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Startup: AssemblyAI Represents New Generation Speech Recognition
By AI Trends Staff Advances in the AI behind speech recognition are driving growth in the market, attracting venture capital and funding startups, posing challenges to established players. The growing acceptance and use of speech recognition devices are driving the market, which according to an estimate by Meticulous Research is expected to reach $26.8 billion […]
Executive Interview: Navid Alipour, co-founder Analytics Ventures
From a beachhead in healthcare, firm aims to apply its venture studio model and own pool of data scientists to more industries Navid Alipour is co-founder and managing partner at Analytics Ventures, a global venture studio providing end to end infrastructure and to plan, form, launch, fund, and validate brand new ventures in Artificial Intelligence. […]
How SparkBeyond Is Using AI To Ask The Right Questions
By Benjamin Ross Six years ago, Sagie Davidovich and Ron Karidi wanted to see if they could find a way to harness all of humanity’s collective intelligence using artificial intelligence (AI). Now, their co-founded startup, SparkBeyond, is making waves in AI, using their platform to ask the questions about data we’ve never thought of asking […]
Entrepreneurs Taking on Bias in Artificial Intelligence
Whether it’s a navigation app such as Waze, a music recommendation service such as Pandora or a digital assistant such as Siri, odds are you’ve used artificial intelligence in your everyday life. “Today 85 percent of Americans use AI every day,” says Tess Posner, CEO of AI4ALL. AI has also been touted as the new must-have […]
AI in Edmonton: Home to Reinforcement Learning
Edmonton, Home to Reinforcement Learning, now a Foundation of AI, is Retaining AI Talent, Attracting Investment Including DeepMind The capital of Edmonton in the Canadian province of Alberta, like its counterparts in Toronto and Montreal, has a number of strengths in AI research that are attracting engineering talent and private investors. These include: — The […]
Montreal-Toronto AI Startups Have Wide Range of Focus
Includes Healthcare, Biomed, Text Analysis, Legal Research, Image Analysis, Drug Discovery, Education Canada has made a commitment for many years to the study of AI at universities across the county, and today robust business incubation programs supported by Canada’s state and regional governments work to transform research into viable businesses. This AI ecosystem has produced […]
With its Academics, Culture of Collaboration, Access to Capital, Concern with Social Impact, Montreal Poised to be AI Startup Hotbed
With its confluence of academics, international accessibility, culture of collaboration, many startups and access to capital, Montreal may be poised to become the next Silicon Valley. This might be especially true given the current America political climate hostile to the international cooperation on which research institutions and technology companies thrive. Montreal is benefitting today from […]
Successful AI Companies Build Insurmountable Leads Using Data Strategy
The most recent issue of MIT Technology Review shows their annual list of 35 Innovators Under 35. Of these, 15 are AI-based – 43%. Another 3 are in Computational Synthetic Biology that depends on deep learning. Similarly the website Angel.co which tracks the formation and investment in startups shows about 6,800 companies specifically relating to AI. That’s probably understated. […]
Opinion: Data is Holding Back AI
By Sultan Meghji, Founder & Managing Director at Virtova I remember grumbling, “Good lord this is a waste of time,” in 1992 while I was working on an AI application for lip-reading. The grumble escaped my lips because I felt like I was spending half my time inputting data cleanly into the video processing neural […]