February 2021

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 1 story

1. 1Hugging Face on PyTorch / XLA TPUs62

The AI products people actually use. · 1 story

1. 1Retrieval Augmented Generation with Huggingface Transformers and Ray45

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 2 stories

1. 1Columbia Center of AI Technology announces faculty research awards and two PhD student fellowships45
2. 2National Science Foundation, in collaboration with Amazon, awards 11 Fairness in AI grant projects

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 4 stories

1. 1Alexa & Friends features Kayoko Yanagisawa, Alexa AI senior speech scientist75
2. 2Abdigani Diriye named among top young African economic leaders
3. 3Oluwaseyi Feyisetan named to IAPP research advisory board