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Saudi Arabia Participates in Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona

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Saudi Arabia Participates in Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona

The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) logo
The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) logo

The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), as a global partner, will take part in the two-day City Expo World Congress, scheduled to be held in Barcelona on November 7.
During the event, the SDAIA will showcase the Saudi experience in constructing smart cities and highlight the authority's significant role in this domain. It will set up a Saudi pavilion that will serve as an extensive exhibition, showcasing the authority's digital products related to data and artificial intelligence.
The primary objective of SDAIA's participation is to bolster the Kingdom's global standing in the field of data and artificial intelligence. Additionally, the event provides an opportunity to showcase its advancements in artificial intelligence technology and demonstrate its commitment to aligning with the United Nations' sustainable development goals and achieving the objectives outlined in Saudi Vision 2030.

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(FILES) This picture taken on July 4, 2022 shows the logo of Amazon, a major online shopping company, displayed at Amazon Amagasaki Fulfillent Center in Amagasaki, Hyogo prefecture. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)
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Amazon Offers Free Computing Power to AI Researchers, Aiming to Challenge Nvidia

(FILES) This picture taken on July 4, 2022 shows the logo of Amazon, a major online shopping company, displayed at Amazon Amagasaki Fulfillent Center in Amagasaki, Hyogo prefecture. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)
(FILES) This picture taken on July 4, 2022 shows the logo of Amazon, a major online shopping company, displayed at Amazon Amagasaki Fulfillent Center in Amagasaki, Hyogo prefecture. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

Amazon.com's cloud computing unit on Tuesday said it will offer free computing power to researchers who want to use its custom artificial intelligence chips, aiming to challenge Nvidia's popularity among those researchers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it will offer credits to use its cloud data centers that it values at $110 million to researchers who want to tap Trainium, its chip for developing artificial intelligence models that competes with chips from Nvidia, as well as Advanced Micro Devices and Alphabet's cloud division.

AWS said researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, Berkeley, are taking part in the program. The company plans to make 40,000 of the first-generation Trainium chips available for the program, Reuters reported.

The move comes as AWS, still the largest cloud computing company by sales, has seen a sharp challenge from Microsoft as software developers look to harness new types of chips for AI work. AWS is hoping to gain attention for its own AI chips by taking a different strategy than Nvidia, said Gadi Hutt, who leads business development for the AI chips at AWS.

To program Nvidia's chips, most AI developers use what is called Cuda, Nvidia's flagship software, rather than programming the chip directly. AWS instead plans to publish documentation about the most fundamental part of its chip - what is called the instruction set architecture - and let customers program the chip directly.

Hutt said the approach is aimed at luring large customers who might want to make small tweaks that could add up to big gains when using tens of thousands of chips at a time.

"Think about folks that are using infrastructure and putting hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more" toward rented computing power, Hutt said. "They would take any opportunity possible to increase performance and reduce the cost."