Google’s AI learns how actions in videos are connected
Posted in Software on 9th Aug, 2019
by Alex Muller
This will be useful for researchers working on video understanding.
Google’s new ‘data echoing’ technique speeds up AI training
Posted in Software on 15th Jul, 2019
by Alex Muller
Google Brain, Google’s AI research division, propose in a paper a technique called “data echoing,” which they say reduces the computation used by earlier pipeline stages by reusing intermediate outputs from these stages.
Alphabet’s Wing will kick off Helsinki drone deliveries in summer 2019
Posted in Business on 20th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
Wing says in the coming weeks it will deploy a small fleet of drones in the city’s Vuosaari district, where they’ll ferry provisions from convenience stores to homes and “multi-family housing communities.”
Google awards $25 million in global AI impact grants
Posted in Business, Software on 8th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
Google today awarded $25 million in grants to a range of organizations to help them apply machine learning to fight some of the world’s biggest challenges.
Google Cloud makes pods with 1,000 TPU chips available in public beta
Posted in Business, Online on 7th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
Liquid-cooled Cloud TPU v3 pods can deliver more than 100 petaflops of computing power. Conversely, Cloud TPU v2 pods released in alpha last year can achieve 11.5 petaflops.