AI Technology & Industry Review
Global AI Industry updates.
Alibaba Cloud wraps up the deployment three data centres in Nantong, Hangzhou, and Ulanqab city, plans to add over one million servers to expedite regional infrastructure development.
According to Chinese media Zhidongxi, from the second quarter of this year to July 23, public record shows 77 semiconductor-related financing activities in China.
Chinese tech giant Tencent has proposed to acquire all of the Sogou’s outstanding ordinary shares for a cash price of US$9 per share.
New York will suspend implementation of AI facial recognition technology in schools for two years on Wednesday.
According to Bloomberg, Nvidia is eyeing the possibility of acquiring Arm, the chip design subsidiary of Japan’s Softbank Group.
According to the Verge, Amazon funded self-driving company Aurora will test a small vehicle fleet at the highways near Dallas-Fort Worth area in the next few weeks.
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is implementing AI technologies to monitor the service provided by taxi drivers.
Research institution Strategy Analytics predicts that the smart home market will resume in 2021 and consumer spending will increase to USD 62 billion.
Google is investing USD 4 billion in India’s Jio platforms, a subsidiary of conglomerate Reliance Group, to create affordable smartphones for the Indian market.
China’s self-driving truck company TuSimple forges strategic partnership with US truck manufacturer Navistar to jointly develop L4 driverless trucks, striving for mass production by 2024.
News report that a Tesla Model S crashed into Arizona Department of Public Safety police vehicle on Tuesday in California.
Google officially released the 2020 Scholar Metrics list.
Cambricon Technologies, one of China’s AI chip giant founded in 2016, has raised US $369 million in IPO at the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market.
Microsoft announced it would spin off its chatbot business XiaoIce, with all associated technologies licensed to a newly formed independent company.
NeurIPS desk-rejects (papers passed over without review) has become “a super noisy process,” complains a post in the Reddit Machine Learning group.
Insilico Medicine announced a spin-off of its aging biomarker and deep aging clock business.
Microsoft today announced it will divest its XiaoIce business into an independent company, with Harry Shum appointed as the Chairman of the board.
The paper looks at the New Generation Artificial Intelligence (NGAI) Development Plan of China (2015– 2030), which was published in 2017 as a blueprint for the rapid construction of a complete Chinese AI ecosystem.
Leading US universities engaged in AI research have joined tech giants in backing legislation aimed at establishing a roadmap for the creation of a national AI research cloud.
Turing Award Winner and Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has announced his exit from Twitter after getting involved in a long and often acrimonious dispute regarding racial biases in AI.
Synced presents 13 comprehensive case studies and 74 use cases in five main application scenarios to demonstrate how AI has assisted and can continue to assist in efforts to roll back COVID-19.
Facebook and Kaggle are facing an online backlash after the apparent winners of the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC) were disqualified.
Advanced computer vision technology is supercharging virtual and augmented reality, one of the latest milestones in video game design.
Alibaba today announced the establishment of an Intelligent Search Business Department under the Alibaba Innovation Business Group.
A total of 1,088 papers out of 4,990 submissions made it to the prestigious machine learning conference.
With AI models gaining power and momentum across a number of industries in recent years, meteorological researchers are now applying the tech in satellite data processing, nowcasting, typhoon and extreme weather forecasting and other business and environmental analytics areas.
Canadian education technology startup Korbit Technologies has introduced a personalized AI-powered learning experience that it says can help all students learn faster and better in a cost-effective way.
Paddle Quantum is developed based on Baidu’s deep learning platform PaddlePaddle, which has become the first and unique deep learning platform in China that supports quantum machine learning.
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are now widely used in tasks such as reimbursement specifications, automated financial statement generation, and content extraction.
The A100 represents the largest leap in performance across the company’s eight GPU generations - a boost of up to 20x over its predecessors.
Japanese artificial intelligence startup Preferred Networks (PFN) today debuted its PyTorch library pytorch-pfn-extras (PPE).
Google affiliated company Sidewalk Labs announced today that it is no longer pursuing the development of Toronto’s Quayside smart city project.
The booming global pet care market is projected to grow to US$280 billion by 2025.
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SIGKDD is announcing a funding opportunity through its Community Impact Program.
Hinton, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, responded on Reddit, “I have never claimed that I invented backpropagation.
Fujitsu Limited announced the results of a joint field trial with the Japan Coast Guard to predict vessel collisions with AI technology
The accepted papers have been announced for IJCAI – PRICAI 2020.
Silicon Valley based Landing AI introduced a new AI-enabled social distancing detection tool designed to help monitor and enforce physical distancing protocols in workplaces.
Synced has identified some interesting AI-powered virtual humans to introduce to our readers.