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April 9, 2021

The Top 20 Machine Learning Startups To Watch In 2021

List of the top 20 machine learning, artificial intelligence, AI Startups to watch In 2021.

April 8, 2021

Gupshup’s chatbot authoring and multichannel messaging platform gets $100M boost

upshup, a messaging-focused customer engagement platform, today announced it has raised $100 million in funding from Tiger Global Management, valuing the startup at $1.4 billion. Gupshup says the funds will be put toward its go-to-market,...

April 8, 2021

YC-backed Abacum nets $7M to empower finance teams with real-time data and collaboration tools

SaaS to support mid-sized companies’ financial planning with real-time data and native collaboration isn’t the sexiest startup pitch under the sun but it’s one that’s swiftly netted Abacum a bunch of notable backers — including...

April 8, 2021

Survey finds 96% of execs are adopting ‘offensive AI’ against cyberattacks

“Offensive AI” will enable cybercriminals to direct attacks on enterprises while flying under the radar of conventional, rules-based detection tools. That’s according a new survey published by MIT Technology Review Insights and Darktrace, which found...

April 7, 2021

Snorkel AI’s app development platform lures $35M

Snorkel AI, a startup developing data labeling tools aimed at enterprises , today announced that it raised $35 million in a series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The funding marks the launch of...

April 7, 2021

Streamlit nabs $35M Series B to expand machine learning platform

As a company founded by data scientists, Streamlit may be in a unique position to develop tooling to help companies build machine learning applications. For starters, it developed an open source project, but today the...

April 7, 2021

CaptivateIQ raises $46 million to automate sales commission programs

Incentive compensation platform CaptivateIQ today announced that it raised $45 million in series B financing led by Accel. The company says it plans to use the funding to expand its reach, as well as to...

April 7, 2021

There’s a ‘New’ Nirvana song out, and it was written by Google’s AI

There’s an example of AI artistry that’s hard to tell apart from the real thing, and it’s sure to excite 90s alternative rock fans the world over: a brand-new, never-heard-before Nirvana song. Or, more accurately,...

April 7, 2021

Ataccama expands data management automation tools to meet pandemic-driven needs

During its digital Ataccama Innovate 2021 event, Ataccama today announced general availability of the next major upgrade to its data management platform, which relies on an expert system and machine learning algorithms to automate processes.

April 7, 2021

This Google Experiment Destroyed Some of the Core Assumptions Behind Representation Learning

Two years ago, Google Research published a paper that challenge some of the common assumptions about disentangled representations.

April 7, 2021

[Podcast] Per Ottosson CEO of Artificial Solutions

Per Ottosson is CEO of Artificial Solutions, the Sweden-based maker of Teneo software used for building custom chatbots, virtual assistants, and conversational interfaces in over 80 languages. He joined the company in 2020 after a...

April 7, 2021

Blue Dot raises $32M for AI that helps companies comply with tax codes

Tax compliance platform Blue Dot (previously VatBox) today announced it has raised $32 million, bringing its total raised to over $96 million. The firm says it will put the funds toward product R&D and expanding...

April 7, 2021

This is the most powerful artificial intelligence tool in the world

In June 2020, the Californian company OpenAI announced the update from GPT-2 to GPT-3 , a language model based on artificial intelligence and deep learning with cognitive capabilities . A technology that has generated great...

April 7, 2021

Top 10 upcoming AI and ML conferences to Attend in 2021

With artificial intelligence and machine learning presenting new possibilities, AI and ML conferences are gaining much popularity. Attending these conferences will help you learn and develop skills. Let’s have a look at the list of...

April 7, 2021

What the Floq: The secret mission Of Google

Quantum computing requires state-of-the-art tools to perform high-end computing. This is where TPUs come in handy. The liquid-cooled Tensor Processing units, built to slot into server racks, can deliver up to 100 petaflops of compute....

April 7, 2021

Berlin’s Bryter raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US

No-code startups continue to see a lot of traction. Bryter - an AI-based no-code startup that has built a platforms used by some 100 global enterprises to date across some 2,000 business applications and workflows...

April 6, 2021

Upsolver enables no-code data analytics in the cloud with $25M funding

Upsolver, a no-code startup that enables analytics on cloud data lakes, this morning announced that it raised $25 million in financing led by Scale Venture Partners. The company, which also today launched a free community...

April 6, 2021

Generalists vs. Tech Leaders: AI Adoption at Any Stage

The healthcare and life sciences industries have been on the pulse of AI for years now, and as such, a recent survey, “The 2021 AI Healthcare Survey Report,” seeks to explore the trending technologies, tools,...

April 6, 2021

Top 20 Artificial Intelligence research labs in the world in 2021

Artificial intelligence is continuously evolving and propagating across every industry. With much of the groundbreaking innovations moving the industry forward, the technology is continuously making headlines every day. Here’s a look at the top 20...

April 6, 2021

Hugging Face gets an Amazon treatment

To amplify the process of embracing natural language processing models via the power of AI, Amazon Web Service (AWS) chose to collaborate with Hugging Face, who are pursuing various ways to make this process elementary.

April 6, 2021

What is the Data Science Strategy of Microsoft?

The days when siloed, monolithic data stores were the rule is long gone, and those that are still standing are insufficient for business needs in today’s digital world. As part of its digital transformation, Microsoft...

April 5, 2021

Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Casino Gaming

You’ve heard about Artificial Intelligence but can it really be used in the casino business? After all, doesn’t the casino already have a house edge? Now that the pandemic has happened, and casinos throughout both...

April 5, 2021

Avalanche: End-to-end library for Continual Learning

ContinualAI Avalanche open source library is based on Pytorch, used for fast prototyping, training and reproducible evaluation of continual learning algorithms.

April 5, 2021

Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing: Time to scale and time to accuracy

Asset-intensive organizations are pursuing digital transformation to attain operational excellence, improve KPIs, and solve concrete issues in the production and supporting process areas. AI-based prediction models are particularly useful tools that can be deployed in...

April 5, 2021

Delivering AI/ML without proper Dataops is just wishful thinking!

Given the iterative nature of AI/ML projects, having an agile process of building fast and reliable data pipelines (referred to as DataOps) has been the key differentiator in the ML projects that succeeded (unless there was...

April 5, 2021

At John Deere, ‘Hard Iron Meets Artificial Intelligence’

John Deere is leveraging Intel’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help solve a costly, age-old problem in the manufacturing welding process. Deere is piloting a solution that uses computer vision to automatically spot common defects in...

April 5, 2021

Top 5 countries leading Robotics implementation in 2021

The proliferation of robotics has well begun. These automated machines are employing aside human workers and performing complex tasks at a shared workplace. Which countries are leading the robotics race in 2021?

April 5, 2021

Why you should use Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment in your Machine Learning projects

Continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing (CT) are at the core of Machine Learning Operation (MLOps) principles. If you’re a data scientist or machine learning engineer or an IT business leader investing...

April 4, 2021

Artificial Intelligence courses, books, and programs for entrepreneurs

Every day there are more and more start-ups that uses AI or build around them. AI has been around for almost 1950s and since 2008 with the introduction of AlexNets and deep learning, it became...

April 4, 2021

Reverse Logistics Company uses AI to find Value in Retail

While “Retail Apocalypse” would no doubt make a great sequel to the iconic movie “Apocalypse Now”. While most fingers point at Amazon (AMZN) as the primary culprit behind the destruction of the American strip mall...

April 4, 2021

These Stanford AI Lab dropouts raised $50 million to improve Conversations

Using its artificial intelligence tools, Cresta studies chats and phone conversations, then tells retail representatives the “best,” or most likely to be effective, replies while they’re still on the line. Agents using the startup’s software...

April 4, 2021

OpenAI’s GPT-3 Algorithm is now producing billions of words a day

In a recent blog post update, OpenAI said that tens of thousands of developers are now making apps on the GPT-3 platform. Over 300 apps (and counting) use GPT-3, and the algorithm is generating 4.5...

April 4, 2021

Do companies need a Chief AI-Ethics Officer?

The world we live in is becoming more and more data-driven. This is causing companies to make more and more use of AI techniques such as machine learning and deep learning. The task of the...

April 3, 2021

Positives & Negatives of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence – a blessing or a curse. It has always been the dream of humans to build machines having the ability to think like them. For a long time, humans had been watching this...

April 3, 2021

Follow the Money March 2021: 15 funded Machine Learning companies

March 2021 latest funding covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and innovation.

April 3, 2021

AI is the New Age Solution to fight against Climate Change

To help humans undo their actions against the Earth’s environment, AI will help us do the deed. The United Nations has already warned us that 2021 is the final chance for us to make a...

April 2, 2021

Characteristics of ML CI/CD Pipelines

In this blog post, we will be going through the components of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for Machine Learning.

April 2, 2021

20 interesting quotes about Artificial Intelligence

Here are some interesting quotes about our vision of artificial intelligence and how we are our future coexistence.

April 2, 2021

NVIDIA’s GTC: The near term Future of Advanced AI

One of the major trends this decade is in AI development, and one of the areas that are moving the fastest is Automotive AI. It has become such a significant trend that NVIDIA’s coming GTC...

April 2, 2021

Build a CI/CD pipeline for deploying custom machine learning models using AWS services

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step...

April 2, 2021

IBM Expanding AI, ML capabilities in IBM Cloud Satellite through the Cloud Pak for Data Add-On

With the recent release of its IBM Cloud Pak for Data, IBM is quickly expanding the tools it offers to enterprise customers that want to put their workloads onto IBM’s Cloud Satellite. The IBM Cloud...

April 2, 2021

This bootstrapped startup aims to make stock market investments AI-driven

Upside AI is a Mumbai-based investment firm that uses machine learning and fundamental analysis to invest in the Indian stock market. Over the past year, the startup claims to have generated 52 percent returns for...

April 2, 2021

What is the combination of Emotional Intelligence and AI?

Can AI take emotional decisions as well considering the fact that it is a replica of human intelligence? The reason why this is one of the hottest topics and is garnering attention from everywhere across...

April 2, 2021

[Podcast] How explainable AI keeps Decision-Making Algorithms understandable, efficient, &…

In this podcast, with transcript we interview Krishna Gade, Co-Founder and CEO of Fiddler, discussing Explainable AI.

April 2, 2021

[Infographic] How AI is changing the Healthcare Industry

Numerous industries-from manufacturing, to logistics, to security-have embraced artificial intelligence (AI). But while AI may provide immense benefits to companies operating in those spaces, it can have an even greater impact on the healthcare industry....

April 2, 2021

Top AI/ML Libraries for JavaScript in 2021

Web applications are the future of creating smart, innovative, modern and future-ready solutions. JavaScript is one of the leading programming languages used by web applications. Hence integrating machine learning capabilities in JavaScript is the sure...

April 2, 2021

New to AI Adoption? Don’t let Data be your Achilles Heel

The value of AI and automation is only as good as the underlying data sets that drive its algorithms. The complexity of AI means that there’s often little visibility into why and how data was...

April 2, 2021

Artificial Intelligence is playing a big role in Fraud Investigation

New and complex challenges behind managing the fraud investigation are a strenuous task in itself. Well, it doesn’t end there. Cross-border probe adds to the already existing complexity. Such an investigation could highlight bribery, corruption,...

April 1, 2021

[Podcast] In the AI of the Beholder

Ideas about what constitutes “beauty” are complex, subjective, and by no means limited to physical appearances. Elusive though it is, everyone wants more of it. That means big business and increasingly, people harnessing algorithms to...

April 1, 2021

How NASA is using AI to develop the Next Generation of Self-Driving Planetary Rovers

With each new generation of NASA’s Mars rovers, improvements in AI, machine learning and other advanced technologies continue to make them more autonomous as they traverse the Martian soil looking for clues about the history...

April 1, 2021

AI startup Razor Labs bypasses VC route, instead going public

AI startups based in Israel have had little difficulty raising venture funding. Some are now following the lead of their U.S. counterparts by going public. Among the first is industrial AI specialist Razor Labs, which...

April 1, 2021

AI World Executive Summit: Important to ask the right questions

Of respondents at AI high-performing companies, 75% report that AI spending across business functions has increased because of the pandemic, according to the Global Survey on AI from McKinsey for 2020. These organizations are using AI to...

April 1, 2021

5 common ways companies use RPA to enhance Document Processing

With all the hype around robotic process automation (RPA), it can be helpful to remember that the vast majority of the data running through RPA automations originates or terminates with a document. In fact, I’d...

April 1, 2021

Voice AI firm Uniphore raises $140 million led by Sorenson Capital

Software-as-a-service platform, Uniphore, on Wednesday said that it has raised $140 million as a part of its Series D funding, led by US-based investment firm, Sorenson Capital Partners.

April 1, 2021

OpenAI is open for business, GPT-3 powers the Next generation of Apps

OpenAI’s GPT-3 is well known in the machine learning world for their human like writing, where it is powering 300 applications, supporting GPT-3–powered search, conversation, text completion, and other advanced AI features through their API. ...

April 1, 2021

The pros and cons of Edge Computing

Edge computing, a process in which computing happens on local servers and devices “on the edge” of the network instead of on distant cloud data centers. Despite its growing popularity and accessibility, is edge computing...

April 1, 2021

Error-riddled data sets are warping our sense of how good AI really is

The 10 most cited AI data sets are riddled with label errors, according to a new study out of MIT, and it’s distorting our understanding of the field’s progress.

April 1, 2021

Arm’s new chip architecture will power future devices, possibly including Apple’s

Chip designer Arm Ltd. has announced its new v9 architecture, a design that could eventually appear in the Apple Silicon powering future iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

April 1, 2021

A Guide to (highly) distributed DNN Training

These days data distributed training is all the rage. In data distributed training learning is performed on multiple workers in parallel.

April 1, 2021

Enterprise Conversational Analytics Startup Uniphore Raises $140M

Conversational analytics startup Uniphore has raised $140 million in a Series D funding round led by Sorenson Captial. Uniphore provides AI-powered virtual agents for voice-based customer service and analysis and is now looking to expand...

April 1, 2021

The fate of Feature Engineering: No longer necessary, or much easier?

Feature engineering occupies a unique place in the realm of data science. For most supervised and unsupervised learning deployments (which comprise the majority of enterprise cognitive computing efforts), this process of determining which characteristics in...

April 1, 2021

Artificial Intelligence to drive Logistics Industry

Retail logistics face the most challenges as it directly caters the consumers and is widespread making it more complex. Logistics currently needs to predict consumer needs, goods demand, a simpler process, and streamlined workflow to...

April 1, 2021

Aible Scored Highest (4.5/5) for the AutoML Use Case in the 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities Report for Cloud AI Developer Services

Aible, the pioneer in impact-optimized enterprise AI, has scored highest in the Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) services Use Case in Gartner’s 2021 “Critical Capabilities for Cloud AI Developer Services” report. In Gartner’s evaluation of 13 AutoML providers,...

April 1, 2021

Tiger Global just closed one of the biggest venture funds ever, with $6.7 billion

If you watch funding announcements as we do, you may have noticed something this year. There are a lot of mega-rounds coming together, and Tiger Global is involved in a notable number of them, often...

April 1, 2021

Optimizing Machine Learning: MLOps and its significant benefits

MLOps ensures effective lifecycle management of ML models. Machine learning operations (MLOps) is a procedure that has recently entered the dictionary of technology organizations. More or less, MLOps is a method of optimizing the work...

March 31, 2021

IBM, Cleveland Clinic Begin 10-Year AI, Quantum, Cloud Partnership to Boost Clinical Research

Fueled by the need for faster life sciences and healthcare research, especially in the wake of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, IBM and the 100-year-old Cleveland Clinic are partnering to bolster the Clinic’s research capabilities by...

March 31, 2021

Language AI startup Moveworks expands beyond IT to finance, HR, other corporate communications

Language AI startup Moveworks argues its use of natural language understanding machine learning is broadly applicable to many corporate functions that have a support component such as HR and legal affairs.

March 31, 2021

YaleNews: Machine learning: Economics and computer science converge

Philipp Strack, CSEC’s inaugural director of undergraduate studies, is comfortable straddling multiple disciplines. With an academic background in economics and mathematics, his research reflects this broad and interdisciplinary outlook — ranging from behavioral economics and...

March 31, 2021

Google AI Introduces Open-Domain Long-Form Question Answering (LFQA) System

Google is tackling a fundamental challenge of Natural Language Processing (NLP) as it pertains to particular search queries and using the results for the generation of paragraph length answers to questions. Open-domain long-form question answering (LFQA)...

March 31, 2021

Former Merck Exec joins Flagship Pioneering to Helm its AI startup ‘Generate Biomedicines’

Michael T. Nally became the latest Merck executive to join Flagship Pioneering, taking the reins of its machine learning protein therapy company Generate Biomedicines. Nally was an executive vice present and chief marketing officer for Merck’s Human...

March 31, 2021

ACM name Alfred Vaino Aho and Jeffrey David Ullman recipients of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award

ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, named Alfred Vaino Aho and Jeffrey David Ullman recipients of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of...

March 31, 2021

Facebook’s feckless ‘Fairness Flow’ won’t fix its broken AI

Facebook today posted a blog post detailing a three-year-old solution to its modern AI problems: an algorithm inspector that only works on some of the company’s systems. Up front: Called Fairness Flow, the new diagnostic...

March 31, 2021

[Paper] Is AI Learning to Understand Emotions through Visual Art?

Emotional AI is not far away considering the nascent developments in the field. Artificial intelligence has already made its mark in our lives. The adoption of disruptive technologies redefined industries and their operations. However, the...

March 31, 2021

Kaggle Tabular Playground Series – Mar 2021 Rankings

This leaderboard is calculated with approximately 25% of the test data. The final results will be based on the other 75%, so the final standings may be different.

March 31, 2021

[Paper Summary] Google AI proposes a Machine Learning Algorithm for teaching Agents to solve new tasks

Google AI suggests an alternative, example-based control, which aims at teaching agents how to solve new tasks by providing examples of success. This is termed as recursive classification of examples (RCE). It does not rely...

March 31, 2021

Cresta, which uses AI to mentor customer service agents in real time, raises $50M

Cresta, an AI-powered platform that gives real-time support to help customer service agents respond to enquries on calls or in chats, has raised $50 million in a series B round of funding.

March 31, 2021

Threatened By Amazon, Albertsons Partners With Google To Digitalize The Grocery Shopping Experience

Google and grocer Albertsons Companies announced a multi-year partnership that would digitalize the grocery shopping experience for millions of American shoppers. Google hopes to integrate its Cloud AI technologies, including Vision AI, Recommendations AI and...

March 31, 2021

Cloud management startup Striim plans new integrations and streaming analytics with $50M funding

Striim, a startup specializing in streaming data integration, today closed a $50 million series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. Striim founder and CTO Steve Wilkes says the funding will be used...

March 31, 2021

World-leading AI research and inclusion at the forefront of this year’s NVIDIA GTC

“The story of GTC is in many ways the story of NVIDIA, and it’s also the story of what’s happening in technology,” says Greg Estes, VP of corporate marketing and developer programs at NVIDIA.

March 31, 2021

Edge computing orchestration startup Zededa raises $12.5M

Edge virtualization startup Zededa today announced it has raised $12.5 million in an oversubscribed extension to its series A round. The company says the funding will be used to bolster its customer acquisition efforts as...

March 31, 2021

AI experts warn Facebook’s anti-bias tool is ‘completely insufficient’

Facebook today published a blog post detailing Fairness Flow, an internal toolkit the company claims enables its teams to analyze how some types of AI models perform across different groups.

March 31, 2021

Windfall nabs $21M for AI that aids nonprofit fundraising

Windfall, a startup developing an AI platform to help nonprofits engage donors, today raised $21 million in venture capital. The company says the funds will be used to invest in product R&D, the expansion of...

March 31, 2021

Dataiku’s new AI tools reduce dependency on data science teams

Dataiku expands its effort to make AI accessible to the average business user with an update that makes it possible to run what-if simulations of AI models to determine how changes to the data they...

March 31, 2021

Auditoria raises $15.5M to expand AI platform automating repetitive accounting tasks

Auditoria, a startup offering AI-driven automation products for corporate finance teams, today announced that it raised $15.5 million in series A funding. Cofounder and CEO Rohit Gupta says that the proceeds will shore up Auditoria’s...

March 31, 2021

Uniphore nabs $140 million for automated analysis of voice and video calls

Uniphore, an AI-powered platform that helps businesses understand, analyze, and automate their voice-based customer service, has raised $140 million in a series D round of funding.

March 31, 2021

What’s new about neptune.new

Over time we got a tremendous amount of feedback from you. You asked how to use Neptune with spot instances and pipelines, how to organize things in a more hierarchical way, and many more and...

March 31, 2021

Opswat expands infrastructure protection with anti-malware tools, raises $125M

Infrastructure protection services company Opswat today announced that it raised $125 million from Brighton Park Capital, the startup’s first external funding round. Opswat says the capital will support its R&D and hiring efforts as it...

March 31, 2021

3 NLP Companies Using GPT-3 For Innovation

Here are three companies that use NLP gpt-3 for these applications.

March 31, 2021

Key NoOps insights from DevOps Leaders

NoOps is coming, in some form or another. Whether you have homegrown DevOps or outsourced DevOps, it’s time to realize that a simpler way is coming: NoOps automation. We spoke with a group of IT pros to...

March 31, 2021

[Case Study] MLOps at GreenSteam: Shipping Machine Learning

GreenSteam is a company that provides software solutions for the marine industry that help reduce fuel usage. Excess fuel usage is both costly and bad for the environment, and vessel operators are obliged to get...

March 30, 2021

How Digitata provides intelligent pricing on mobile data and voice with Amazon Lookout for Metrics

This is a guest post by Nico Kruger (CTO of Digitata) and Chris King (Sr. ML Specialist SA at AWS) covering how Digitata provides intelligent pricing on mobile data and voice with Amazon.

March 30, 2021

Armv9 is Arm’s first major architectural update in a decade

Arm, the leader in chips used in everything from mobile devices to supercomputers, has unveiled Armv9, the company’s first major architectural change in a decade. The new designs should result in 30% faster performance over...

March 30, 2021

Human/ AI Robot sell NFT artwork for $688,888

Artwork created by a humanoid robot and a human artist has been sold for $688,888. Hanson Robotics’ Sophia and Italian artist Andrea Bonaceto sold the 12-second MP4 video as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), part of...

March 30, 2021

Rust detection using machine learning on AWS

Visual inspection of industrial environments is common requirement across heavy industries. Many of these industries deal with huge metal surfaces and harsh environments. A common problem across these industries is metal corrosion and rust. In...

March 30, 2021

HighRadius raises $300M, triples valuation to $3.1B for AI-powered fintech software

HighRadius, which has developed AI-powered fintech software, announced Tuesday it has raised $300 million in a Series C funding round led by D1 Capital and Tiger Global.

March 30, 2021

Researchers from DeepMind and Alberta University propose policy-guided Heuristic search Algorithm

DeepMind’s AlphaGo and its successors previously demonstrated that the policy and heuristic function is formulated upon the PUCT (Polynomial Upper Confidence Trees) search algorithm. This algorithm can be quite effective for guiding search in adversarial...

March 30, 2021

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