AI Technology & Industry Review
ording to estimation by Loup Ventures, by 2032, full self-driving (FSD) purchases and subscriptions is expected to bring electric vehicles giant Tesla USD 102 billion in profits.
On July 20, Quanergy Systems announced its 3D LiDAR solution has been selected to support the development of an Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) system in Busan, South Korea. The ICT system is a key component of the South Korean government’s strategy to build data driven IoT smart cities. Busan is one of the pilot cities for the initiative.
On July 21, the chip giant Intel announced its second-quarter financial report. The report shows that Intel’s revenue in the second quarter was USD 19.631 billion, and its net profit was USD 5.061 billion, a decrease of 0.9 percent compared to the same period last year.
On July 22, Argo AI, Ford Motors and Lyft joined hands to launch L4-level autonomous driving services in Miami by the end of this year.
On July 7, the University of Texas at Austin announced that it has teamed up with major wireless companies to set up a new 6G research center, the 6G@UT. Founding affiliates Samsung, AT&T, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and InterDigital will each fund at least two projects for three years at the center.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger expect the global chip shortage to continue worsen, and the world will have wait for “a healthy supply-demand situation until 2023″.
On June 16, LVMH and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership to accelerate innovation and develop new cloud-based artificial intelligence solutions.
On June 16, General Motors Co. announced it will increase its electric vehicles (EV) and autonomous vehicles (AV) investments from 2020 through 2025 to USD 35 billion, representing a 75 percent increase from its initial commitment announced prior to the pandemic
On June 3, the White House and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Treasury Department announced a new ban signed by the Biden administration restricting American investment in 59 Chinese companies, including companies such as Huawei, Hikvision, and SMIC.
Google says it will allow global advertisers offering cryptocurrency exchange and wallet products and services to market on its platform including search engine and Youtube, according to announcement on June 2.
The US government is advancing the “Artemis” moon landing plan in 2024, using a new type of autonomous rover, or Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV), to explore places that it has never set foot in before.
On May 26, OpenAI unveiled a new $100 million startup fund called the “OpenAI Startup Fund”, focusing on early-stage startupsContinue Reading
On May 25, Tesla announced that it will abandon LiDARs and roll out camera-only Autopilot assisted driving system called “Tesla Vision” in its North American Model 3 and Model Y vehicles starting in June.
Industry report unveiled that Waymo, the self-driving arm of Google, is seeking a USD 4 billion investment from external investors to fuel its autonomous vehicle business.
On May 13, autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai announced the expansion of its Robotaxi service in Beijing.
Waymo, the self-driving subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, confirmed today that company chief financial officer Ger Dwyer is leaving, accompanied by Adam Frost, head of automotive partnerships and corporate development.
On April 19, Google Cloud and Siemens announced new cooperation to optimize factory processes and improve productivity on the shop floor. Siemens intends to integrate Google Cloud’s leading data cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) technologies with its factory automation solutions.
On April 12, Microsoft Corp announced the acquisition of Nuance for USD 19.7 billion, which is the largest acquisition after its LinkedIn deal for USD 26 billion in 2016.
A team from Facebook and Google has proposed LazyTensor — a technique for targeting domain-specific compilers without sacrificing define-by-run ergonomics.
Farmers Edge Inc, an AI startup to help growers increase crop yields, plans to go public on Canada’s largest Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “FDGE”.
TuSimple has submitted listing documents and plans to list in the United States as early as next month.
Apple has laid out the design characteristics of a new generic system that enables federated evaluation and tuning (FE&T) systems on end-user devices.
On January 18, in efforts to understand and manage extreme weather events, McGill University announced a new interdisciplinary project to combine deep learning (DL) with social network analysis (SNA).
A Nepalese machine learning (ML) researcher has introduced a handy browser extension that lets users directly access videos related to research papers published on the popular preprint platform arXiv.
According to a report from Reuters, the Trump administration has notified Intel among others, that their supplier licenses to Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei have been revoked.
Researchers from the University of Texas, Austin have proposed a novel framework called Training-Free Neural Architecture Search (TE-NAS) for “training-free” neural architecture search.
Researcher from Toyota Research Institute announce joint efforts with Stanford’s Dynamic Design Lab, to research on automotive safety improvements.
DeepMind, the UK-based AI arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has lost GBP 477 million in 2019 which is 1.5 percent increase from one year prior.
NVIDIA blog introduced company’s latest NeurIPS presentation: applying a novel neural network training technique, adaptive discriminator augmentation, to the popular NVIDIA StyleGAN2 model.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory has established a new research and development division, the Biotechnology and Human Systems Division.
AMD announced the formal acquisition of Xilinx in an all-stock transaction worth US$35 billion.
Northeastern University’s Institute of Experiential Artificial Intelligence appointed AI guru and entrepreneur Usama Fayyad as the new executive director.
Apple today announces that its new iPhone series will also use the company’s newest A14 Bionic chipset.
The GTC kicked off with the release of nine Nvidia keynote video with major announcements in data centers, edge AI, collaboration tools and healthcare.
The Trump administration will announce partnership with the UK on research and development of AI, including issues of explainability and fairness.
Volkswagen’s truck division Traton announced that it will cooperate with TuSimple, a Chinese self-driving technology start-up company headquartered in San Diego, to develop self-driving trucks.
At the Ignite 2020 virtual conference, Microsoft announced new updates for Azure AI.
The Alberta government announced a CA$9 million grant for Edmonton-based Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii).
Launched via the U of T Early-Stage Technology program (UTEST), Canadian startup Bridge7 is applying AI to improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of cancer treatments.
On September 13th, NVIDIA announced the acquisition of UK-based semiconductor startup ARM for US$40 billion, unveiling the largest acquisition dealContinue Reading