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Bits & Bytes Microsoft leads the AI patent race. As per EconSight research findings, Microsoft leads the AI patent race going into 2019 with 697 patents that the firm classifies as having a significant competitive impact as of November 2018. Out of the top 30 companies and research institutions as defined by EconSight in their recent analysis, Microsoft has created 20% of all patents in the global group of patent-producing companies and institutions. AI hides data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task. Research from Stanford and Google found that the ML agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be hiding information it would need later. Tech Mahindra launches GAiA for enterprises. GAiA is the first commercial version of the open source Acumos platform, explored in detail in my conversation with project sponsor Mazin Gilbert about a year ago. Taiwan AI Labs and Microsoft launch AI platform to facilitate genetic analysis. The new AI platform “TaiGenomics” utilizes AI techniques to process, analyze, and draw inferences from vast amounts of medical and genetic data provided by patients and hospitals. Google to open AI lab in Princeton. The AI lab will comprise a mix of faculty members and students. Elad Hazan and Yoram Singer, who both work at Google and Princeton and are co-developers of the AdaGrad algorithm, will lead the lab. The focus of the group is developing efficient methods for faster training. IBM designs AI-enabled fingernail sensor to track diseases. This tiny, wearable fingernail sensor can track disease progression and share details on medication effectiveness for Parkinson’s disease and cardiovascular health. ZestFinance and Microsoft collaborate on AI solution for credit underwriting. Financial institutions will be able to use the Zest Automated Machine Learning (ZAML) tools to build, deploy, and monitor credit models using the Microsoft Azure cloud and ML Server. Dollars & Sense Swiss startup  Sophia Genetics raises $77M to expand its AI diagnostic platform Baraja, LiDAR start-up, has raised $32M in a series A round of funding Semiconductor firm QuickLogic announced that it has acquired SensiML, a specialist in ML for IoT applications Donnelley Financial Solutions announced the acquisition of eBrevia, a provider of AI-based data extraction and contract analytics software solutions Graphcore, a UK-based AI chipmaker, has secured $200M in funding, investors include BMW Ventures and Microsoft Dataiku Inc, offering an enterprise data science and ML platform, has raised $101M in Series C funding Ada, a Toronto-based co focused on automating customer service, has raised $19M in funding To receive the Bits & Bytes to your inbox, subscribe to our Newsletter.
Bits & Bytes Diffbot launches knowledge graph as-a-service. The startup, whose roots are in web scraping, applied machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing to create a database of ‘all the knowledge of the Web,’ spanning over 10 billion entities and 1 trillion facts. Automatic transliteration helps Alexa find data across language barriers. Amazon researchers have developed a multilingual “named-entity transliteration system” to help Alexa overcome language barriers in multilingual environment. Oracle open sources GraphPipe for model deployment. Though Oracle has a strained relationship with open source, they recently released a new open source tool called GraphPipe, designed to simplify and standardize the deployment of machine learning models. Google turns datacenter cooling controls over to AI. Google was already using AI to optimize data center energy efficiency. Now they’ve handed over complete control of data center cooling to AI. Instead of humans implementing AI-generated recommendations, the system is now directly controlling data center cooling. IBM researchers propose ‘factsheets’ for AI transparency. Expanding on ideas like the Datasheets for Datasets paper I discussed previously, an IBM Research team has suggested a factsheet based approach for AI developers to ensure transparency. Facebook and NYU researchers speed up MRI scans with AI. Facebook announced the fastMRI project, in collaboration with NYU, which aims to apply AI to accelerate MRI scans by up to 10 times. Google releases Dopamine reinforcement learning research framework. Google announced the new TensorFlow-based framework, which aims to provide flexibility, stability, and reproducibility for new and experienced RL researchers. Baidu launches EZDL, a coding-free deep learning platform. Chinese firm Baidu EZDL, an online tool enabling anyone to build, design, and deploy models without writing code. Dollars & Sense Canvass Analytics, a Toronto-based provider of AI-enabled predictive analytics for IIOT, raised $5M in funding. Cloudalize, a cloud platform for running GPU-accelerated applications, has secured a €5 million funding round. Intel announced that it is buying Vertex.ai, a startup developing a platform-agnostic model suite, for an undisclosed amount. Zscaler, announced that it has acquired AI and ML technology and the development team of stealth security startup TrustPath. New Knowledge, an Austin-based cybersecurity company that protects corporations from covert, coordinated disinformation campaigns, raised $11M in Series A funding. Phrasee, a London based marketing technology company that uses AI to generate optimized marketing copy, closed a $4m Series A funding round. Sign up for our Newsletter to receive the Bits & Bytes weekly to your inbox.
Bits & Bytes Google AI to predict heart disease with eye scans. The tech is being developed by Google’s health subsidiary Verily. It works by scanning the back of a patient’s eye, it then uses that image to deduce patient age, blood pressure, smoking status, and their risk of heart attack. It’s still in its early stages, though, and is not ready for clinical use. Google debuts ‘auto ads’ for intelligently ad placement. While Google has long used machine learning to determine the best ads to show on a web page, this new feature reads the target page and selects the best ad placement on the page. Google claims that participating publishers saw ad revenue increases of 10-15%, however, some beta users were not happy about the number of ads being placed on their pages. IBM partners with game dev platform Unity to create IBM Watson Unity SDK. I’ve had my eye on Unity since my interview with Danny Lange, their VP for ML and AI. The new SDK is being launchedon the Unity Asset Store and will allow developers to integrate visual recognition, speech text, and language classification features into their games and AR/VR applications more easily. Qualcomm adds AI engine to Snapdragon mobile platform. The Qualcomm AI Engine consists of software, hardware and APIs meant to support efficient neural network inference on client devicesrunning Snapdragon processors. Accenture launches AI testing service. Accenture’s taking a “Teach and Test” approach to the service, with the former focused on the choice of data, models, and algorithms used to train ML models, and the latter on up-front and ongoing evaluation of model performance, explainability and bias. MindBridge adds NLP to its AI-powered auditing software. The update allows audit professionals to naturally ask query transactional data and gain insight into potential errors and risky transactions. Dollars & Sense Vectra, a cybersecurity startup, raises $36M for global expansion of its AI-Based Security Platform SparkCognition, an AI solutions startup, raises $56.5 million Series B For International Expansion StatusToday, an employee productivity startup, raises $3.91 million to improve employee productivity with AI Prophesee, a machine vision startup, raises $19 million for its machine vision technology Agent IQ, an AI customer service bot startup, raises $6.3M Benevolentai acquires Cambridge research facility to accelerate AI-enabled drug development Sign up for our Newsletter to receive the Bits & Bytes weekly to your inbox.