Friday, December 11, 2015

Facebook to Publish Designs for `Big Sur' AI Computer Hardware - Bloomberg Business

A very generous year in the AI community; also see Silicon Valley Is in a War Over Artificial Intelligence and Facebook Just Made Its Boldest Move Yet (Re/code)
"Facebook Inc.’s use of artificial intelligence, which ranges from tools for image recognition to the filtering of the news feeds for its social network, demands special computing infrastructure. The company recently began building custom servers for its artificial intelligence workload and Thursday announced it would release the designs for that powerful hardware to the world -- for free.
The company said the plan to open-source the blueprints of the servers -- called “Big Sur” -- would help other companies and researchers benefit from the incessant tweaking of Facebook’s developers. This follows Alphabet Inc.-subsidiary Google’s release last month of a software tool for building AI systems named TensorFlow. Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp., and Samsung Electronics Co. also have released their own software tools."
Facebook to Publish Designs for `Big Sur' AI Computer Hardware - Bloomberg Business

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