Microsoft has spent most of the last couple of decades playing catchup in an number of key growth markets. Microsoft, however, is now in a leadership position in the AI space thanks in part to its partnership with OpenAI. The company’s GPT-infused Copilot has popped up in Windows, Office, Bing, Edge, and now it’s on the iPhone. And why not?
Thank you all for participating! The entries are now closed and we will be selecting winners. For those selected, we will be reaching out on socials, so look out for a message. After we confirm eligibility, the list of winners will be posted here. Greatness starts here. Enter for a chance to win an AMD Ryzen 8000G Series processor To celebrate the release of AMD Ryzen™ 8000G Series processors, we are giving away two (2) AMD Ryzen™ 7 8700G processors, the world’s first desktop AI engine1 and the world’s fastest built-in graphics for gaming in an desktop processor. … Read more
NV-CLIP, a cutting-edge multimodal embeddings model for image and text, is now generally available. NV-CLIP, a cutting-edge multimodal embeddings model for image and text, is now generally available. Source
ASUS has been making Android phones since the early days of the platform, long before we settled on the standard flat glass slab form factor. ASUS tried its hand at convertible Android laptops and phones that turned into tablets, but even after giving up on all of that, it kept experimenting with its gaming-focused ROG Phone series. These devices have featured glowing lights, snap-on accessories, and extremely bold design elements, but with the ROG Phone 8 series, it’s time for ASUS gaming phones to grow up. The recent spate of leaks was spot-on—the ROG Phone 8 and 8 Pro represent … Read more
At AMD, our teams continue to bring new and improved features to our drivers to get the most out of your AMD Ryzen and Radeon products. Last year we introduced some great visual improvements and changes for users that improve recording and streaming their gaming clips with AMD Software whether it was the built-in pre-analysis feature to optimize streaming quality, the pre-filter toggle that brought an instant boost to image clarity, or the Content Adaptive Machine Learning (CAML) technology that gave higher text quality in your latest games. One key feature was the introduction of the AV1 encode support within … Read more
Reality capture creates highly accurate, detailed, and immersive digital representations of environments. Innovations in site scanning and accelerated data processing, and emerging technologies like neural radiance fields (NeRFs) and Gaussian splatting are significantly enhancing the capabilities of reality capture. These technologies are revolutionizing interactions with and analyses of the physical world. Site scanning, the first step of reality capture, generates detailed 3D models using methods like Lidar and photogrammetry, while accelerated processing, powered by NVIDIA RTX GPUs, enable faster and more efficient data handling. NeRFs excel in producing photorealistic 3D scenes, and Gaussian splatting offers a novel approach to smooth, … Read more
Samsung has officially taken the wraps off the Galaxy S24 family. As usual, we’ve already learned plenty about Samsung’s new flagship phones thanks to the many, many leaks, but now we’re getting to see what Samsung has in store for its big AI play. These phones have a raft of new “Galaxy AI” features, along with a faster Snapdragon chip, improved displays, and more efficient cooling, among many other upgrades and updates. They’re also taking some cues from the latest iPhones, which we’ll explain shortly. Samsung Galaxy S24 Family – Specifications And Features Processor Snapdragon 8 … Read more
This post was originally published August 21, 2024 but has been revised with current data. Recently, NVIDIA and Mistral AI unveiled Mistral NeMo 12B, a leading state-of-the-art large language model (LLM). Mistral NeMo 12B consistently outperforms similarly sized models on a wide range of benchmarks. We announced Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, one of the most advanced open-access models in its size class. This model consistently delivers leading accuracy on nine popular benchmarks. The Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B base model was obtained by width-pruning the Mistral NeMo 12B base model, followed by a light retraining process using knowledge distillation. This is a successful recipe that NVIDIA … Read more
The continued growth of LLMs capability, fueled by increasing parameter counts and support for longer contexts, has led to their usage in a wide variety of applications, each with diverse deployment requirements. For example, a chatbot supports a small number of users at very low latencies for good interactivity. Meanwhile, synthetic data generation requires high throughput to process many items at once. Delivering optimal inference performance across a wide range of use cases with one platform requires optimization across the entire technology stack. Cutting-edge LLMs, like Llama 3.1 405B, require multiple GPUs working together for peak performance. To effectively use … Read more
New research from the University of Washington is refining AI weather models using deep learning for more accurate predictions and longer-term forecasts. The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, shows how adjusting initial atmospheric data enables advanced AI models to extend current forecast limits. As extreme weather becomes increasingly more severe and frequent due to climate change, giving governments, businesses, the public, and emergency responders more time to prepare for natural disasters such as floods, heatwaves, or hurricanes could help reduce loss of life and property. “If a perfect weather model is given slightly imperfect initial conditions, the error compounds … Read more
