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Kumo aims to bring predictive AI to the enterprise with $18M in fresh capital
Kumo, a startup offering an AI-powered platform to tackle predictive problems in business, today announced that it raised $18 million in a Series B round led by Sequoia, with participation from A Capi
Walmart introduces virtual try-on tech which uses customers’ own photos to model the clothing
Walmart is expanding its support for AI-powered virtual try-on technology that allows online shoppers to better visualize clothing on models that look like themselves in both appearance and body type.
Here’s why a gold rush of NLP startups is about to arrive
Remember Natural Language Processing? NLP arose several years ago but it was only in 2018 that AI researchers proved it was possible to train a neural network once on a large amount of data and use it
This Ukrainian deep tech startup has trained an AI to paint war art
A Ukrainian deep tech startup is launching a charity NFT project to sell AI-generated artworks with the twin goal of raising money to support people affected by Russia’s war of aggression and al
AI creative platform D-ID, the tech behind those viral videos of animated family photos, raises $25M
D-ID, the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique, viral experiences like “Deep Nostalgia,” which animates the faces of long-lost relatives in your old photos,
MyHeritage and D-ID partner to bring photos to life with both animations and voice
Last year, genealogy service MyHeritage went viral after introducing a new “deepfake” feature that allowed users to animate the faces of loved ones in still photos. TikTok users posted vid
Walmart launches AI-powered virtual clothing try-on technology for online shoppers
Last May, Walmart announced its acquisition of the virtual clothing try-on startup Zeekit, which leveraged a combination of real-time image processing, computer vision, deep learning and other AI tech
AI chip designer Moffett AI raises ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in Series A round
China’s call to foster semiconductor independence has sent investors chasing after chip startups of all sorts. Moffett AI, a Shenzhen-based chip design company, has received a fresh Series A inj
The convergence of deep neural networks and immunotherapy
What do deep neural networks and cancer immunotherapy have in common?
Jina.ai raises $30M for its for its neural search platform
Berlin-based Jina.ai, an open source startup that uses neural search to help its users find information in their unstructured data (including videos and images), today announced that it has raised a $
Adobe’s Project Strike a Pose uses AI to pose your models for you
One of the highlights of Adobe’s annual MAX conference is its so-called “Sneaks” session, where the company shows off some of its most cutting-edge research projects. Some of these m
Adobe continues its AI push in Creative Cloud
Over the course of the last few years, Adobe has gone all-in on AI. At its MAX conference this year, that’s once again on full display across updates for virtually all of its products, powered b
Deci snaps up $21M for tech to build better AI models based on available data and compute power
Building usable models to run AI algorithms requires not just adequate data to train systems, but also the right hardware subsequently to run them. But because the theoretical and practical are often
MIT researchers develop a new ‘liquid’ neural network that’s better at adapting to new info
A new type of neural network that’s capable of adapting its underlying behavior after the initial training phase could be the key to big improvements in situations where conditions can change qu
Tesla is willing to license Autopilot and has already had ‘preliminary discussions’ about it with other automakers
Tesla is open to licensing its software, including its Autopilot highly-automated driving technology and the neural network training it has built to improve its autonomous driving technology. Tesla CE
Alphabet’s DeepMind achieves historic new milestone in AI-based protein structure prediction
DeepMind, the AI technology company that’s part of Google parent Alphabet, has achieved a significant breakthrough in AI-based protein structure prediction. The company announced today that its
Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy, a delivery service for prescription medications
A little over two years after its $753 million acquisition of the prescription medicine delivery service PillPack, Amazon has finally launched Amazon Pharmacy, its online and mobile prescription medic
Deci raises $9.1M to optimize AI models with AI
Deci, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a new platform that uses AI to optimize AI models and get them ready for production, today announced that it has raised a $9.1 million seed round led by
Grid AI raises $18.6M Series A to help AI researchers and engineers bring their models to production
Grid AI, a startup founded by the inventor of the popular open-source PyTorch Lightning project, William Falcon, that aims to help machine learning engineers work more efficiently, today announced tha
Hailo challenges Intel and Google with its new AI modules for edge devices
Hailo, a Tel Aviv-based startup best known for its high-performance AI chips, today announced the launch of its M.2 and Mini PCIe high-AI acceleration modules. Based around its Hailo-8 chip, these new