Arm-based server has received a massive endorsement from industry benchmarking group MLCommons. The new server aced the group’s MLPerf benchmarks on inference tests in the data centre category. The latest benchmarks show that NVIDIA GPU-powered […]
Category: Artificial intelligence
Towards expressive speech in conversational AI
Synthesised speech is nothing new — think virtual assistants for smartphones and smart speakers, and GPS assistance. They may sound robotic and monotonous, even when there are choices of voice or accent. All these is […]
IBM reveals Telum processor
IBM has unveiled its new IBM Telum processor that brings deep learning inference to enterprise workloads to help address fraud in real-time. The first Telum-based system is expected to be out by the first half […]
NVIDIA announces global availability of NVIDIA AI Enterprise software
NVIDIA has announced that it now has the NVIDIA AI Enterprise, a full software package that includes AI tools and structures that can virtualise AI workloads on NVIDIA-Certified Systems for hundreds of thousands of organisations […]
CyberLink teams up with QNAP on smart facial recognition solution
CyberLink is partnering with QNAP Systems to integrate CyberLink’s FaceMe facial recognition engine into QNAP’s QVR Face and QVR Face Link smart facial recognition solutions. The integration will enable QVR Face Link to recognise people’s […]
Baidu upgrades AI platform, starts mass producing AI chip
Baidu has launched the Baidu Brain 7.0 open AI platform and started mass producing the Kunlun II AI chip. The newly upgraded Baidu Brain 7.0 offers greater integration of a wide array of knowledge sources […]
Women in AI: It’s about attitude and passion
By Chloe Lim While data science is a relatively new field, the percentage of women data scientists is low compare to men. However, panellists at a H2O.ai online session believe that it’s just a matter […]
Mahidol University powers drug discovery research with NVIDIA platform
Thailand’s new AI Center at Mahidol University (MU) is powering drug discovery research with the NVIDIA DGX A100 systems and the NVIDIA Clara platform. Housed at the university’s Salaya campus, the centre will initially support […]
NVIDIA announces compact RTX A2000 GPU
By KL Lim NVIDIA has expanded its professional GPUs range with the compact NVIDIA RTX A2000, which is deigned to fit even small form factor workstations. Based on the Ampere architecture, RTX A2000 will empower […]
AEye opens in Japan
LiDAR solution provider AEye has opened an office in Tokyo to better support and grow its automotive, mobility and industrial partners suppliers, customers, and system integrators. AEye’s intelligent LiDAR (iDAR) leverages deterministic AI to focus […]
SambaNova and ScaleWorX align to drive AI adoption in APAC
SambaNova Systems and ScaleWorX are partnering to drive AI adoption in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the partnership, ScaleWorX will offer innovative and best-in-class AI solutions from SambaNova to its end users. It will implement SambaNova’s […]
NVIDIA AI software halves inference time for language queries
NVIDIA has launched the eighth generation of the TensorRT AI software that slices inference time in half for language queries to help developers build search engines, ad recommendations and chatbots. TensorRT 8 delivers the speed […]
2 in 3 Indian organisations in early AI adoption
Artificial intelligence (AI) is THE must-do technology these days. In India, two out of three organisations are exploring AI technologies to enhance customer experience, improve operations, and enhance decision-making, according to IDC. However, only 8.4 […]
CyberLink partners with Asus on smart IoT/AIoT apps
CyberLink has linked up with Asus to develop a solution with integrated facial-recognition capabilities for use in areas such as security, access control, visitor management and contactless experiences for retail, public services, and hospitality. The […]
NVIDIA-based AI systems ace MLPerf benchmarks
For years, hardware enthusiasts have been pushing their graphics cards to gain the best possible performance in benchmark tests. That’s no different at the top end where GPU-accelerated AI systems are tested on their capabilities […]
NVIDIA gives enterprises leg up with instant AI infrastructure
Building an AI infrastructure can be a daunting endeavour. But help is at hand with the NVIDIA AI LaunchPad to give enterprises a leg up in their AI efforts. Delivered through hybrid-cloud providers, the comprehensive […]
GlobalFoundries building new plant in Singapore
GlobalFoundries (GF) is building a new fab plant on its Singapore campus to meet the growing demand for semiconductors globally. The more than US$4 billion investment is in partnership with Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) and […]
yellow.ai brings voice bots to SEA
yellow.ai has added Voice AI bots on its customer experience platform, in addition to existing channels such as Facebook, Instagram, Kakaotalk, Line, Website, and WhatsApp. The human-like voice AI bots can understand sentiments, intent and […]
NVIDIA toughens up Jetson AGX Xavier
NVIDIA has introduced a hardened version of NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier system-on-module that can withstand harsh environments. Called NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial module, it is built for intelligent video analytics, optical inspection, robotics, computer […]
Accenture to buy umlaut
Accenture has agreed to acquire German engineering consultancy and services firm umlaut. The acquisition should boost Accenture’s deep engineering capabilities to help companies use digital technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence and cloud to transform […]
Transforming 3D workflows
Before anything is made, it is first designed. And whether it is a design or simulation, 3D workflow has become an essential component of every industry. Designers, engineers and simulation experts need physically based, photorealistic […]
Rise of AI-infused industrial systems with superhuman capabilities
Economists are calling AI a general-purpose technology – an innovation that does not serve a singular purpose but impacts all existing industries – that has ignited the 4th Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0. With the […]
AI redefines driving experience, transforms transportation industry
The transportation industry is going through a major transition with vehicles defined not by horsepower but by computing capability. Driving this revolution is AI and the immense possibilities that it brings by powering autonomous vehicles […]
NVIDIA CEO: AI is powerful force as computer industry reshapes
What is Computex without NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang? When the NVIDIA keynote was helmed by two NVIDIA executives — Jeff Fisher, GeForce Senior Vice PresidentManuvir Das, Head of Enterprise Computing — it seems like the […]
Fast production AI scaling with NVIDIA Base Command Platform
NVIDIA kicked off its Computex activities by unveiling the NVIDIA Base Command Platform that lets enterprises move their AI projects swiftly from prototypes to production. The platform is designed for large-scale, multi-user and multi-team AI […]
NVIDIA-Certified Systems programme gathers momentum
NVIDIA announced at Computex that dozens of new servers have been added to its NVIDIA-Certified Systems programme. The list has now grown to more than 50 systems with the latest additions coming from the likes […]
NERSC dedicates world’s fastest AI supercomputer
The numbers are insane. 1 powerful AI supercomputer = 4 exaflops of AI performance.driven by 6,159 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. That’s the Perlmutter, the new fastest AI supercomputer named after astrophysicist Saul Permutter. It […]
little Birdie nets A$30m CBA investment
Little Birdie has received A$30 million investment from Commonwealth Bank (CBA), ahead of its launch next month (June 2021). The investment values the online shopping startup at A$130 million, making it among the largest pre-launch […]
Thailand’s biobank powers up genomic sequencing
Tasked to drive genomic medicine in thailand, the National Biobank of Thailand (NBT) has added a NVIDIA DGX A100 system and NVIDIA Clara Parabricks sequencing analysis software to accelerate its genomic sequencing research. In 2019, […]
IBM opens new frontier with 2nm chip technology
IBM has snuck ahead in the semiconductor race by announcing earlier this month the world’s first chip with 2 nanometer (nm) nanosheet technology. Intel and TSMC had previously shared roadmaps with similar technology coming up […]
