AI & Robotics

One of the most devastating outcomes of motor neuron disease (MND), more commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease in the US, is that it eventually takes away the ability of those who have it to speak. But like it promises to do in a lot of other areas, artificial intelligence could soon help MND patients better cope with their condition thanks to a new tool developed by Rolls-Royce and…

A partnership with Didi Chuxing and new autonomous driving solutions weren’t the only things Nvidia announced at its GPU Technology Conference in Suzhou today. The chip firm took the opportunity to introduce TensorRT 7, the newest release of its platform for high-performance deep learning inference on graphics cards, which ships with an improved compiler optimized for real-time inferencing…

Hugging Face has announced the close of a $15 million series A funding round led by Lux Capital, with participation from Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher and OpenAI CTO Greg Brockman, as well as Betaworks and A.Capital. New-York based Hugging Face started as a chatbot company, but then began to use Transformers, an approach to conversational AI that’s become a foundation for…

Anyscale, a company promising to let application developers more easily build so-called “distributed” applications that are behind most AI and machine learning efforts, has raised $20.6 million from investors in a first round of funding. The company has some credibility off the bat because it’s cofounded by Ion Stoica, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley…