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.
Google releases AI training data set with 5 million images and 200,000 landmarks
Posted in Online, Software on 3rd May, 2019
by Alex Muller
In a significant step toward its goal of more sophisticated landmark-detecting computer vision models, Google open-sourced Google-Landmarks-v2, a new, larger landmark recognition corpus containing twice as many photos and seven times as many landmarks.
Google completes subsea cable to Chile
Posted in Business, Featured, Hardware, Online on 25th Apr, 2019
by Alex Muller
Alphabet Inc’s Google has completed a subsea cable linking the coast of California to Chile, a key step in its plans to bolster its global cloud computing infrastructure.
Google’s Cloud Services Platform is now Anthos, and it works with AWS and Azure
Posted in Business, Online, Software on 10th Apr, 2019
by Alex Muller
Anthos is the new name for the Cloud Services Platform, which Google introduced in beta for hybrid cloud management last year. Google also introduced Anthos Migrate in beta for portability across clouds without the need to modify apps or virtual machines.