'AI Energy Score': Salesforce launches new benchmark for AI energy efficiency

Stuart Stone
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Salesforce, Hugging Face, Cohere, and Carnegie Mellon University launch public ratings for more than 200 commonly-used AI models

A coalition of tech companies and experts, including Salesforce, has today unveiled a new benchmark to measure the energy efficiency of AI models in a bid to encourage energy-saving best practices across...

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