ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI)

Customer experience is the primary battleground for today’s digital enterprises. Consumer expectations have risen to match the offerings of providers such as Amazon and Uber, meaning every consumer-facing business needs to step up its efforts accordingly. Central to the proposition of exceptional customer experience are knowledge, trust, and integrity. Customers expect businesses to know them intimately very early in the engagement; they want companies to anticipate their needs ahead of time.

Kami Vision, the computer vision company that provides artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and cameras to enterprise, SMBs and consumers, announces the general availability of KamiCare, its vision AI fall management solution. The technology has experienced enthusiastic adoption with more than a dozen memory care and senior living communities moving to implement the solution in order to detect and prevent falls and reduce unnecessary hospitalisations.

Eleos Health, the specialist in CareOps Automation for behavioral health, today announced that WellPower, a national specialist in behavioral health, will make Eleos Health’s voice-based, augmented intelligence available for all of its clinicians to reduce administrative burden and give them more time to focus on care. Eleos Health will be utilised for both in person and virtual sessions.

Simplilearn, a global digital skills training provider, announced its partnership with Meta Immersive Learning to launch Spark AR to provide a comprehensive understanding of the skills required to create basic effects using augmented reality.

27 September 2022 – FedLearn, the online, artificial intelligence-powered learning solutions provider offering content specialised and contextualised to federal government mission areas particularly in the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community announces the establishment of an other transaction agreement with the department’s chief digital and artificial intelligence office.

Nala Robotics, an AI technology company fueling restaurant cooking automation, introduced The Wingman, an autonomous fry station that can easily be added or configured to any restaurant or commercial food service operation.

Women in AI proudly launches their very first free startup community event taking place at Wayve Technologies LTD located in North London on Thursday 29th September 2022.

Düsseldorf, 29 September 2022 – Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has expanded its AI-capable RZ/V Series of microprocessors (MPUs), with a new device that enables AI processing of image data from multiple cameras, offering a new level of highly accurate image recognition for vision AI applications. Equipped with two 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 cores, the new device is capable of delivering high computing performance with a maximum operating frequency of 1GHz. The RZ/V2MA features a proprietary low power DRP-AI (Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor) accelerator which can process vision AI at 1 TOPS/W (tera operations per second, per watt) class performance.

Taipei, 27 September, 2022 – Advantech Co., Ltd., a global specialist in industrial IoT, is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of its AIR-030 series, an edge AI system powered by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, and the EPC-R7300 series for industrial barebone PCs powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano. The NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin module offers up to 275 TOPS and 8X the performance over the prior generation, enabling the AIR-030 and EPC-R7300 series to provide AI developers with ready-to-deploy and easy-to-configure solutions to accelerate AI robotics and vision applications.

AI systems are becoming increasingly complex as we move from visionary research to deployable technologies such as self-driving cars, clinical predictive models, and novel accessibility devices. Unlike singular AI models, it is more difficult to assess whether these more complex AI systems are performing consistently and as intended to realise human benefit, says Cecily Morrison, principal research manager, Martin Grayson, principal research software development engineer & Camilla Longden, senior research software development engineer at Microsoft.

College Park, United States – The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland (UMD) has joined Deloitte to launch the Deloitte Initiative for AI and Learning (DIAL), an artificial intelligence (AI) research initiative to help expand learning and development opportunities for faculty and students across the university’s various colleges. 

New York, United States – Microsoft Corp., Planet Labs PBC and The Nature Conservancy announced its plans to launch the Global Renewables Watch (GRW), a living atlas intended to map and measure all utility-scale solar and wind installations on Earth using artificial intelligence (AI) and satellite imagery, allowing users to evaluate clean energy transition progress and track trends over time.

SK Telecom has announced that it launched Korea’s AI-based veterinary X-ray image diagnosis assistance service named ‘X Caliber’ after unveiling it at the 2022 Seoul Veterinary Conference held at September 25.

Santa Clara, United States – Astera Labs, a provider in purpose-built connectivity solutions for intelligent and accelerated systems, announced the opening of Astera Labs Vancouver – a new office and state-of-the-art lab to support the company’s development of cutting-edge interconnect technologies for artificial intelligence and machine learning architectures. The new location will tap into the region’s rich technology talent base to drive product development, customer support and marketing.

Cambridge, United States – Iterative Scopes, a provider in precision medicine technologies for gastroenterology, and Provation, the software and SaaS provider of clinical productivity and workflow automation solutions, announced that SKOUT has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for adults undergoing colorectal cancer screening or surveillance.

Amaro, Italy – Eurotech, a provider of embedded computing systems and provider in internet of things (IoT) enablement, announces its newest public transportation Edge AI solutions certified for Road & Rail vehicles to enable the next generation of mobility applications.

In a world where connectivity has become a necessity, automation enabled by these AI apps makes it easier for CSPs to deal with technology challenges while ensuring a prominent level of network quality and stability.

London, UK, 26 September, 2022 – Deposco, a provider of unified commerce solutions, is launching in Europe with the aim of quickly scaling omni-channel ecommerce and Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) supply chain operations. Building on the momentum of its expanding North American presence, Deposco brings Distributed Order Management (DOM) and Warehouse Management System (WMS) solutions on one platform that runs in real time and can be implemented in as little as 90 days.

Bellevue, United States – Wildfires can have devastating consequences, threatening lives and property. And they’re a growing problem, burning nearly twice as much forested land today as they did just 20 years ago. 5G can help change that. T-Mobile announced that it has teamed up with Pano AI – a disaster preparedness technology solutions provider – and Portland General Electric to deploy 5G-connected cameras that enable AI-powered active wildfire detection near Portland, Oregon, to help identify the first sign of wildfires and ultimately stop them before they spread.

NVIDIA and Deloitte announced an expansion of their alliance to help enable enterprises around the world to develop, implement and deploy hybrid-cloud solutions using the NVIDIA AI and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise platforms.

Taipei, Taiwan – ASUS, the IT company in server systems, server motherboards and workstations, announced its presence at NVIDIA GTC – a developer conference for the era of AI and the metaverse. ASUS will focus on three demonstrations outlining its developments in AI, including: the methodology behind ASUS MLPerf Training v2.0 results that achieved multiple breakthrough records; a success story exploring the building of an academic AI data centre at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia; and a research AI data centre created in conjunction with the National Health Research Institute in Taiwan.

Palo Alto, United States – SymphonyAI, a provider in high-value enterprise AI SaaS for strategic industries, announced new capabilities for its Eureka AI platform that bring real-time understanding and visualisation to the technologies that underpin its vertical businesses, driving faster time-to-insights and deeper understanding for data scientists and business users.

Telefonica and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced a collaboration to build the future of XR and the Metaverse. Together they will work to develop and grow the XR ecosystem, leveraging the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform and Telefonica’s advanced fixed and mobile network infrastructure. The agreement also includes exploration of joint commercial opportunities and the launch of XR/metaverse products and services.

NASA might have rovers on Mars, but T-Mobile is working on something closer to home. T-Mobile today announced the Un-carrier is working with InDro Robotics, the Canadian air and ground robotics research and development company, to make the world safer. The companies have successfully completed trials using T-Mobile 5G to remotely connect and operate Indro Robotics’ ground-based industrial inspection robots, testing security and inspection capabilities at electrical substations.

Lyssn.io, Inc. announced the launch of its new AI-generated notes capability, adding clinical notes to its evidence-based quality improvement platform. Developed to reduce the burden of note taking on clinicians, coaches and social services and child welfare workers, Lyssn Notes is the first tool available that uses artificial intelligence to analyse a session or call recording and then draft a note with the nuance and detail of a clinician. The new notes feature will be available free of charge to all current customers for the remainder of their contract period and will be fully embedded in the platform going forward.

Southlake, United States – Heart Test Laboratories, Inc. d/b/a HeartSciences, a medical technology company focused on applying innovative AI-based technology to an ECG (also known as an EKG) to significantly expand and improve an ECG’s clinical usefulness by detecting cardiac dysfunction, announced that it has been granted a patent from the United States patent and trademark Office (USPTO) for ECG quantification of echocardiographic measures of diastolic function of the heart using AI methods.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 26 September 2022 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced that King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) selected HPE to build its supercomputer, Shaheen III, to deliver state-of-the-art supercomputing and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for advancing research in fields such as food, water, energy and the environment.