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Microsoft announced an artificial intelligence partnership Monday with the French startup Mistral AI that could lessen the software giant’s reliance on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for supplying the next wave of chatbots and other generative AI products.Mistral AI emerged less than a year ago but is already what Microsoft described Monday as an “innovator and trailblazer” at the vanguard of building more efficient and cost-effective AI systems.Microsoft and Mistral didn’t disclose the financial terms of the deal, though Microsoft…

Alphabet's Google Cloud said on Thursday its customers who want to migrate their data to another cloud provider will not have to pay any network fees to make the transfer.Many cloud providers, including Microsoft's Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), charge customers based on the amount of data transferred when they switch vendors.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied Risk ManagementVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK…

Intel and the global investment firm DigitalBridge Group have formed an independent generative AI software stack company, Articul8 AI, Inc. (Articul8); Intel announced the new company on Jan. 3. Articul8 will work with Intel and provide solutions for organizations that wish to build and deploy generative AI. Articul8’s product and capabilities Articul8’s product is “a turnkey GenAI software platform that delivers speed, security and cost-efficiency to help large enterprise customers operationalize and scale…

View Full Image .. Or are they? Though cloud budgets overtook in-house spending on data centres a few years ago, firms continue to invest in their own hardware and software. Last year these expenditures passed $100bn for the first time, reckons Synergy Research Group, a firm of analysts (see chart 1). Many industrial companies, in particular, are finding that on-premises computing has its…

 More than two decades after J.K. Rowling introduced the world to a universe of magical creatures, forbidden forests and a teenage wizard, Harry Potter is finding renewed relevance in a very different body of literature: AI research. A growing number of researchers are using the best-selling Harry Potter books to experiment with generative artificial intelligence technology, citing the series' enduring influence in popular culture and the wide range of language data and complex wordplay within its pages.  Reviewing a…

TomTom just announced a “fully integrated, AI-powered conversational automotive assistant” which should start popping up in dashboard infotainment platforms in the near-ish future. The company has issued some bold claims for the AI, saying it’ll offer “more sophisticated voice interaction” and allow users to converse naturally to navigate, find stops along a route, control onboard systems, open windows and just about anything else you find yourself doing while driving.The company, best known for GPS platforms, partnered…

LinkedIn announced its plans to move to Microsoft’s Azure cloud service in 2019 when the tech giant acquired the job-searching company for $27 billion. Now, after three years, the company has reportedly decided not to proceed with the plan. According to a report by CNBC that cited people familiar with the matter, LinkedIn has shelved its plans to relocate its data centre technology out of its physical facilities.LinkedIn’s decision to not proceed with the project which is code-named “Blueshift,” marks a major reversal for…

Amazon is the driving force behind a trio of advocacy groups working to thwart Microsoft's growing ambition to become a major cloud computing contractor for governments, a Bloomberg analysis shows.The groups — the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing and the Alliance for Digital Innovation — want to convince policymakers that Microsoft has improperly locked customers into Azure, its cloud computing service, choking off its rivals and hindering the…

In the last few months, Microsoft has embarked on a mission to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) in its suite of products, ranging from consumer-focused Microsoft Office to Copilot 365 for businesses. At its latest Ignite 2023 conference, the technology giant announced several new AI-based products such as Copilot Studio, and Windows AI Studio, while also renaming Bing Chat to simply Copilot. The company also launched a text-to-speech avatar program called Azure AI Speech which can help create talking avatar…

NVIDIA’s AI Enterprise software shown at Supercomputing ‘23 connects accelerated computing to large language model use cases. At the Supercomputing ‘23 conference in Denver on Nov. 13, NVIDIA announced expanded availability of the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip for high-performance computing and HGX H200 Systems and Cloud Instances for AI training. Jump to: NVIDIA HGX GH200 supercomputer enhances generative AI and high-performance computing workloads The HGX GH200 supercomputing platform, which…