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The NVIDIA AI Summit India, taking place October 23–25 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, will bring together the brightest minds to explore how India is tackling the world’s grand challenges. A major highlight: a fireside chat with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang on October 24. He’ll share his insights on AI’s pivotal role in reshaping industries and how India is emerging as a global AI leader, and be joined by the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani. Passes for the event are sold out. But don’t worry — audiences can tune in via … Read more

Today, Mercedes-Benz opened its first battery-recycling plant in Germany. The new plant will use an “integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical” approach to recycling electric vehicle batteries and expects to recover more than 96 percent of the valuable minerals and metals used in EV batteries. “Mercedes-Benz has set itself the goal of building the most desirable cars in a sustainable way. As a pioneer in automotive engineering, Europe’s first integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical battery recycling factory marks a key milestone toward enhancing raw-materials sustainability,” said Ola Källenius, chairman of the board of management Mercedes-Benz Group. “Together with our partners from industry and science, we are sending … Read more

The software-optimized inference engine behind Simiplismart MLOps platform runs Llama3.1 8B at a peak throughput of 501 tokens per second.Read More

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More H2O.ai, a provider of open-source AI platforms, announced today two new vision-language models designed to improve document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) tasks. The models, named H2OVL Mississippi-2B and H2OVL-Mississippi-0.8B, show competitive performance against much larger models from major tech companies, potentially offering a more efficient solution for businesses dealing with document-heavy workflows. David vs. Goliath: How H2O.ai’s tiny models are outsmarting tech giants The H2OVL Mississippi-0.8B model, with only 800 million parameters, surpassed all other models, including those with … Read more

It’s the latter part of October, which means Halloween and all its beloved traditions are only days away. All you horror lovers must be getting ready to binge your favorite spooky content, and luckily for you, the best horror movies on Hulu should have you covered. After quietly becoming one of the best streaming services out there, Hulu is now strong enough to help you pull off the best movie marathon you can think of. Whether you’re looking for a classic horror story full of ghosts, witches, and monsters or are into more elevated and psychologically scarring tales of pain … Read more

NVIDIA is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to support global AI startups across industries — with an initial focus on healthcare and life sciences companies. Announced today at the HLTH healthcare innovation conference, the initiative connects the startup ecosystem by bringing together the NVIDIA Inception global program for cutting-edge startups and Microsoft for Startups to broaden innovators’ access to accelerated computing by providing cloud credits, software for AI development and the support of technical and business experts. The first phase will focus on high-potential digital health and life sciences companies that are part of both programs. Future phases will focus … Read more

Lots of pointing at clouds AWS made data transfer out of AWS free for customers who were moving off their servers in March, spurred in part by European regulations. Trade publications are full of trend stories about rising cloud costs and explainers on why companies are repatriating. Stories of major players’ cloud reversals, like that of Dropbox, have become talking points for the cloud-averse. Not everyone believes the sky is falling. Lydia Leong, a cloud computing analyst at Gartner, wrote on her own blog about how “the myth of cloud repatriation refuses to die.” A large part of this, Leong … Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Elon Musk has been making headlines recently for his political activities and rocket launches, but that hasn’t stopped the six-company owner/operator from moving forward with xAI, his artificial intelligence startup. Today, Musk announced via his social network X (formerly Twitter) that xAI now offers an application programming interface (API) that third-party developers can now use to access and build applications and features powered by xAI’s Grok large language models. Musk posted a simple message on his X account, “The @xAI API … Read more

If you feel it, stream it. Twisters begins streaming exclusively on Peacock on November 15, 2024. Twisters, the standalone sequel to 1996’s Twister, stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos. After a tragic encounter with a tornado, Kate (Edgar-Jones) abandons storm-chasing to study weather patterns behind a desk in New York City. Kate’s friend Javi (Ramos) convinces Kate to chase storms with him for one week in tornado alley to implement new technology to revolutionize warning systems. Despite initially declining the invitation, Kate reconsiders and heads to Oklahoma to join Javi’s team. While chasing storms, Kate meets Tyler Owens (Powell), … Read more

After rumors swirled that TikTok owner ByteDance had lost tens of millions after an intern sabotaged its AI models, ByteDance issued a statement this weekend hoping to silence all the social media chatter in China. In a social media post translated and reviewed by Ars, ByteDance clarified “facts” about “interns destroying large model training” and confirmed that one intern was fired in August. According to ByteDance, the intern had held a position in the company’s commercial technology team but was fired for committing “serious disciplinary violations.” Most notably, the intern allegedly “maliciously interfered with the model training tasks” for a … Read more