The Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence is calling for the U.S. government to make a $120 billion investment in the nation’s AI ecosystem over the course of the next 10 years. The report calls efforts by the Trump administration, like the call for near $1 billion in U.S. non-defense research and development spending in 2020, “encouraging, but not nearly…
Researchers visualize climate change with AI-generated images
October 23, 2019
Generative AI models have been co-opted to synthesize things from faces and apartments to butterflies, but a novel subcategory seeks to bring awareness to climate change by illustrating the consequences of catastrophic flooding. In an effort to establish a metric to quantify…
Viz.ai, a healthcare startup that’s using artificial intelligence (AI) to help medical professionals spot the early signs of stroke, has raised $50 million in a series B round of funding led by Greenoaks, with participation from Alphabet’s VC arm GV and Kleiner…
Google’s Coral AI edge hardware launches out of beta
October 22, 2019
Last March, Google took the wraps off of Coral, a collection of hardware development kits and accessories intended to bolster the development of machine learning models at the edge. It launched in select regions in beta, but the tech giant today announced that it’s graduating to a “wider” and global release.
All Coral products — including the $150 Coral Dev Board, the $74.99 Coral USB…
What’s the best way to measure the quality of media generated from whole cloth by AI models? It’s not easy. One of the most popular metrics for images is the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID), which takes photos from both the target distribution and the model being…
France’s aggressive push to develop its AI ecosystem seems to be paying dividends as the number of startups continues to soar.
A new report released today identified 432 AI-related startups in France, up from 312 last year and 180 back in 2016. The report was produced by…
Aurora Insight raises $18 million for sensors and AI that monitor radio frequency spectrum in near-real time
October 22, 2019
Keeping tabs on the ever-changing global connectivity map isn’t easy, particularly for the businesses spending billions to secure wireless spectrum. It’s this gap in strategic intelligence that motivated the founding of Aurora Insight, a Washington, D.C. startup using a sensor network and machine-learned digital signals to continuously sample the full radio spectrum.
Aurora Insight has…
Google Duplex, the futuristic service that uses AI to place phone calls and make reservations, can already book movie tickets and will soon be able to rent a car. The service has been rolled out across the US, and now international rollout is beginning with a test in New…
Signal AI (formerly Signal Media), a New York-based startup leveraging AI to automate business intelligence and media monitoring tasks, today announced that it’s raised $25 million in series C funding led by Redline Capital with participation from existing investors…
Tracking the health of underwater species is critical to understanding the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems. Unfortunately, it’s a time-consuming process — biologists conduct studies with echosounders that use sonar to determine water and object depth, and they manually interpret the resulting 2D echograms. These interpretations are often prone to error and require pricey…
