Ferrum, a startup developing an AI patient safety platform to prevent medical errors, today announced that it secured $9 million in seed funding. According to CEO Pelu Tran, who’s also a technology pioneer at the World Economic Forum, the plan is to use the capital infusion to refine the company’s product as Ferrum makes engineering, sales, and marketing hires.
That could be good news for…
After coronavirus, AI could be central to our new normal
April 10, 2020
When we came out of the financial crisis of 2008, cloud computing kicked into high gear and started to become a pervasive, transformational technology. The current COVID-19 crisis could provide a similar inflection point for AI applications. While the implications of AI…
A team of Microsoft and Huazhong University researchers this week open-sourced an AI object detector — Fair Multi-Object Tracking (FairMOT) — they claim outperforms state-of-the-art models on public data sets at 30 frames per second. If productized, it could benefit…
Google today announced the release of a new data set — the Free Universal Sound Separation data set, or FUSS for short — intended to support the development of AI models that can separate distinct sounds from recording mixes. The use cases are potentially endless, but if it were to be commercialized, FUSS could be used in corporate settings to extract speech from conference calls.
It follows…
How Microsoft Teams will use AI to filter out typing, barking, and other noise from video calls
April 10, 2020
Last month, Microsoft announced that Teams, its competitor to Slack, Facebook’s Workplace, and Google’s Hangouts Chat, had passed 44 million daily active users. The milestone overshadowed its unveiling of a few new features coming “later this year.” Most were…
Google Cloud today announced the launch of the Rapid Response Virtual Agent program, a quick way to launch Contact Center AI agents for handling conversations with online chat or over the phone.
The Rapid Response program also makes it easy to add COVID-19 related templates…
MixMode has closed a $4 million round of venture capital as it continues work on artificial intelligence to help companies combat cyberattacks, many of which are increasingly automated.
Entrada Ventures led the round of funding, which included participation from Keshif Ventures and Blu Venture Investors. After spending the past two years fine-tuning the system, MixMode will use the money for…
Tenstorrent, an AI and machine learning hardware startup based in Toronto, Canada, today emerged from stealth with over $34 million in funding and an all-in-one computer system dubbed Grayskull. Cofounder and CEO Ljubisa Bajic, a former Nvidia senior architect who previously…
CyberMDX, a provider of cybersecurity solutions tailored to health care systems, today revealed that it raised $20 million in funding. CEO Amir Magner said it’ll enable the company to bolster its platform and R&D to assist hospital IT, information security, and…
Logistics and supply chain analytics startup SourceDay today announced that it raised $12.5 million in venture capital financing. The bulk of the tranche will be put toward SourceDay’s go-to-market strategy, according to CEO Tom Kieley, and toward helping customers mitigate supply chain risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, SourceDay is offering its product for free for 90 days to…
