AI & Robotics

A grand challenge in AI is developing a conversational system that can reliably understand the world and respond using natural language. Ultimately, solving it will require a model capable of extracting salient information from images, text, audio, and video and answering questions in a way that humans can understand. In a step toward this, researchers at Facebook, Columbia University, Georgia…

San Mateo, California-based Superb AI, a startup developing a platform for AI-enabled training data, today announced that it closed a $9.3 million financing round. Cofounder and CEO Hyunsoo Kim said that the financing will allow the three-year-old company to ramp up hiring and scale customer adoption as well as expand and accelerate product development. Training AI and machine learning algorithms…

HealthTensor, a Los Angeles, California-based startup creating software to augment medical decision-making, today announced it has raised $5 million. The company says the funds will be used to scale up operations and acquire new customers. The global market for big data analytics in health care was valued at $16.87 billion in 2017 and is projected to reach $67.82 billion by 2025, according to a…

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series: AI and the future of health care The health care industry produces an enormous amount of data. An IDC study estimates the volume of health data created annually, which hit over 2,000 exabytes in 2020, will continue to grow at a 48% rate year over year. Accelerated by the passage of the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care…