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Welcome to The Short, a biweekly recap of IBM’s latest innovations and research in AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and hybrid cloud.
Week of August 28-September 4, 2023
What’s new in innovation
AI transformers shed light on the brain’s mysterious astrocytes
“In a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at IBM, Harvard, and MIT, use transformers to explore how networks of astrocytes and neurons process information and contribute to learning and memory in the brain…”
Spotlight
US Open heralds new era of fan engagement with watsonx and generative AI
“This year, the USTA [United States Tennis Association] is using watsonx , IBM’s new AI and data platform for business…With watsonx, users can collaborate to specialize and deploy models for a wide variety of use cases, or build their own—making massive AI scalability possible…”
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IBM and PyTorch change one line of code to massively improve AI model training
“We’re in the middle of an AI boom, powered by foundation models . Many of these models are huge in size, with training datasets that are even larger. IBM Research and PyTorch worked on a way to make checkpointing for AI training considerably more cost-effective…”
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