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Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell

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In 2016, Serkan Piantino packed up his desk at Facebook with hopes to move on to something new. The former Director of Engineering for Faceboook AI Research had every intention to keep working on AI, but quickly realized a huge issue. Unless you’re under the umbrella of one of these big tech companies like Facebook, […] Continue reading Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell→

Nvidia’s T4 GPUs are now available in beta on Google Cloud

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Google Cloud today announced that Nvidia’s Turing-based Tesla T4 data center GPUs are now available in beta in its data centers in Brazil, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Tokyo and the United States. Google first announced a private test of these cards in November, but that was a very limited alpha test. All developers can now take these new […] Continue reading Nvidia’s T4 GPUs are now available in beta on Google Cloud→

GPU side channel attacks can enable spying on web activity, password stealing

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Computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside have revealed for the first time how easily attackers can use a computer’s graphics processing unit, or GPU, to spy on web activity, steal passwords, and break into cloud-based applic… Continue reading GPU side channel attacks can enable spying on web activity, password stealing→

Nvidia launches Rapids to help bring GPU acceleration to data analytics

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Nvidia, together with partners like IBM, HPE, Oracle, Databricks and others, is launching a new open-source platform for data science and machine learning today. Rapids, as the company is calling it, is all about making it easier for large businesses to use the power of GPUs to quickly analyze massive amounts of data and then […] Continue reading Nvidia launches Rapids to help bring GPU acceleration to data analytics→

Nvidia launches the Tesla T4, its fastest data center inferencing platform yet

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Nvidia today announced its new GPU for machine learning and inferencing in the data center. The new Tesla T4 GPUs (where the ‘T’ stands for Nvidia’s new Turing architecture) are the successors to the current batch of P4 GPUs that virtually every major cloud computing provider now offers. Google, Nvidia said, will be among the […] Continue reading Nvidia launches the Tesla T4, its fastest data center inferencing platform yet→