Microsoft announces Shader Model 6.10 preview with neural rendering for all GPUs, not just Nvidia's

Max out your GPU's matrix hardware without paying fealty to Nvidia.
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DeepMind’s game-playing AI has beaten a 50-year-old record in computer science

The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication, a core problem in computing that affects thousands of everyday computer tasks. DeepMind has used its board-game ...