What's in Tech : Wk. of 14th October 2024
Dr.Dinesh Chandrasekar (DC)
Chief Strategy Officer @ Centific AI | Nasscom Deep Tech ,Telangana AI Mission & HYSEA - Mentor & Advisor | Alumni of Hitachi, GE & Citigroup | DeepTech evangelist |Author & Investor| Motto: Be Passionate,Kind & Lovable
In this week’s “What’s in Tech” newsletter, we have covered the latest developments in the AI space. Highlights include AMD’s launch of AI chips to take on NVIDIA, OpenAI’s global expansion, and advancements from Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and Uber.
The new offerings include healthcare AI models and agents that enable healthcare organizations to integrate and analyze diverse data types, including medical imaging, genomics and clinical records.
OpenAI is expanding into new cities, namely NYC, Seattle, Paris, Brussels, and Singapore, alongside its growing offices in San Francisco, London, Dublin, and Tokyo.
Nvidia execs stated that production of the company's next-generation artificial intelligence processors, called Blackwell, is progressing on schedule and that the product is sold out for the next 12 months..
With the launch of the new MI325X chips, AMD is accelerating its product schedule to release new chips on an annual schedule to better compete with Nvidia and take advantage of the boom in AI chips.
Movie Gen uses text inputs to automatically generate new videos with audio, create custom videos from images or take an existing video and change different elements.
These capabilities include GenAI evaluation tools for use-case-specific benchmarks, streamlined LLM fine-tuning workflows and advanced named entity recognition (NER) for PDFs.
The company confirmed the layoffs and said that several hundred employees were expected to be impacted globally as part of a wider plan to improve its moderation operations.
TCS reported over 600 AI and GenAI engagements deployed or in development. This pipeline in the last quarter stood at US$1.5 Bn, and the company was executing over 270 AI projects.
Murali Krishna Kocherla hails from IIT Kanpur, and comes in with two decades of experience in computer vision, deep learning, advanced digital and RF communications and embedded systems.
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live.
Aiming to deliver end-to-end service automation, Oracle unveiled new agentic AI that will help service teams increase service efficiency, reduce time-to-resolution, and improve customer experience.
At launch, the assistant will only answer questions about electric vehicles, like where to charge them or which one to buy, but the integration will potentially span into other use cases in the future.
According to the company’s Institute of AI, one of the models, TeleChat2-115B and another unnamed model were trained on tens of thousands of Chinese-made chips.
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