H2O.ai has announced general availability of the H2O Document AI machine learning service that understands, processes and manages the large volume and types of documents and unstructured text data that businesses and organisations handle every […]
Category: Artificial intelligence
VNPAY deploys NVIDIA DGX A100 to supercharge fintech innovations
Fintech company VNPAY is utilising the NVIDIA DGX A100 system to enable AI applications for partners and customers. An example is the electronic-Know-Your-Customer (eKYC) service developed for Vietcombank and VietinBank. About 70 percent of the […]
NUHS embarks on AI endeavour
Singapore’s National University Health System (NUHS) has placed the NVIDIA DGX A100 system at the heart of its newly-launched Endeavour AI production platform. The first projects to run on the platform are range from predictions […]
Say it and a picture is painted
Not a painter? No problem because all you need to do is say a few words and the latest version of GauGAN2 can produce a picture. Building on the power of artificial intelligence (AI), the […]
Global AI software market to grow 21.3% in 2022
Pandemic notwithstanding, artificial intelligence (AI) adoption continues to power ahead with global AI software market expected to grow 21.3 percent to US$62.5 billion in 2022. According to Gartner’s definition, this market covers applications with AI […]
Informatica Cloud Data Marketplace delivers data democratisation
Informatica has announced the Cloud Data Marketplace that lets organisations share data, improve productivity and make more informed decisions. Cloud Data Marketplace allows onboarding of curated data assets from any source, across multi-cloud and hybrid […]
See the future with Earth-2 supercomputer
Earth-2 was first mentioned by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at the close of his GPU Technology keynote address earlier this week. It’s obviously a topic that’s close to his heart because he has written a […]
7 key announcements at GTC
True to form, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered a stirring keynote address at GTC yesterday. Clad in his usual black leather jacket, he announced a million developments (or at least, it felt like it) in […]
H2O.ai receives US$100m boost with CBA stake
H2O.ai has received US$100 million Series E funding from a group led by Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), its customer turned part owner. With the latest cash injection, the AI Cloud company has now raised […]
H2O.ai champions bushwire fight
Bushwires are deadly and destructive, causing many to lose their homes and possessions every year. H2O.ai has launched the Wildfire Challenge to get contestants to build AI prediction models to tackle this disaster. The challenge […]
GTC keynote to focus on AI advances, including metaverse
GPU Technology Conference (GTC) will kick off with a keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on how AI is impacting industries. In his address on November 9, 4pm, Huang will reveal the latest technology for […]
Lim Hsin Yin is SAS’ new Singapore MD
SAS has appointed Lim Hsin Yin as its new Managing Director for Singapore. She will be responsible for driving the growth of SAS’s business in Singapore, with a focus on accelerating customer adoption of AI […]
NVIDIA deepens support for ROS
NVIDIA has added tools in its Isaac developer toolbox to provide greater support for the Robot Operating System (ROS). Announced in conjunction with ROS World 2021, the deepened support will deliver performant perception technologies to […]
Baidu’s AI algorithm helps in COVID-19 Vaccine Development
Stemirna Therapeutics has leveraged Baidu’s LinearDesign AI algorithm to complete pre-clinical studies on mRNA vaccine sequences for COVID-19. According to the studies, the LinearDesign-based mRNA sequences significantly outperform benchmark sequences designed by traditional algorithms in […]
Creston enhances hybrid meeting experience
Crestron is enhancing the Crestron Flex platform with intelligent video support from Jabra and Huddly to facilitate meetings both in the office or at home. The Crestron Flex platform provides purpose-built devices for every space […]
Arm-based servers ace AI benchmark on debut
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 […]
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 […]
India IT and business services market growth slows down in 2020
India’s IT and business services market grew to US$13.41b in 2020, according to IDC. However, the 5.41 percent year-over-year growth was slowed down by the pandemic. In 2019, the market enjoyed 8.43 percent increase from […]
Parler back on App Store
After a four-month suspension, Parler has returned to App Store following some tweaks to meet Apple’s requirements. It is a welcome move for the social media platform, which was removed from App Store after the […]
Viettel installs NVIDIA DGX A100 to drive AI initiatives
Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group has installed a NVIDIA DGX A100 system to power its research and development (R&D) on technologies and products using AI and data analysis. Its Viettel Cyber Center (VTCC) unit […]
Microsoft takeover ends in Discord
It seems like Microsoft’s rumoured acquisition of Discord is over. Just a month ago, rumours emerged that the software giant was in talks to buy the game messaging platform for US$12 billion. According to reports, […]
Vingroup supercharges AI initiatives with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD
Vietnam’s largest conglomerate Vingroup has become the first in Southeast Asia to install the newly-announced NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputer. The powerful system will power VinAI Research, Vingroup’s machine-learning lab, in global initiatives that span […]
KITT returns in virtual world
Remember the advanced, intelligent and almost indestructible car in the 1980s Knight Rider TV drama? KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) was a car way ahead of its time, powered by artificial intelligence and loaded with […]
NVIDIA unveils first cloud-native, multi-tenant supercomputer
At GTC21, NVIDIA unveiled the next-generation NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, the world’s first cloud-native, multi-tenant AI supercomputer. It features BlueField-2 data processing units that offload, accelerate and isolate users’ data to provide users with secure connections […]
Jarvis makes great conversations in multiple languages
Speech to text is so old school. How about speech to real-time multi-language translation? Or text to speech? Imagine the massive possibilities if such capabilities are available. The good news is that the newly-announced NVIDIA […]
NVIDIA arms with Grace
While its acquisition of Arm is still awaiting approval, NVIDIA has forged ahead by launching Grace, its first Arm-based data centre CPU that is said to deliver 10x the performance of today’s fastest servers on […]
Photogram shooting for a smarter camera
Ever wished for a better camera for the smartphone to take nicer photos? While camera capabilities are limited by the phone’s size, startup Photogram is developing an alternative that brings the benefits of the mirrorless […]
ANZ honours Women in AI
The inaugural Australian and New Zealand Women in AI Awards was held on March 26 to honour women who have made invaluable contributions in the field of AI. Held at MCA in Sydney, the awards […]
Half of APAC healthcare organisations to increase IT spending
With COVID-19 vaccinations underway in many countries, more than 45 percent of healthcare organisations in the Asia-Pacific region are planning to increase IT spending to prepare for the next normal, according to IDC. The India […]
Informatica accelerates with NVIDIA
Informatica has boosted its serverless, Spark-based cloud data integration engine with NVIDIA RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark. The accelerated computing power will give users access to end-to-end machine learning operations capabilities by operationalising machine learning […]
VinBrain improves quality of healthcare with AI-infused solutions
Driven by its mission to infuse artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare, VinBrain has developed AI-based healthcare solutions that help doctors make faster and better-informed decisions, improving the quality and consistency of healthcare to the public. […]
Renowned AI pioneers to speak at GTC21
This is usually around the time of the year when thousands will gather in San Jose for the annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC). With the pandemic still in the air, this year’s event will be […]
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