Today, a week after its cars resumed testing on public roads and days after it raised $750 million in capital, Waymo took the wraps off an AI model it claims “significantly” improved its driverless systems’ ability to predict the behavior of pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. Called VectorNet, it ostensibly provides more accurate projections while requiring less compute compared with…
Nvidia released the GTC Digital conference keynote address today, which CEO Jensen Huang filmed in his kitchen. In his speech, Huang rolls out the new Ampere GPU architecture, AI-driven health care solutions for smart hospitals, and the A100 GPU, which promises 20 times…
LoanSnap, the self-styled “smart loan” company backed by Richard Branson and ex-NFL quarterback Joe Montana, this week secured $9 million. The company says the funding will be used to further develop its products and expand to additional markets.
It’s estimated that…
Nvidia unveils monstrous A100 AI chip with 54 billion transistors and 5 petaflops of performance
May 14, 2020
Nvidia unwrapped its Nvidia A100 artificial intelligence chip today, and CEO Jensen Huang called it the ultimate instrument for advancing AI.
Huang said it can make supercomputing tasks — which are vital in the fight against COVID-19 — much more cost-efficient and powerful than today’s more expensive systems.
The chip has a monstrous 54 billion transistors (the on-off switches that are the…
Traitify (previously Woofound), which taps AI and machine learning to perform job candidate assessments, today announced it has raised $12 million. The bulk of the funds will go toward product R&D, the company said.
Personality assessments often inform hiring decisions.
Researchers have published a study on applying a privacy-preserving AI technique — homomorphic encryption (HE) — to large-scale, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on genetic and phenotype data. They claim it’s 30 times faster than state-of-the-art approaches while…
NortonLifeLock Research Group, the R&D division of antivirus vendor NortonLifeLock, today released a browser extension called BotSight that’s designed to detect potential Twitter bots in real time. The team behind it says BotSight is intended to highlight the prevalence of bots and disinformation campaigns within users’ feeds, as the spread of pandemic-related misinformation reaches a…
Dathena raises $12 million for AI that monitors and classifies sensitive enterprise data
May 13, 2020
Dathena, a startup employing AI and machine learning to identify and protect sensitive enterprise data, today announced that it secured $12 million in equity financing. The fresh capital follows the opening of the company’s U.S. headquarters in New York City, and CEO…
Uber today announced it will roll out technology to its mobile app to verify whether drivers are wearing a mask. As part of a new checklist designed to ensure drivers have taken safety measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the app will apply a computer vision…
AI startup Hailo today announced that it’s teaming up with Foxconn and system-on-chip provider Socionext to launch BOXiedge, an edge computing processing solution for video analytics. If the companies’ claims bear out, BOXiedge could deliver “market-leading” energy efficiency for AI inference, benefiting applications like industrial internet of things, smart cities, and smart…
