Tesla Rolls Out ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta; Critics Apply the Brakes
Tesla’s FSD (Full Self-Driving) Beta has wowed fans, but others say FSD isn’t fully autonomous at all, tweeting videos with drivers having to take over vehicles
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Global AI Industry updates.
A Look at Google’s Efforts to Earn Public Trust Through ML Fairness and Responsible AI
“Trust in AI systems is becoming, if not already, the biggest barrier for enterprises — as they start to move from exploring AI or potentially piloting or doing some proof of concept works into deploying AI into a production system”
Beijing to Open 100 Unmanned Taxi Stations
Self-driving taxis began to fully operate in Beijing and the weekly number of orders per day during the peak period has exceeded 2,600.
Uber to Establish $150 Million Joint Venture with SK Telecom to Expand in South Korea
South Korea’s SK Telecom plans to split up its ride-hailing department “T Map Mobility” by the end of this year, to create a service company with more than 200,000 drivers and 750,000 taxi users per month.
China’s Automatic Agricultural Equipment and System Sales Increased By 213% YoY in 1H 2020
From January to June 2020, China sold more than 11,700 sets of automatic agricultural machinery and systems, a year-on-year increase of 213 percent.
Jenson Huang’s Kitchen Keynote Outlines NVIDIA’s Vision for the ‘Age of AI’
The GTC kicked off with the release of nine Nvidia keynote video with major announcements in data centers, edge AI, collaboration tools and healthcare.
PyTorch / XLA Library Reaches General Availability on Google Cloud
It was announced yesterday in a PyTorch blog post that the PyTorch / XLA library, a package that enables PyTorch to connect to Google TPUs and use TPU cores as devices, is now generally available on Google Cloud, with support for a broad set of entry points for developers.
AI and Smart City Societies Signed MoU to Boost Innovations in Bahrain
A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Bahrain-based Artificial Intelligence Society and Bahrain Smart City Society to accelerate digital transformation in the country.
101 Telecom Operators Worldwide Have Launched 5G Commercial Services; 397 Are Investing
101 operators worldwide have launched one or more 5G commercial services that comply with 3GPP standards in 44 countries or regions.
Japan Builders and Tech Companies Ready to Launch Autonomous Ships by 2025
A consortium of 40 Japanese shipbuilders, shipping companies and tech firms have gathered to produce self-navigating shipping vessels.
Counterpoint: Average Global Price of Smartphones Have Risen by 10 Percent; China’s 5G Phone Shipments Have Increased Sharply
In the second quarter of 2020, increase of 5G phone shipments prompted the average selling price of global smartphone market to increase by 10 percent.
AI Is Making Robots More Fun
The market size of physical and interactive social and entertainment robots is expected to hit US$3.7 billion by 2023.
Insilico Releases Pandomics, AI-Powered Platform for Novel Therapeutic Target Discovery
A novel end-to-end AI-hypothesis generation engine that seamlessly interprets OMICS and text-based data for the discovery and analysis of novel therapeutic targets.
Microsoft Gets Exclusive License for OpenAI’s GPT-3 Language Model
Microsoft announced today that it has teamed up with OpenAI to exclusively license the AI research institute’s GPT-3 language model.
Beijing Officials Announce the City’s 5G Users Surpass 5 Million Benchmark
The Beijing Municipal Administration of Communications revealed that the number of 5G users in Beijing exceeded 5 million.
University of Toronto Spinoff Bridge7 Uses AI to Improve Cancer Treatment
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.
Cheetah Mobile Deploys 8,000 Shopping Mall Robots Boosting Offline Retail
Cheetah Mobile has successfully deployed 8,000 AiM Robots (AiM: Attract, interact and Mindset) in 962 shopping malls across 33cities in China.
Baidu World 2020 Conference Showcases AI for Autonomous Driving and Virtual Assistant
Chinese tech giant Baidu hosted Baidu World 2020 conference under the theme of “Intelligence of Everything”, unveiling new flagship products and AI upgrades.
Baidu Launches Smart Earbuds “XiaoduPods” and Announces DuerOS Upgrades
Chinese tech giant Baidu unveiled the latest version of conversational AI system DuerOS 6.0 and launched smart earbuds “XiaoduPods”, which fulfills more user needs including elderly care and smart hotel.
Insilico Medicine announces the launch of AI-powered COVIDomic to support COVID-19 research worldwide
Insilico Medicine announced the launch of a new system for COVID-19 basic and clinical research.
Preferred Networks and Mitsui Establish Joint Venture for Deep Learning-Based Subsurface Structure Analysis
Preferred Networks announced that PFN and Mitsui established a new joint venture Mit-PFN Energy to develop and commercialize a deep learning-based AI solution for subsurface structure analysis.
China’s Service Robot Market Accounts for More Than a Quarter of the Global Market, Expected to Exceed US$4 Billion in 2020
China’s service robot market is accounting for more than a quarter of the global market and is expected to exceed US$4 billion in 2020.
Beep! Beep! Baidu Apollo’s Unmanned Taxi Opens for Test Service in Beijing
Baidu Apollo announced the official operation of self-driving taxi service Apollo Go in Beijing.
Fujitsu and Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital Embark on Joint Research and Development of AI Technology to Support Diagnosis of COVID-19 Pneumonia
Fujitsu and Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital to develop an AI-based technology to facilitate the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia.
WeRide CEO Tony Han on Deloitte Podcast Discussing Economic and Social Benefit of Autonomous Driving
Deloitte has launched a brand-new podcast series Future of Mobility in 2020.
Nvidia Launches GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs: ‘a Giant Step Into the Future’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang today unveiled the company’s new GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs.
Tencent Cloud Releases New 5g Products; To Build 300 Edge-Computing Centres by the End of 2020
Tencent Cloud announced the company’s latest efforts in the new 5G infrastructure.
Swiss AI Air Purifier Aeris Secures US$3.3 Million Series A Funding
Swiss air purification systems manufacturer aeris completed its series A funding of US$ 3.3 million.
Tesla Video Data Processing Supercomputer ‘Dojo’ – Building a 4D System Aiming at L5 Self-Driving
Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla is recruiting AI or chip talents for the company’s neural network training supercomputer project “Dojo.”
Shenzhen Builds 46,480 5G Base Stations, Ranks 1st in the World
Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality announced that as of August 14, Shenzhen had built 46,480 5G base stations.
Elon Musk Seeks AI Talents for Video Data Processing Supercomputer “Dojo”
On August 15th, Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla is recruiting AI or chip talents for a neural network training computer project named “Dojo”.
KDD 2020 Honors Career Achievements in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
New Prizes Recognize Innovation, Service, Rising Stars and Enduring Research Papers Ahead of the 26th Annual Conference.
Huawei’s Wuhan Optics R&D Institute is Developing Cheap 100/200m LiDARs Cost Lower than US$100
Huawei’s Wuhan Research Institute has established a LiDAR research team aimed to produce 100m/200m ranging products at the cost of US$500 and lower.
UK Invests £200m in Public Sector AI Procurement Over the Next Four Years
The UK government is investing approximately £200m over the next four years in public sector AI procurement, which facilitates the purchase of a wide range of AI services from various suppliers.
AI-Powered Smart Cameras Help You Maintain a Long-Distance Relationship …With Your Pet
Thanks to the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and Internet of things (IoT) devices, many additional functions have been added to make the parent-pet connection stronger.
Preferred Networks Releases Optuna v2.0
Open-source library for machine learning now gives the ability to evaluate which hyperparameters most affect performance.
Trump Escalates His China Tech Ban from Tiktok to WeChat
US President Donald Trump released two executive orders to ban the Chinese messaging app WeChat.
Huawei: China to Have 800K 5G Base Stations by End of 2020
Huawei states that as of July this year, 92 5G commercial networks have been deployed worldwide and China owns the most 5G spectrum and physical sites.
Japan’s Toshiba Invests US$321 Million to Set Up New R&D Centre for AI
Japanese electronics giant Toshiba announced the investment of US$321 million to set up a new AI centre.
Google’s Head of Business EMEA joins French startup Outsight to make it a leader in Spatial Intelligence
Google’s Head of AI & IoT Strategic Business Development EMEA, has been appointed Chief Business Officer of Outsight.