The world of open-source software continues to let companies distinguish themselves from generative AI giants like OpenAI and Google. On Wednesday, data warehousing cloud vendor Snowflake announced an open-source AI model the company says can be more efficient than Meta's recently introduced Llama 3 at enterprise tasks, such as SQL coding for database retrieval. Also: AI21 and Databricks show open source can radically slim down AIThe large language model (LLM), called Arctic, is "on par or better than both Llama 3 8B and Llama 2 70B on enterprise metrics, while using less than...…The world of open-source software continues to let companies distinguish themselves from generative AI giants like OpenAI and Google. On Wednesday, data warehousing cloud vendor Snowflake announced an open-source AI model the company says can be more efficient than Meta's recently introduced Llama 3 at enterprise tasks, such as SQL coding for database retrieval. Also: AI21 and Databricks show open source can radically slim down AIThe large language model (LLM), called Arctic, is "on par or better than both Llama 3 8B and Llama 2 70B on enterprise metrics, while using less than...WW…

/>Micron said its market for memory chips is seeing “rapidly improving conditions.”DRAM and NAND memory-chip giant Micron Technology fiscal Q2 revenue and profit that was in line with a revised forecast offered earlier this month, and an outlook for the current quarter that was comfortably ahead of consensus. The report sent Micron shares . CEO and founder Sanjay Mehrotra remarked that the "strong" quarterly results reflected "rapidly improving market conditions and continued solid execution."Added Mehrotra, "Our technology leadership in both DRAM and NAND places Micron in an...…/>Micron said its market for memory chips is seeing “rapidly improving conditions.”DRAM and NAND memory-chip giant Micron Technology fiscal Q2 revenue and profit that was in line with a revised forecast offered earlier this month, and an outlook for the current quarter that was comfortably ahead of consensus. The report sent Micron shares . CEO and founder Sanjay Mehrotra remarked that the "strong" quarterly results reflected "rapidly improving market conditions and continued solid execution."Added Mehrotra, "Our technology leadership in both DRAM and NAND places Micron in an...WW…

/>With no well-specified rewards and state transitions that take place in a myriad of ways, training a robot via reinforcement learning represents perhaps the most complex arena for machine learning.The vast majority of has been developed in an idealized environment: a computer simulation that dodges the bumps of the real world. Be it DeepMind's MuZero program for Go and chess and Atari or for language generation, the most sophisticated programs have all benefitted from a pruned set of constraints by which software is improved. For that reason, the hardest and perhaps the most promising...…/>With no well-specified rewards and state transitions that take place in a myriad of ways, training a robot via reinforcement learning represents perhaps the most complex arena for machine learning.The vast majority of has been developed in an idealized environment: a computer simulation that dodges the bumps of the real world. Be it DeepMind's MuZero program for Go and chess and Atari or for language generation, the most sophisticated programs have all benefitted from a pruned set of constraints by which software is improved. For that reason, the hardest and perhaps the most promising...WW…

/>The work marks a beginning in using machine learning techniques to optimize the architecture of chips.A year ago, ZDNet about how the company is using artificial intelligence to advance its internal development of custom chips to accelerate its software. Dean noted that deep learning forms of artificial intelligence can in some cases make better decisions than humans about how to lay out circuitry in a chip. This month, Google unveiled to the world one of those research projects, called Apollo, in a paper , "Apollo: Transferable Architecture Exploration," and a by lead author Amir...…/>The work marks a beginning in using machine learning techniques to optimize the architecture of chips.A year ago, ZDNet about how the company is using artificial intelligence to advance its internal development of custom chips to accelerate its software. Dean noted that deep learning forms of artificial intelligence can in some cases make better decisions than humans about how to lay out circuitry in a chip. This month, Google unveiled to the world one of those research projects, called Apollo, in a paper , "Apollo: Transferable Architecture Exploration," and a by lead author Amir...WW…

/>Pure and NetApp both emphasized how well their services of running storage in the cloud performed in the quarter.It's a big afternoon for data storage technology, especially data storage in the cloud. Distributed storage startup fiscal Q4 revenue and profit that topped analysts' expectations, and an outlook for this quarter's revenue that was higher as well. The report sent Pure shares up by 6% in late trading. Also this afternoon, storage networking pioneer NetApp  fiscal Q3 revenue and profit that topped expectations, and an outlook for this quarter higher as...…/>Pure and NetApp both emphasized how well their services of running storage in the cloud performed in the quarter.It's a big afternoon for data storage technology, especially data storage in the cloud. Distributed storage startup fiscal Q4 revenue and profit that topped analysts' expectations, and an outlook for this quarter's revenue that was higher as well. The report sent Pure shares up by 6% in late trading. Also this afternoon, storage networking pioneer NetApp  fiscal Q3 revenue and profit that topped expectations, and an outlook for this quarter higher as...WW…

By| February 4, 2021 -- 00:35 GMT (16:35 PST)| Topic:CNBC's automotive reporter Phil LeBeau  that Apple is "close to finalizing a deal with Hyundai Kai to manufacture an Apple-branded autonomous vehicle at the Kia plant in West Point, Georgia," referring to South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group, citing multiple unnamed sources. The vehicle is tentatively scheduled for a 2024 production run, writes LeBeau.LeBeau's report follows Hyundai  that it was in talks with Apple for a potential collaboration to develop the so-called Apple Car. Speculation has swirled on Wall...…By| February 4, 2021 -- 00:35 GMT (16:35 PST)| Topic:CNBC's automotive reporter Phil LeBeau  that Apple is "close to finalizing a deal with Hyundai Kai to manufacture an Apple-branded autonomous vehicle at the Kia plant in West Point, Georgia," referring to South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group, citing multiple unnamed sources. The vehicle is tentatively scheduled for a 2024 production run, writes LeBeau.LeBeau's report follows Hyundai  that it was in talks with Apple for a potential collaboration to develop the so-called Apple Car. Speculation has swirled on Wall...WW…

/>Bezos will be going out on a high note, with results that are consistently dynamite. Amazon's Q4 profit per share was almost double what analysts had been expecting. The revenue outlook for this quarter is also well ahead.Amazon Q4 revenue and profit that came in well above consensus, but also said founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will yield his CEO role, giving the top spot to Amazon Web Services leader Andy Jassy.  "Amazon is also announcing today that Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of Executive Chair in the third quarter of 2021 and Andy Jassy will become Chief Executive...…/>Bezos will be going out on a high note, with results that are consistently dynamite. Amazon's Q4 profit per share was almost double what analysts had been expecting. The revenue outlook for this quarter is also well ahead.Amazon Q4 revenue and profit that came in well above consensus, but also said founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will yield his CEO role, giving the top spot to Amazon Web Services leader Andy Jassy.  "Amazon is also announcing today that Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of Executive Chair in the third quarter of 2021 and Andy Jassy will become Chief Executive...WW…

/>The time has come, said Re, for AI scientists to focus on higher-level tasks such as bringing domain expertise to AI rather than twiddling hyper-parameter settings of neural networks.Some AI researchers' practices are as tired as a Michael Bay movie, to hear Christopher Re tell it.  Wednesday, Re, who is a Stanford University associate professor of computer science, for the University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence institute. His topic: "Weird new things are happening in software." That weird new thing, in Re's view, is that the stuff that was important only a few years...…/>The time has come, said Re, for AI scientists to focus on higher-level tasks such as bringing domain expertise to AI rather than twiddling hyper-parameter settings of neural networks.Some AI researchers' practices are as tired as a Michael Bay movie, to hear Christopher Re tell it.  Wednesday, Re, who is a Stanford University associate professor of computer science, for the University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence institute. His topic: "Weird new things are happening in software." That weird new thing, in Re's view, is that the stuff that was important only a few years...WW…

/>RISC-V, the open standard for chip instructions, is leading to some impressive technical innovation, one of its creators says.A decade ago, an idea was born in a laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley to create a lingua franca for computer chips, a set of instructions that would be used by all chipmakers and owned by none.  It wasn't supposed to be an impressive new technology, it was merely supposed to get the industry on the same page, to simplify chip-making in order to move things forward. But a funny thing has happened on the way to a global chip standard: ,...…/>RISC-V, the open standard for chip instructions, is leading to some impressive technical innovation, one of its creators says.A decade ago, an idea was born in a laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley to create a lingua franca for computer chips, a set of instructions that would be used by all chipmakers and owned by none.  It wasn't supposed to be an impressive new technology, it was merely supposed to get the industry on the same page, to simplify chip-making in order to move things forward. But a funny thing has happened on the way to a global chip standard: ,...WW…

/>The tests reflect an increasing use of deep learning in scientific computing on the world’s biggest computers.The technology of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent in even the most complex domains of science that it now has its own suite of tests to measure its computing time on the world's most powerful computers.  MLPerf, the industry consortium that serves the computer industry by measuring how long it takes to run machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence, for high-performance computing, or HPC, systems running the machine learning tasks. The test...…/>The tests reflect an increasing use of deep learning in scientific computing on the world’s biggest computers.The technology of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent in even the most complex domains of science that it now has its own suite of tests to measure its computing time on the world's most powerful computers.  MLPerf, the industry consortium that serves the computer industry by measuring how long it takes to run machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence, for high-performance computing, or HPC, systems running the machine learning tasks. The test...WW…