Bits & Bytes
Executive change at Google Cloud AI.
- Google Cloud AI head Dr. Fei-Fei Li has left the organization and will be returning to her professorship at Stanford. Dr. Andrew Moore, Dean of the School of Computer Science at CMU, will replace her by year end.
Cisco unveils server for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
- Cisco has launched new servers aimed at speeding up deep learning workloads.
Facebook’s ‘Rosetta’ can extract text from a billion images daily.
- Facebook has developed a machine learning system called Rosetta for contextual extraction of text in images. The system supports image search and will also help Facebook identify inappropriate or harmful content.
NVIDIA launches new data center inference.
- NVIDIA launched “TensorRT Hyperscale” offering inference acceleration for voice, video, image and recommendation services. The new platform features NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs based on the Turing architecture.
Facebook developed an AI-based debugging tool.
- The tool, called “SapFix,” aims to help programmers by finding and fixing software bugs automatically.
Google open sources ‘What-If Tool’ for code-free ML Experiments.
- Google’s AI research team has developed What-If Tool, a new TensorBoard feature allowing users to analyze an ML model without writing code. The tool offers a visual interface for exploring different model results.
Dollars & Sense
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Syllable.ai, which offers a healthcare chat platform, raises $13.7M
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Integrate.ai, a Toronto-based AI software company, secures $30 million in Series A funding
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Microsoft announced the acquisition of San Francisco based Lobe, whose slick demo of code-free deep learning swept the Twitters a few months ago
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Deloitte announced its acquisition of Magnetic Media Online‘s artificial intelligence platform business. Magnetic is a marketing technology company headquartered in New York City
