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University of Florida Health, NVIDIA Develop AI Model for Clinical trials, Medical Decision-Making
April 15th, 2021
April 15, 2021 -- Researchers with the University of Florida’s academic health center — UF Health — announced today that they have collaborated with NVIDIA researchers to create GatorTron, an artificial intelligence transformer natural language processing model intended to accelerate research and medical ...
Carleton University and IBM Partner in AI, ML and Data Science for a Future-Ready Workforce
April 15th, 2021
OTTAWA, April 15, 2021 -- Carleton University and IBM Canada today announce a five-year multimillion-dollar collaboration agreement to enhance Carleton’s Institute for Data Science and equip students for essential jobs in emerging digital careers such as artificial intelligence (AI), ...
Pega Process AI Delivers Self-Optimizing Process Automation
April 15th, 2021
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 15, 2021 -- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), a software company, today announced Pega Process AI – a new set of Pega Platform capabilities that help organizations optimize their business and customer operations in real time. By ...
Mipsology and E-Elements Sign APAC Design Partnership for FPGA-Based Neural Network Inference Acceleration
April 14th, 2021
SILICON VALLEY, Calif., April 14, 2021 -- AI software innovator Mipsology today announced a design partnership with E-Elements, a Taiwan-based supplier of professional FPGA service training, design, and technological services. E-Elements will bundle Xilinx solutions enhanced with Mipsology’s Zebra ...
IBM, Red Hat and Cobuilder Spearhead Development of Platform for Construction Industry
April 14th, 2021
ARMONK, N.Y. and LONDON, April 14, 2021 -- IBM , Red Hat and Cobuilder today announced a global collaboration to co-develop OpenBuilt, a new platform designed to help securely connect fragmented construction industry supply chains. Built on Red ...
Microsoft Accelerates Industry Cloud Strategy for Healthcare with Acquisition of Nuance
April 14th, 2021
REDMOND, Wash., and BURLINGTON, Mass., April 14, 2021 -- Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Nuance for $56.00 per share, implying a ...
SambaNova Systems Raises $676M in Series D, Surpasses $5B Valuation
April 13th, 2021
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 13, 2021 -- SambaNova Systems, a company building advanced software, hardware and services to run AI applications, today announced a $676 million Series D funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The round includes ...
Mavenir and Xilinx Collaborate to Bring to Market Open RAN Massive MIMO Portfolio
April 13th, 2021
RICHARDSON, Texas and SAN JOSE, Calif., April 13, 2021 -- Mavenir, an end-to-end cloud-native Network Software Provider and a leader in accelerating software network transformation for communications service providers (CSPs), and Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), a leader in adaptive ...
Logz.io Announces Support for OpenSearch
April 13th, 2021
April 13, 2021 -- Logz.io, a leading cloud-native observability platform for modern DevOps teams, today announced its support for the OpenSearch project, the new fork of the Elasticsearch and Kibana codebases recently unveiled by AWS. Logz.io has been working ...
Grid.ai Launches Platform to Train Machine Learning Models in the Cloud
April 13th, 2021
NEW YORK, April 13, 2021 -- Grid.ai, creators of the popular open-source framework Pytorch Lightning, announced today the general availability of Grid, a new platform that enables researchers and data scientists to train AI models on the cloud at ...