Alafia AI Puts a Supercomputer on Your Desk
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world. Today, Austin Carr looks at computing advances that could make it easier to use powerful artificial intelligences tools right at your desk.
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