AI, Quantum Patents Soared in 2020
Machine learning was among the fastest growing technologies in terms of U.S. patent grants during 2020, an annual survey reveals. AI and machine learning ranked fourth in a list ...Full Article
Honing In on AI, U.S. Launches National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office
To drive American leadership in the field of AI into the future, the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office has been launched by the White House Office of Science and ...Full Article
Intel to Ramp Up ‘Ice Lake’ Chip Production
Intel Corp. used this week’s virtual CES 2021 event to reassert its dominance of the data center with the formal roll out of its next-generation server chip, the 10nm ...Full Article
$400M in Additional Series C Funding Raised by Automotive AI Chip Vendor Horizon Robotics
Horizon Robotics, a Chinese automotive AI chip startup that is developing specialized, complex chips for use in autonomous vehicles, has raised another $400 million in its latest Series C ...Full Article
Syntiant Aims New AI Chip at ‘Always-On’ Edge
Addressing power constraints for “always-on” edge devices, the latest neural processor from Syntiant Corp. is designed to run multiple applications simultaneously while limiting energy budgets. The custom AI silicon ...Full Article
Chinese AI Chip Startup Enflame Brings in $278.5M in New Funding
Enflame Technology, a Chinese AI startup developing deep learning chips for AI training, has secured another $278.5 million in funding from government and industry investors. The latest investor group ...Full Article
Open Source Luminary Tapped By Incoming Biden-Harris White House for Tech Post
Open source software leader David Recordon, who built Facebook’s first open source programs team and has long been involved in a wide range of open source community projects, has ...Full Article
OpenAI Extends GPT-3 to Combine NLP with Images
A pair of neural networks unleashed by GPT-3 developer OpenAI use text in the form of image captions as a way of generating images, a predictive approach that developers ...Full Article
AI Career Notes: January 2021 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades: Nicole Anasenes and ...Full Article
Industry Veteran Jim Keller Joins Tenstorrent as President and CTO
Jim Keller has already had a storied career. Over the past few decades, Keller (pictured left) has worked everywhere from AMD to Tesla, helping to develop new chips and ...Full Article
