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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence Exhibited By Computers And Machines
Quantum Leaps in Scientific and Technological Research
Advanced Web Search Results, Recommendation Systems
Interaction Via Human Speech, Generative And Creative Tools
AI Problems: Fake Websites, Lying, Cheating, Stealing, Hallucinations
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15 October 2024
TSMC Plans More Chip Factories in Europe
TSMC is gradually expanding outside Taiwan. In the near future, the company plans to launch three factories, one in the United States, one in Japan, and one in Germany. Taiwan's Minister of Technology confirmed that TSMC is also planning further European expansion. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Taiwan's Minister noted that TSMC plans several more factories for different market segments. TSMC's entry into the European market will open up new opportunities for European companies. TSMC is considering investments in Germany's neighboring countries. Over the past year, several high ranking Taiwanese officials have visited Prague to discuss joint research and development programs for scientists from Taiwan and the Czech Republic. Other companies in Germany and the Netherlands are developing a new generation of computer chips that would benefit from cooperation with local TSMC production facilities.
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15 October 2024
Google To Acquire Nuclear Reactors For Data Centers
Google has entered into the world's first corporate agreement to acquire small nuclear reactors manufactured by Kairos Power. Under the agreement, Kairos Power will produce the first such reactor by 2030, and by 2035, Kairos Power will deploy several small nuclear reactors for Google's use. Google has yet to disclose the agreement details or the location where Kasiros Power will build the reactors. Google is considering 500 megawatts of electricity, which six or seven small reactors will provide. The reactors are relatively low power when compared to most modern reactors. Late last year, Kairos Power received permission to build a demonstration reactor in Tennessee. Its capacity will probably be 50 MW. Some experts believe that small nuclear reactors will not be able to provide the necessary savings, and electricity will be more expensive than that produced by large reactors at large power plants. Small reactors will also produce nuclear waste.
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15 October 2024
Tesla Optimus Robots Secretly Controlled By Humans
According to the South China Morning Post, last week's Tesla presentation, featuring Optimus humanoid robots that interacted with the company's guests, was initially supposed to follow a completely different scenario. First, no one originally planned to demonstrate robots during the event. Elon Musk demanded that the Optimus robots be included three weeks before the event. Tesla did not sufficiently develop the software to control the robots. Tesla did not trust the robots to interact with event attendees. Human operators nearby controlled many of the robots from a distance during the presentation. Sources familiar with the specifics of the event's preparation explained that the robots could move their legs, but operators carried out more complex actions. Demonstrating the robots still worked in a sense since many participants enthusiastically shared their positive impressions of interacting with them, including small dialogues.
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15 October 2024
Microsoft Neural Networks Not Reliable For Medical Consultations
A group of scientists at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, evaluated the benefits of AI and chatbots that can provide medical advice to users. The preliminary results of scientific work revealed that the advice of the Microsoft neural network can be dangerous to health. The experiment was conducted with Microsoft's Copilot neural network built into Windows. Doctors were surprised that half of Copilot's advice needed to be corrected. The researchers asked the chatbot ten popular questions related to 50 medical issues. The team sent 500 requests. 54% of the answers were valid. The problem is that much of the advice needed to be corrected. 22% could lead to cardiac arrest. 42% can cause mild or moderate harm to the body. 36% of incorrect answers did not pose a threat. Scientists concluded that although AI has great potential, a neural network cannot replace a doctor's consultation.
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14 October 2024
Adobe Firefly AI Video Model Generates Commercially Safe Videos
Adobe its new Firefly Video Model Beta Version, a generative AI model that can generate videos based on user text prompts. The Adobe Firefly Video Model is considered commercially safe compared to other existing video generation models. It was trained using licensed content, such as Adobe Stock and public domain content where copyright has expired. Firefly Video Model users can use AI generated videos for commercial purposes without legal risks. The Adobe Firefly Video Model now powers two Adobe services. First, it is available in the Premiere Pro beta as the new Generative Extend feature, allowing you to extend clips to cover video gaps, smooth transitions, and more. Second, it is available in the Firefly web app to generate brand new videos. Adobe will share more details about the Firefly Video Model and its pricing as it exits the limited public beta.
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14 October 2024
Minisforum Reveals EliteMini AI370 With AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU
Minisforum revealed the EliteMini AI370, a powerful mini PC that combines groundbreaking CPU performance with a sleek, compact design. Minisforum designed this innovative device to meet the demands of gamers, creators, and tech enthusiasts who need high performance in a small footprint. At the core of the EliteMini AI370 is the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor. This advanced chip featuring 12 cores and 24 threads delivers effortless power for gaming and creative applications. It expertly balances high performance and energy efficiency with integrated AI enhancements that optimize workflows and daily tasks like never before. The processor also boasts the world’s leading neural processing unit (NPU) with 50 AI TOPS performance. It utilizes the AMD XDNA2 architecture to achieve 2x better power efficiency and 5x more AI performance. The performance sets a new benchmark for intelligent computing, redefining what users can expect from a mini PC.
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14 October 2024
Apple Research Shows AI Does Not Think, It Just Mimics Thinking
Apple researchers have found that large language models such as ChatGPT are incapable of logical thinking and need clarification if insignificant details are added to the task. The research raises the question of artificial intelligence's ability to think logically. The study showed that large language models can solve simple mathematical problems, but adding insignificant information leads to errors. Mehrdad Farajtabar, one of the researchers, explains that such errors indicate that LLMs do not understand the essence of the problem, but simply reproduce patterns from training data. The researchers hypothesized that the decline in efficiency is due to the fact that modern LLMs are incapable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they try to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data. Does this mean that LLMs can't reason? It's possible. No one has yet given an exact answer since there is no clear understanding of what is happening.
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11 October 2024
NVIDIA’s Entire Blackwell AI GPU Supply Sold Out For The Next 12 Months
NVIDIA's Blackwell AI portfolio is sold out for the next 12 months as Team Green witnesses massive demand for its upcoming products. NVIDIA is on track to see the Blackwell generation as the firm's most successful product in its history, mainly because demand is now said to have skyrocketed to an unprecedented level. With the capabilities and computing power brought in by Blackwell, the architecture has managed to attract the attention of major market players such as Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and OpenAI. Now, Morgan Stanley claims that Team Green has sold out the supply for Blackwell products moving into 2025, creating a massive supply-demand bottleneck. In a meeting with NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang and CFO Colette Kress, Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore analyzed that AI is a long term investment and a technology poised for sustainable growth in the future. Any new Blackwell orders Nvidia adds to the queue will be shipped late next year.
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11 October 2024
TikTok Transfers the Jobs of Hundreds of Employees to Artificial Intelligence
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, is laying off more than 700 employees in Malaysia and replacing their roles in the company with artificial intelligence. According to Reuters, most employees that the company replaced were involved in checking and moderating content on TikTok. These employees ensured that the videos complied with TikTok's community guidelines. On the other hand, ByteDance now automates this process. The company says it has found that AI systems can automatically remove about 80% of content that violates its guidelines. ByteDance hopes this can make content moderation faster and more efficient. Layoffs aren't just happening in Malaysia. TikTok says there will also be layoffs in other countries as it plans to use AI for content moderation globally. A TikTok spokesperson told Reuters that despite the layoffs, the company plans to spend $2 billion on trust and safety initiatives globally this year.
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11 October 2024
Microsoft launches Windows 11 24H2 with AI
Microsoft officially launched Windows 11 24H2, also known as the 2024 Update. It brings new features and improvements that seek to optimize performance and user experience through various innovations, including artificial intelligence (AI) integration. The update introduces notable improvements in critical areas such as AI integration, power management, and a more user friendly interface. AI is one of the strengths of this update. It includes redesigning the Windows Recall feature, which now prioritizes user privacy and security, allowing for more efficient control of its features. In addition, the update improved natural language search, making it easier to find content using simple commands. An interesting new feature is the Generative Fill in Paint, which allows users to seamlessly add or remove elements from an image using AI technology. The rollout of version 24H2 of Windows 11 will be carried out progressively over several weeks.
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11 October 2024
Wikipedia Attacked By AI-generated False Information
Wikipedia launched a new initiative called WikiProject AI Cleanup. It's a volunteer task force that is currently reviewing Wikipedia articles, editing or removing misinformation that seems to have been published by people using generative artificial intelligence. Ilyas Lebleu, one of the cleaning group's founders, stated the crisis began when Wikipedia editors and users started to see excerpts that were undoubtedly written by a chatbot. The team confirmed this theory by reproducing some excerpts using ChatGPT. For example, Ai created an article about an Ottoman fortress named Amberlisihar, built in 1400. The 2,000 word article describes in detail the location and construction of this area. Unfortunately, Amberlisihar does not exist, and all the information about it is a complete hallucination, supplemented with facts for a bit of confidence. The problem is not new. Remember Tay, Microsoft's Twitter bot? The bot was removed in less than 24 hours when it started posting vulgar and racist messages.
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11 October 2024
Google Gemini Chatbot Image Generation Available Now
Google announced at the end of August 2024 that image generation would become available through Gemini, but it is only now that the capability has become a fact. Now, any user can ask the chatbot to generate any graphics for which the Imagen 3 model will be responsible. It allows users to create beautiful images with high detail and low unwanted artifacts. In addition, each graphic will have a resolution of 2048 x 2048 pixels, which is much higher than the direct competition. For example, Dall-E 3 provides images with a resolution of 1024 x 1024 pixels. The pictures are created based on conversations with the chatbot, so users can refer to the graphics they have just generated to change them. It is not always possible to achieve the desired results, but users admit they are very good. For the time being, the chatbot will not create images of humans. That opportunity will be made available to Gemini Advanced subscribers later.
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10 October 2024
MSI Unveiled Z890 Motherboards For New Intel CPUs
MSI revealed new MEG, MPG, MAG, and PRO line models. The company will publish detailed specifications on its website. The LGA1851/Z890 motherboards offer overclocking tools for the new Intel Core Ultra processors. MSI also claims the ability to increase the performance of the NPU unit and support for DDR5 RAM with a speed of up to 9200 MT/s in the entire Z890 lineup and up to 9600 MT/s in the case of the overclocked MEG Z890 Unify-X. PC enthusiasts and sports overclockers should be interested in the MSI MEG Z890 series, which includes Godlike, Ace, and Unify-X models. All three new products are notable for their powerful power system and rich features. In addition, the MEG Z890 Unify-X comes with a dedicated "tuning controller" for quick system configuration, and the flagship MEG Z890 Godlike includes a dual-port Thunderbolt 5 expansion card and an M.2 XPander-Z Slider adapter for installing two M.2 SSDs in the PCI Express x16 expansion slot.
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10 October 2024
Gigabyte Announced 17 Z890 Chipset Motherboards for Intel Arrow Lake Processors
Gigabyte announced a full lineup of 17 motherboards based on the Z890 chipset, designed for Intel Arrow Lake processors. The new models are divided into several series and offer advanced technology, high performance, and support for modern interfaces. Among the new products is the AI TOP series, which includes three models: Z890 AORUS XTREME AI TOP, Z890 AORUS MASTER AI TOP, and Z890 AI TOP. These motherboards feature support for dual graphics cards, two 10GbE LAN ports, and two Thunderbolt 5 connectors, giving you performance out of the box. In addition to the AI TOP, Gigabyte has introduced several models in the AORUS family and more affordable options in the GAMING X, AERO, and UD series. The flagship AORUS XTREME AI TOP also supports DDR5 memory up to 9500MHz – a record for a motherboard. All AI TOP motherboards feature a powerful overclocking power system and a new design with heatsinks and RGB lighting. The flagship AORUS XTREME AI TOP also supports DDR5 memory up to 9500MHz.
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10 October 2024
Biostar Unveils New Z890 Valkyrie Motherboard
Biostar unveiled its new Z890 VALKYRIE motherboard, designed to empower next generation AI enthusiasts. Designed to harness the full power of Intel Core Ultra processors, the Z890 VALKYRIE is designed for high performance gaming, content creation, and advanced AI applications. Intel Core Ultra processors offer unprecedented AI capabilities, providing exceptional multiple core speed and performance. When paired with Biostar's flagship Z890 VALKYRIE motherboard, the combination becomes the ultimate platform for creators and tech enthusiasts to explore the world of generative AI without the need for a dedicated graphics card. From imaging to real time data processing, the Z890 VALKYRIE provides speed and efficiency with limitless possibilities. With its advanced architecture and cutting edge features, the Z890 VALKYRIE is ready to meet the demands of next generation gaming and AI applications. The motherboard offers a perfect combination of power, speed, and connectivity,
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10 October 2024
Hackers Stole Americans’ Social Security Numbers
A possible avalanche of identity theft might happen after a hacking group claimed it stole nearly 3 billion personal records, including Social Security numbers. According to a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the theft happened in April. The lawsuit claims the hacking group USDoD stole the records from National Public Data, which offers personal information to employers, private investigators, and others who do background checks. USDoD reportedly tried to sell the data for $3.5 million but has now posted most of it for free on an online exchange for stolen personal data. Examination of the data revealed it contains real people’s information. Each record consists of a person’s name, mailing address, and Social Security number, with some records including additional information. According to experts, the most effective action individuals can take right now is to freeze their credit files at the three major credit bureaus: Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion.
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10 October 2024
AI Tracks Deepfake Growth Before Elections
The German Marshall Fund has launched a tool to track artificial intelligence generated deep fakes targeting elections circulating in the United States and around the world. The tool comes in a historic year for elections. More than half the world has or will hold elections in 2024, a detail that collides with a surge in AI created audio, video, and images, often providing false narratives and information about candidates. The U.S. has already seen its fair share of AI generated content targeting the election, from fake audio claiming to be President Biden encouraging New Hampshire voters to skip the primary to former President Trump posting fake images of Taylor Swift falsely suggesting the singer endorsed him. Dubbed “Spitting Images”, the project charts only deepfakes that have gained significant traction or been debunked by journalists. The tracker, pulling data assembled over the last year, has charted 133 deep fakes released in 30 different countries.
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9 October 2024
MediaTek Launches Dimensity 9400 Flagship Cellphone chip
MediaTek launched its new Dimensity 9400 smartphone chipset optimized for edge-AI applications, immersive gaming, incredible photography, and more. The Dimensity 9400, the fourth and latest in MediaTek's flagship mobile SoC lineup, offers a massive boost in performance with its second generation All Big Core design built on Arm's v9.2 CPU architecture, combined with the most advanced GPU and NPU for extreme performance in a super power-efficient design. The Dimensity 9400 adopts MediaTek's second generation All Big Core design, integrating one Arm Cortex-X925 core operating over 3.62GHz with 3x Cortex-X4 and 4x Cortex-A720 cores. This design offers 35% faster single core performance and 28% faster multiple core performance compared to MediaTek's previous generation flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9300. "The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 will continue furthering our mission to be the enablers of AI" said Joe Chen, President at MediaTek.
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8 October 2024
Inflection AI and Intel Launch Business Enterprise AI System
Inflection AI and Intel announced a collaboration to accelerate the adoption and impact of AI for enterprises and developers. Inflection AI is launching Inflection for Enterprise, an industry first, enterprise grade AI system powered by Intel® Gaudi® and Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud (AI Cloud) to deliver empathetic, conversational, employee friendly AI capabilities and provide the control, customization, and scalability required for complex, large scale deployments. This system is available through the AI Cloud and will ship to customers in Q1 2025. "Through this strategic collaboration with Inflection AI, we are setting a new standard with AI solutions that deliver immediate, high-impact results. With support for open-source models, tools, and competitive performance per watt, Intel Gaudi 3 solutions make deploying GenAI accessible, affordable, and efficient for enterprises of any size," said Justin Hotard, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center and AI Group.
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8 October 2024
Foxconn Building World's Largest Nvidia AI Superchip Factory In Mexico
Foxconn intends to increase its server production capacity in Mexico to meet the expected demand for systems with the latest Nvidia chips used to develop artificial intelligence systems. Demand for systems based on Nvidia's next-generation Blackwell chips turned out to be "crazy," Foxconn chairman Young Liu told Bloomberg, echoing an earlier statement by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Now, the Taiwanese company is building the world's largest assembly plant in Mexico to produce servers based on advanced Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips. The planned enterprise capacity for 2025 is 20,000 GB200 NVL72 servers. "There was a lot of talk that the need for computing equipment could be saturated quite soon. But it seems that demand is still growing. So this is above our expectations," Mr. Liu said. Last August, Nvidia CFO Colette Kress stated Foxconn would ship several billion dollars worth of Blackwell chips in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025.
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8 October 2024
Two Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Win Nobel Prize In Physics
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, pioneers of artificial intelligence, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for helping create the building blocks of machine learning. Hinton, known as the Godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto, and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton. This year's two Nobel Laureates in physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today's powerful machine learning. The two laureates used fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets. Neural networks have been used to advance physics research and have become part of people's daily lives. The Nobel committee that honored the science behind machine learning and AI also mentioned fears about possible consequences. The rapid development has raised concerns about the future.
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7 October 2024
Apple Intelligence Launches 28 October 2024
Apple announced that Apple Intelligence will launch on 28 October 2024, as part of the first feature update for iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. Customers with compatible iPhone, iPad, and Mac models will receive Apple Intelligence features on 28 October 2024. The platform is free and will first be available in U.S. English. Not all Apple Intelligence features will be available with the first version. Features such as ChatGPT integration and Genmoji will come with iOS 18.2. Additionally, Apple is planning more Siri upgrades, with iOS 18.4 expected in March 2025. These upgrades include improved app control and accessing more personal information to answer users' questions. Apple also wants to roll out the Apple Intelligence features gradually to ensure its servers can cope with the influx of users.
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7 October 2024
New Intel 18A Panther Lake CPU Includes 5th Gen NPU
Intel engineers are preparing for the highly anticipated launch of the Intel’s next generation processors. In 2025, Intel will unveil its 18A Panther Lake CPUs, a successor to today’s Lunar Lake processors. The excitement is undertsandable because Intel’s patch notes confirm the Panther Lake will feature Intel’s 5th generation NPU technology. Users can expect a significant AI performance boost from Intel’s next generation processors. Intel did not provide specific performance levels of Intel’s 5th generation NPUs, but they confirm that the advanced NPUs will be part of Intel’s Panther Lake CPUs. The growing importance of AI and Intel’s clear focus suggests the company aims to deliver substantial generational boosts in NPU performance. While relatively new, NPU technology holds immense potential for the future. NPU technology has ample room to mature and evolve. The future of NPUs looks promising and users can expect their use to grow.
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5 October 2024
Meta Movie Gen AI Creates Deepfake Videos From Single Photograph
Meta unveiled Movie Gen, a groundbreaking suite of AI models designed to create and manipulate video, audio, and images, including the ability to generate a realistic video from a single photo of a person. The company asserts that these models outperform other video synthesis models in human evaluations, bringing individuals closer to a future where anyone can create a full video on any subject at will. While Meta has not yet revealed the release plan for these capabilities, it emphasizes that Movie Gen is a tool that could empower individuals to amplify their innate creativity rather than replace human artists and animators. The company envisions a future where Movie Gen could quickly create and edit day in the life videos for social media platforms or generate personalized animated birthday greetings. Movie Gen is a testament to Meta's commitment to innovation in video synthesis, following in the footsteps of the 2022 Make-A-Scene video generator and the Emu image synthesis model.
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4 October 2024
EC Council Unleashes AI Powered Ethical Hackers on Cybercrime
EC-Council, a world leader in cybersecurity certification, education, and training, announced the launch of Certified Ethical Hacker CEH v13 with AI powered capabilities, a first of its kind certification in cybersecurity. Long recognized as the world's #1 ethical hacking certification, the new and improved groundbreaking program integrates artificial intelligence (AI) learning into ethical hacking practices, giving professionals advanced skills and tools to battle global cybercriminals. CEH v13 provides in depth training by integrating AI into all five phases of ethical hacking, from reconnaissance and scanning to gaining access, maintaining access, and covering tracks to help bridge the AI Chasm. The course allows users to leverage AI to enhance their hacking techniques and hack AI systems to automate their ethical hacking tasks while driving up to 40% efficiency in cyber defense and doubling their productivity.
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4 October 2024
Accenture And NVIDIA To Help Clients Adopt AI
Accenture has announced that it is creating a new Nvidia Business Group as part of the latest exclusive partnership with Nvidia. Through this new partnership, this dedicated group will be focusing on helping Accenture clients to establish a foundation for agentic AI capabilities through the organization’s AI Refinery, which consists of NVIDIA’s full AI stack of AI Foundry, AI Enterprise, and Omniverse to achieve sovereign AI, brand innovation, and AI-driven simulation. AI Refinery will be available to public and private cloud platforms. It will integrate smoothly with other Accenture Business Groups to foster AI growth within the SaaS and Cloud AI ecosystem. Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, stated, “AI will supercharge enterprises to scale innovation at greater speed. NVIDIA’s platform, Accenture’s AI Refinery, and our combined expertise will help businesses and nations accelerate this transformation to drive unprecedented productivity and growth.”
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4 October 2024
Oracle Investing $6.5B USD in Malaysia's AI Data Centers
Oracle plans to invest over $6.5B USD to establish a public cloud region in Malaysia, addressing the country's growing demand for AI and cloud services. The planned public cloud region aims to assist Malaysian organizations in modernizing applications, moving workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and innovating with data, analytics, and AI – all within a local region with unparalleled bandwidth and latency than ever before while getting a more secure data storage and utilization under full regulatory enforcement. Customers will have access to OCI Generative AI Agents with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities, accelerated computing, and generative AI services for maintaining sovereign AI models within national borders, as well as OCI Supercluster, which is Oracle's largest AI close-based supercomputer. Oracle's multi-billion dollar investment affirms its commitment to Malaysia as a regional gateway for cloud infrastructure.
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