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Microsoft Upgrades Cognitive Services Amid AI Cloud Wars

In the war for artificial intelligence cloud dominance with the likes of Amazon AI and Google AI, Microsoft's Azure AI team today fired off a salvo that boosts its Cognitive Services offering.

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Q&A with MIT Scientist Catherine Havasi: AI Predictions, Worries and More

Catherine Havasi, a visiting scientist at MIT and group director at the Media Lab focused on natural language processing and people analytics, is on a mission to help computers understand the world more like a person and less like a machine.

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Microsoft Updates ML.NET, Offers Personal Help for Production Use

Microsoft updated its open source machine learning framework, ML.NET, to version 0.11 and offered up an engineer to help developers make it work in a production environment.

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Google Brain Adds Privacy to TensorFlow

Coming hot on the heels of the much anticipated TensorFlow 2.0 alpha release, TensorFlow Privacy is an open source library designed to make it easier for developers to train machine-learning models with privacy.

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Microsoft Updates New Machine Learning Platform for Apache Spark

New features in version 0.16 include support for Spark's deep learning pipelines and name entry recognition cognitive service.

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Dataiku Updates Enterprise AI Platform to 5.1

Enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) platform vendor Dataiku announced this week that it has updated its namesake platform to version 5.1.

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TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha Released

Today the alpha 2.0 version of the popular open source machine learning platform TensorFlow was released on Github.

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Google Open Sources Library for Training Large-Scale Neural Network Models

This week Google announced that it has open-sourced GPipe, a library that can be used to train deep neural networks (DNNs) used in large-scale machine learning projects

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AI-Assisted IntelliCode Added to VS Code Java Tools

Visual Studio Code, the open source, cross-platform code editor from Microsoft that some developers prefer for creating artificial intelligence projects, is itself leveraging AI to make their coding lives easier.

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IBM Opens Up Watson AI to Any Cloud

IBM's cloud-based Watson artificial intelligence service is now a portable offering untethered from IBM Cloud, so enterprises can use it on any cloud platform.

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AI Start-Up's 'Continual Learning' Platform Removes Human Element from Algorithm Training

CogitAI Inc. wants to improve artificial intelligence enterprise initiatives by removing the human element of manually labeling data for training machine learning algorithms.

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Uber Open Sources Ludwig for No-Code Deep Learning Models

Transportation network company Uber has open sourced a homegrown, no-code toolbox for working with deep learning models.

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Open Source Project from Amazon Cloud Optimizes Machine Learning Models for the Edge

A new open source project from the Amazon cloud platform, Amazon Web Services, optimizes machine learning models to run better in the cloud and on resource-constrained network edge devices.

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