HPE has launched a new AI channel program in collaboration with NVIDIA, offering competencies and additional resources across various areas including AI, compute, storage, networking, hybrid cloud, sustainability, and HPE GreenLake offerings. The program aims to provide partners with the necessary tools and skills to navigate the AI market and tap into its opportunities. HPE has also updated its Partner Ready Vantage program, including new competencies and improved integration with HPE GreenLake.
Apple has added 20 new Core ML models and datasets to the collaborative platform Hugging Face, focusing on text and image AI. The models include image classification and semantic segmentation, offering capabilities such as removing unwanted backgrounds from photos and identifying objects in foreign languages. This release follows Apple’s previous contributions to AI research, including the release of OpenELMs and the publication of research papers on generative AI animation tools and AI avatars.
We also learned why Apple intelligence will only be available on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. The company explained that older iPhones lack the computational power and RAM to run the AI models effectively. While some AI features will be available on MacBooks and iPads with M-series chips, the iPhone 15 Pro offers twice the neural capability of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 14 Pro.
Microsoft has released a new vision foundation model called Florence-2, which can handle various vision and vision-language tasks using a prompt-based representation. The model comes in two sizes and performs well in captioning, object detection, and visual grounding tasks. It aims to provide a unified approach to handle different types of vision applications, potentially saving investments on separate task-specific models.
Why do we care?
We’re interested in capabilities of products, less than specific AI models. That doesn’t mean IT providers shouldn’t be aware of the options, making sure that product choices are based in competitive technologies.
Partner programs like HP’s get you educated.