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Meta's AI translator can interpret unwritten languages

October 20, 2022
Nearly half of the world’s roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component. These unwritten languages pose a unique problem for modern machine learning translation systems, as they typically need to convert verbal speech to written words before translating to the new language and reverting the text back to speech, but one that Meta has reportedly…
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How AI taps data to make ecommerce more dynamic

October 19, 2022
This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: How Data Privacy Is Transforming Marketing. Product pricing plays a critical role for every product, especially in ecommerce. According to Shopify, global ecommerce sales are expected to total $5.7…
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Keebo AI optimizes data warehouses with automated ‘learning’ platform, raises $10.5M

October 19, 2022
Did you miss a session from MetaBeat 2022? Head over to the on-demand library for all of our featured sessions here. With the rise of Snowflake and other cloud data warehouses, enterprises finally have a simple way to mobilize their data assets at scale. They can easily connect data from different sources and start driving efficiencies while keeping upfront investments (or CapEx) on the lower…
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Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI accelerates open-source AI, raises $101M

October 18, 2022
Did you miss a session from MetaBeat 2022? Head over to the on-demand library for all of our featured sessions here. There’s no shortage of groundbreaking technology underpinning generative AI, but one key innovation is is diffusion models. Inspired by thermodynamic concepts, diffusion models have piqued the public interest, quickly displacing generative adversarial networks (GANs) as the…
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Nvidia and Oracle announce expanded cloud AI partnership

October 18, 2022
Did you miss a session from MetaBeat 2022? Head over to the on-demand library for all of our featured sessions here. Nvidia and Oracle announced an expanded, multiyear partnership today at Oracle CloudWorld to help customers speed artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. It…
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We are entering a new era for AI-powered robotics 

October 17, 2022
Did you miss a session from MetaBeat 2022? Head over to the on-demand library for all of our featured sessions here. Many observers were disappointed with the recent demo of the AI-enabled “Optimus” robot at Tesla’s AI Day. One reviewer cleverly titled his article “Sub-Optimus.” However, these views actually miss the point. Whatever else may be said of Elon Musk, he is a genius at…
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