Artificial Intelligence #198

Hey, in this issue: Microsoft unveils its first custom-designed AI, cloud chips; better machine-learning models with quantum computers; Distil-Whisper: a distilled variant of Whisper that is 6x faster; S-LoRA: serving thousands of concurrent LoRA adapters; and more.

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• Microsoft unveils its first custom-designed AI, cloud chips
• Google DeepMind’s AI weather forecaster handily beats a global standard
• [IEEE] Better machine-learning models with quantum computers
• [Sponsored] [Webinar Invite] Building a Semantic Lakehouse for Capital Markets

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• [The Verge] Is AI the answer to sustainable farming?
• Google Deepmind released an album with "visualizations of AI" to combat stereotypical depictions of glowing brains (at last!)
• [HF] Distil-Whisper: a distilled variant of Whisper that is 6x faster
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• S-LoRA: serving thousands of concurrent LoRA adapters (paper, code)
• [Tutorial] 4-Bit quantization with Lightning Fabric

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