ModelOp, a startup developing AI software and development services for enterprises, today announced that it has raised $6 million. It plans to use the capital to support demand for its products in a market that IDC anticipates will be worth $8 billion by 2022.
The term ModelOps refers to the process of cycling analytical models from data science teams to production teams in a cadence of deployment…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly touted as having a critical role to play in 5G networks, though the specifics of the 5G-AI relationship are often left ambiguous or masked with jargon in corporate announcements. That’s not the case for 5G network hardware maker…
Element AI today released a search tool that combs through the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset, a repository of over 44,000 scholarly articles about COVID-19 and related coronaviruses, for papers that researchers might find useful. Users can search or query natural…
Take your AI project from concept to concrete ROI
March 31, 2020
The AI guide that puts business analysts and data scientists on the same page
AI is proven to create new opportunities, increase operational efficiencies, and reduce costs for businesses. Why do so many AI projects fail before they deliver actual ROI?
Learn how to go from abstract business problem to concrete AI solution. Get business analysts and data scientists working together from start to…
Researchers find AI is bad at predicting GPA, grit, eviction, job training, layoffs, and material hardship
March 30, 2020
A paper coauthored by over 112 researchers across 160 data and social science teams found that AI and statistical models, when used to predict six life outcomes for children, parents, and households, weren’t very accurate even when trained on 13,000 data points from over…
Transportation startup Via today announced that it’s raised $200 million in series E financing, bringing its total raised to over $500 million at a $2.25 billion valuation. According to cofounders Oren Shoval and Daniel Ramot, part of the funding will enable Via to expand…
In an effort to help fight the spread of the novel coronavirus, which is projected to infect millions of people in the U.S. alone, Google today launched the COVID-19 Public Datasets program, which will host a repository of public data sets that relate to the crisis and make them free to access and analyze. The idea is to remove barriers and to provide researchers access to critical information…
Microsoft today announced that on April 21, Office 365 will become Microsoft 365, or “the subscription for your life.” The new suite builds on Office 365 with “new AI, rich content and templates, and cloud-powered experiences.” On April 21, Microsoft 365 Personal and…
AI-assisted software development saves time and reduces errors, according to one company that has introduced a low-code visual platform for building customer enterprise software. “Something that took [developers] … five minutes, now they can achieve in 15 seconds,”…
Huawei this week announced that MindSpore, a framework for AI app development the company detailed in August 2019, is now available in open source on GitHub and Gitee. The lightweight suite is akin to Google’s TensorFlow and Facebook’s PyTorch, and it scales across devices, edge, and cloud environments, ostensibly lowering the barrier to entry for developers looking to imbue apps with…