OpenAI was founded in San Francisco in 2015 with a mission “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity”. Its founders, who include Elon Musk and entrepreneur and ex-Y Combinator President, Sam Altman, set up the organization partly
AI, the Edge and the IoT Frontier IoT has shifted away from connecting simple everyday devices such as cameras, thermostats and light bulbs to smart assistants, smart appliances and live streaming baby monitors. The data gleaned from the new wave
Algorithmia is an AI startup that offers access to a catalog of 3,500 algorithms, functions and machine-learning models in a widespread bid to change how algorithms are used. The startup has received funding from Google; Anna Patterson, VP of Engineering
As recently announced, Google is bringing the DeepMind Healthcare Unit into its fold to bolster its efforts in the competitive field of AI healthcare research. DeepMind’s health subsidiary will now be part of Google Health spearheaded by David Feinberg, the
Earlier this year, Google announced its Learn2Compress technology as part of its ML Kit. Google’s AI research team developed Learn2Compress to power its automatic model compression service. The innovative Learn2Compress technique enables the reduction of large AI models into small
eBay announced last week that it has been custom-building its own servers in order to replatform and bring up to date its backend infrastructure; and following the lead of Facebook, the eCommerce giant will be open-sourcing its designs. The open
IBM Research and the Looming Threat of AI-Powered Cyber-Attacks IBM Research has a long history of studying how emerging technologies are affecting the threat landscape to decide what cybersecurity countermeasures might be necessary to combat them; DeepLocker, its AI-powered malware
Today, we’re going to look at the TensorFlow ecosystem in some depth. As an open-source ML framework released and developed by Google, it has built a formidable community in a relatively short period of time and has demonstrated some very
Last week, Google released its new reinforcement learning (RL) framework, Dopamine, based on its machine learning library, Tensorflow. The search giant has open sourced the innovative new framework to GitHub where it is now openly available. “Inspired by one of
Last month, we wrote a summary of the latest Google Cloud Next conference held in San Francisco. Not only did Google highlight its latest major investments in infrastructure, but the search giant went into detail about how it is pushing
Last week, Google Cloud held its latest Next conference in San Francisco, unveiling new AI features, partnerships, tools and technologies to build out its ecosystem and make its services more attractive to developers. The conference was Google Cloud’s largest to
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) will invest $4 billion in edge infrastructure. The software company’s new CEO and President, Antonio Neri, sees edge computing as a “revolution” in the computing era that represents a $28 billion market opportunity for HPE.
Facebook’s computing demands are on the increase and in order to meet them, it has introduced a new solution: the Fabric Aggregator. Developments in immersive entertainment, such as live video, virtual reality and 360 all require additional capacity. This, along
Netflix recently introduced its new Dynamic Optimizer, which employs AI techniques to analyse each individual frame of a video in order to compress it as much as possible without diminishing the image quality. This new encoding method reduces the amount
California-based cybersecurity firm Shape Security recently released Blackfish, an AI system that proactively protects companies from credential stuffing prior to an attack happening. From the moment a criminal tries to use stolen usernames and passwords, Blackfish starts to monitor and
