How SparkBeyond Is Using AI To Ask The Right Questions
By Benjamin Ross
Six years ago, Sagie Davidovich and Ron Karidi wanted to see if they could find a way to harness all of humanity's collective intelligence using artificial intelligence (AI). Now, their co-founded startup,...
XPRIZE Foundation Highlights Startups Using AI To Tackle The World’s Diverse Issues
By Benjamin Ross
BOSTON—Day one of the fourth annual AI World Conference & Expo wrapped up with a panel discussing how startups can successfully achieve innovation through artificial intelligence (AI).
The panel, moderated by the XPRIZE...
Startup Pavilion at AI World Showcases Innovation and Promise
By AI Trends Staff
The AI World Conference & Expo in Boston, Oct. 23-25, will include a Startup Pavilion of companies showing innovation, promise and creativity as they pursue business opportunities in new ventures in...
AI Being Enlisted to Help Monitor Energy Consumption of Individual Households and Vast Businesses
By AI Trends Staff
Energy monitoring can range from knowing about how much energy is being consumed in a household to how much is needed to power a business. The domain of energy consumption is...
DataRobot Raises Another $200M to Pursue Automated Machine Learning
DataRobot of Boston has raised approximately $200M in a Series E funding round to help accelerate development of its automated machine learning and AI software, according to a recent report in xconomy. That makes...
Executive Interview: Paola Santana, CEO and Founder of Social Glass
Company Takes a Data-Driven Approach to Governance; “We Can’t Change What We Can’t See” is the Social Glass Motto
Paola Santana is a lawyer, public procurement expert and tech entrepreneur creating the world’s next political system...
Twitter Buys Artificial-Intelligence Startup to Help Fight Spam, Fake News and Other Abuse
By AI Trends Staff
Twitter, as part of ongoing efforts to improve the “health” of discussions on the platform, announced that it has acquired U.K.-based artificial-intelligence startup Fabula AI.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, according...
Startup Using Machine Learning And Aerial Images To Reduce Risks From Wildfires
California’s hillsides are still green, thanks to a surplus of rain in the past few months, but the state is already exhorting homeowners to build 100 feet of “defensible space” around their homes, an ominous warning...
$15M Global Learning XPRIZE Names Two Grand Prize Winners
XPRIZE, the global leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, announced two grand prize winners in the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE. The tie between Kitkit School from South Korea and...
Chinese AI Start-up Megvii Raises $750 Million Ahead of Planned HK IPO
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) provider Megvii Technology Ltd, commonly known as Face++, said on Wednesday it raised $750 million in its latest funding round.
The funding raises start-up Megvii’s valuation to slightly over $4 billion...
Future of AI
