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AI Computing - Meta's MTIA

Busy week in the world of data and AI. Today, Meta announced the company's new generation of Meta AI chips called MTIA - tuned for training and inference of data workloads for ranking and recommendation. https://ai.meta.com/blog/next-generation-meta-training-inference-accelerator-AI-MTIA/ A few observations: * Continued separation of training,

Future of Robotics

WSJ published an article today on robotics and highlighted use cases in warehouses, meat packing, and other industrial settings. It's worth a read. https://www.wsj.com/business/meet-the-robots-slicing-your-barbecue-ribs-338a7794?mod=hp_lead_pos7 Robotics has come a long way in a relatively short period of time considering the

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, April 1, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Happy first day of April! Readings will resume next week! 👏 Deals Buzz Solutions, a Palo Alto-based company focused on critical energy infrastructure protection, raised $5m in financing. Ascent Platform Corporation, a NYC-based provider of point-of-sale solutions for banks and credit unions, raised $5m in financing. Euno Data,

Nvidia GTC 2024 - Major Themes

In the first 30 minutes of Jensen Huang's keynote at GTC 2024, Jensen outlined the current fundamental concepts and innovations of high performance compute for AI. Must watch for any technologist and anyone who is interested to understand what is happening in AI. In addition to the launch

What has not changed? The case on Nvidia

It was impossible to open the news before Nvidia's recent earnings and not read some speculations regarding Nvidia earnings. The media portrayed Nvidia earnings as THE indicator for where AI is going. Articles regarding Nvidia earnings read like suspense movies. From the market open on February 20 to

Multimodal Learning

Multimodal learning is an approach in machine learning that involves the integration and processing of information from multiple modalities or sources. A modality refers to a distinct type of data, such as text, images, audio, video, or any other form of sensory input. In multimodal learning, the goal is to

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, February 5, 2024

📌 Readings Amazon earnings press release with strategic initiative details (link) Meta earnings call transcript (link) Microsoft product announcement (link) Alphabet earnings call transcript (link) AMD earnings slides (link) 👏 Deals Carpl, a CA-based radiology AI tech startup, has raised $6m in financing. Cohere Health, a Boston-based startup which provides intelligent prior-authorization

Floreo VR - new potential for Autism therapy

Floreo VR, a portfolio company, has been granted FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and accepted into FDA's Total Advisory Product Lifecycle (TAP) Pilot program. Floreo provides immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences and VR-based lessons to help kids and adults with autism learn hard-to-teach skills. Floreo's lessons in

Cybersecurity Stack Report - 2023

Portfolio company Threater released its annual Security Stack Insights Report. The report is based on a survey of 200+ cybersecurity professionals (C-level to managers). Unlike many cybersecurity reports that emphasize on the nature of the cybersecurity vectors and remediations for enterprises, this report emphasizes on how cybersecurity professionals in small

Google's Gemini

Google launched Gemini today. Gemini 1.0 is a multimodal model that has been trained on image, audio, video and text data and is intended to be generalizable across different data modalities (e.g., you give an image, it can return text-based description of the image). Gemini comes in three