According to a recent press release, “NVIDIA today introduced NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin™, a highly advanced software-defined platform for autonomous vehicles and robots. The platform is powered by a new system-on-a-chip (SoC) called Orin, which consists of 17 billion transistors and is the result of four years of R&D investment. The Orin SoC integrates NVIDIA’s […]
Intel Acquires Artificial Intelligence Chipmaker Habana Labs
A recent press release reports, “Intel Corporation today announced that it has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center for approximately $2 billion. The combination strengthens Intel’s artificial intelligence (AI) portfolio and accelerates its efforts in the nascent, fast-growing AI silicon market, which Intel expects to be […]
Deep Neural Networks, Big Data, AI, and the Road to Autonomous Systems
Autonomous driving – green light, red light, or yellow? Earlier this year Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the future is now. By the middle of 2020, he said at an event for investors, Tesla’s autonomous system will have improved to the point where drivers will not have to pay attention to the road. He revealed […]
Data Science in 90 Seconds: Natural Language Processing
Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 18 in the Data Science in 90 Seconds video blog series from host Laura Kahn. The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Science such as Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, K-Means Clustering, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees and Random Forests, Ridge Regression, […]
Zebra Medical Vision Joins Forces with Nuance to Bring More AI to Diagnostic Imaging
A recent press release states, “Zebra Medical Vision, the deep-learning medical-imaging analytics company, announces today that its AI1™ “all-in-one” bundle of AI products will be available on the Nuance® AI Marketplace. Nuance offers the first and largest portal with one-stop access to a wide range of AI diagnostic models from within the industry’s most widely […]
Panasonic Begins Offering API for Facial Recognition Utilizing Deep Learning Technology
A new press release reports, “Panasonic Corporation announced that starting November 25, 2019, the company will begin offering an application programming interface (API) for its facial recognition technology to the market in Japan. Panasonic first began R&D into facial recognition in the early 1990s, and has continued to perfect these capabilities in various ways by […]
Deep Learning Bests Traditional Models in Risk Stratification
Click here to learn more about Harsh Arora. Risk stratification in healthcare is defined as the process of assigning a risk status to all patients in a practice. The risk status is based on data collected through a multitude of sources such as medical history, health indicators, and the lifestyle of an adult or paediatric […]
New Deep Learning Startup, OctoML, Launches to Automate Deployment of Deep Learning
According to a recent press release, “OctoML is leveraging the power and traction of Apache TVM, an open source project originated by the founding team, to enable companies of every size to harness the power of deep learning without the expensive heavy lifting of tuning and securing models to each hardware configuration that a customer […]
Cognex Acquires SUALAB to Advance its Leadership in Deep Learning-Based Machine Vision
A recent press release reports, “Cognex Corporation, the leader in machine vision for factory automation and industrial barcode reading, today announced the acquisition of SUALAB, a leading Korean-based developer of vision software using deep learning for industrial applications. The addition of SUALAB’s engineering team and intellectual property is expected to enhance Cognex’s existing deep learning […]
Intel Introduces Next Generation of Xeon® W-2200 and X-series platforms
A few days ago, Intel unveiled its latest lineup of Intel Xeon W and X-series processors, “which puts new classes of computing performance and AI acceleration into the hands of professional creators and PC enthusiasts. Custom-designed to address the diverse needs of these growing audiences, the new Xeon W-2200 and X-series processors are targeted to […]