2020 in Review With Tatsuya Nagata
Synced has invited Mr. Tatsuya Nagata, the COO of Navier Inc., to share his insights about the current development and future trends of artificial intelligence.
Tag: Industry
Alphabet Pledges to Keep Funding AI Subsidiary DeepMind, Which Has Reported GBP 477 Million Loss in 2019
DeepMind, the UK-based AI arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has lost GBP 477 million in 2019 which is 1.5 percent increase from one year prior.
MIIT: China’s Industrial Robot Output in October Increased 38.5 Percent YoY
According to official statistics released by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), from January to October 2020, the nationwide industrial robots production grew to 183,447 units
Tesla Puts Additional USD 6.3 Million in New Factory; Builds New R&D Center in Shanghai
Tesla confirmed to invest an additional USD 6.3 million in Shanghai to build a supercharging pile factory.
World’s First Smart Freight Air Rail to Land in China’s Qingdao Port
The Qingdao Port and Wuhan CRRC Yangtze Group held a signing ceremony for the port’s new intelligent air rail.
AI Patent Application Exceeds 30,000 and 180 Universities Add AI Majors in China Last Year
Among the top 100 highly cited AI papers in the past five years, China’s output accounted for 21 and rank second globally.
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
AMD Announces US$35 Billion Acquisition of Xilinx
AMD announced the formal acquisition of Xilinx in an all-stock transaction worth US$35 billion.
Saudi Arabia’s National AI Center NCAI Cooperates with Huawei to Develop AI
The National Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) of Saudi Arabia announced a strategic partnership with Huawei on the national AI capability development.
New Report Number Shows AI Patent Applications in China Exceeded 30,000 in 2019
Report showed that China published 28,700 AI scientific papers in 2019, an increase of 12.4 percent over the previous year, and its activity in top international conferences in the field of artificial intelligence And the influence continues to increase.
Shanghai Aims to Develop AI Industry Clusters and Spearheads Measures in Lingang Free-Trade Zones
The Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology and Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau launched special funds to focus on developing integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine industry clusters.
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”
Huawei Has Invested US$500 Million in Car Business Units in 2020 and Builds for Smart Electric Vehicles
Huawei’s chairman Xu Zhijun disclosed that the company has invested US$500 million in the smart car solution business unit this year, and has not yet considered about short-term profits.
Polish Mobile Robot Startup VersaBox Receives Euro 2.5 Million
Warsaw-based robotics startup VersaBox received €2.5 million from VC funds EVC, SpeedUp Energy Innovation, Movens Capital, and RST Ventures for Earth.
“Top 500 Chinese Enterprises” Report: Baidu, Huawei and NetEase Rank Top Three in R&D
In 2020, the average R&D intensity of the top 500 Chinese companies has increased for three consecutive years and bounced back to the highest level in history.
US and UK to Forge Partnership in Artificial Intelligence
The Trump administration will announce partnership with the UK on research and development of AI, including issues of explainability and fairness.
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.
Ex-Uber AI Chief Scientist Zoubin Ghahramani Joins Google Brain Leadership Team
Former Uber Chief Scientist and VP for AI Zoubin Ghahramani has joined Google Research as part of the Google Brain team leadership.
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.
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.
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.
Asia China Computer Vision & Graphics Health Machine Learning & Data Science Research Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology
About Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
SIAT aims to enhance the innovative capacity of the equipment manufacturing and service industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong region, promote the development of emerging industries possessing their own proprietary intellectual property, and become a world-class industrial research institute.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft Will Divest XiaoIce as an Independent Business
Microsoft today announced it will divest its XiaoIce business into an independent company, with Harry Shum appointed as the Chairman of the board.
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.
Top US AI Research Institutes and Tech Companies Support National AI Research Cloud
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.
Yann LeCun Quits Twitter Amid Acrimonious Exchanges on AI Bias
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.
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.
AI Startup Covariant.ai Building ‘Universal AI for Robots’
Covariant last month secured a US$40 million Series B funding round led by Index Ventures to push its total funding to US$67 million.
AI Offers Video Game Design Possibilities Far Beyond Virtual Reality
Advanced computer vision technology is supercharging virtual and augmented reality, one of the latest milestones in video game design.
Alibaba Launches Intelligent Search Business Department on Quark as Chinese Tech Giants Compete in the Search Space
Alibaba today announced the establishment of an Intelligent Search Business Department under the Alibaba Innovation Business Group.
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.
Former Microsoft AI Head Harry Shum Joins Intelligent Local News Startup News Break as Chairman
Former Microsoft executive vice president of Artificial Intelligence and Research Harry Shum (Shen Xiangyang) has been appointed chairman of the board of the Silicon Valley startup News Break.
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.