Category: AWS
Amazon opens its first cloud data center in Africa
Amazon’s cloud data centers have arrived in South Africa, helping millions of people, businesses and organizations to benefit from faster connectivity and viable access to next-generation technology. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is located in Cape Town… Source
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AWS and Facebook launch an open-source model server for PyTorch
AWS and Facebook today announced two new open-source projects around PyTorch, the popular open-source machine learning framework. The first of these is TorchServe, a model serving framework for PyTorch that will make it easier for developers to put their models into production. The other is TorchElastic, a library that makes…
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An IPO? In this economy?
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Late last week a Chinese company called Kingsoft Cloud filed to go public in the United States. The cloud infrastructure business intends to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol…
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Developers can use Alexa’s ‘long-form’ speaking style to read the news
Developers building apps that deliver content spoken aloud by AI assistants have a new trick to implement with Amazon’s Alexa voice now. A new “long-form” speaking style (you can hear a sample of it here, compared to the neutral setting here) uses an… Source
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Extra Crunch members save money with Partner Perks and event discounts
Last fall we launched a series of new benefits for annual and 2-year Extra Crunch members called Partner Perks. The idea with the Partner Perks program was to find products or services that could benefit our readers, and then collaborate with the makers of the products to offer up discounts…
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OctoML raises $15M to make optimizing ML models easier
OctoML, a startup founded by the team behind the Apache TVM machine learning compiler stack project, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A round led by Amplify, with participation from Madrone Ventures, which led its $3.9 million seed round. The core idea behind OctoML and TVM…
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