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Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.AWS re:Invent 2021 Begins As New CEO Adam Selipsky Takes the Reins
November 29th, 2021 Comments Off on AWS re:Invent 2021 Begins As New CEO Adam Selipsky Takes the Reins
As the 2021 AWS re:Invent conference opens this week live and virtually in Las Vegas, Adam Selipsky, who took over the CEO position with the departure of Andy Jassy earlier this year, will begin to make his own mark ...
Landing AI, Andrew Ng’s Computer Vision Startup, Secures $57 Million in Series A Funding
November 9th, 2021 Comments Off on Landing AI, Andrew Ng’s Computer Vision Startup, Secures $57 Million in Series A Funding
Landing AI, the computer vision startup founded by the computer scientist Andrew Ng to use AI to modernize business process in real-world companies, today announced that it has raised $57 million in a Series A round of funding led ...
Deloitte Consulting Report Sees Expanding, Maturing AI Uses Across Enterprises
October 29th, 2021 (1)
As the rapid uptake of AI in the enterprise continues across the board, a new report by Deloitte Consulting has found that there are big differences in the results and workflows in the AI practices being explored by businesses. ...
Shortage of Chips Hurts AI, But Problems Go Deeper
October 19th, 2021 Comments Off on Shortage of Chips Hurts AI, But Problems Go Deeper
The impacts of the chip shortage can be spotted everywhere: from higher prices on home appliances to empty new car lots to higher prices for consumer devices. Processor-hungry AI applications are feeling the pinch, but according to SambaNova’s CEO, ...
Here’s How eBay Is Using Optimization Techniques to Scale AI For Its Recommendation Systems
September 15th, 2021 Comments Off on Here’s How eBay Is Using Optimization Techniques to Scale AI For Its Recommendation Systems
Getting the software right is important when developing machine learning models, such as recommendation or classification systems. But at eBay, optimizing the software to run on a particular piece of hardware using distillation and quantization techniques was absolutely essential ...
Nvidia Makes Its Enterprise AI Software Generally Available to Users
August 25th, 2021 Comments Off on Nvidia Makes Its Enterprise AI Software Generally Available to Users
After months in early release, Nvidia today announced the general availability of Nvidia AI Enterprise, a new software offering that’s designed to bring AI capabilities to the masses via VMware’s vSphere. The announcement also includes precertification of AI Enterprise ...
Dataiku Captures $400 Million Series E Round Funding to Grow Its Data Science and ML Platform
August 5th, 2021 Comments Off on Dataiku Captures $400 Million Series E Round Funding to Grow Its Data Science and ML Platform
Data science platform maker Dataiku has reeled in another $400 million in venture capital, giving it nearly $647 million in funding since it was founded in 2012. This latest $400 million, which comes in as a Series E Round, ...
AI Bringing New Insights to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo
July 29th, 2021 Comments Off on AI Bringing New Insights to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo
You may not be noticing it much on your television, smartphone or tablet screens, but the TV coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (which of course are being held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) are infused with ...
DataRobot’s Busy Day: Nabs $300M in Series G Funding and Acquires Algorithmia
July 27th, 2021 Comments Off on DataRobot’s Busy Day: Nabs $300M in Series G Funding and Acquires Algorithmia
In a move to solidify its position in the emerging market for enterprise AI platforms, DataRobot today announced the completion of a $300 million Series G round of funding. The Boston company also announced the acquisition of MLOps provider ...
Nvidia’s Speedy New Inference Engine Keeps BERT Latency Within a Millisecond
July 21st, 2021 Comments Off on Nvidia’s Speedy New Inference Engine Keeps BERT Latency Within a Millisecond
Disappointment abounds when your data scientists dial in the accuracy on deep learning models to a high degree but are then eventually forced to gut the model for inference because of resource constraints. Fortunately, that will not happen often ...