Supercomputers

EU wants to upgrade its supercomputers to support generative AI startups

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European Union lawmakers scrambling for the bloc to be a contender in the generative AI race are presenting a package of support measures aimed at charging up homegrown AI startups and scale ups. Artificial intelligence technologies — and especially generative AI models which are trained on very large data-sets and have capabilities such as being … Read more

Google DeepMind’s AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard

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In September, researchers at Google’s DeepMind AI unit in London were paying unusual attention to the weather across the pond. Hurricane Lee was at least 10 days out from landfall—eons in forecasting terms—and official forecasts were still waffling between the storm landing on major Northeast cities or missing them entirely. DeepMind’s own experimental software had … Read more