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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.”
At the Hot Chips conference this week, Intel lifted the curtain a little higher on Knights Mill, a Xeon Phi processor tweaked for machine learning applications.
At the Hot Chips conference this week, Microsoft has revealed its latest deep learning acceleration platform, known as Project Brainwave, which the company claims can deliver “real-time AI.” The new platform uses Intel's latest Stratix 10 FPGAs.
While AI is poised to sweep through major sectors of the economy over the next decade, perhaps no industry should be more welcoming to this technology than that of healthcare. And given that the US is the most technologically advanced nation in the world, and the one with the most expensive healthcare, the country could end up being the proving ground for AI-powered medicine.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is soliciting proposals from US universities to acquire a $60 million next-generation supercomputer two to three times as powerful as Blue Waters.
Finnish Science Center to Install Two Petascale Supercomputers
Intel Goes Vertical, Will Stack Logic Chips Into 3D Packages
Injecting Deep Learning into Climate Models
Supercomputing Is Heading Toward an Existential Crisis
Intel Ramps Up Neuromorphic Computing Effort with New Research Partners