In a technical paper quietly released earlier this year, IBM detailed what it calls the IBM Neural Computer, a custom-designed, reconfigurable parallel processing system designed to research and develop emerging AI algorithms and computational neuroscience. This week, the company published a preprint describing the first application demonstrated on the Neural Computer: a deep “neuroevolution”…
Nvidia launches Clara Guardian to power smart hospitals with surveillance, sensors, and edge AI
May 14, 2020
Nvidia today announced the launch of Clara Guardian, a smart hospital edge AI system that uses sensors and cameras to limit the spread of infectious disease and deliver things like operating room analytics or workflow automation. Clara Guardian and partners including…
Today, a week after its cars resumed testing on public roads and days after it raised $750 million in capital, Waymo took the wraps off an AI model it claims “significantly” improved its driverless systems’ ability to predict the behavior of pedestrians, cyclists, and…
Nvidia released the GTC Digital conference keynote address today, which CEO Jensen Huang filmed in his kitchen. In his speech, Huang rolls out the new Ampere GPU architecture, AI-driven health care solutions for smart hospitals, and the A100 GPU, which promises 20 times faster training and inference than Volta. Huang also introduced Merlin, an application framework for recommendation systems that…
LoanSnap, the self-styled “smart loan” company backed by Richard Branson and ex-NFL quarterback Joe Montana, this week secured $9 million. The company says the funding will be used to further develop its products and expand to additional markets.
It’s estimated that…
Nvidia unveils monstrous A100 AI chip with 54 billion transistors and 5 petaflops of performance
May 14, 2020
Nvidia unwrapped its Nvidia A100 artificial intelligence chip today, and CEO Jensen Huang called it the ultimate instrument for advancing AI.
Huang said it can make supercomputing tasks — which are vital in the fight against COVID-19 — much more cost-efficient and…
Traitify (previously Woofound), which taps AI and machine learning to perform job candidate assessments, today announced it has raised $12 million. The bulk of the funds will go toward product R&D, the company said.
Personality assessments often inform hiring decisions. According to a Human Resource Management survey, 22% of corporate respondents require would-be employees to complete such…
Researchers have published a study on applying a privacy-preserving AI technique — homomorphic encryption (HE) — to large-scale, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on genetic and phenotype data. They claim it’s 30 times faster than state-of-the-art approaches while…
NortonLifeLock Research Group, the R&D division of antivirus vendor NortonLifeLock, today released a browser extension called BotSight that’s designed to detect potential Twitter bots in real time. The team behind it says BotSight is intended to highlight the…
Dathena raises $12 million for AI that monitors and classifies sensitive enterprise data
May 13, 2020
Dathena, a startup employing AI and machine learning to identify and protect sensitive enterprise data, today announced that it secured $12 million in equity financing. The fresh capital follows the opening of the company’s U.S. headquarters in New York City, and CEO Christopher Muffat says the funding will support Dathena’s R&D efforts and the hiring of stateside staff across sales…
