AI exterminates humans in some tasks, but not all
Stanford’s New AI Index Report
Stanford’s new AI Index Report discloses that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has outperformed humans in several benchmarks, including image classification, visual reasoning, and English understanding. However, it lags in complex tasks like competition-level mathematics, visual commonsense reasoning, and planning.
Google's Axion packs a punch
Google squares off against the AI competition
Google Cloud's thrown its hat into the ring with Axion, its first custom-built Arm brawler, promising a 30 per cent beefier performance than other Arm contenders from AWS and Microsoft. They're even boasting a 50 per cent muscle-up and 60 per cent more energy thriftiness than the X86 heavyweights.
Intel's Gaudi 3 released
A new AI chip
Intel's Gaudi 3, the latest contender in the AI chip race, has hit the market, which it claims has twice the energy efficiency and a 1.5x faster AI model processing speed compared to Nvidia's H100 GPU.
Ive and Altman’s secret tech venture
It's not a phone, it's a mystery
Jony Ive, the design maestro behind Apple's shiny toys, and Sam Altman, the head honcho at OpenAI, are rumoured to be cooking up something big. They're not just tinkering in the shed; they're after a hefty €920 million to kickstart a company that'll churn out an AI-powered gizmo.
Microsoft wants to open a new AI hub in London
Based in Paddington
Software King of the World Microsoft plans to open a new hub in London's Paddington to expand the company’s AI capabilities.