Congatec has introduced COM Express Type 6 Compact computer-on-modules with AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000 processors, offering up to 39Top/s for AI processing. The processors have up to eight Zen 4 cores, 16Top/s XDNA NPUs and AI-capable Radeon RDNA 3 graphics with up to 12 compute units, and are available with design powers from 15 to 54W (see table below). Conga-TCR8 ...
Google is rebranding TensorFlow Lite to LiteRT (as in “lite runtime”). This lets you deploy ML and AI models on Android, iOS, and embedded devices. Basically, for on-device AI at the Edge. Google writes about the name change for the runtime that supports models other than those solely authored with TensorFlow: “Since its debut in 2017, TFLite has enabled developers ...
A bill to regulate the use of algorithms and automated decision making by public authorities has been proposed by the House of Lords. Lord Clement-Jones is behind the fledgling bill. He is co-founded and shares the chair of the ‘All party parliamentary group on AI’, is the former chair of the Lords Select Committee on AI, and is the author ...
A bit of fun for a Friday – possible collective nouns for tech components, sparked by a recent Raspberry Pi story… I recently clocked a reference to an AI model zoo of all things. This was a collection of various pre-trained neural network models, ready to be run on a particular bit of hardware. Zoo The story was about the ...
We're talking AI startups losing their founders, sticky-back tape that attenuates EMI, and Eutelsat creating a new ground segment entity...
Nvidia has announced results for its forthcoming Blackwell GPU in the latest round of MLPerf industry benchmarks, Inference v4.1. “The Blackwell platform revealed up to 4x more performance than the Hopper architecture on MLPerf’s biggest LLM [large language model] workload, Llama 2 70B, thanks to its use of a second-generation transformer engine and FP4 tensor cores,” according to the company. ...
Nvidia has announced pre-trained, customisable AI workflows for creating customer service avatars, for data-mining pdf documents, and for virtual drug screening. They are the first three ‘NIM Agent Blueprints’, which the company said will be a catalogue of products to jump-start developers creating applications based on AI agents. They include sample applications built with Nvidia’s ‘NeMo’, ‘NIM’ and partner micro-services, ...
In partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), Open Cosmos has launched Phisat-2 (Φsat2), a 6U CubeSat to showcase in-orbit AI for Earth observations. The satellite carries a multispectral camera for imaging but also a computer to allow AI apps to run onboard, for adding intelligence to the processing of the data. This is done via the open source NanoSat ...
ZeroEyes, which says it created the only AI-based gun detection video analytics platform that holds the US Department of Homeland Security Safety Act Designation, has come out with ZeroEyes One (ZEO), an AI-powered, human-verified gun detection solution available for deployments ranging from 1-16 IP cameras. With this, ZeroEyes’ security software is now available for organisations such as convenience stores, gas ...
The Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize shortlist has just been announced, featuring six recently published titles. We're talking AI, Mars City, Bayes' theorem, and death...
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