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☆ Esports made their 'tense and exciting' debut at this year's Asian Games
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Esports, or professional video gaming, were an official sport at the Asian Games for the first time. AdvertisementAdvertisementEsports, or competitive video gaming, debuted as an official event at this year's Asian Games in Hangzhou, China that concluded earlier this month. Due to the event's popularity, esports tickets were sold on a lottery basis, with more than five million entering the ballot, according to Hangzhou Asian Games data. We're excited to see the landscape of esports events around the world expand," said John Robinson, president of US esport organization 100 Thieves. The Olympic Esports Series is "a global virtual and simulated sports competition created by the IOC, and in collaboration with International Federations and game publishers."

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☆ How Amazon is racing to catch Microsoft and Google in generative A.I. with custom AWS chips
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Katie Tarasov | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

In this article METAGOOGLMSFTAMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTChips as 'true differentiation'In the long run, Dekate said, Amazon's custom silicon could give it an edge in generative AI. Microsoft has yet to announce the Athena AI chip it's been working on, reportedly in partnership with AMD. So you train the machine learning models and then you run inference against those trained models," Wood said. Amazon's custom chips, from left to right, Inferentia, Trainium and Graviton are shown at Amazon's Seattle headquarters on July 13, 2023. An Amazon employee works on custom AI chips, in a jacket branded with AWS' chip Inferentia, at the AWS chip lab in Austin, Texas, on July 25, 2023.

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