Google today penned an explainer on the Soli radar-based technology that ships inside its Pixel 4 smartphones. While many of the hardware details were previously known, the company for the first time peeled back the curtains on Soli’s AI models, which are trained to detect and recognize motion gestures with low latency. While it’s early days — the Pixel 4 and the Pixel 4 XL are the first…
Transform 2020, the AI event for enterprise, adds digital option (in response to COVID-19)
March 12, 2020
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In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are closely monitoring developments and public health advisories that may impact our upcoming Transform 2020 conference, the leading event for business and technology leaders about how to implement AI in the…
How the coronavirus may reshape AI research conferences
March 12, 2020
COVID-19 officially became a global pandemic on Wednesday. As public health officials and governments respond; businesses brace for losses; and events like trade shows, SXSW, and Google’s I/O shutter around the world, the disease is also impacting scientific conferences.
Remesh, a software company using AI to orchestrate market research, today announced that it has raised $25 million in a series A extension. CEO Andrew Konya said the proceeds will support Remesh’s continued expansion and the launch of its newest AI-powered platform, which could help organizations glean insights from qualitative information to speed up innovation cycles and uncover customer or…
(Reuters) — White House officials met Wednesday with U.S. technology industry officials to discuss tech-related response efforts to combat the coronavirus outbreak and ways for government to collaborate with the private sector.
COVID19, the disease caused by the virus, has…
Coinciding with the kickoff of the 2020 TensorFlow Developer Summit, Google today published a pipeline — Objectron — that spots objects in 2D images and estimates their poses and sizes through an AI model. The company says it has implications for robotics, self-driving…
Google launches Cloud AI Platform Pipelines in beta to simplify machine learning development
March 11, 2020
Google today announced the beta launch of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, a service designed to deploy robust, repeatable AI pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility in the cloud. Google’s pitching it as a way to deliver an “easy to install” secure execution environment for machine learning workflows, which could reduce the amount of time enterprises…
Promethean AI lets neophytes use their voice to create amazing game environments in minutes
March 11, 2020
Promethean AI enables people with no programming or digital art experience to create amazing game environments with voice commands.
If you doubt this, check out the video embedded in this post. The Ugandan animation students in it were neophytes at creating elaborate scenes…
BackboneAI, a startup providing a data automation platform for enterprises, today emerged from stealth with $4.7 million in seed funding. CEO Rob Bailey says the round will be used to scale the company’s product for data collection within and among organizations, which he…
Supply chain integrity platform provider Overhaul today announced that it has raised $17.5 million, which CEO Barry Conlon said will be used to bolster its product offerings and grow its Austin-based team, as well as its European headquarters in Ireland. The funds will also fuel the development of AI products to predict supply chain disruptions and recommend resolutions, which could help…
