IBM and Bank of Ayudhya PCL announced a five-year 4.7 billion baht engagement, to support the bank’s future roadmap for growth and focus on digital banking.
Two decades after the Internet became a platform for transformation, we are entering a new era of business. While the Internet allowed many disruptive companies to prosper, this new era should favor big, mature companies, or the “incumbents” in many industries.
IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy unveiled “Summit,” the world’s most powerful and smartest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer. A major computing milestone has been reached as Summit is capable of performing 200 quadrillion calculations per second — or 200 petaflops, making it the fastest in the world.
Within the next five years, the Earth’s population will cross the eightbillion mark for the first time. Our complex food chain—already stressed by climate change and a finite water supply—will only be tested further. To meet the demands of this crowded future, we will need new technologies and devices, scientific breakthroughs, and entirely new ways of thinking about food safety and security.