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CHINA Autonomous vehicles
Chinese tech firm Baidu has demonstrated a vehicle which it said was ranked at level 4 on the Society of Automotive Engineers ’ ( SAE ) scale ( level 5 is complete autonomy at all times ), and which made use of 5G to enable remote driving – replacing the safety driver typically ready to assume control of autonomous vehicles in cases of emergency .
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EMEA Data centre boom
AI is set to deliver a boom in data centre investment , according to analysts at Frost & Sullivan . Investment in data centres is forecast to grow by 9.9 per cent CAGR as big data and IoT drive demand for capacity in all markets , led by APAC , followed by North America and EMEA .
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Open source AI
Hugging Face and AWS have partnered to bring over 7,000 NLP models to Amazon SageMaker . Founded in 2016 , Hugging Face is a global leader in open-source machine learning , with headquarters in New York and Paris . Its Transformers library includes access a range of popular natural language neural networks . aimagazine . com 11