20 LG Electronics (LG) has partnered with Microsoft to integrate AI technology into its products and co-develop AI agents for use in various spaces, including homes, vehicles, hotels, offices and factories. The agents will not only understand and interact with customers but also predict their needs and preferences using what’s known as ‘affectionate intelligence’. LG has already applied Microsoft’s voice recognition and speech synthesis technologies to its Self-Driving AI Home Hub, enabling it to understand diverse accents, pronunciations and colloquial expressions. It also plans to improve customers’ commutes by suggesting alternative routes to avoid accidents and recommending they hold a video conference inside the vehicle if traffic delays will make them miss an important meeting. Microsoft will also work with LG to improve its AI data centres, making them more energy efficient and sustainable by using LG’s thermal management systems and advanced chiller technologies. MARKETWATCH LG and Microsoft to create AI agents that predict user needs Microsoft unveils its first quantum processor chip Microsoft has developed its first quantum processor chip, Majorana 1, which is based on new architecture that has been 17 years in the making and is able to solve “meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades”. The Majorana particle powers the chip, which Microsoft says is the world’s first ‘topoconductor’, a new type of material that is neither a gas, liquid nor solid, but a topological state. Microsoft says the particles produce “more reliable and scalable qubits”, which are at the core of a quantum computer. Majorana 1 has the potential to fit a million qubits onto a single chip, which would be “capable of tackling the most complex industrial and societal problems”, according to Microsoft. DID YOU KNOW? Microsoft is to invest $3 billion in India’s cloud and AI infrastructure. It will also train 10 million people in the country with AI skills by 2030.
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