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The Latest News in AI
We follow all the moves made by the leaders and challengers in AI semis and services. Here are recent announcements that caught our eye:

Cambrian AI Visions: Meet the Leaders
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IBM’s Ray Harishankar and John Buselli on Quantum Safe Security
Quantum Safe computing will require revamping most, if not all, digital security apparatus around the world. IBM Research’s algorithms have been named by the US NIST as...

Recent MLPerf submission 2.1 with Rahul Patel, SVP & GM, Connectivity & Networking for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 continues to lead the industry in power efficient AI acceleration. We discuss the recent MLPerf submission 2.1 with Rahul Patel, SVP & GM,...
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SiMa.ai: Ignite the Edge ML Market with New Software-Driven “MLSoC”
SiMa.ai hopes to transform the edge AI market with an “MLSoC” solution with image processing, video, and a custom AI Accelerator. Now shipping…. Let’s take a closer look. You can download this...
Qualcomm AI Research Explores 3D Perception Using Advanced ML
THE TRICK OF AI AT THE EDGE IS REDUCING COMPLEXITY WHILE MAINTAINING OR EVEN IMPROVING INFERENCE ACCURACY. AND THAT TAKES A LOT OF PRIMARY RESEARCH. One of the thorniest problems mobile and edge...
SiFive: Driving Innovation in RISC-V Vector Processing
The Company Appears to be Well Positioned to Challenge CPU Incumbents with High Performance RISC-V CPUs and Vector Extensions to the Open ISA Architecture. RISC-V is taking the processor world by...
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explore the explosion
What’s with the “Cambrian-AI” theme?
A few years ago, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang used the term “Cambrian Explosion” to refer to the rapid growth in AI models. I think the term is appropriate to both AI software models and the specialized hardware that accelerates AI. I began publishing an annual blog in January 2019, summarizing the year’s innovations and forecasting what we expect for the coming year. But I am getting ahead of the story…
