Bits and Bytes
Forgive the Facebook news bias here. There were a few interesting announcements from their F8 developer conference last week.
Google’s Kubeflow brings machine learning support to Kubernetes.
- The open-source Kubeflow project for Kubernetes’, Google’s open-source container-orchestration system, has actually been around for a few months now and has seen strong interest in the open-source community. With the release of Kubeflow 0.1 it’s now a more robust option for building ML stacks on Kubernetes.
Intel rolls out AI Builders Program for Enterprise AI partners.
- The program provides its members with resources to help bring their solutions to market on Intel AI technologies. These resources include technical enablement, marketing assistance, and in some cases investment.
Facebook adds AI labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh.
- They’ve hired researchers from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon, causing some to worry that the AI talent shortage will ultimately be worsened by large companies poaching AI faculty.
Facebook forms a special ethics team to prevent bias.
- The team spearheads a software system called Fairness Flow that is to help monitor implicit bias that might be unintentionally baked into production AI systems.
Facebook announces PyTorch 1.0, a more unified AI framework.
- PyTorch 1.0 combines, Caffe2’s production-oriented capabilities and PyTorch’s flexible research-focused design to provide an easier process for deploying of AI systems. Other companies have been quick to announce their compatibilities with the newly released software, like Microsoft and Google.
Facebook Open Sources ELF OpenGo.
- Their AI bot, which is based on PyTorch and their ELF reinforcement learning platform, has successfully defeated 14 professional Go players as well as the strongest publicly available Go bot, LeelaZero. Facebook will be making both the trained model and the code used to create it open to the public.
Dollars & Sense
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Suki, a startup creating a voice assistant for doctors, raises $20M
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Algolux Inc., a provider of machine-learning stacks for autonomous vision and imaging, raises $10M
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Passage AI, a provider of AI-powered conversational interfaces, raises$7.3 million
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MindBridge Analytics, a startup offering a FinTech autonomous auditing system, raises $8.4 Million
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BenchSci, a search engine to help researchers find antibody usage data, raises $10 million
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Synyi, a Chinese AI Medical Data startup, raises $15.7 million
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SoundHound, a competitor to Alexa and Google Assistant, raises$100M
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Humu, a behavioral-change software company, raises $30m
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Cisco to acquire Accompany, a company providing an AI-driven relationship intelligence platform for sales
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ServiceNow acquires Parlo, an artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language understanding (NLU) workforce solution
