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Blaize raises $71M for AI edge hardware

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Blaize, a company developing AI edge computing platforms for automotive, enterprise, and computer vision markets, today announced that it raised $71 million in series D funding led by Franklin Templeton and Temasek, with participation from Denso and other new and existing backers. The company says that the funds will be…
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With post-pandemic AI, we’ve now stepped into the Age of Acceleration

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. As the IBM Watson experience shows, the path to AI success is fraught with challenges. Yet overall, it has been a very good year for AI and the companies developing it. So much so that Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a recent podcast recorded by BBC, says: “I view [AI] as a very profound enabling technology. If you…
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Equipping AI with emotional intelligence can improve outcomes

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. There is a significant gap between an organization’s ambitions for using artificial intelligence (AI) and the reality of how those projects turn out, Intel chief data scientist Dr. Melvin Greer said in a conversation with VentureBeat founder and CEO Matt Marshall at last week’s Transf0rm 2021 virtual conference. One…
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AI startup funding remained strong in Q2, report finds

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The pandemic spurred investments in AI across nearly every industry. That’s according to CB Insights’ AI in the Numbers Q2 2021 report, which found that AI startups attracted record funding…
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Diverse AI teams are key to reducing bias

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. An Amazon-built resume-rating algorithm, when trained on men’s resumes, taught itself to prefer male candidates and penalize resumes that included the word “women.” A major hospital’s…
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Bias in AI isn’t an enterprise priority, but it should be, survey warns

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. A global survey published today finds nearly a third (31%) of respondents consider the social impact of bias in models to be AI’s biggest challenge. This is followed by concerns about the impact AI is likely to have on data privacy (21%). More troubling, only 10% of respondents said their organization has addressed…
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