The new chips will potentially replace Qualcomm’s own, currently used in Facebook’s Oculus VR and Echo Show-like smart speakers with AI features. A custom-made chip may give Facebook a competitive advantage in the home. Another use for these chips is the provision of better training of the AI algorithms that Facebook has patrolling its site for hate speech, fake accounts, and potentially dangerous content.
Adobe is looking to entice hobbyists and casual users as well as image-editing professionals as there’s been high demand from Photoshop users for the ability to make quick edits. By allowing the mobile use of Photoshop on the Ipad, Adobe will be able to tap in, into the specific market of social media influencers that are prevalent with Instagrammers, bloggers, novice photographers, etc.,
By working with ten other suppliers to jointly invest $300 million over the next four year, “the China Clean Energy Fund,” which will “invest in and develop clean energy projects” that total more than 1 gigawatt of renewable energy in the country will be enough to power 1 million homes. A third party, DWS Group will handle the investment and management. By 2020, more than 4 gigawatts of clean energy would have been generated by Apple and its suppliers.
Over the past few years, Apple has already previously dived into renewable energy projects. In 2015, the Supplier Clean Energy Program was launched, causing 23 of Apple’s manufacturing partners to use entirely clean energy. Apple has also claimed to have purchased enough green energy to offset the global power consumption at its facilities worldwide.
The group’s general manager, Christina Lu, added; “AI systems will never be able to replace human creativity – but can enable people to focus their major energies towards richly-creative work, and the machines can take over the repetitive, low-value work involved in writing.”