Japanese AI Startup Preferred Networks has been working on a custom training chip with a peak performance of half-petaFLOPS as well as a supercomputer with a peak performance of 2 exaFLOPS (HP). (more…)

Qi Lu is the COO of Baidu - https://twitter.com/qilu Daniel Gross is a Partner at YC - https://twitter.com/danielgross... (more…)

The Chrome Release updates post is what triggered me to write the first post, and you’ll see why. But something about me first. I have been developing for the Web for about 4 years now, but haven’t… (more…)

Sometimes the best place to showcase the potential of a bold, world-changing technology is a flower garden. Take the case of Ofer Dekel, for example. He manages the Machine Learning and Optimization group at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, Washington... (more…)

New Open Source Interface Simplifies Deep Learning Development At Microsoft we have a vision and passion to amplify human ingenuity with the transformative power of AI. As a society we face enormous challenges which AI has the potential to solve. However,... (more…)