ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI)

China, 26 September 2022 – Powerbridge Technologies Co., Ltd., a provider of multi-industry technology solutions, announced that the Company has obtained an exclusive right in China through a partnership with the World Football Collection to offer a series of soccer collectable NFTs on Ali Auction.

The United States Department of Defense (DOD) and intelligence community require computational systems that can robustly and automatically analyse large amounts of multimedia. These systems must also communicate and cooperate with people to resolve ambiguities and improve performance over time.

CyberLink Corp., a provider of AI and facial recognition technologies, has collaborated with CAC Corporation (CAC) to integrate its AI facial recognition engine, FaceMe, into CAC’s facial recognition payment system. The existing unmanned convenience store, “Ministop Pocket,” within CAC’s headquarters, now utilises facial recognition in their Point of Sale (POS) terminal.

Austin, Texas, 23 September 2022 – IgniteTech, the company “Where Software Goes to Live,” has announced the integration of Iris Insights into its BryterCX Journey Intelligence platform, bringing a new level of analytics capabilities to the solution. Iris Insights leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to push BryterCX to a quadrant in the industry, automatically surfacing customer journey intelligence from the vast trove of data collected by customers in their CX journey data stores.

The massive virtual worlds created by growing numbers of companies and creators could be more easily populated with a diverse array of 3D buildings, vehicles, characters and more thanks to a new AI model from NVIDIA Research.

Aetina, an edge AI solution provider, introduced its end-to-end AI management solution in an NVIDIA GTC on-demand session this week. The solution helps global AI partners and clients of Aetina successfully adopt edge AI using NVIDIA AI development and deployment tools, as well as Aetina’s NVIDIA AI-powered training and inference platforms.

Santa Clara, California. 22 September 2022 – ServiceNow has announced even more solutions within the Now Platform Tokyo release designed to supercharge operational intelligence and trust. In addition to ServiceNow Vault, announced yesterday, ServiceNow is releasing new AI‑powered features and developer and risk management tools to help organisations operate more efficiently and power more resilient business models. 

DARPA has selected multiple teams of researchers for the agency’s Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction and Modeling (ASKEM) programme. ASKEM performers will use artificial intelligence (AI) approaches and tools to create, sustain, and enhance complex models and simulators.

Tel Aviv, Israel, 20 September 2022 – CytoReason has announced an extension of its multi-year partnership with Pfizer to use CytoReason’s artificial intelligence technology for Pfizer’s drug development programmes.

20 September 2022 – HealthEMAI, a mission-driven data platform company dedicated to improving care delivery, has announced its partnership with Marquee Dental Partners. Marquee, a dental service organisation, provides dentists with both the support and the clinical autonomy they need to succeed. 

At GTC, NVIDIA unveiled a number of updates to its DGX portfolio to power new breakthroughs in enterprise AI development.

OmniML, a startup making artificial intelligence (AI) more accessible to all edge devices, has announced the release of Omnimiser, a platform that simplifies and accelerates machine learning operations (MLOps) by bridging the gap between ML models and edge hardware.

20 September 2022 – Dalrada Financial Corporation has announced last week its partnership with Averett University in Virginia to design, develop, and implement a unique digital ecosystem while creating an immersive metaverse experience for students.

Santa Clara, United States – SoundHound AI, Inc., a global provider in voice artificial intelligence, announced the availability of a whole suite of Edge and Cloud connectivity solutions that will allow brands to voice-enable almost any product, device, or service. Businesses looking to deploy voice AI can choose from options that match their available processing power and end-user needs. These include fully-embedded Edge technology (including a new EdgeLite option), exclusively Cloud-connected technology, or a hybrid combination of Edge+Cloud.

20 September 2022 – HEAVY.AI, a specialist in advanced analytics, has announced HeavyRF, an extension of the company’s deep analytics platform that uses NVIDIA Omniverse to create digital twins that help telco network operators speed deployments of wireless networks.

Science Applications International Corp. and Rogue Space Systems Corporation has announced a strategic partnership to develop solutions that provide rapidly deliverable In-Orbit Service Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM), asset inspection and Space Situational Awareness (SSA).

Telefónica Tech, Telefónica’s digital business unit, and Sherpa.ai have signed a agreement to develop new use cases in the Spanish market with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) using federated learning technologies. The federated learning technique allows to train the AI algorithms and learning models of public and private companies without the need to share their data.

Beijing, China – Hanshow, a professional digital store solution provider (SP), has officially released a whitepaper called “Hanshow works with Intel and Microsoft to accelerate smart retail innovation” written jointly by Hanshow, Intel, and Microsoft. It summarises changes in the global retail industry and practices in the retail + AI sector. By examining Hanshow’s partners in China, Japan, and Europe, the whitepaper also illustrates how smart retail technology in the AI era works for global retailers and describes the future development and application trend of AI technology in the retail industry.

Veritone, Inc., creator of aiWARE, a hyper-expansive enterprise AI platform, unveiled its next-generation Veritone Voice.  The recent acquisition of synthetic voice provider VocaliD introduces upgrades including new application capabilities, over 70 voice-over AI voices available to license, hundreds of stock voices and multiple new languages. The newest enhancements further advance Veritone Voice to give content creators and publishers one of the most powerful and versatile voice solutions on the market.

Arm, Intel and Nvidia have jointly authored a paper describing an 8-bit floating point (FP8) specification and its two variants E5M2 and E4M3 to provide a common interchangeable format that works for both artificial intelligence (AI) training and inference. This cross-industry specification alignment will allow AI models to operate and perform consistently across hardware platforms, accelerating AI software development.

The National Institutes of Health will invest [$130 million (€131.68 million)] over four years, pending the availability of funds, to accelerate the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) by the biomedical and behavioral research communities. The NIH Common fund’s bridge to artificial intelligence (Bridge2AI) program is assembling team members from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to generate tools, resources, and richly detailed data that are responsive to AI approaches.

Rising domestic energy bills have been in the news a lot lately, but there’s been less coverage of what these rising energy costs mean for businesses. Although the energy price cap for households has recently been confirmed, there has been no further clarity about the support being offered for businesses. Ofgem said that details of “equivalent support” would be published “in due course” and that more focused support will be offered for particularly vulnerable or energy-intensive industries. In the meantime, many businesses across the UK are facing a five-fold increase in energy costs, says Matthew Margetts is a director at Smarter Technologies.

Los Altos, United States – Kinara, the developers of AI processors for edge computing applications, announced its collaboration with NXP Semiconductors, the world provider in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications. Through this collaboration, customers of NXP Semiconductors’ AI-enabled product portfolio will have the option to further scale their AI acceleration needs by utilising the Kinara Ara-1 Edge AI processor for high performance inferencing with deep learning models​.

San Jose, United States – Cadence Design Systems, Inc.. announced the delivery of the Cadence joint enterprise data and AI (JedAI) platform, enabling a generational shift from single-run, single-engine algorithms in electronic design automation (EDA) to algorithms that leverage big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to optimise multiple runs of multiple engines across an entire SoC design and verification flow.

San Jose, United States – VeriSilicon, a silicon platform as a service (SiPaaS) company, announced the launch of AI-ISP, an innovative AI image enhancement technology for applications including smartphones, automotive electronics, and industrial internet of things (IIoT), providing advanced image enhancement effects beyond traditional computer vision technologies.

San Jose, United States – Cadence Design Systems, Inc., announced the Cadence Verisium artificial intelligence (AI)-driven verification platform, a suite of applications leveraging big data and AI to optimise verification workloads, boost coverage and accelerate root cause analysis of bugs. The Verisium platform is built on the new Cadence joint enterprise data and AI (JedAI) platform and is natively integrated with the Cadence verification engines.

Washington & New York, United States – Afiniti, the provider of AI that pairs customers with contact centre agents, and LivePerson, a global provider in customer engagement solutions, announced the native integration of Afiniti’s AI pairing technology with LivePerson’s Conversational Cloud. This partnership will help customers have better conversations with brands on their preferred digital channels by connecting them to contact centre agents on the basis of best fit.