Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Monday, October 5th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today

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Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Invidia this morning announced Maxine, a set of

GPU accelerated AI conferencing tools that they promise will greatly improve video quality on video calls.

In other words, they think their AI can fix all the problems we've been having with our video conferences and video chat and

they'll be letting people in for early access to work on these tools as early as next

week quoting venturebeat.

Invidia says Maxine quote dramatically reduces how much bandwidth is required for video

conferencing calls.

Instead of streaming an entire screen of pixels, the platform analyzes the facial points

of each person on a call and then algorithmically reanimates the

face in the video on the other side.

This ostensibly makes it possible to stream with far less data flowing back and forth

across the internet.

Invidia claims developers using Maxine can reduce bandwidth to one-tenth the requirements of the H-264

standard. Maxine's other spotlight feature is face alignment which enables faces to be

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