Remove 2019 Remove Development Remove Web Services
article thumbnail

Amazon’s new quantum chip joins race to enable next era of computing

GeekWire

Amazon’s new “Ocelot” processor is a first-generation quantum chip developed by the AWS Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, California. Amazon Web Services Photo) The company’s approach is also detailed in a new paper in the journal Nature.

article thumbnail

Maritime logistics startup OpenTug raises $2.2M

GeekWire

OpenTug , a Seattle-based startup that develops marine transportation logistics software, raised $2.2 Founded in 2019, OpenTug sells a marine logistics platform that helps companies optimize freight efficiency on inland and coastal waterways by streamlining booking, quoting and tracking.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO, replacing Andy Jassy

GeekWire

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. ” AWS CEO Andy Jassy at the 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. .

article thumbnail

CEOs of Amazon Web Services and Redapt join Seattle Sounders FC ownership group

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky (left) and his wife Laura Selipsky. Seattle Sounders FC announced Wednesday that the families of Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky and Redapt CEO Rick Cantu are now owners. They join several other tech execs, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who became owners in 2019.

article thumbnail

The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

Coincidentally, the same day that Fujitsu gave notice it would discontinue sales of the GS21 , IBM unveiled plans to deliver its IBM Z mainframe platform as a service on IBM Cloud. Meanwhile, IBM has yet to announce any end to sales or support of its Z Series machines, and like Fujitsu, it too continues to develop its mainframe product line.

article thumbnail

Amazon Web Services hires former Flex and Intel exec Raejeanne Skillern as new CMO and VP

GeekWire

LinkedIn Photo) Raejeanne Skillern , a former executive at Flex and Intel, joined Amazon Web Services as its new chief marketing officer and vice president, GeekWire has learned. Skillern spent more than a decade at Intel, most recently as vice president of the chip giant’s cloud service provider business.

article thumbnail

ChatGPT, the rise of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

ChatGPT was trained with 175 billion parameters; for comparison, GPT-2 was 1.5B (2019), Google’s LaMBDA was 137B (2021), and Google’s BERT was 0.3B (2018). Meanwhile, however, many other labs have been developing their own generative AI models. It was 2 years from GPT-2 (February 2019) to GPT-3 (May 2020), 2.5