AvatarVentureBeatProBeat: Microsoft’s AI supercomputer was the best of Build 2020verified_publisherVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiThis week, Microsoft hosted a vastly different Build, its developers conference and biggest event of the year. Build 2020 had plenty of big news for businesses, developers, and business developers. There was unexpected news and expected news. Even Microsoft haters had plenty to discuss. Cloud and …
AvatarVentureBeatAvatarAvatarSearch engines are leveraging AI to improve their language understandingverified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersDuring its Build 2020 conference this week, Microsoft took the wraps off of AI at Scale, an initiative aimed at applying large-scale AI and supercomputing to language processing across the company’s apps, services, and managed products. Already, Microsoft says, massive algorithms have driven …
AvatarVentureBeatAvatarAvatarMicrosoft acquires RPA startup Softomotive to bolster Power Automateverified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersMicrosoft today announced that it acquired robotic process automation (RPA) startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum. In a blog post, Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s citizen application platform, said that the company’s desktop automation solutions will join together with …
AvatarVentureBeatAvatarAvatarOpenAI’s supercomputer collaboration with Microsoft marks its biggest bet yet on AGIverified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersRoughly a year ago, Microsoft announced it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI to jointly develop new technologies for Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and to “further extend” large-scale AI capabilities that “deliver on the promise” of artificial general intelligence (AGI). In exchange, OpenAI …
AvatarVentureBeatAvatarAvatarMicrosoft launches Project Bonsai, an AI development platform for industrial systemsverified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersMicrosoft announced the public preview of Project Bonsai, a platform for building autonomous industrial control systems, during its Build 2020 online conference. The company also debuted an experimental platform called Project Moab that’s designed to familiarize engineers and developers with …
AvatarVentureBeatAvatarAvatarMicrosoft launches Windows Terminal 1.0, unveils GPU support and Linux GUI apps in WSLverified_publisherVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiAt Build 2020 today, Microsoft gave developers a slew of new tools to coax them into using Windows over macOS or Linux. Windows Terminal is now out of preview for enterprises, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 is getting support for GPUs, Linux GUI apps, and a simplified install experience. …
AvatarVentureBeatAvatarAvatarMicrosoft’s Chromium Edge is getting Pinterest suggestions, sidebar search, and business featuresverified_publisherVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiAt its Build 2020 developers conference today, Microsoft announced a slew of new features coming to Chromium Edge. Consumers can expect Pinterest suggestions and sidebar search. On top of that, businesses are getting new syncing and customization options, easier switching between work and personal …
AvatarVentureBeatAvatarAvatarMicrosoft is building Industry Clouds for health care and other fieldsverified_publisherVentureBeat - Seth ColanerThe coronavirus pandemic has put the world’s health care systems to the test, to say the least. The “flatten the curve” mantra is fundamentally about not overburdening these systems, after all — and Microsoft believes its Cloud for Healthcare can help. Announced this week at its Build 2020 event, …
AvatarVentureBeatAvatarAvatarMicrosoft gives business developers new tools to build Teams appsverified_publisherVentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiMicrosoft wants to help business developers tap into the explosive growth of Microsoft Teams. At Build 2020, the company launched a Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code extension for Teams in preview, introduced new integrations between its Power Platform and Teams, and announced a custom app …
AvatarVentureBeatAvatarAvatarMicrosoft debuts WhiteNoise, an AI toolkit for differential privacyverified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersDuring its Build 2020 developer conference, which takes place online this week, Microsoft announced the addition of new capabilities to Azure Machine Learning, its cloud-based environment for training, deploying, and managing AI models. WhiteNoise, a toolkit for differential privacy, is now …
AvatarVentureBeatAvatarAvatarMicrosoft’s ZeRO-2 with DeepSpeed trains neural networks with up to 170 billion parametersverified_publisherVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonMicrosoft today upgraded its DeepSpeed library for training large neural networks with ZeRO-2. Microsoft says the memory optimizing tech is capable of training machine learning models with 170 billion parameters. For context, Nvidia’s massive Megatron language model is one of the biggest in the …
AvatarVentureBeatAvatarAvatarAzure Synapse Link anchors Microsoft’s new big data analytics capabilitiesverified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersDuring its Build 2020 online developer conference this week, Microsoft announced a number of new and updated products targeting enterprises engaged in big data analytics. The newest product in the company’s portfolio is Azure Synapse Link, which enables data analytics on live operational data and …