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In the news | Wired
Microsoft Charts Its Own Path on Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft is pitching the idea of running AI projects atop chips called FPGAs, whose designs can be reprogrammed to support new forms of software on the fly.
In the news | Intel Developer Zone
Microsoft* Turbocharges AI with Intel FPGAs. You Can, Too.
Today, Microsoft* announced a public preview of Azure Machine Learning Hardware Accelerated Models powered by Project Brainwave*, a new AI inferencing service. The service uses Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs, configured as “soft DNN processing units” highly-tuned to the ResNet-50 image…
In the news | Fortune
4 Big Takeaways from Satya Nadella’s Talk at Microsoft Build
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is trying to distinguish the business technology giant from its technology brethren by focusing on digital privacy. That’s one of the takeaways from Nadella’s opening talk on Monday from Microsoft’s annual Build conference for developers in…
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft launches Project Brainwave, its deep learning acceleration platform
Microsoft believes FPGAs give it more flexibility than designing custom chips and that the performance it achieves on standard Intel Stratix FPGAs is at least comparable to that of custom chips.
In the news | Intel Newsroom
Intel FPGAs bring power to artificial intelligence in Microsoft Azure
Project Brainwave unlocks the future of AI by unleashing programmable hardware using Intel FPGAs to deliver real-time AI.
In the news | Data Center Knowledge
Why Microsoft Has Bet on FPGAs to Infuse Its Cloud With AI, by Mary Branscombe
In the news | Intel Newsroom
Intel FPGAs Accelerate Artificial Intelligence for Deep Learning in Microsoft’s Bing Intelligent Search
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Brainwave makes Bing’s AI over 10 times faster
Microsoft announced today that its use of specialized hardware for AI computation allowed it to get more than 10 times faster performance for a machine learning model that powers functionality of its Bing search engine.
In the news | Bing Blog
Bing Launches More Intelligent Search Features
In December, we announced new intelligent search features which tap into advances in AI to provide people with more comprehensive answers, faster. Today, we’re excited to announce improvements to our current features, and new scenarios that get you to your…