Micron Technology said it acquired Fwdnxt, a maker of hardware and software tools for artificial intelligence deep learning applications.
When combined with Micron‘s memory chips, Fwdnxt (pronounced “forward next”) will enable Micron to explore deep learning solutions required for data analytics, particularly with internet of things and edge computing.
Micron also announced a series of…
Google achieves state-of-the-art NLP performance with an enormous language model and data set
October 24, 2019
Transfer learning, or a technique that entails pretraining an AI model on a data-rich task before fine-tuning it on another task, has been successfully applied in domains from robotics to object classification. But it holds particular promise in the subfield of natural…
Incode raises $10 million to verify identities with AI
October 24, 2019
Incode, a San Francisco startup developing what it describes as an omnichannel biometric identity platform, today announced that it’s raised $10 million in seed funding from undisclosed investors. Founder and CEO Ricardo Amper said that the newfound capital will enable…
National Grid Partners, the investment arm of big power company National Grid, announced it has invested in three new startups in artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure, bringing its portfolio of investments in the past year to 18 companies.
NGP has invested in CNIguard, SparkCognition, and Uniphore. To date, NGP has invested $125 million of its $250 million venture fund in emerging…
AI can help doctors spot brain hemorrhages faster
October 24, 2019
The process relied on a convolutional neural network that pored over 4,396 CT scans. That’s a comparatively small number of samples, but the abnormalities were detailed “at the pixel level,” according to UCSF. In other words, they were far less likely to…
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…
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 the veracity of these synthetic climate change images, researchers University of Montreal and Stanford University…
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…
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 evaluated and uses an AI object recognition system to capture important features and suss out similarities. But although several…
