What's in Tech : Wk of November 2nd 2024
Dr.Dinesh Chandrasekar (DC)
Chief Strategy Officer & Country Head, India @ Centific AI | Nasscom Deep Tech ,Telangana AI Mission & HYSEA - Mentor & Advisor | Alumni of Hitachi, GE & Citigroup | DeepTech evangelist |Author & Investor| Be Passionate
In this week’s "What’s in Tech" newsletter, we highlight the latest developments in the AI space. Key updates include the launch of new Generative AI models from Infosys, along with significant advancements from Cognizant, IBM, and NVIDIA. OpenAI is making headlines with its plans for an in-house AI chip, while Meta has unveiled new video diffusion models. Additionally, Google has expanded its AI Overviews to over 100 countries, enabling users to access information in multiple languages, and Meta's NotebookLlama now generates conversational, podcast-style summaries from uploaded text files.
?We demonstrated Flow, our LLM-powered application for direct AI translation, built on our AI Data Foundry platform. The application helps organizations automate and streamline complex localization workflows with flexibility, security, and precision.?Additionally, Rimi Endo, Senior Director – Global Client Partner, showcased the power of AI in localization alongside Amazon Music. Their co-presentation, titled “Advanced Localization Management”, highlighted innovative content and processes, emphasizing the importance of industry leadership in driving advancements.
Infosys has developed two small language models, Infosys Topaz BankingSLM and Infosys Topaz ITOpsSLM, utilizing NVIDIA's AI stack to enhance AI adoption in enterprises. Created at Infosys’ center of excellence for NVIDIA technologies, these models are designed to provide effective solutions tailored for the banking and IT operations sectors.
The feature allows users to detect and segment objects in images using natural language prompts. Users can easily describe labeling needs with simple text, automating the annotation process for large datasets, and enabling bulk labeling of thousands of images quickly.
The Generative AI Lab, launched in collaboration with Google Cloud, will provide a hands-on environment for exploring, designing, prototyping, and testing Gen AI use cases.
Its Q3 2024 revenues stood at US$88.3 billion, a 15% year-over-year increase, with Google services at US$76.5 billion (up 13%) and Google Cloud rising 35% to US$11.4 billion. Additionally, the company also announced that its Gemini API witnessed a 14x increase in usage.
Users in any region with AI Overviews will now be able to view information in multiple supported languages like English, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese, or Spanish, making it easier for users to get insights in their preferred language, regardless of their location.
Rufus is an AI-powered shopping assistant designed to enhance the Amazon shopping experience by answering customer queries, providing recommendations, and facilitating product discovery. Rufus is now in beta in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, following its successful deployment in the U.S., UK, and India.
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Partners with Broadcom and TSMC to create its first in-house AI chip, launching in 2026, to enhance AI infrastructure. Analysts predict the chip, focused on inference tasks, will help OpenAI meet future needs as demand grows for applying AI models in real-time tasks rather than exclusively for training purposes.
Launched in collaboration with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), the model can fill in missing frames in videos, turn a single image into a moving scene, and even extend a short clip by adding natural, continuous frames.
Built on Meta’s Llama models, it generates conversational, podcast-style summaries from uploaded text files, similar to NotebookLM.
The AI Agent feature in watsonx.ai provides a comprehensive toolkit for AI builders, allowing them to streamline the AI development process. It enables the creation of agentic services using popular open-source frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, and Crew AI, supported by industry-standard APIs and SDKs.
The NVIDIA-backed AI infrastructure software startup says this new version is designed to improve how AI cloud providers, both public and private, optimize and scale their GPU as a Service (GPUaaS).
NVIDIA announced that xAI's Colossus supercomputer, the largest with 100,000 Hopper GPUs, leverages the Spectrum-X Ethernet platform for superior performance. Colossus is training xAI’s Grok family of large language models and is set to double in size to 200,000 GPUs.
DoorDash aims to transform on-demand delivery by connecting consumers with local merchants for various products, including groceries and retail items, through recent expansions into new verticals. At the 2024 AI Conference, Sudeep Das, Head of New Verticals ML/AI, highlighted how the integration of Machine Learning and Generative AI is central to this shift, addressing challenges like managing diverse product categories and optimizing customer experiences.
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