Artificial intelligence (AI) is continuing to evolve rapidly, so it may be unsurprising that Deloitte's 2022 State of AI report calls out organizations that are still getting up to speed on the technology. It emphasizes how important the technology is becoming and points out that companies late to the game need to do better — predicting that AI will become critical to business success in the next five years.
In the same vein, a look at some of the most notable overarching trends in deep learning reveals that AI's use cases continue to revolve around deep learning's ability to scale. On top of that, other trends like multimodality and unsupervised learning are delivering promising results for the companies that are applying them — although the technology is still not without its faults.
Some of the latest innovations announced in AI came from Nvidia, Oracle and Meta this week. At the Oracle CloudWorld event, Nvidia and Oracle announced an expanded, multiyear partnership that will bring Nvidia's GPUs, systems and software into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The partnership is aimed at bolstering OCI users' options for AI training and deep learning, along with cluster networking and storage.
Meanwhile, Meta announced the launch of the universal speech translator (UST) project, which will use AI for real-time speech translation across languages — including one unwritten language, Hokkien, a Chinese language spoken in southeastern China and Taiwan.
Outside of the AI realm, in data infrastructure news, Snowflake this week acquired TV advertising firm, OpenAP to build out a data clean room solution.
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