Tech mega-deals are a distraction, not a breakthrough

The tech world is abuzz with news of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI signing a seven-year, $38 billion cloud computing deal, a partnership that promises high-powered AI advancements through massive infrastructure investments. AWS is providing OpenAI access to...

Python vs. Mojo (and Java, Go, Rust, and .NET)

Is Mojo still a contender for Python’s ML/AI crown? What languages outside of the Pythone ecosystem are good for data science? What’s the deal with Python dataclasses? And what’s this shiny new distributed-processing framework from the folks who gave us PyTorch? Find...

Baidu launches new generation of Ernie AI

The AI marketspace is getting mighty crowded, and Chinese company Baidu is the latest player to launch its newest model into the world. At its Baidu World conference this week, it unveiled Ernie 5.0. Baidu CTO and head of AI Group Haifeng Wang said (via translated...