Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Conversational AI startup Cognigy today announced that it closed a $44 million series B funding round led by Insight Partners, which brings the company’s total raised to over $50 million to date. Cofounder and CEO Philipp Heltewig says that the proceeds will be put toward […]
Baidu debuts updated AI framework and R&D initiative
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. At its bi-annual deep learning conference, Wave Summit, Baidu announced version 2.1 of PaddlePaddle, the company’s framework for AI and machine learning model development. Among the highlights are a large-scale graph query engine, four pretrained models, and PaddleFlow, a cloud-based suite of machine learning developer […]
LCS Names ESPAT AI Official Photo Distribution Partner – The Esports Observer
Riot Games will announce Wednesday that the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) has partnered with gaming and esports digital media licensing platform ESPAT AI. Financial terms of this multi-year partnership were not disclosed. Under the terms of this new partnership, ESPAT AI will serve as the official photo distribution partner for the LCS starting […]
AI, cyber terrain analytics improve hybrid multicloud security
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Typical hybrid cloud IT integration strategies have fundamental design flaws that CIOs and CISOs need to address if they’re going to avert another attack on the scale of SolarWinds. The design flaws are evident in existing approaches to integrating public and private clouds with legacy […]
Adapdix adds adaptive AI tool EdgeOps DataMesh for process optimization
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Adapdix on Thursday unveiled EdgeOps DataMesh, adaptive AI software that ingests, pre-processes and performs AI-driven analysis of data at the network edge to make automated, real time manufacturing process improvements. DataMesh is intended to be especially useful in large-scale manufacturing. A pair of leading semiconductor […]
AI Redefined commits to better training models under new CEO
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. AI Redefined (AIR) is the developer behind an open source Cogment framework that makes it simpler for humans to train virtual agents created using AI models. Today the startup named G. Craig Vachon to be its CEO in place of Dorien […]
Yelp built an AI system to identify spam and inappropriate photos
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Malicious actors are constantly finding ways to circumvent platforms’ policies and game their systems — and 2020 was no exception. According to online harassment tracker L1ght, in the first few weeks of the pandemic, there was a 40% increase in toxicity […]
Alkymi Patterns tool uses AI to extract data from documents
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Alkymi, a provider of business intelligence software for enterprises, today announced the launch of Alkymi Patterns, a tool designed to identify and extract data for automating backend processes that run on email and documents. The release comes as Alkymi’s revenue growth […]
How Intel is leveraging AI to drive sales
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. The pandemic greatly accelerated businesses’ digital transformation efforts. This is particularly true in the marketing domain, where enterprises began to embrace automation and enablement technologies. When McKinsey surveyed 1,500 executives across industries and regions in 2018, 66% said addressing skills gaps […]
The AI arms race has us on the road to Armageddon
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. It’s now a given that countries worldwide are battling for AI supremacy. To date, most of the public discussion surrounding this competition has focused on commercial gains flowing from the technology. But the AI arms race for military applications is racing […]