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​World Government Summit took place in Dubai this week between 12-14th February, the largest gathering from the public sector; one of the prominent speakers was NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, and during his talk, he presented the concept that every country should be the custodian of its data and intelligence as it reflects the culture, history and country's own data.

I relate this discussion to the continuation of the concept of the sovereign cloud, and all the major cloud providers have started providing sovereign clouds for different countries.

Now, if you relate this conversation back to what Oracle CTO Larry Ellison said during the opening keynote at Oracle CloudWorld 2022, we will have an "Internet of clouds" that we need to build clouds like the Internet, which are interconnected and have interoperability. Customers have all the service choices; irrespective of the vendors, they are connected.

This is how the world started moving towards every country having a sovereign cloud, sovereign data, and sovereign AI.

In my opinion, it is a major shift from the early days of cloud computing, where the idea was that massive cloud regions would provide cloud resources to different organizations for their requirements. It is becoming more of a country-specific cloud region to fulfill the requirements of having sovereignty over the data.

At the side of this event, a fireside chat was organized by the CodersHQ between Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, and H.E Omar Al Olama, UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence. I got an opportunity to attend this event and had an amazing experience of Mr. Jensen Huang's presence. After the talk with the attendees, he spent considerable time interacting with the audience and allowing them to get pictures with him.

Kashif Manzoor @kashifmanzoor The event provides an opportunity to meet and hear from innovative leaders. A fireside chat between Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, and H.E Omar Al Olama, UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, 9:16 PM • Feb 12, 2024 0 Retweets 5 Likes Read 1 replies

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Weekly News & Updates...

This week's unveiling of new AI tools and products drives the technology revolution forward.

1. ​Open AI's Sora, a text-to-video model, was released to a few groups, and videos showing marvelous results were shared.
2. ​Memory with ChatGPT, now you can ask ChatGPT to remember something specific that you can refer back to
3. ​Google released Gemini 1.5 with a new Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture
4. ​Meta released the V-JEPA, a method for teaching machines to understand and model the physical world by watching videos

The Cloud: the backbone of the AI revolution

• ​Guide to prompt engineering: Translating natural language to SQL with Llama 2
• ​Your RAGs powered by Google Search technology, part 1​
• ​Code Llama 70B is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Favorite Tip Of The Week:

Here's my favorite resource of the week.

• ​Solving a machine-learning mystery: A new study shows how large language models like GPT-3 can learn a new task from just a few examples without any new training data.

Potential of AI

• ​Aya from Cohere is a new open-source multilingual LLM. Aya outperforms existing open-source models and covers 101 different languages

Things to Know

• Finally, Langchain has released LangSmith as a paid version for developing, collaborating, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM applications

The Opportunity...

Podcast:

• This week's Open Tech Talks episode 126 is "Web3 Unveiled: Revolutionizing Digital Engagement with Viktoriia Miracle"

Apple | Spotify | Google Podcast

Courses to attend:

• ​Neural Networks: Zero to Hero, a video course from Andrej Karpathy

Events:

• ​Nvidia GTC AI Conference and Expo, March 18–21, San Jose, CA and Virtual
• ​WebSummit, Qatar, Feb 26-29, 2024
• ​KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe March 19-22 | Paris, France
• ​GISEC, Global, 23-24 April, Dubai, UAE

Tech and Tools...

• ​Whisper is a speech recognition model based on a large dataset of diverse audio, and it can perform multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, and language identification.

Data Sets...

• ​Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care data set from MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology
• ​CheXpert is a large dataset of chest X-rays from Stanford ML Group
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Other Technology News

Want to stay on the cutting edge?

Here's what else is happening in Information Technology you should know about:

• ​OpenAI’s ‘Sora’ Has Rivals In The Works—Including From Google And Meta
• ​Tech companies pledge to fight deceptive AI during 2024 elections

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Until next week,

Kashif Manzoor

The opinions expressed here are solely my conjecture based on experience, practice, and observation. They do not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans, or strategies of my current or previous employers or their clients/customers. The objective of this newsletter is to share and learn with the community.