San Francisco-headquartered Standard AI, a startup providing autonomous checkout technology for the retail industry, today announced it has completed the acquisition and hiring of the London-based computer vision startup ThirdEye Labs. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded in 2017, Standard enables retailers to set up a cashier-free checkout experience. The company has developed a…
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Inworld AI, a company that aims to develop a platform that enables users to create AI-driven virtual characters which can be used to populate virtual…
AI-driven search engine You.com takes on Google with $20M
November 9, 2021
You.com, which bills itself as the world’s first open search engine, today announced its public beta launch along with $20 million in funding led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff with participation from Breyer Capital, Sound Ventures, Day One Ventures, and others. The…
Report: 40% of execs say increasing business process efficiency is top benefit of AI
November 9, 2021
According to a new report from CognitiveScale, 40% of respondents identified increasing business process efficiency as the top benefit to gain from deploying AI, while another 36% of respondents identified improving customer service as the top benefit.
The adoption of artificial intelligence is growing worldwide. The need to boost customer service, employee efficiency, and acceleration of…
Synthesis AI offers API for virtual humans
November 9, 2021
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Synthesis AI, a synthetic data company, has released HumanAPI, a new tool for generating virtual humans from synthetic data. Virtual humans are…
Nvidia today launched Modulus, a framework for developing “physics-grounded” machine learning models in industries that require a high level of physical accuracy. Modulus trains AI systems to use the laws of physics to model the behavior of systems in a range of fields…
Nvidia unveils AI Omniverse Avatars for the virtual world
November 9, 2021
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Nvidia today unveiled Omniverse Avatar, a platform for generating immersive AI-driven avatars. The platform enables users to leverage speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding, and simulation to create avatars that recognize speech and communicate with human users…
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Nvidia’s Omniverse, billed as a “metaverse for engineers,” has grown to more than 700 companies and 70,000 individual creators that are working on…
At its fall 2021 GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Nvidia unveiled Riva Custom Voice, a new toolkit that the company claims can enable customers to create custom, “human-like” voices with only 30 minutes of speech recording data. According to Nvidia, businesses can use…
Nvidia’s enterprise AI development LaunchPad program goes global
November 9, 2021
At its ongoing GTC conference, computing giant Nvidia has announced the expansion of its AI LaunchPad program, making it available at 10 locations around the world — Silicon Valley, Dallas, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
Initially restricted to Equinix datacenters in North America, LaunchPad gives enterprises immediate access to Nvidia-powered…
