AI Technology & Industry Review
On May 21, leading IoT cloud platform Tuya Smart hosted a panel to discuss resilience and innovation for the IoT industry in North America during COVID-19 outbreak.
Quicktron completed a new C+ financing round led by KION Group and Prosperity7 Ventures, and proceeds will be used for global market expansion and further technical development.
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI-powered efforts that contributed to the fight against COVID-19 in 2020.
NVIDIA, Mass General Brigham and 20 global hospitals launch federated learning initiative EXAM to build AI model for COVID-19 patient oxygen need prediction
The EU and Canada are collaborating to explore how to explicitly leverage artificial intelligence to help the international community respond to, and recover from, COVID-19.
Insilico Medicine announced the launch of a new system for COVID-19 basic and clinical research.
Fujitsu and Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital to develop an AI-based technology to facilitate the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia.
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.
Research institution Strategy Analytics predicts that the smart home market will resume in 2021 and consumer spending will increase to USD 62 billion.
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.
Rather than simply treating AI as a tool to be leveraged, this approach reimagines AI as a collaborator that learns from a developer’s needs and subsequently proposes multiple design approaches with different trade-offs in order to enable a rapid and iterative approach to model building.
23 respected machine learning researchers propose that personalized peer-to-peer contact tracing through mobile apps has the potential to shift the paradigm of Covid-19 community spread.
LinearDesign, an efficient algorithm for optimized mRNA sequence design.
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.
EMNLP 2020 will be held entirely online from November 16 to 18 due to the worldwide spread of COVID-19.
Researchers recently developed and open-sourced COVID-Net, a convolutional neural network for detecting COVID-19 through chest radiography.
Fei-Fei Li, Stanford computer science professor and co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI), shared her thoughts on possible AI technologies that could help care for the seniors during the coronavirus pandemic
Covid-Sanity, a web interface designed to navigate the flood of bioRxiv and medRxiv COVID-19 papers and make the research within more searchable and sortable.
Respected journal Science Magazine has published COVID-19 research that identifies the viral entry attachment stage for the new coronavirus.
Researchers looks at current studies that are using AI to tackle the COVID-19 crisis and suggests some promising future research directions.
Synced looked into smart solutions that could help keep kids engaged and entertained, and might even be educational.
In autonomous food and medicine delivery and beyond, the increasingly mature AI industry is actively engaged in countering the COVID-19 outbreak.
The new goal of the Folding@home project is modelling the structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to identify sites that can be targeted by a therapeutic antibody.
A research team has proposed non-contrast thoracic chest CT scans as an effective tool for detecting, quantifying, and tracking COVID-19.
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.
“In epidemiology analysis, the relationship between people in space and time is very important,” explains Bao Jie, head of the JD Group city data management platform, “and human activity trajectories are a typical form of spatiotemporal data.”
DeepMind released the structure predictions for six proteins associated with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, using the most up-to-date version of their AlphaFold system.
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.
Fast and accurate diagnosis is critical on the front line, and now an AI-powered diagnostic assessment system is helping Hubei medical teams do just that.