Baidu Announces Upgraded Baidu Brain 7.0 and Mass Production of 2nd Generation Kunlun AI Chip:
Baidu today showcased its strengths in artificial intelligence technology with the launch of Baidu Brain 7.0, the start of mass production of its 2nd generation Kunlun AI chip, Kunlun II, and the demonstration of industrial applications using Baidu AI Cloud. Shared at Baidu World 2021, Baidu's annual flagship technology conference, the announcements represent the depth of Baidu's expertise in AI technology and industrial practice, and its efforts to make AI technology more accessible.
"AI technology is growing increasingly complex, and integrated innovation has made AI more powerful," said Haifeng Wang, Baidu's Chief Technology Officer at Baidu World 2021. As AI technology plays an expanding role in a wider range of industries and drives a new era of technological revolution and industrial transformation, it is increasingly important to lower the threshold for different real-world applications and to increase accessibility to AI development platforms.
A key infrastructure supporting industrial applications of AI and Baidu Cloud, Baidu Brain is one of the world's largest AI open platforms. The newly upgraded Baidu Brain 7.0 offers greater integration of a wide array of knowledge sources and deep learning, including language comprehension and reasoning, using numerous combined technologies to enable output across language, voice and visual formats.
Working together with Baidu Brain 7.0's software capabilities is the new Kunlun II AI Chip, providing an improved hardware foundation for a new generation of AI applications. Independently developed by Baidu, Kunlun II offers 2-3 times more processing power than the previous generation, using the world's leading 7nm process and equipped with Baidu's own second-generation XPU architecture.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 22 2021, @07:13AM (5 children)
We all fucked now.
Someone explain to me what this is about.
Thank you. God bless.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 22 2021, @10:39AM (1 child)
This is about Baidu wanting to let us know how great their newest product is.
Or in other words: Marketing drivel.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday August 22 2021, @04:34PM
Two companies actually doing something interesting:
Cerebras More than Doubles Core and Transistor Count with 2nd-Generation Wafer Scale Engine [soylentnews.org]
Groq launches the first AI accelerator card capable of 1 PetaOPS [techspot.com]
And here's a bunch of AI chip startups [github.com].
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(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday August 22 2021, @12:45PM (2 children)
Baidu - is the Chinese equiv of Google. Search engine, user tracking, massive data sets, deep machine learning, hardware/CPU/GPU/XPU design, you name it.
Baidu Unveils Kunlun II AI Chip: Rival for Nvidia A100 [tomshardware.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 22 2021, @05:57PM (1 child)
Exactly.. This is something we have to set in molasses, or it will take over the world
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 24 2021, @03:00AM
You say it like you have any way to control it up.
I offer as evidence the past and current (and, no doubt, the near future) experience of doing the same Google, Facebook and the rest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 22 2021, @10:45AM
Ham on, Ham on, Ham on whole wheat, ALRIGHT!