AI Conversation Intelligence Platform Chorus.ai Acquired by ZoomInfo for $575M
Marketing software vendor ZoomInfo is expanding its go-to-market services to enterprises by acquiring Chorus.ai, which uses AI to capture data insights from phone calls, video meetings, sales meetings, emails ...Full Article
Computer Vision Software Startup Algolux Brings In $18.4M in Series B Funding
Algolux, a computer vision startup that builds software for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and for autonomous vehicles, has secured $18.4 million in new Series B funding from a ...Full Article
New $35M AI Research Center at Indiana University Created to Grow AI Education
With the use of AI exploding in business, healthcare, research and other fields, Indiana University is opening a new $35 million AI center that aims to train more students ...Full Article
Is Reinforcement Learning Right for Your AI Problem?
In the world of machine learning, reinforcement learning is an important sub-category of deep learning. In deep learning the human brain is mimicked through a hierarchical structure of human-made, ...Full Article
AI Career Notes: July 2021 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades: Jim Anderson Altair, ...Full Article
AI Funding Roundup: Smaller AI Startups Continue to Steadily Bring in New Cash for Growth
When it comes to funding rounds for AI startups so far in 2021, there have been some sizable investments made. Scale AI brought in a $325 million Series E ...Full Article
Better, More Efficient Neural Inferencing Means Embracing Change
Artificial intelligence is running into some age-old engineering tradeoffs. For example, increasing the accuracy of neural networks typically means increasing the size of the networks. That requires more compute ...Full Article
WHO Releases Its First-Ever Report Offering Guiding Principles for AI Use in Healthcare
Fueled by ethics and privacy concerns about the use of AI in healthcare, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a report calling for the use of six “guiding ...Full Article
With Approvals in from the EC and the UK, AMD’s $35B Acquisition of Xilinx Now up to China
AMD’s planned acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx is now in the hands of Chinese regulators after needed antitrust approvals for the $35 billion deal were received from the European ...Full Article
Latest MLPerf Results See Intel, Graphcore, Google Increase Their Presence Behind Nvidia
While Nvidia again dominated the latest round of MLPerf training benchmark results, the range of participants has expanded. Yes, Google’s forthcoming TPU v4 performed well, but competitors also shined. ...Full Article
