Hailo, a startup developing hardware designed to speed up AI inferencing at the edge, today announced that it’s raised $60 million in series B funding led by previous and new strategic investors. CEO Orr Danon says the tranche will be used to accelerate the rollout of Hailo’s Hailo-8 chip, which was officially detailed in May 2019 ahead of an early 2020 ship date — a chip that enables…
AI and machine learning jobs are in strong demand around the U.S., but not every region has benefited equally from the boom. That’s according to ZipRecruiter’s Future of Work Report 2020, which is out today. To complie the report, ZipRecruiter surveyed data science job…
Uber, which hasn’t publicly discussed the architecture of its autonomous car platform in great detail, today published a post laying out the technologies that enable engineers within its Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) to test, validate, and deploy AI models to cars. It…
It’s easy to feel outrage at Clearview AI for creating facial recognition trained with 3 billion images scraped without permission from sites like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn, but the company should be only one of the targets of your ire. Pervasive surveillance capitalism is designed to make you feel helpless, but shaping AI regulation is part of citizenship in the 21st century, and you’ve…
Today, Facebook unveiled a machine learning tool that, in the last year, has removed more than six billion fake accounts. That’s in addition to the millions of new fake accounts that Facebook blocks from being created daily. According to Facebook, the tool has been…
While self-driving cars have hogged the headlines for the past few years, other forms of autonomous transport are starting to heat up.
This month, IBM and Promare — a U.K.-based marine research and exploration charity — will trial a prototype of an artificial…
Google Assistant for Android has just become a lot more useful for people with vision and reading problems, as well as for those learning new languages. The tech giant has rolled out a new feature that gives it the capability to read web pages aloud. Google says the feature brings together many of its advancements in speech technology, making it sound more natural than other more run-of-the-mill…
The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is a fluid situation changing by the day, and even by the hour. The growing worldwide public health emergency is threatening lives, but it’s also impacting businesses and disrupting travel around the world. The OECD warns that…
FiveAI has raised $41 million in venture capital as the startup seeks to turn the self-driving research it has conducted into commercial products and services.
The U.K.-based startup has created a technology stack to power autonomous vehicles. The company uses AI and machine…
Health Data Analytics Institute nabs $16 million for AI platform that predicts outcomes
March 4, 2020
AI excels at making sense of data. Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI) is a case in point — its AI-powered platform analyzes over a billion patient encounters to improve health care outcomes. After several years of operating quietly under the radar, the company today revealed that it has raised $16 million, which it will use to launch an API that widens access to its clinical prediction…
