AI Weekly: 5 takeaways from Microsoft Build and Google I/O

The AI Weekly usually dives deep into a single subject, but with Microsoft and Google hosting their annual developer conferences, this is no ordinary week. Each conference -- here's everything from Microsoft's Build and everything from Google's I/O -- resulted in dozens of headlines, making it tough to interpret what really matters. Well, here's a handful of important developments to follow from both events at the heart of the AI world. FPGA and TPU Perhaps the most important advances in computing power for training AI systems announced this week were the beta release of Microsoft's Project Brainwave, which uses field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, and Google's plans to release a third generation of tensor processing unit (TPU) chips. Two new AI services worth following Also announced this week: The ML Kit SDK for fast application of AI for Android and iOS developers is now available, and edge deployment of Microsoft Cognitive Services is coming later this year.