Time is of the essence when it comes to diagnosing symptoms and delivering treatment. More than 100 hospitals have turned to AI to detect abnormalities and accelerate time to diagnosis with AI. These hospitals in […]
Category: Artificial intelligence
harrison.ai deploys NVIDIA DGX A100 systems in Equinix data centre
harrison.ai, has deployed eight NVIDIA DGX A100 systems in an Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Sydney to accelerate AI healthtech development. Through this deployment, the NVIDIA Inception member has launched annalise.ai, a […]
Baidu to debut its own ChatGPT in March
Students love it. Teachers, maybe, depending on whether they are a user or a marker. ChatGPT has been the talk of the town since its introduction in November. The AI chatbot has transformed the way […]
Dell drives AI with 13 PowerEdge systems accelerated by NVIDIA
Dell Technologies has launched 13 next-generation PowerEdge systems that can leverate NVIDIA’s full AI stack — including GPUs, DPUs and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite — to enable enterprises to transform their businesses with […]
Tackling US$100b retail problem with AI
The retail industry has a massive problem. Globally, it faces a US$100 billion shrinkage due to loss of goods from theft, damage and misplacement. According to the National Retail Federation’s 2022 Retail Security Survey, a […]
BytePlus and EduSpaze team up to bring ML to EdTech sector
BytePlus and EduSpaze have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to help education technology (EdTech) startups in EduSpaze’s ecosystem leverage BytePlus’ machine learning (ML) technology to foster and drive innovation in the education sector in […]
Toy Jensen sings Jingle Bells
Inspired by a couple of singers, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang tasked his team to produce a video of his avatar Toy Jensen (TJ) singing Jingle Bells — using NVIDIA technology, of course. Huang […]
Seagate picks Juniper to save cost, simplify operations
Seagate Technology has chosen Juniper to tackle its evolving business needs. It is leveraging Juniper’s full stack AI-driven enterprise portfolio, which includes wifi, wired access switching and SD-WAN. Driven by Mist AI and the cloud, […]
Deutsche Bank partners with NVIDIA to accelerate AI
Deutsche Bank is partnering with NVIDIA to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the financial services sector. The partnership will support Deutsche Bank’s cloud transformation journey, including using AI […]
Palo Alto Networks launches zero trust solution for healthcare IoT devices
Palo Alto Networks has introduced its Medical IoT Security zero trust security solution for medical devices. The solution will enable healthcare organisations to deploy and manage new connected technologies quickly and securely. Zero trust is […]
Brennan starts digital division to tap digital transformation market
Australia-owned system integrator Brennan has created a new digital division to tap the rapidly growing digital transformation market. The newly-formed division will help Australian businesses undergoing digital transformations to meet changing needs in the post-COVID […]
NTHU tops HPC-AI competition
Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University NTHU-CM team has emerged as champion and won the best big data analytics performance at the APAC HPC-AI student competition. Southern University of Science and Technology and National Tsing Hua […]
NVIDIA collaborates with Microsoft on massive cloud AI computer
NVIDIA and Microsoft have teamed up to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world, powered by Microsoft Azure’s advanced supercomputing infrastructure combined with NVIDIA GPUs, networking and full stack of AI […]
IBM expands embeddable AI software portfolio
IBM has expanded its embeddable AI software portfolio with the release of three new libraries for natural language processing, speech to text , and text to speech. Developed in IBM Research, these libraries provide independent […]
Meta unveils Grand Teton AI platform
Meta has introduced its Grand Teton next-generation AI platform that packs in more memory, network bandwidth and compute capacity than the previous generation Zion platform. Grand Teton sports twice the network bandwidth and four times […]
NVIDIA and Oracle deepen partnership to accelerate AI adoption
NVIDIA and Oracle are partnering to speed up AI adoption by enterprises across industires. The collaboration will bring together the full NVIDIA accelerated computing stack and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). OCI is expanding its capacity […]
NCS pilots Breeze transport app in Tiong Bahru
NCS has pilot launched the Breeze@Tiong Bahru transport app that aims to bring drivers greater convenience and better driving experiences. With help from multiple sets of data, artifical intelligence (AI) and video analytics, the app […]
Hyundai to use TeamViewer’s AR platform for Singapore smart factory
Hyundai Motor Company will be digitalising the smart factory at Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Centre in Singapore (HMGICS) with TeamViewer’s augmented reality (AR) platform. The platform will support assembly, maintenance, quality management, logistics, client experience […]
FPT Software enters chip business
Vietnam’s FPT Software has taken the plunge into chipmaking with the launch of FPT Semiconductor. The new subsidiary’s first integrated circuits (ICs), to be used in Internet of Things (IoT) medical devices, were designed in […]
NVIDIA unleashes US$199 Jetson Orin Nano
NVIDIA has introduced the Jetson Orin Nano system-on-module that deliver up to 80x the performance over its predecessor. Available in January from US$199, the module processes up to 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of […]
NVIDIA rolls out IGX platform for safe, secure autonomous systems
NVIDIA is introduced the easily programmable and configurable NVIDIA IGX platform to help advance security and safety for sensitive industries such as manufacturing, logistics and healthcare. The platform for safe, secure autonomous systems improves human-machine […]
Behold, the GeForce RTX 40 series
After months of rumours, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series of GPUs is now a reality. NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang made the reveal his first announcement at his GTC keynote tonight. Based on […]
Global AI spending to touch US$450b in 2022
Global artificial intelligence (AI) spending rose 20.7 percent year on year to reach US$383.3 billion in 2021, according to IDC. And that growth is expected to continue with projected revenue of US$450 billion this year. […]
Singtel and Intel join hands to nurture 5G innovations
By Edward Lim Singtel is collaborating with Intel to establish a 5G Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) incubator to help enterprises on their 5G journey. The incubator will provide the resources for enterprises to test and deploy […]
NVIDIA Hopper-based GPU tops inference benchmarks
The NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs has topped the MLPerf industry-standard AI benchmarks, scoring up to 4.5x better performance than previous-generation GPUs. Also known as Hopper, the H100 raised the bar in per-accelerator performance across […]
Conversational AI will cut contact centre labour cost by US$80b in 2026
More companies turn to conversational AI for their customer support with spending expected by Gartner to hit about US$2 billion in 2022. The growth of the technology is predicted to reduce contact centre agent labor […]
NVIDIA and Dell partner on data centre solution for zero-trust security
NVIDIA and Dell have unveiled a data centre solution packed with AI training, AI inference, data processing, data science, and zero-trust security capabilities. Optimised for the newly announced VMware vSphere 8 enterprise workload platform, the […]
NEXT grows exponentially in regional expansion
NCS’s NEXT digital services arm has grown fivefold since 2019 to become a 2,000-strong team of digital specialists across 18 specialisations in the Asia-Pacific region. Well-endowed with deep-tech capabilities and end-to-end digital services, NEXT helps […]
LG to unveil 45-inch curved OLED gaming monitor at IFA
LG Electronics will be unveiling its new UltraGear OLED gaming monitor at IFA 2022 in Berlin, Germany. As the company’s first curved OLED display with a 240Hz refresh rate, the 45-inch monitor is designed to […]
AI and metaverse to take centre stage in GTC Fall keynote
By Edward Lim At the next virtual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) from September 19 to 22, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang will announce AI and metaverse technologies in a news-packed keynote. His keynote will […]
FamilyMart restocks shelves with help from NVIDIA AI-powered robots
Restocking products on the shelves is one of the most time-consuming tasks for convenience stores. Japan’s FamilyMart is getting help from NVIDIA AI-powered robots. The convenience chain will deploy these TX SCARA robots to restock […]
Frasers Property Australia simplifies connectivity with Juniper Networks solution
Frasers Property Australia and Frasers Property Industrial in Australia have picked Juniper Networks to upgrade its network infrastructure, enhancing business agility and IT efficiency across Australia. With a modern, AI-driven network, the property firm has […]
TVConal boosts sports analytics with AI
Sports analytics is becoming an integral part of sports — from athletics to football. The army of video cameras deployed to cover events produce a slew of data. Singapore startup TVConal is leveraging AI to […]
SIT and Applied Materials team up to ready future semicon workforce
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) and Applied Materials South East Asia are teaming up to develop and implement continuing education and training (CET) programmes for Applied Materials employees. Under a memorandum of understanding, they will […]
Liquid brings eKYC solution to SEA
Japanese eKYC solution provider Liquid has expanded into Southeast Asia (SEA) with the introduction of its eKYC online complete identity verification service. The solution features highly accurate identity verification using proprietary AI, biometric and optical […]
Siemens and NVIDIA collaborate on industrial metaverse
Siemens and NVIDIA are teaming up to enable the industrial metaverse and increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology to help bring industrial automation to a new level. First up is a plan to connect […]
Taiwan Hospital uses AI to detect heart failure risk in kidney patients
One in 10 people on earth suffer from chronic kidney disease. Millions without access to affordable treatment die from the disease each year. Fortunately, many have been able to turn to dialysis. In Taiwan, about […]
UN taps AI power for sustainable development goal
Floods, wildfires and other climate-related disasters have major impact on countries around the world, including several in the Asia-Pacific region. With a little help from AI, the United Nations Satellite Centre (Unosat) hopes to improve […]
Vehicle traffic management market to grow to US$4.9b by 2026
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) with all the technological wizardry have been getting the limelight in recent years. But, many of the same technologies applied to AVs are being deployed in vehicle traffic management industry. According to […]
Gushup acquires OneDirect
Gupshup has acquired the AI-enabled OneDirect omnichannel customer service platform. The addition expands Gushup’s offerings of conversational solutions and enables omnichannel conversational engagement with a powerful and flexible live Agent Assist solution. OneDirect can scale […]
Behold a new era of digital twins and virtual worlds
Mention metaverse and different ones may have a different idea of what it is. Is it one big virtual world? Is it a place for people to collaborate online? What can it really do? Perhaps […]
Australia to double AI spending by 2025
Australia’s spending on artificial intelligence (AI) systems will double to US$3.6 billion in 2025, a compounded annual growth rate of 24.4 percent for the period of 2020-25, according to IDC. Organisations will be increasing their […]
Hitachi unveils Lumada Inspection Insights
Hitachi has launched the Lumada Inspection Insights end-to-end portfolio of digital solutions for the inspection, monitoring and optimisation of critical assets. The portfolio enables customers to automate asset inspection, support sustainability goals, improve physical security […]
NVIDIA’s Arm-based Grace chips gather momentum in Taiwan
The momentum is gathering for the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip and Grace Hopper Superchip. Taiwan’s leading computer makers are set to introduce dozens of server models powered by the Arm-based chips for a wide range […]
75% of organisations to increase edge spending over next 2 years
More and more organisations are bringing computing to the edge. According to an IDC survey, three quarters of respondents plan to increase their edge spending by an average increase of 37 percent over the next […]
Aventis teams up with IBM on training management system automation
Aventis Learning Group is working with IBM to enhance its Training Management System (TMS) with IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding hosted on IBM Cloud. This new capability helps Aventis to offer better personalised learning courses […]
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin raises the bar for AI at the edge
By KL Lim The NVIDIA Orin low-power system-on-chip based has set new records in AI inference in its debut on the MLPerf benchmark. A pre-production version of Ampere architecture-based chip led in five of six […]
DataStax adds real-time data streaming capability to Astra DB
DataStax has introduced a change data capture (CDC) function for its Astra DB multi-cloud database built on Apache Cassandra. Powered by advanced streaming technology built on Apache Pulsar, CDC processes and sends database changes in […]
NVIDIA launches scientific digital twins platform
NVIDIA has introduced an accelerated digital twins platform for scientific computing comprising the NVIDIA Modulus AI framework for developing physics-ML neural network models, and the NVIDIA Omniverse 3D virtual world simulation platform. The platform can […]
NVIDIA launches Arm-based Grace CPU superchip
If there’s any doubt about NVIDIA’s relationship with Arm following the unsuccessful acquisition, the newly-announced NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip provides a clear and resounding answer. Based on Arm Neoverse, the discrete data centre CPU is […]
NVIDIA hops onto next generation of accelerated computing architecture
After Pascal, Volta and Ampere comes Hopper, the next generation of NVIDIA’s accelerated computing architecture. Announced by Founder and CEO Jensen Huang at his GTC keynote this morning, Hopper is expected to deliver a massive […]
Juniper launches AI and network research funding for universities
Juniper Networks has announced a university funding initiative to fuel strategic research to advance network technologies for the next decade. The goal is to enable universities, including Dartmouth, Purdue, Stanford, and the University of Arizona, […]
Baidu introduces speech to sign language interpretation using AI
Baidu AI Cloud has launched an AI sign language platform that generates digital avatars to interprete speech to hand gestures in minutes. Part of Baidu AI Cloud’s digital avatar platform XiLing, the new offering aims […]
VIS Global and Uniphore partner on AI for CX
VIS Global and Uniphore have formed a multi-country strategic partnership to provide a comprehensive communication and customer experience (CX) management portfolio with conversations automation offerings in Asia Pacific. This partnership will deliver to enterprises benefits […]
SGTech and techUK sign MOU on tech ecosystem collaboration
SGTech and techUK have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on their tech ecosystems, and to promote and foster trade on areas such as digital trade facilitation, artificial intelligence, cyber security, digital identities […]
Thai 7-Eleven operator improves customer service with conversational AI
Handling 240,000 calls a day is no mean feat. It’s a massive challenge for any call centre. CP All, the sole licensed operator of the more than 11,000 7-Eleven stores in Thailand, has turned to […]
H2O.ai’s no-code tool simplifies AI model creation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is about getting software to write software. However, writing the software to do that requires a bit, if not lots, of programming skill and time. H2O.ai has introduced a no-code tool that […]
Virtual GTC 2022 packs over 900 sessions
NVIDIA’s coming GPU Technology Conference (GTC) will be packed with more than 900 sessions and feature over 1,400 speakers including some of the world’s top researchers and industry leaders in AI, high performance computing and […]
ITE and Vizzio to launch Universal Omniverse Experience Centre
Singapore’s Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and Vizzio Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to launch the Universal Omniverse Experience Centre at ITE College Central. The centre will harness next-generation technologies such as […]
NVIDIA to develop AI talents in Indonesia
NVIDIA and Indonesia’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to develop artificial intelligence (AI) talent in the country. More than 20,000 Indonesian university students will be […]
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