In recent years, AI leaders have urged machine learning experts to consider understanding the world’s oceans and tackling climate change grand challenges on par with building autonomous vehicles, beating a computer at a game of chess, or robotic grasping.
Combining computer vision, logistics, robotics, and the science of botany, indoor farming has the potential to change human lives. But…
Immunai raises $60 million to analyze the immune system with AI
February 12, 2021
Immunai, a startup developing an AI platform to analyze the human immune system, today announced that it raised $60 million. The company says it will use the funds to broaden its functional genomics capabilities and help its partners prioritize, discover, and develop new…
NeuReality emerges from stealth to accelerate AI workloads at scale
February 11, 2021
NeuReality, a Caesarea, Israel-based startup developing high-performance AI hardware for cloud datacenters and edge nodes, today emerged from stealth with $8 million. The company, which counts among its board of directors Naveen Rao, former GM of Intel’s AI product group…
BigHat raises $19 million for an AI-powered antibody design platform
February 11, 2021
BigHat Biosciences, a protein therapeutics startup and developer of an AI-guided antibody design platform, today announced it has closed a $19 million series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. A spokesperson told VentureBeat the funding will be used to invest in R&D as BigHat further refines its antibody engineering processes.
The use of biologics — medications made of components like…
CYE raises $120 million for security that uses hackers and AI
February 11, 2021
The soaring number of cyberattacks in recent years has propelled a massive expansion of potential solutions as startups and incumbent security providers jostle to address the market opportunity. But Tel Aviv-based CYE believes it has developed a way to cut through that…
Insightin Health raises $12 million for AI that uses big data to guide patients’ decisions
February 11, 2021
Insightin Health, a company delivering personalized health care guidance, today announced it has raised $12 million. A spokesperson told VentureBeat the round will support Insightin Health’s plan to bring on more plan providers that service primarily Medicare, Medicaid…
According to a 2019 Pew Center survey, the majority of respondents believe the tone and nature of political debate in the U.S. have become more negative and less respectful. This observation has motivated scientists to study the civility or lack thereof in political discourse, particularly on broadcast television. Given their ability to parse language at scale, one might assume that AI and machine…
Demand is growing for AI solutions that process images from cameras and other photo sensors. These solutions have applications in security, autonomous vehicles, healthcare, smart cities, and many other areas, but the more advanced they become, the more computationally…
The arm of global inequality is long, rendering itself visible particularly in the development of AI and machine learning systems. In a recent paper, researchers at Cornell, the Universite de Montreal, the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (U.S.), and Princeton…
Microsoft today unveiled Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform that aims to deliver first- and third-party products across learning, wellness, insights, knowledge, and engagement. As a part of this, the company debuted Viva Topics, Viva Connections, Viva Insights, and Viva Learning, modules stemming from Project Cortex.
Most enterprises have to wrangle countless data buckets, some of…
