Nvidia Patents a Compiler That Auto-Partitions Code Into GPU Warps
Writing GPU code that actually runs efficiently requires hand-tuning how work is divided across hardware thread groups called warps — a notoriously…
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Microsoft Patents an AI System That Scores the Strength of Your Professional Relationships
Not all LinkedIn connections are equal — some are close colleagues, others are people you met once at a conference. Microsoft is…
Nvidia Patents a Self-Correcting Training Loop for Self-Driving AI
Teaching a self-driving car to recover from a mistake is hard — but generating millions of those recovery moments synthetically, on demand,…
Microsoft Patents a 2D Parallel Method for Cheaper Transformer Self-Attention
Training large language models on very long documents is expensive — partly because the math that lets tokens 'attend' to each other…
Microsoft Patents a Weight-Rotating Trick to Keep GPUs Busy During AI Training
Training large AI models on very long sequences of text is brutally expensive — partly because GPUs end up waiting around with…
Apple Patents Chips That Reroute Around Their Own Broken Test Circuits
Apple is patenting a way for chips to detect when part of their own built-in test wiring is broken — and automatically…
Microsoft Patents Seasonal-Aware Cloud Usage Anomaly Detection System
Most cloud anomaly detectors treat a Black Friday traffic spike the same as a suspicious breach. Microsoft's new patent tries to fix…
Google Patents a Speech Recognition Model That Trains Across Languages Using One Alphabet
Training a single AI model to understand dozens of languages is hard enough — doing it when those languages use completely different…
Microsoft Patents a Shadow-Map GPU Trick to Fix VR Reprojection Glitches
When your VR headset redraws a frame a few milliseconds late, the seams show — ghosting, warping, visual tearing. Microsoft's new patent…
Google Patents a Single Text Box That Finds Photos and Generates New AI Content From Them
What if you could type one message — 'Make a Father's Day card using a photo of Viktor and Hannah' — and…
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