Chinese AI Chip Maker Cambricon Share Price Surges 350% on IPO Debut, Raising US $369 million
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.
Category: Industrial AI
Insilico Medicine Announces the Spin-Off of Deep Longevity
Insilico Medicine announced a spin-off of its aging biomarker and deep aging clock business.
Will Artificial Brain Synapses & Neuromorphic Computing Open the Next AI Hardware Frontier?
There are one trillion synapses in a cubic centimeter of the brain. If there is such a thing as General AI, it would probably require one trillion synapses.
Semantic Segmentation Boosts Kiwifruit-Harvesting Robot Performance
Facing a shortage of seasonal workers and rising labour costs, kiwifruit growers may get some relief from robots equipped with a new AI-powered fruit detection system.
Is Your Business Ready for the ‘Second Wave’? Lessons from the Chinese AI Industry’s Fight Against COVID-19
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.
How About Letting AI Take Care of Weather Forecasting?
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.
Microsoft Build 2020 | World Top-5 Supercomputer With OpenAI, Microsoft Turing Models, Responsible ML Capabilities in AI Systems
The 48-hour digital event kicked off yesterday, and the company wasted no time making impactful announcements that included a new supercomputer, a family of large AI models, and a Responsible ML on Microsoft Azure initiative.
How AI Is Transforming Financial Reimbursement
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are now widely used in tasks such as reimbursement specifications, automated financial statement generation, and content extraction.
Jensen Huang Serves Up the A100: NVIDIA’s Hot New Ampere Data Centre GPU
The A100 represents the largest leap in performance across the company’s eight GPU generations - a boost of up to 20x over its predecessors.
Landing AI ‘Social Distancing Detector’ Monitors Workplaces
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.
AI-Powered Digital People
Synced has identified some interesting AI-powered virtual humans to introduce to our readers.
Physical Distancing Boosts AI-Powered Online Education in China
Many artificial intelligent education institutions are offering free online courses and accounts to students.
100M Masks/Day: Automated Production Lines Work Overtime to Stop COVID-19 Spread
Pushed by the coronavirus outbreak, in early March 2020 China’s face mask production hit 110 percent capacity, with daily output exceeding 100 million masks according to state agency statistics.
Volunteer Drone Teams Organize for COVID-19 Disinfection
Total disinfection coverage of DJI agricultural drones exceeds 600 million square meters across more than 1,000 villages.
IBM and China’s Digital Bank WeBank Jointly Held Workshop on Federated Learning
IBM and China’s leading digital bank WeBank jointly organized “Workshop on Federated Learning and Analytics (FL-IBM’20)” at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Robot Arms Selling Huawei Phones in New Unmanned Store
In a scene that looks like it came from a science fiction movie, a pair of robot arms twist and turn overhead as they serve shoppers in Huawei’s new SOTA staffless Wuhan Optics Valley retail outlet.
China’s Financial Services Industry Is Banking on AI
The banking industry was the biggest investor in AI-related applications, accounting for 70 percent of all market purchases.