Transformers

Noam Shazeer Earns WTF Innovators Award

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

SALT LAKE CITY, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- QuHarrison Terry presents Noam Shazeer, Founder & CEO of Character.ai , with the WTF Innovators Award for his range of contributions to AI, from developing the Transformer to enabling millions of people to design their own conversational AI characters.

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  • SALT LAKE CITY, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- QuHarrison Terry presents Noam Shazeer, Founder & CEO of Character.ai , with the WTF Innovators Award for his range of contributions to AI, from developing the Transformer to enabling millions of people to design their own conversational AI characters.
  • The WTF Innovators Award recognizes excellence at the precipice of societal change, with the inaugural class focusing on AI innovators.
  • We present "Whole Lotta", produced by Nimso , to Noam Shazeer.
  • Prior to founding Character.ai, Noam Shazeer developed and introduced the Transformer network in a 2017 paper titled " Attention Is All You Need ."

Augustus Odena Earns WTF Innovators Award

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

SALT LAKE CITY, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- QuHarrison Terry presents Augustus Odena, Co-founder of Adept , with the WTF Innovators Award for his remarkable research into AI for image synthesis and language model contributions at Google Brain which led to features like SmartFill.

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  • SALT LAKE CITY, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- QuHarrison Terry presents Augustus Odena, Co-founder of Adept , with the WTF Innovators Award for his remarkable research into AI for image synthesis and language model contributions at Google Brain which led to features like SmartFill.
  • The WTF Innovators Award recognizes excellence at the precipice of societal change, with the inaugural class focusing on AI innovators.
  • We present "Odena", produced by Nimso , to Augustus Odena.
  • "Augustus Odena has an impressive track record of advancing AI in the most relevant categories today.

Pearson Launches AI Summer Reading List

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Monday, June 26, 2023

HOBOKEN, N.J., June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson [FTSE: PSON.L], the world's leading learning company, today launched an AI Summer Reading List, a collection of titles selected to encourage the exploration of artificial intelligence.

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  • HOBOKEN, N.J., June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson [FTSE: PSON.L], the world's leading learning company, today launched an AI Summer Reading List, a collection of titles selected to encourage the exploration of artificial intelligence.
  • Pearson is a leader in AI publishing, helping students and professionals understand and apply generative AI to learn and advance their careers.
  • "AI is the most talked about technology that is revolutionizing how we live and interact with each other.
  • Pearson's 2023 Summer Reading list includes:
    The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond by Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Isaac Kohane
    Three insiders who've had months of early access to GPT-4 reveal its momentous potential -- to improve diagnoses, summarize patient visits, streamline processes, accelerate research, and much more.

Navitas and GravaStar “Roll Out” World’s First 65 W GaNFast™ Chargers Customized to Transformers™ Movie Characters

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Friday, June 23, 2023

These custom chargers celebrate the world-wide release of the action-packed movie “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts™.” Well-crafted, with unique design, the chargers combine real-world, high-performance gallium nitride (GaN) with sentient ‘mecha’ robot sci-fi culture.

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  • These custom chargers celebrate the world-wide release of the action-packed movie “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts™.” Well-crafted, with unique design, the chargers combine real-world, high-performance gallium nitride (GaN) with sentient ‘mecha’ robot sci-fi culture.
  • Each ‘2C1A’ 65 W charger has two USB Type C and one USB Type A output, to fast-charge three devices simultaneously, including laptops, cellphones, tablets, earbuds, etc.
  • The Alpha65 chargers are designed as cute pet robots, with 360° rotating magnetic antenna and 45° foldable legs for more playability.
  • Inspired by two popular Transformers characters – Optimus Prime and Bumblebee – Alpha65 chargers come in two colors: blue and yellow.

Capitola Introduces GPT Technology into its Commercial Insurance Platform

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Capitola , the digital marketplace for commercial insurance that connects brokers and carriers, today announced the introduction of GPT technology into its commercial insurance platform.

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  • Capitola , the digital marketplace for commercial insurance that connects brokers and carriers, today announced the introduction of GPT technology into its commercial insurance platform.
  • Earlier forms of AI could only understand the syntax, but with GPT technology, Capitola Co-Pilot can even understand the semantics.
  • "Capitola is excited to be the GPT pioneer in the digital commercial insurance domain,” said Naor Rosenberg, co-founder and CTO at Capitola.
  • Capitola Co-Pilot is currently available on the Capitola Commercial Insurance Platform, with new features and functionality coming in the next few months.

WS Game Company Creates Custom-Illustrated MONOPOLY Game for Hasbro’s 100th Anniversary

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Monday, June 12, 2023

WS Game Company , one of the few premium board game manufacturers with an authorized Hasbro license, announced today the debut of a limited-edition MONOPOLY game in honor of Hasbro’s 100th Anniversary.

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  • WS Game Company , one of the few premium board game manufacturers with an authorized Hasbro license, announced today the debut of a limited-edition MONOPOLY game in honor of Hasbro’s 100th Anniversary.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230612005151/en/
    MONOPOLY: Hasbro 100th Anniversary Edition tokens featuring Hasbro’s most acclaimed brands, including Play-Doh, Mr.
  • MONOPOLY: Hasbro 100th Anniversary Edition, MSRP $49, will debut at the Las Vegas Licensing Expo , June 13 -15 at Booth G170.
  • To pre-order the limited-edition anniversary game, please visit WS Game Company or Hasbro Pulse .

Machupicchu is the backdrop of the colossal battle in Transformers: "Rise of the Beasts"

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

The mega-production shot in Peru includes the most beautiful and ancient landscapes of the Cusco (Machupicchu) and San Martin (Tarapoto) regions.

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  • The mega-production shot in Peru includes the most beautiful and ancient landscapes of the Cusco (Machupicchu) and San Martin (Tarapoto) regions.
  • Lorenzo di Bonaventura, producer of the film, confessed: "I've always wanted to go to Machupicchu.
  • It was one of the biggest desires in life and the great thing about Transformers is that it enables you to go to these wonderful places.
  • Go there, shoot there, but also be present and enjoy the moment, it's one of the most magical places in the world."

BittWare selects EdgeCortix's SAKURA-I AI Processors as its Edge Focused Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Solution

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

TOKYO, June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeCortix® Inc. , the innovative Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform company, focused on delivering class-leading compute efficiency and ultra-low latency for AI inference, announced, that BittWare, a Molex Company, has selected EdgeCortix's SAKURA-I, best in-class, energy-efficient, AI co-processor as its edge inference solution.

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  • TOKYO, June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeCortix® Inc. , the innovative Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform company, focused on delivering class-leading compute efficiency and ultra-low latency for AI inference, announced, that BittWare, a Molex Company, has selected EdgeCortix's SAKURA-I, best in-class, energy-efficient, AI co-processor as its edge inference solution.
  • "We are pleased to have BittWare bringing our SAKURA-I AI chip to market as part of their new artificial intelligence and machine learning inference acceleration program," said Sakyasingha Dasgupta, Founder and CEO of EdgeCortix.
  • "Together with BittWare, we are delivering a complete edge AI acceleration solution for small form factor computer boxes to edge inference servers that can be used as 'drop-in', highly efficient solutions in lieu of common power hungry GPUs.
  • We are delighted to be partnering with EdgeCortix to bring their edge focused SAKURA-I acceleration solution to market."

Porsche celebrates newest Autobot, “Mirage,” in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

The Autobot “Mirage” takes the legendary Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.8 (964) as its car-form, joining the forces of the Transformers for the battle ahead.

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  • The Autobot “Mirage” takes the legendary Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.8 (964) as its car-form, joining the forces of the Transformers for the battle ahead.
  • “Mirage” fights for the forces of good alongside Optimus Prime.
  • Instead, five picture cars were built that look exactly like the 964 on the outside, but which are not actually original Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.8 models.
  • “It was important to us to represent the sound of the 911 model depicted in the film,” said Ayesha Coker, Vice President of Marketing of Porsche Cars North America.

Transformers Rise of the Beasts Proves Peru as Rising Destination for Filmmakers

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Next week's premier of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – filmed on location at Peru's ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu – may usher in a new era of international filmmaking and tourism to Peru.

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  • WASHINGTON, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Next week's premier of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – filmed on location at Peru's ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu – may usher in a new era of international filmmaking and tourism to Peru.
  • While Machu Picchu figures heavily in the Transformers 7 trailer, producer Bruno Canale says the summer blockbuster will give filmmakers new ideas for locations to use in Peru.
  • "To film in Peru before, the country had to be central to the story," says Bruno Canale, producer at APU Productions, a leading production company working in Peru.
  • "Now filmmakers are more aware of what can be done in Peru, so, Peru is starting to be used to satisfy the need for a wide variety of locations."