Author Archives: Mariana Iriarte

Mariana Iriarte

AI Chip Start-up Groq to Detail Technology Progress in Fall

August 14th, 2020 (0)

AI chip startup Groq announced this week it had closed its most recent funding round, saying the new investments will help it double in size by the end of this year and double again by the end of next ...

Op-Ed: Poor Countries Are Struggling to Industrialize Their Way to Growth – AI Can Help

August 11th, 2020 (0)

While it is still too early to tell how severely COVID-19 will damage the world’s rich economies, some worry that the devastation will be far worse in poor ones, where healthcare and infrastructure lag. Even before the pandemic, poor ...

AI Career Notes: August 2020 Edition

August 7th, 2020 (0)

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: Katy Crist The SEMI Foundation appointed Katy Crist to the board of trustees. ...

How AI and ML Applications Will Benefit from Vector Processing

July 31st, 2020 (0)

As expected, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications are already having an impact on society. Many industries that we tap into daily—such as banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), and digitized health care—can benefit from AI and ...

Hardware Acceleration of Recurrent Neural Networks: the Need and the Challenges

July 29th, 2020 (0)

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown phenomenal success in several sequence learning tasks such as machine translation, language processing, image captioning, scene labeling, action recognition, time-series forecasting, and music generation. No doubt, CNNs are the most popular neural networks, ...

3 Key Ways AI is Powering the Modern Enterprise

July 24th, 2020 (0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has had a massive impact on the way companies do business, and it goes without saying that the technology is here to stay. An article from Forbes stated that Gartner predicts the business value created by ...

A New Approach to AIoT Data Infrastructure Using NVMe-oF Shared Flash Storage

July 17th, 2020 (0)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is projected to comprise nearly 30 billion connected devices by 2023. These IoT devices create and transfer massive amounts of data over the network. But how do data owners derive intelligence from the data ...

Altair Shows Off Converged Analytics Lineup

July 14th, 2020 (0)

If you’re in the market for analytics or machine learning software, you may want to keep your eyes on Altair Engineering. Best known for its product simulation and computer aided engineering software, Altair has quietly assembled an impressive big ...

AI Career Notes: July 2020 Edition

July 8th, 2020 (0)

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: Dan Fairfax StorCentric appointed Dan Fairfax to its board of advisors. Fairfax has ...

Google Cloud Debuts 16-GPU Ampere A100 Instances

July 7th, 2020 (0)

On the heels of the Nvidia’s Ampere A100 GPU launch in May, Google Cloud is announcing alpha availability of the A100 “Accelerator Optimized” VM A2 instance family on Google Compute Engine. The instances are powered by the HGX A100 ...