The more an AI model thinks, the more carbon it emits, a research study finds, and reasoning models can produce 50 times more emissions than concise ones. Large language models use tokens - words or
parts of words - to convert them into a string of numbers processed by the LLM to come up with an answer.
AI, online ad serving, media buying, and search require a substantial amount of energy that companies have been trying to figure out how to support. Google's agreement with nuclear developer
Elementl Power will help to develop three project sites for advanced reactors.
Amazon has signed agreements to support development of nuclear energy projects with Small Modular Reactors - advanced reactors with smaller physical footprints. Google and Microsoft are working on
similar projects.
A new financial "risk" has begun showing up in the SEC filings of some of the world's biggest advertisers and it's giving some analysts pause. Not surprisingly, it's AI.
Microsoft's new AI model, Phi-2, is capable of running on devices and outperforming others from Meta or Google, the company said Tuesday.
The Semrush Global Issues Index report reveals what people search for related to 24 societal issues, offering an in-depth look at the top 10 most-searched issues in 35 countries during the past five
years.
Critics say the immigration policies make it more difficult for skilled workers to acquire visas and require companies that hire "high-skilled" foreign workers with H-1B visas to pay them close to an
average industry salary.
The milestone aims to show it is possible to achieve quantum speeds in a real-world system. In a research paper, Google scholars explain how the Google AI Quantum team developed a 54-qubit processor
that performs a target computation in 200 seconds. They estimate the world's fastest supercomputer would take 10,000 years to produce a similar output. It's not clear how this computer would benefit
the ad and marketing industries, or whether this development is the reason Google has invested millions and recently committed to investing $2 billion to offset energy use.
GasBuddy's Car Profile feature allows for the inference of tank size and segmentation of offers through personalization. Emails to customers show how much they could save in a year.
Giant Spoon took readers on 10 sonic journeys--from Mozambique to Hawaii--while GE organically showcased destinations with sounds that are essential in driving its community energy efforts.
A record 94 million people visited RealSelf, online cosmetic treatments marketplace, to research elective cosmetic treatments in 2017.