New Microsoft-ByteDance AI Project Confirmed! Here's What You Need to Know About KubeRay Program

The new Microsoft-ByteDance collaborated AI project was confirmed during the Ray Summit conference, which happened on Aug. 23 to Aug. 24.

For those who are not familiar with the Ray Summit event, it is an annual conference that focuses on the open the so-called Ray, the open-source Python framework for building distributed applications.

As of writing, the artificial intelligence industry is still booming as various countries compete with one another, developing advanced AI innovations.

China and the United States are among the top countries for AI developments. But, it seems like two of their major tech firms decided to work together.

New Microsoft-ByteDance AI Project Confirmed!

According to CNBC's latest report, the confirmation of the new AI program of Microsoft and ByteDance happened as the AI race between the U.S. and China intensified.

Engineers working for the two companies explained that the new KubeRay project is among the efforts made by TikTok's owner and Microsoft to enhance the rising AI industry further.

This new artificial intelligence project is expected to help other businesses and companies to run AI-powered applications more efficiently.

ByteDance software engineer Jiaxin Shan and Microsoft principal software engineer Ali Kanso explained that the new KubeRay project could enhance AI apps that are running on multiple computers.

"Jiaxin and I have been working for like a year on an open source project and this is the beauty of a community gathering like this. We're not in the same company, but we meet every week, we collaborate every week," said Kanso.

US-China AI Race

Before the new Microsoft-ByteDance AI project was announced, China and the U.S. had already shown their commitments when it comes to artificial intelligence technologies.

Asia Times previously reported that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt believed that China can't beat the United States, claiming that the Asian country will remain a near-peer competitor.

But, many experts already considered China a full-spectrum peer rival of the U.S., thanks to its advanced commercial and national-security AI applications.

However, what would happen if China and U.S. decided to work together on AI developments? Well, that's something that Microsoft and ByteDance need to show using their new KubeRay AI project.

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On the other hand, an AI-powered hologram allowed a dead woman to deliver her speech at her own funeral.

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Written by: Griffin Davis