Bits and Bytes

Thin on details but an interesting use case example, this blog post focuses on Google’s use of new machine learning models for identifying violent or hateful language in app store submissions and then flagging them for human review.

NVIDIA’s latest and greatest Tesla V100 GPUs are now available in the IBM Cloud, one of the top three public clouds by revenue. Customers can equip bare-metal cloud servers with up to two of them.

According to the company’s chairman, their ambition is to become a “global innovative AI platform rather than just a manufacturing company.” They plan to start by hiring a bunch of “top AI experts” globally, and tons of AI developers and engineers, so if you’re job hunting…

Sophos, a firm known for their network and endpoint security products, is highlighting the addition of deep learning models to their new malware detection product, promising both high accuracy and lower false positives for both existing and zero-day malware.

New research by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and University of Texas at Austin focused on a new algorithm called Deep TAMER, which uses imitation learning and human feedback to teach robots how to perform tasks.

Dollars and Sense

Downstream.ai raises $1.5 million for AI-driven programmatic ad platform
Aquabyte, a SF based startup using computer vision techniques to optimize fish farming efficiency, raises $3.5M in Seed Funding
Lightelligence, a Boston-based startup, received $10 million in seed funding for new AI acceleration hardware based on photonics.
Andrew Ng formally announced his $175 million fund for AI startups
Conversica acquires Intelligens.ai to teach its sales chatbots to speak Spanish
Mezi, virtual travel assistant, acquired by American Express