Google Releases Toolkit for Model Transparency

Google announced the availability last week of a new set of tools for creation of Model Cards, which provide a structured framework for machine learning (ML) model transparency. Read More

OpenAI's New GPT-3 Sets a New Standard for Language Modeling--And Hype

OpenAI's GPT-3 neural-network-powered language model gets upgraded with a massive 175 billion training parameters, more than any other language model. Read More

Microsoft Becomes the Chief Maintainer of PyTorch on Windows

Microsoft expands involvement with Facebook's open-source PyTorch machine learning (ML) library, by taking ownership of the PyTorch build for Windows. Read More

MIT Researchers Leverage Machine Learning for COVID Vaccine Research

Researchers at MIT are developing a new combinatorial machine learning (ML) system that could decrease the research time needed to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and make it more effective. Read More

Nvidia and University of Florida Collaborate on Super Computer

University of Florida and Nvidia plan to build the fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer in academia. Read More

Amazon Announces New AI-Based Alexa Developer Tools

Homomorphic Encryption Makes Slow But Steady Progress

Homomorphic encryption allows computation directly on encrypted data, an approach that has so far been plagued by poor peformance compared to operations on unencrypted data. But it's getting there, Pure AI editors explain. Read More

Microsoft's Project Bonsai Brings Deep Reinforcement Learning to AnyLogic

AnyLogic North America and Microsoft announced a new collaboration this week that will bring the deep reinforcement learning and machine teaching capabilities of Microsoft's Project Bonsai to AnyLogic's simulation modeling software for business applications. Read More

Amazon and Google Alums Launch Autonomous AI Service

San Francisco-based startup Abacus.AI, founded by former Amazon and Google alums, announced the general availability this week of its autonomous AI service. Read More

Microsoft Buys Orions Systems, Adds to AI Vision Capabilities in Dynamics 365

Microsoft announced the acquisition of Orions Systems last week to enhance the video AI and management capabilities of its Dynamics 365 Connected Store, an in-store retail optimization solution that uses computer vision and other sensor-based data analysis. Read More

Microsoft Uncovers Large-Scale Cryptocurrency Mining Attack Against Kubernetes Clusters

Kubeflow, an open source machine learning (ML) platform for working with Kubernetes, was the target of a recent cryptocurrency mining attack in which a malicious container was deployed on tens of Kubernetes clusters within two hours. Read More

MIT, NYU Pull Tiny Images AI Training Dataset Due to Racist, Sexist Labels

Researchers at MIT and NYU took down the widely used "80 Million Tiny Images" dataset created to train machine learning systems because it was found to contain a range of racist, sexist and otherwise offensive image labels. Read More

AI Suite Alleviates Clinical Strain Due to COVID-19

The increasing demand for millions of chest X-rays (1.44 billion annually by one estimate) brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is straining the resources of radiology departments around the world. Read More

Digital.ai Acquires Numerify for AI Analytics and Experitest for Continuous Quality

Digital.ai has added two more companies: Numerify, an AI analytics solutions firm, and Experitest, a continuous quality provider. Read More

Microsoft and Udacity Team Up on ML on Azure Training

Udacity collaborates with Microsoft to provide scholarships for new Machine Learning Nanodegree program in Microsoft Azure. Read More

Our 5 Favorite ML/AI Talks from Build 2020

PureAI editors reviewed all these sessions and selected five that you might be interested in, regardless of your background, all freely available. Read More