Special shout out this week to David Vandegrift and Ablorde Ashigbi of 4Degrees, who officially announced their $1mm pre-seed funding round. Very proud of the team they’ve assembled and overall progress of the company. In general, there was a ton of fundraising news in AI this week. Highlights include Sensetime’s $620mm follow on round, Softbank’s… Read More »
Recapping the week of May 21st-27th. This week’s post to follow soon. Big highlights from last week include Sensetime’s partnership to invest in AI startups in Hong Kong, Microsoft developing a tool to “detect biased algorithms” and congress diving into recent use cases of facial recognition. Company developments: Mobvoi Releases 4 New AI-Powered Wearable &… Read More »
Busy week in many different areas of the AI world. Highlights include Google hosting their annual I/O festival for developers, and the White House finally taking concrete steps to foster AI collaboration between the private sector and government by hosting an AI summit. Meanwhile, on the autonomous vehicle front, Drive.AI announced a ride-haling services pilot program… Read More »
Another busy week per usual. Highlights include SenseTime’s insane $600mm Series C round. They’re now the world’s most valuable AI startup. Company developments: Veteran Global AI Leader Dongyan Wang Joins DeepBrain Chain as Chief AI Officer, Executive VP of Silicon Valley Research Center – Apr. 13, 2018 (satPRnews) DeepBrain Chain (www.deepbrainchain.org), the world’s first Artificial… Read More »
Arguably the biggest week in AI this year in terms of new developments. Not all developments are positive and rosy though. This week we witnessed the tragic and unfortunate death of Elaine Herzberg, who was struck by one of Uber’s autonomous vehicles in Arizona. While I’m a strong proponent of autonomous vehicles, especially given the… Read More »