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Microsoft introduced the new Kosmos-1 AI. He understands text with pictures, knows how to solve puzzles and can become the basis for a full-fledged AI
Recently, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, an AI model that can analyze images, find text on them and recognize it, solve visual puzzles, take visual IQ tests and understand natural language commands. This system is said to be able to combine various input modes: text, images, video, sound, and so on. This will create an “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), which will be able to solve a number of problems no worse than a person.
This AI is called multimodal (more precisely, it is a multimodal large language model or MLLM) and, as some experts believe, it can become the basis for “general artificial intelligence” – a technology that will allow AI to replace people in solving intellectual problems. Thus, it will be an alternative to chatbots and large language models (LLMs) that have become popular in recent times. Note that OpenAI, which is one of Microsoft’s key AI partners, has already stated that it wants to create AGI and has even developed security measures for it.
As for Kosmos-1, this system seems to have been created without the participation of OpenAI. It works primarily with text, and perceives images as a series of special tokens.
Microsoft trained Kosmos-1 using data from the Internet 1 with over 800 GB of English text. The new system is said to have overtaken modern language models. However, for now, it remains to take Microsoft’s word for it – the company has not yet published the source codes.
Components
Nvidia says its Grace CPU Superchip is twice as fast as x86-compatible processors for the same power consumption
Nvidia said that its Arm-based Grace CPU Superchip processor in tests with real workloads shows a twofold increase in performance compared to x86-compatible CPUs in the same range of power consumption. With which processors Nvidia compared, it is not specified.
The company says these figures mean data centers can handle twice as much peak traffic for the same power consumption if they switch to Grace. Or they can cut their energy bills by almost half while maintaining productivity.
Nvidia itself says that Grace provides such results thanks to three main factors. Firstly, these are 72 Arm Neoverse V2 cores in one CPU (Grace CPU Superchip, we recall, contains two CPUs on one board), and secondly, in fact, the combination of two such CPUs via the NVLink-C2C interface with a bandwidth of 900 GB / s , third, the use of server-class LPDDR5X memory.
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Realme GT Neo5 SE on Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 tested in AnTuTu. The result is like recent flagships
Qualcomm officially unveiled mid-range Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 single-chip system a few days ago, and already one of the first production models based on this SoC – Realme GT Neo5 SE – has been spotted in the AnTuTu benchmark.
The result is impressive. Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 is not a top platform at all, but a phone based on it has broken the mark of 1 million points. Until recently, only flagships were capable of this. For comparison, this is the level of the Dimensity 9000 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platforms.
As for the specifications of the Realme GT Neo5 SE, it has 16 GB of LPDDR5X RAM, 1 TB (!) of UFS 3.1 memory and Android 13 out of the box. This smartphone will go on sale on April 3rd.
Electric Cars
Truck “Ural” tried on a hybrid power plant. The company showed its first such prototype and set its sights on an all-electric version.
The Ural Automobile Plant demonstrated its first prototype of an electric truck equipped with a hybrid power plant.
A car with a 4×2 wheel formula is still called simply “Ural”. It is powered by an LNG engine that is used as a generator to charge a battery, which in turn powers an electric motor. At the moment, it is known that the power reserve is only 100 km, but in this case, we mean the ability of a car to drive such a distance solely due to the battery. Since the car is also equipped with an internal combustion engine, as a result, in general, the power reserve is quite worthy of 500 km.
The company is reportedly planning to develop an all-electric truck and then a hydrogen fuel cell version. But so far we are only talking about prototypes, but there is no data on serial machines with similar power plants.
Nvidia says its Grace CPU Superchip is twice as fast as x86-compatible processors for the same power consumption
Nvidia said that its Arm-based Grace CPU Superchip processor in tests with real workloads shows a twofold increase in performance...
Realme GT Neo5 SE on Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 tested in AnTuTu. The result is like recent flagships
Qualcomm officially unveiled mid-range Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 single-chip system a few days ago, and already one of the...
Truck “Ural” tried on a hybrid power plant. The company showed its first such prototype and set its sights on an all-electric version.
The Ural Automobile Plant demonstrated its first prototype of an electric truck equipped with a hybrid power plant. A car...
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