Chinese AI Startup SenseTime considers IPO on STAR Market
Chinese AI start-up SenseTime is considering IPO on Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market.
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China’s Semiconductor Boom: 72 chip companies receive CN ¥26.7 billion in 2020
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.
Alibaba and Accenture Report Share Insights on Post-COVID AI Development in China
On July 27, 2020, Alibaba Cloud Research Center and Accenture jointly launched the “The Penetrative and Explosive Power of AI Dividend” white paper, as part of the “China Enterprise 2020” series report.
Chinese Search Specialist Sogou Receives Tencent Buyout Offer
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 State Suspends AI Facial Recognition in Schools
New York will suspend implementation of AI facial recognition technology in schools for two years on Wednesday.
U of Florida Receives Us $50 Million From Nvidia to Build a 700-Petaflops AI Supercomputer
The University of Florida (UF) and Nvidia University announced on Tuesday the plan to build the world’s fastest AI supercomputer in academia, providing 700 petaflops of AI performance.
Nvidia May Be Interested in Acquiring ARM from Softbank, Apple Declined the Offer to Bid
According to Bloomberg, Nvidia is eyeing the possibility of acquiring Arm, the chip design subsidiary of Japan’s Softbank Group.
India | Sundar Pichai: Google Invests USD 10 Billion in India’s Digital Transformation
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the set up of a 10 billion dollar “Google for India Digitization Fund” to help accelerate India’s digital economy.
Korea | South Korea Introduces AI to Facilitate Post-Car Accident Insurance Claims
South Korea government plans to introduce AI car insurance services next year to speed up post-accident handling.
UAE | Taxi Drivers in Dubai to Get AI Supervisors to Check on Professional Conduct
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is implementing AI technologies to monitor the service provided by taxi drivers.
Post-COVID Smart Home Market Anticipated to Rebound and Size-Up to USD 88 Billion by 2025
Research institution Strategy Analytics predicts that the smart home market will resume in 2021 and consumer spending will increase to USD 62 billion.
$4 Billion of Google’s New India Tech Fund Goes to Telecom Company Jio
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.
TuSimple Partners with Navistar to Mass Produce L4 Driverless Trucks by 2024
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.
Another Tesla Autopilot Crush; Companies like Intel Mobileye, AutoX, and Plus.ai Make Further Moves in Self-Driving Cars
News report that a Tesla Model S crashed into Arizona Department of Public Safety police vehicle on Tuesday in California.
Google releases 2020 academic indicators; CVPR rank first among AI academic conferences
Google officially released the 2020 Scholar Metrics list.
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.
ICML 2020 Announces Test of Time Award
Organizers of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) have announced this year’s Test of Time award, which goes to a team from the California Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Saarland University.
Yoshua Bengio Elected Royal Society Fellow
The Royal Society announced that Turing Award winner and director of MILA Yoshua Bengio has been elected as one of its new Fellows and Foreign Members.
SIGKDD Community Impact Program Opens Call for Proposals
SIGKDD is announcing a funding opportunity through its Community Impact Program.
Algorithms, Islands & Nook Miles: AI Workshop Will Be Held in ‘Animal Crossing’
Yesterday in the r/MachineLearning subreddit, a lighthearted announcement appeared from the “Animal Crossing Artificial Intelligence Workshop (ACAI)”calling for abstracts.
YOLO Is Back! Version 4 Boasts Improved Speed and Accuracy
YOLOv4 is twice as fast as EfficientDet with comparable performance.
PyTorch 1.5 Released: New APIs, Updated C++ Frontend and More
The PyTorch Team yesterday announced the release of PyTorch 1.5, along with new and updated libraries.
IJCAI – PRICAI 2020 | Papers Announced; Record Low 12.6% Acceptance Rate
The accepted papers have been announced for IJCAI – PRICAI 2020.
WFH Parents: Here’s an AI Toybox for Your Kids!
Synced looked into smart solutions that could help keep kids engaged and entertained, and might even be educational.
White House & Partners Launch COVID-19 AI Open Research Dataset Challenge on Kaggle
The White House on Monday joined a number of research groups to announce the release of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) of scholarly literature about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the Coronavirus group.
Deep Learning Pioneers Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio Elected as AAAI-20 Fellows
The AAAI has announced the election of ten AAAI 2020 Fellows — including AI pioneers and 2018 Turing Award Winners Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio.
CAH Black Friday AI Challenge; AI-Generated Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes; Go Master Lee Sedol Retires Because AI
Synced Global AI Weekly December 1st
Training SOTA Language Models With Three Lines of Code
Hugging Face, a startup specializing in natural language processing, today released a landmark update to their popular Transformers library, offering unprecedented compatibility between two major deep learning frameworks, PyTorch and TensorFlow 2.0.
Huawei Flexes AI Muscle With New Mate 30 Gesture Control and Smart Rotation
Chinese tech giant Huawei yesterday introduced the latest iteration of its flagship smartphone: Mate 30, Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30 Pro (5G).
China Prohibits ‘Deepfake’ AI Face Swapping Techniques
China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress has amended its Civil Code Personality Rights (Draft) to stipulate that no organization or individual may infringe the portrait rights of others by means of digital technology forgery.
Beep! Beep! Huawei Gets Into Car Systems
At the Auto Shanghai 2019 Key Tech Forum yesterday Huawei Rotating Chairman Eric Xu unveiled the company’s plan to provide information and communication technology (ICT) to OEMs to help them build better vehicles.
ReWork Deep Learning in Finance Summit
The recent ReWork Deep Learning in Finance Summit in London, UK, featured 46 top scientists and professors from world-leading institutions, who presented their research progress and provided a glimpse into emerging trends in the field of artificial intelligence and fin tech.
Google Cloud Next | New Hybrid Cloud ‘Anthos,’ Partnerships, Data Centres
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have become powerful tools for tech giants looking to build the optimal cloud service platform. To catch up with rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, Google is accelerating the development of its own cloud services.
AI Fools’ Day: Tech Giants’ Top Pranks
Today is April Fool’s Day, and despite Microsoft’s efforts to ban such pranks, many tech companies could not resist joining in the centuries-old spoofing tradition. However, given the already incredible achievements of cutting-edge AI technologies, some of today’s hoaxes actually look pretty convincing.
Let Boston Dynamics ‘Handle’ That Package
In a scene that looks like it’s from a sci-fi movie, a YouTube video posted today by robotics company Boston Dynamics shows a huge, ostrich-like robot “Handle” whirling round while deftly moving boxes in a warehouse. The video has garnered over 138,000 views in less than four hours.
Hinton, LeCun & Bengio Named 2018 ACM Turing Award Laureates
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) this morning announced Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio as its 2018 Turing Award winners.
Preferred Networks Builds State-Of-The-Art Supercomputer Mn-2 Powered With Nvidia GPUs
Preferred Networks (PFN) is completing a new private supercomputer, MN-2, which the Japanese AI startup expects to have operational in July 2019.
Stanford University Launches ‘Human-Centered’ AI Institute Led by John Etchemendy & Fei-Fei Li
Last October Stanford University announced plans to create an institute built for artificial intelligence research and development. Today, the school made good on its pledge, launching the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI) with a mission “to advance AI research, education, policy, and practice to improve the human condition.”
Google Debuts TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha
TensorFlow is the world’s most popular open source machine learning library. Since its initial release in 2015, the Google Brain product has been downloaded over 41 million times. At this week’s 2019 TensorFlow Dev Summit, Google announced a major upgrade on the framework, the TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha version.
New Funding Pushes Chinese AI Chipmaker Horizon Robotics’ Valuation to $3Bn
Beijing-based AI chip startup Horizon Robotics today announced a staggering US$600 million in Series B funding led by South Korea conglomerate SK Group. The investment brings Horizon’s value to an estimated US$3 billion, making it the world’s highest-valued AI chip startup.