expanded its SageMaker software to simplify running AI models on AWS at maximum performance. When I look at the breadth of AI software, the depth of AI …

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AI Is More Than A Buzzword And Being Deployed Now On Ships And Golf Carts

By / AI and Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Research / January 11, 2021

More than ever, organizations are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to bring efficiency, productivity gains, and a return on investment. In these uncertain times, AI is a powerful differentiator for companies of all sizes to transform digitally. In recent years, the cloud has become integral in advancing AI as vendors offering years of research and tools …

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The Cambrian AI Explosion Ramps Up

By / AI and Machine Learning, Research / December 15, 2020

There’s been a lot of news lately on the AI chip front, so I wanted to share a short synopsis of what has been happening for anyone who may be distracted by the holidays. I will flesh these stories out further before my annual Cambrian AI Explosion blog in January here on Forbes.  Let’s start with the …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Qualcomm: A New Force In Cloud AI

By / AI and Machine Learning, Research, Research Papers / December 15, 2020

Qualcomm announced the first shipments of the Cloud AI 100 family of products, thus entering the data center, cloud edge, edge appliance and 5G infrastructure markets for accelerated artificial intelligence (AI) processing. Qualcomm has demonstrated its AI and power-efficiency capabilities for many years with the Snapdragon family of SoCs for mobile, networking and embedded markets. …

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5G And AI: Complementary Technologies Now And Into The Future

By / 5G, AI and Machine Learning / December 14, 2020

There is a lot of buzz in the technology sector around AI and 5G and their transformative potential. What is interesting about both technologies is that they are universally applicable across many industries and are likely to change the way many of them operate. For that matter, each technology has its own set of use …

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NVIDIA Outperforms Itself Once Again

By / AI and Machine Learning, Research, Semiconductor / November 24, 2020

When the only company you can beat is yourself, what do you do? After all, you are the leader, right? And nobody else is even suited up and on the court. Some companies might rest on their laurels, saving money and slowing down R&D. NVIDIA is not one of those companies.  Two years ago, the …

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AWS Inferentia Gathers More Steam With Alexa, Snap, Anthem, And Conde Nast

By / AI and Machine Learning, Corporate, Research / November 24, 2020

There’s no way around it—as 2020 draws close to an end, machine learning (ML) is hot and getting hotter. Heavy hitters and startups alike have gotten into the game to compete with NVIDIA and its formidable GPUs. The competition includes Google (with its TPUs), AMD (who recently announced the intention to acquire Xilinx and its …

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AMD Goes After NVIDIA With New GPU For The Datacenter

By / AI and Machine Learning, Datacenter, Research, Semiconductor / November 24, 2020

Today AMD announced its first data center GPU to compete in high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Last year, the company announced that it would bifurcate its GPU technology into two architectures: CDNA for computation and RDNA for graphics. This approach is now coming to fruition and should allow the company to optimize chips …

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