Tag: performance

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise

    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/0125250/microsofts-analog-optical-computer-shows-ai-promise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a project by Microsoft Research involving an analog optical computer (AOC) designed for AI workloads, significantly enhancing computation speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs. The initiative offers opportunities for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jason Liu

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/jason-liu/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jason Liu Feedly Summary: I am once again shocked at how much better image retrieval performance you can get if you embed highly opinionated summaries of an image, a summary that came out of a visual language model, than using CLIP embeddings themselves. If you tell…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/kimi-k2-instruct-0905/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 Feedly Summary: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 New not-quite-MIT licensed model from Chinese Moonshot AI, a follow-up to the highly regarded Kimi-K2 model they released in July. This one is an incremental improvement – I’ve seen it referred to online as “Kimi K-2.1". It scores a little higher on a…

  • Slashdot: Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/05/196218/boffins-build-automated-android-bug-hunting-system?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses an innovative AI-powered bug-hunting agent called A2, developed by researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney. This agent aims to enhance vulnerability discovery in Android apps, achieving significantly higher…

  • The Register: If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here’s what they might look like

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/openai_broadcom_ai_chips/ Source: The Register Title: If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here’s what they might look like Feedly Summary: Whatever happened to that Baltra thing Tan and crew were helping Apple cook up? Analysis OpenAI is allegedly developing a custom AI accelerator with the help of Broadcom in an apparent bid…

  • Cloud Blog: Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/troubleshoot-apache-spark-on-dataproc-with-gemini-cloud-assist-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark Feedly Summary: Apache Spark is a fundamental part of most modern lakehouse architectures, and Google Cloud’s Dataproc provides a powerful, fully managed platform for running Spark applications. However, for data engineers and scientists, debugging…

  • Cloud Blog: Tata Steel enhances equipment and operations monitoring with the Manufacturing Data Engine

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/manufacturing/tata-steel-enhances-equipment-and-operations-monitoring-with-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Tata Steel enhances equipment and operations monitoring with the Manufacturing Data Engine Feedly Summary: Tata Steel is one of the world’s largest steel producers, with an annual crude steel capacity exceeding 35 millions tons. With such a large and global output, we needed a way to improve asset…

  • The Register: Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/microsoft_analog_optical_computer/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype Feedly Summary: Good for solving finance and clinical problems… and AI Microsoft researchers in Cambridge have unveiled its latest iteration of an Analog Optical Computer (AOC) and have inevitably incorporated AI into the technology’s capabilities.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing EmbeddingGemma

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/embedding-gemma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Feedly Summary: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Brand new open weights (under the slightly janky Gemma license) 308M parameter embedding model from Google: Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, EmbeddingGemma is trained on 100+ languages and is small enough to run on less than 200MB of RAM with…