San Francisco, Calif.-based Lobe offers a drag-and-drop approach for image recognition for deep learning models. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Seeking to help enterprises fully embrace AI, Dataiku announced an upgrade to its namesake software platform, adding Keras, an open source neural network library, among other improvements.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cisco Systems Inc. this week announced a new server that it says is specifically designed to support deep learning projects and other large, processing-intensive datasets used for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning projects.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to invest $2 billion in what the agency aims to define as a "third-wave" of AI technologies, exploring new theories and applications that could make it possible for machines to adapt to changing situations.
                    
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                    For the first time, Python -- a favorite tool for AI projects -- has cracked the top three positions in the TIOBE index, which tracks programming language popularity.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Chinese AI specialist Baidu launched a no-code platform for creating and deploying custom machine learning models in just four steps, targeting small and medium-sized enterprises.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Tibco Software and manufacturing services company Jabil  have announced a new partnership that the companies say will help bring additional machine learning capabilities to embedded apps for IIoT use cases.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has issued a new release of its enhanced edition of the R programming language, one of the primary languages used for artificial intelligence and machine learning development, along with Python. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    PowerEdge MX, new hardware recently announced by Dell EMC, is  designed to support machine learning artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) workloads.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Demand for artificial intelligence and machine learning skills is exploding, but industry efforts are underway to meet that need.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
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                    BigQuery ML, is designed to break down the barriers by providing a tool that does not require a data scientist to operate it. Google is also updating other products in its data analytics and Cloud AI services offering.
                    
			            - By Richard  Seeley
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                    It's both a software tools bundle and a protocol, designed to simplify the deployment of the model artifacts created during the process of ML training known as machine learning models by decoupling that process from framework-specific model implementations. 
                    
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                    Calling it the "greatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU," Nvidia this week announced its new Nvidia Turing architecture: hybrid GPUs combining Tensor Cores (aimed at AI processing) and RT Cores.