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Students pitch transformative ideas in generative AI at MIT Ignite competition

Twelve teams of students and postdocs across the MIT community presented innovative startup ideas with potential for real-world impact.

Gamifying medical data labeling to advance AI

MIT alumnus’ platform taps the wisdom of crowds to label medical data for AI companies.

Making property assessments as simple as snapping a picture

The technology of MIT alumni-founded Hosta a.i. creates detailed property assessments from photos.

Helping companies deploy AI models more responsibly

MIT spinout Verta offers tools to help companies introduce, monitor, and manage machine-learning models safely and at scale.

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 […]