Powering the next generation of trustworthy AI in a confidential cloud using NVIDIA GPUs
| Kapil Vaswani, Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Stavros Volos, Cédric Fournet, and Manuel Costa
Cloud computing is powering a new age of data and AI by democratizing access to scalable compute, storage, and networking infrastructure and services. Thanks to the cloud, organizations can now collect data at an unprecedented scale and use it to…
Microsoft Translator enhanced with Z-code Mixture of Experts models
| Hany Hassan Awadalla, Krishna Doss Mohan, and Vishal Chowdhary
Translator, a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service, is adopting Z-code Mixture of Experts models, a breakthrough AI technology that significantly improves the quality of production translation models. As a component of Microsoft’s larger XYZ-code initiative to combine AI models for text,…
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Microsoft claims new AI model architecture improves language translation
Coinciding with Nvidia’s March 2022 GPU Technology Conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Translator — its Azure service that can translate roughly 100 languages across call centers, chatbots, and third-party apps — that the company claims greatly improves the…
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Microsoft improves its AI translations with Z-Code
Microsoft today announced an update to its translation services that, thanks to new machine learning techniques, promises significantly improved translations between a large number of language pairs. Based on its Project Z-Code, which uses a “spare Mixture of Experts” approach,…
In the news | Microsoft AI blog
New Z-code Mixture of Experts models improve quality, efficiency in Translator and Azure AI
Microsoft is making upgrades to Translator and other Azure AI services powered by a new family of artificial intelligence models its researchers have developed called Z-code, which offer the kind of performance and quality benefits that other large-scale language models…
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Getting People Talking: Microsoft Improves AI Quality and Efficiency of Translator Using NVIDIA Triton
Microsoft aims to be the first to put a class of powerful AI transformer models into production using Azure with NVIDIA GPUs and Triton inference software. When your software can evoke tears of joy, you spread the cheer. So, Translator,…
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Microsoft improves Translator and Azure AI services with new AI ‘Z-code’ models
Microsoft is updating its Translator and other Azure AI services with a set of AI models called Z-code, officials announced on March 22. These updates will improve the quality of machine translations, as well as help these services support more…
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Rico Malvar | Provoca | 22/03/2022
Nesta terça-feira (22/3), Marcelo Tas conversa no Provoca com o engenheiro e pesquisador Rico Malvar. Antigo cientista-chefe no maior laboratório da Microsoft Research em Redmond, Washington, o convidado fala sobre sua história na empresa, o combate às fake news e…
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Transforming Agriculture: Technology Companies Stand Poised to Deliver 21st-Centruty Solutions
Advances in digital technologies and telecommunications over the last few decades have dramatically changed many homes and businesses around the world. The vast majority of today's farms, however, still operate a lot like their 20th century brethren.