Money is Chasing Chinese AI Startups
Beijing-based Horizon Robotics’ A-plus series funding round is expected to raise US$100 million by year’s end.
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Meet Voice Pioneer Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang
Mobvoi hired Dr. Mei-Yuh Hwang as its Vice President of Engineering in 2016. A respected speech recognition researcher and former Principle NLP Scientist Manager at Microsoft, Dr. Hwang is a pioneer in voice recognition and machine translation.
AI Phone Duel: $825 Mate 10 vs $999 iPhone X
This Monday in Munich, China’s largest domestic mobile phone maker Huawei unveiled Mate 10 — billed as the most powerful AI phone in the world.
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from Oct (Pt 1)
Instagram Releases Shoppable Tags Feature in US; Voyage Launches Self-Driving Taxis in San Jose Escorting 4,000 Residents; Deutsche Bank Announces First Artificial Intelligence Implementation Through IBM Watson
Alibaba Pumps US$15 Billion into Quantum Computing & AI
Alibaba Group announced its new DAMO (Dharma) Academy for fundamental and disruptive technology research.
Six Disruptive AI Platforms for Law
An intelligent revolution of the legal industry has begun.
AI Abuzz over CycleGan Face Swapping Video
YouTuber “TJWei” recently uploaded a “Face-off” video on YouTube. The four-minute split-screen clip sees two figures speaking and emoting simultaneously. Both look human, but one is an entity generated in real-time by an AI algorithm.
Good AI Lab Energizes Biotech With AI
Silicon Valley-based Good AI lab aims to crowdsource the world’s unused FLOPS in order to provide medical researchers with the computing power they need.
Google AI Assistant Smartest in Human IQ Tests
Clearly, digital voice assistants are wising up — how long until they catch up?
This Cloud Has a Smart Lining
AI-powered cloud platforms can help businesses benefit from AI. Oracle, the world’s second-largest software company, is prepared to hop on board.