Telex: ServiceNow purchased Element AI, Nvidia medical imaging IA framework, AWS explained its failure

-ServiceNow acquired Element AI. This Montreal-based company was co-founded by its CEO Jean-François Gagné and the 2018 Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, the latter for his contribution to artificial intelligence. Won the 2018 Turing Award, specializing in deep learning technology.Its team of scientists will bring ServiceNow He has expertise in the application of artificial intelligence to text, dialogue, images, research, Q&A communication, and abstract development. The American publisher emphasized the strong need to use artificial intelligence in its service management SaaS (ITSM, customer support, or human resource request management). Through this acquisition, it will become Canada’s artificial intelligence innovation center because it has established other development centers in different regions.

-Nvidia IA framework for medical imagingWith the upcoming launch of Nvidia’s Clara application framework, Monai (Artificial Intelligence Medical Open Network) is now ready for production. Based on PyTorch and launched in April, Monai supports the development of artificial intelligence functions for medical imaging. As part of its Clara product, Nvidia provides it with more than 20 pre-trained models, including models recently designed for Covid-19, as well as the latest learning optimizations on the DGX A100 GPU, which can provide x6 acceleration. .

-AWS explained its failure. On November 25, the public cloud provider’s Kinesis service in Northern Virginia was interrupted for several hours, which affected the services of its customers and some customers. Although this is not the root cause, the problem is caused by the relatively small increase in Kinesis’s front-end server farm. The service is used to capture and process data, audio and video streams in real time so that they can be analyzed and reacted immediately. In a blog post, AWS provided a detailed explanation of the problem.