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Bits & Bytes Google Cloud first to offer Tesla T4 GPUs. The NVIDIA Tesla T4 instances are currently available in alpha. They target ML inference, distributed training of models, and computer graphics workloads. Intel unveils Neural Compute Stick 2. Intel announced an update to the Movidius Neural Compute Stick focused on AI at the network edge. The Intel NCS 2 is…

Bits & Bytes AWS introduces Amazon SageMaker Object2Vec. Entity embeddings are a powerful technique gaining traction among many ML users. With its new Object2Vec algorithm, AWS aims to make creating them more accessible for SageMaker users. Object2Vec is a highly customizable multi-purpose algorithm that can learn low-dimensional dense embeddings of high dimensional objects. Microsoft develops flexible AI…

This week we kicked off our AI Platforms podcast series with interviews with Facebook’s Aditya Kalro and Airbnb’s Atul Kale. We also announced our upcoming eBooks on the same topic. The podcasts and eBooks grew out of my recent observations about the state of ML and AI development in the enterprise. I wrote a bit…

Bits & Bytes ONNX Runtime for ML inference now in preview. Microsoft released a preview of the ONNX Runtime, a high-performance inference engine for Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) models. It is compatible with ONNX version 1.2 and comes in Python packages that support both CPU and GPU. Uber describes new platform for rapid Python ML development. Uber shared Michelangelo PyML, an…

One of the exciting aspects of my day-to-day work involves understanding the way large companies are adopting machine learning, deep learning, and AI. I do quite a bit of this via interviews, and I’m excited to be able to bring you along for the ride by publishing many of them as podcasts. One of the…