German-based startup DeepL has unveiled an AI-powered language translator that the company says outperforms the best available from some of the largest internet firms in the world.
Researchers using the Department of Energy’s Cori supercomputer have broken the 10-petaflop barrier on two separate deep learning applications, one of which attained a peak throughput of 15 petaflops.
If there was any question that machine learning would spawn chip designs aimed specifically at those applications, those doubts were laid to rest this year. The last 12 months have seen a veritable of explosion of silicon built for this new application space.
IBM is teaming up with four research institutions in an effort to study the effects of the human microbiome on autoimmune diseases. The effort, known as the Microbiome Immunity Project, is purported to be the “largest study to date of the bacteria in the human microbiome.”