Author Archives: Todd R. Weiss

Todd R. Weiss

LG AI Research Adds Another $89M Investment To Its Super-Giant AI Dreams

May 27th, 2021 (0)

In December of 2020, consumer electronics giant LG quietly launched an LG AI Research division in South Korea to develop new kinds of AI technologies that can bring increased value and intriguing services to consumer and business customers around ...

IBM Joins Effort to Build $200M AI, Cloud, Quantum Discovery Accelerator at the University of Illinois

May 26th, 2021 (0)

With demands for AI, hybrid cloud and quantum computing expanding daily, IBM is joining an initiative to build a Discovery Accelerator Institute at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana to drive new research and innovations in some of the ...

For First Time, Microsoft Integrating GPT-3 Into Its Software

May 25th, 2021 (0)

MICROSOFT BUILD 2021 – Eight months after licensing the GPT-3 natural language AI model from OpenAI last September, Microsoft is integrating the language generator into its Microsoft Power Apps software to make it easier for enterprise workers to build ...

Smart Investors Support Enterprise AI that Creates Jobs and Helps Employees

May 21st, 2021 (0)

Entrepreneurs and investors regularly dismiss claims that artificial intelligence will replace people in the workplace. AI needs humans to function, they say, and AI doesn’t want to take the place of workers. This response rings hollow to critics, however, because ...

Google’s Latest TPU v4 to Play Big Role in Google’s Growing ML Training Compute Services

May 20th, 2021 (0)

GOOGLE I/O 2021 – Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke for only one minute and 42 seconds about the company’s latest TPU v4 Tensor Processing Units during his keynote at the Google I/O virtual conference this week, but it may ...

Easing Machine Learning for Developers, Google’s Vertex AI Managed ML Platform Now Available

May 19th, 2021 (0)

Google Cloud has been busy over the last few years building a wide range of AI and machine learning tools for developers to help them find real-world uses for AI and ML within their enterprises. But as the tools ...

Toyota, GM Sign Tech Partners to Expand Vehicle Advanced Driver-Assistance Capabilities

May 18th, 2021 (0)

With cars and trucks constantly gaining new driver-assistance features to increase on-the-road safety, two of the world’s largest automakers are bringing in new partners to help boost their technologies. In the latest moves, Toyota has signed on ZF and ...

Google Cloud Data Centers to Host Ground Stations for SpaceX’s Starlink Satellite Internet Services

May 14th, 2021 (0)

As Elon Musk’s SpaceX continues to build out and test its beta Starlink high-speed, satellite-based internet services, Google Cloud has signed up as a partner to host ground stations within its data centers to link up with the fledgling ...

With $70M in New Series C Funding, Mythic AI Plans Mass Production of Its Inferencing Chips

May 13th, 2021 (0)

Six months after unveiling its first M1108 Analog Matrix Processor (AMP) for AI inferencing, Mythic AI has just received a new $70 million Series C investment round to bring the chips to mass production and to develop its next ...

AI Startup NeuReality Aims Its Inference Platform to ‘Replace Outdated AI System Architecture’

May 12th, 2021 (0)

Only three months after emerging from stealth with $8 million in seed funding, Israeli AI startup NeuReality has revealed plans for its all-new NR1-P novel AI-centric inference platform, which the company claims will provide a 15X improvement in performance ...