Horizon Robotics, a three-year-old Chinese startup backed by Intel Capital, just raised a mega-round of fundings from domestic and overseas backers as it competes for global supremacy in developing AI solutions and chips aimed at autonomous vehicles, smart retail stores, surveillance equipment and other devices for everyday scenarios. The Beijing-based company announced Wednesday in a […]
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Can you tell between a real and computer-generated face?
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View More Can you tell between a real and computer-generated face?Autonomous truck startup TuSimple hits unicorn status in latest round
Another autonomous vehicle unicorn has joined the herd. TuSimple, a self-driving truck startup running daily routes for customers in Arizona, has raised $95 million in a Series D funding round led by Sina Corp. as the company prepares to scale up its commercial autonomous fleet to more than 50 trucks by June. The startup, which launched […]
View More Autonomous truck startup TuSimple hits unicorn status in latest roundNvidia’s Quadro Virtual Workstations are now available on Azure
Nvidia today announced that its Quadro Virtual Machine Workstation (vWS) is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The promise of the Quadro vWS it to allow businesses to run high-end graphics applications in the cloud, using any of the Nvidia’s high-end and mid-level cloud GPUs like the P100, V100, P4 or P40. For the Azure […]
View More Nvidia’s Quadro Virtual Workstations are now available on AzureChina’s social credit system won’t tell you what you can do right
For the past few years, China has been rolling out a Black Mirror / Harry Potter-esque social rating policy known as the Social Credit System (SCS). Far from just a credit score in the financial sense, an SCS score can determine whether a person can buy business class tickets on trains (or take the train at all) […]
View More China’s social credit system won’t tell you what you can do rightNvidia significantly lowers revenue guidance
Nvidia can’t stop falling. The company has cut its guidance for its upcoming earnings report. The company expects to generate $2.2 billion instead of $2.7 billion as it had previously announced. That’s a huge cut of 18.5 percent. Shares are currently trading at $139.60, down 12.83 percent compared to yesterday’s closing price of $160.15. Nvidia […]
View More Nvidia significantly lowers revenue guidanceAWS launches Neo-AI, an open-source tool for tuning ML models
AWS isn’t exactly known as an open-source powerhouse, but maybe change is in the air. Amazon’s cloud computing unit today announced the launch of Neo-AI, a new open-source project under the Apache Software License. The new tool takes some of the technologies that the company developed and used for its SageMaker Neo machine learning service and brings […]
View More AWS launches Neo-AI, an open-source tool for tuning ML modelsFormer Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell
In 2016, Serkan Piantino packed up his desk at Facebook with hopes to move on to something new. The former Director of Engineering for Faceboook AI Research had every intention to keep working on AI, but quickly realized a huge issue. Unless you’re under the umbrella of one of these big tech companies like Facebook, […]
View More Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform SpellNvidia’s T4 GPUs are now available in beta on Google Cloud
Google Cloud today announced that Nvidia’s Turing-based Tesla T4 data center GPUs are now available in beta in its data centers in Brazil, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Tokyo and the United States. Google first announced a private test of these cards in November, but that was a very limited alpha test. All developers can now take these new […]
View More Nvidia’s T4 GPUs are now available in beta on Google CloudDon’t expect a new Nvidia Shield Tablet anytime soon
The Shield TV, Nvidia’s Android TV streaming box, is still getting regular updates, but the Shield Tablet, which launched in 2014, was last refreshed in 2015 and officially discontinued last year, wasn’t quite the same success. As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during a small press gathering at CES in Las Vegas today, the company […]
View More Don’t expect a new Nvidia Shield Tablet anytime soonNvidia dives into a new business segment with Drive AutoPilot
Nvidia’s automotive ambitions seemed targeted solely on creating a platform to enable fully autonomous vehicles, notably the robotaxis that so many companies hope to deploy in the coming decade. It turns out that Nvidia has also been working a more near-term product that opens it up to a different segment in the automotive industry. The […]
View More Nvidia dives into a new business segment with Drive AutoPilotAudi, Mobileye, Waymo, other top automakers unite to spread the self-driving gospel
The self-driving vehicle evangelists are uniting. A number of major automakers, technology companies and organizations with a stake in autonomous vehicles, including Audi, Aurora, Cruise, GM, Mobileye, Nvidia, Toyota, Waymo and Zoox has formed a coalition to spread the word about advanced vehicle technologies and self-driving vehicles. Their message: this tech can transform transportation and […]
View More Audi, Mobileye, Waymo, other top automakers unite to spread the self-driving gospel