As Apple’s artificial language and machine learning initiatives continue to expand, its interest in attracting talent has grown — a theme that’s barely under the surface of the company’s occasionally updated Machine Learning Research blog. Now Apple is openly seeking to recruit U.S. and European candidates with niche expertise for a yearlong AI/ML residency program, promising immersion and…
Move.ai can use artificial intelligence to capture a 3D representation of an actor in a process known as motion capture. But it doesn’t need actors in Lycra suits with lots of white balls attached to them. And it enables game companies to do motion capture in a remote way…
Algoriddim, the company behind the Apple-centric djay Pro software has decided to take its recently announced Neural Mix AI feature and spin it off into a standalone app called Neural Mix Pro for macOS. This venture isn’t quite like Serato’s foray into DAW territory with…
Berbix raises $9 million to verify IDs with AI
August 27, 2020
Berbix, a startup developing an “automated” identity verification platform, today closed a $9 million funding round. A spokesperson told VentureBeat the new capital is being earmarked for team and customer growth.
According to McKinsey, the “ID-verification-as-a-service” market will grow from $10 billion in 2017 to between $16 billion and $20 billion in 2022. This boom is driven in part by…
Autonomous aircraft startup Reliable Robotics emerges from stealth with $33.5 million
August 27, 2020
Reliable Robotics, a startup developing autonomous flight technologies, this week emerged from stealth with $33.5 million in venture capital funding. Cofounder and CEO Robert Rose says the funds will be used to scale production of the company’s products and bring on new…
ProteanTecs, which provides an AI platform to monitor chip reliability, today closed a $45 million funding round. The company says the fresh capital will bolster its go-to-market strategy and operations as it seeks to scale worldwide.
Chip design and manufacturing is a…
The Vector Institute, an independent nonprofit dedicated to advancing AI, today established a team to commercialize its industrial and health care research. This group will create tools, frameworks, and model templates while helping organizations operationalize models within their markets. Moreover, Vector says it will be responsible for procuring computing infrastructure to scale the…
Synthego raises $100 million for AI-driven gene editing
August 26, 2020
Synthego, which is developing a machine learning-based approach to engineering genomes, today closed a $100 million funding round. The startup says the funding will be put toward expanding the capabilities of its platforms designed to produce reagents and cells supporting…
The White House today detailed the establishment of 12 new research institutes focused on AI and quantum information science. Agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have committed to…
Michael Kanaan: The U.S. needs an AI ‘Sputnik moment’ to compete with China and Russia
August 26, 2020
In his book, “T-Minus AI,” Michael Kanaan calls attention to the need for the U.S. to wake up to AI in the same way that China and Russia have — as a matter of national importance amid global power shifts.
In 1957, Russia launched the Sputnik satellite into orbit. Kanaan writes that it was both a technological and a military feat. As Sputnik orbited Earth, suddenly the U.S. was confronted by…
