IBM Patents an AI System That Reads Factory Sensor Streams to Catch Manufacturing Defects
Most factory defects leave a fingerprint in the data long before a human inspector catches them. IBM is patenting an AI approach…
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The unglamorous machinery underneath: training methods, inference speedups, model compression, and the scheduling tricks that make AI affordable to run.
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Google Patents Geoffrey Hinton's Alternative to the Way AI Models Learn
Geoffrey Hinton, one of the founding figures of modern AI, has filed a patent with Google for a training method that could…
Qualcomm Patents a Faster Way to Run a Core AI Calculation on Chips
One of the most common calculations in AI, the softmax function, is also one of the most expensive to compute on small…
IBM Patents an AI Training System That Keeps Drilling on Its Own Mistakes
IBM wants to build AI systems that never stop practicing the problems they got wrong, stacking a chain of specialized models until…
Google Patent: AI Learns From User Reactions While Keeping Data On-Device
Google is patenting a way to make its AI models learn from what you like and dislike, without ever shipping your actual…
IBM Patents a Way to Put Its AI Models on an Energy Diet
AI models are power-hungry by default, but IBM is patenting a way to make them voluntarily slim down on command, swapping a…
IBM Patent: Federated AI Learns From Private Data Without Ever Exposing It
IBM has filed a patent for a way to train a machine learning model across multiple organizations' private databases without any single…
IBM Patents a Self-Checking Method to Train AI on Image Questions
IBM has filed a patent for a training pipeline that teaches an AI to answer questions about images by only feeding it…
Nvidia's New Patent Removes a Hidden Cost That Slows Down AI Training
Training a large AI model is expensive and slow, and one of the standard techniques used to keep training stable turns out…
Microsoft's New Patent Makes AI Faster at Picking What You See in Your Feed
Every time an app decides what post, ad, or article to show you, a ranking system is making that call. Microsoft just…
Nvidia's New Patent Teaches Robots by Showing Them AI Videos of Themselves
Training a robot normally means thousands of hours of real-world trial and error. Nvidia's new patent wants to skip most of that…
Google Patent Splits AI Workloads Across Preparation Steps and Accelerator Chips Simultaneously
AI chips are expensive and fast, but they often sit idle waiting for data to arrive. Google's new patent describes a system…
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