News & Views

Tapping into purpose-built neural network models for even bigger efficiency gains

Partner Perspectives
9/25/2020

Neural network architecture has a significant impact on performance, and the peak performance metric is of little value in the context of selecting an inference solution unless we can achieve high levels of efficiency for the specific workloads that we need to accelerate

Maggi Savin-Baden explaining Digital Afterlife

AI Knowledge Hub
9/25/2020

Author of Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age and Virtual Humans: Today and Tomorrow

InterDigital releases AI-based video compression codec tool

News
9/24/2020

Available on GitHub under Apache 2.0 license

DeepCube raises $7m to accelerate AI inferencing through software

News
9/24/2020

The approach could enable advanced AI systems that don’t require a connection to the cloud

Microsoft to exclusively license OpenAI’s GPT-3

News
9/24/2020

First they get their hands on Doom, now this

Drug discovery startup Insilico raises $37m, launches AI-powered platform

News
9/24/2020

The company uses generative models, reinforcement learning, and other machine learning techniques to better predict clinical trial outcomes

Why Your Chatbot Will Never Work - Part II

Partner Perspectives
9/23/2020

What was the business problem you were trying to solve? What were you sold? What questions did you ask in the sales cycle, or perhaps what questions should you have asked?

German vertical farm developer Infarm raises $170m

News
9/23/2020

Investors prove they have an appetite for AI-led farming

IBM and ProMare launch Mayflower, the autonomous research ship

News
9/23/2020

Testing the system ahead of a transatlantic voyage next year

Ten pharmaceutical companies report sucess of a federated learning platform

News
9/23/2020

MELLODDY is backed by the EU, and supported by Nvidia

US researchers are using AI to catch early signs of arthritis

News
9/23/2020

Hoping preventative action could help avoid the need for joint replacement later in life

Deloitte finds large enterprises not ready for AI execution

News
9/23/2020

Artificial intelligence, we’ve heard of it

Observe.ai raises $54m to aid call center conversations

News
9/23/2020

The startup uses AI to improve human capabilities, rather than replace agents with chabots

Autonomous drone delivery company Volansi raises $50m

News
9/17/2020

Focusing on heavy-duty delivery for the military and enterprise

Data platform vendor Snowflake scores highest ever software IPO

News
9/17/2020

Its immense popularity could spell bad news for the likes of Azure and AWS

UK Space Agency is spending £1 million on AI-based answers to the space junk problem

News
9/17/2020

Seven participants will use AI and sensor technologies to help protect satellite-based services from collisions

Marketer attitudes towards AI changed by the pandemic

News
9/17/2020

Professionals are worried about being replaced

Nvidia and Arm plan world-class research center in the UK

News
9/17/2020

HCL Technologies opening AI lab to develop bespoke products and services

News
9/16/2020

Utilizing Nvidia’s DGX-1 machines

Why Your Chatbot Will Never Work - Part I

Partner Perspectives
9/16/2020

An in depth look at why the grand majority of chatbot implementations fail to deliver the value you were promised

Congress deliberates on the impact and role of AI in the US economy

News
9/15/2020

Amid warnings that unchecked development could wreck the labor market

Oculus founder's military venture launches AI-powered drone

News
9/15/2020

“America is back on top, baby,” says Palmer Luckey

Advanced adoption of AI in the enterprise projected to reach 63% by 2023

News
9/15/2020

A study by ESI Thoughtlab estimates AI projects take 17 months to break even

FDA is using AI to screen imported seafood

News
9/15/2020

The project is just a pilot – but the initial results look very promising

Toyota’s new $800 million fund will support mobility-focused AI companies

News
9/15/2020

The fund is the latest move in Toyota’s Woven Planet endeavor

ProteanTecs raises $45m for AI in chip design

News
9/15/2020

The company develops on-chip telemetry to reduce Defective Parts per Million

Pentagon to pit AI-driven jet fighters against human pilots

News
9/13/2020

Hoping to begin trials in 2024

Iron Ox raises $20m for autonomous farming

News
9/13/2020

AI systems could be growing your next salad

Scientific publishing consortium drafts international guidelines for AI-based medical research

News
9/10/2020

Hoping to eliminate dubious studies from medical journals

Tokyo Expressway simulator to speed up car AI development

News
9/10/2020

If it can navigate the Shuto Expressway, it can drive anywhere

Descriptive, Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics: What are the differences?

Partner Perspectives
9/10/2020

Three key types of analytics businesses use are descriptive analytics, what has happened in a business; predictive analytics, what could happen; and prescriptive analytics, what should happen.

US Department of Energy to spend $16m on researching AI tools for hard science, complex systems

News
9/10/2020

A small drop in a sudden flood of government AI funding

UK government announces £50 million funding boost for healthcare AI

News
9/9/2020

“AI in health care will doubtless rank alongside earlier advances such as the stethoscope, the X ray and the blood test,” says CEO of the NHS

Russia’s Yandex to spin off self-driving joint venture with Uber, invest $150m

News
9/9/2020

It will still own most of the business

AI Summit London: How Tesco used AI to help deal with lockdown demand

Analysis
9/8/2020

Tesco’s CTO talks about the steps taken to confront the COVID crisis

AI-based analysis helps predict complications in future pregnancies

News
9/8/2020

The system accurately identifies lesions associated with pre-eclampsia

New Mercedes S-Class showcases self-driving tech

News
9/7/2020

The first time Level 3 and Level 4 self-driving capabilities have been fitted to a production Mercedes

GlaxoSmithKline opens $13 million research hub in London’s Kings Cross

News
9/7/2020

The pharma company will be collaborating with its new, AI-focused neighbors

AI Summit London: How McLaren Racing used its expertise to fight COVID-19

Analysis
9/4/2020

CEO Zak Brown talks about the importance of speed when designing prototype cars – and medical ventilators

AI Summit London: Machine learning predicted to make a genomic breakthrough within two years

News
9/2/2020

Dr. Hal Barron, chief scientific officer and president of R&D at GSK, talks about the future of healthv

Climax Foods raises $7.5 million to turn data into sustainable cheese

News
9/2/2020

Using AI models to find plant-based proteins that taste just as good

AI Summit London: Rolls-Royce to give away its ethical AI framework

News
9/2/2020

Based on decades of experience in AI and analytics, with applications across industries

Why online data collection is key to the future of responsible AI development

Partner Perspectives
9/2/2020

Teaching AI systems properly can be impossible without following the proper data collection protocols

Amazon’s top robotics engineer jumps ship, joins data annotation startup Scale AI

News
9/1/2020

Scale reached the coveted ‘unicorn’ status in August 2019; its co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang was just 22

National Science Foundation to invest $100m in AI research institutes

News
9/1/2020

Dealing with a wide range of subjects, from extreme weather preparedness to primary education

MLOps startup Verta gets $10m in funding, launches first product

News
9/1/2020

The company plans to commercialize open source ModelDB project, developed by CEO Manasi Vartak

Using automation for stronger human connections requires playing to the strengths of the modern workforce

Partner Perspectives
9/1/2020

Chatbots and IVR can be great at responding to basic, routine requests quickly but what they’re not good at is building rapport with customers and handling more complex requests