At an online event today, Daniel Ek, the founder of Spotify, said he would invest 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) of his personal fortune in deeptech “moonshot projects”, spread across the next 10 years. (Watch the interview below): Ek indicated that he was referring to machine learning, biotechnology, materials sciences and energy as the sectors…
Palmer Luckey’s young defense company has been selected by the Air Force for work on a cutting-edge, multibillion-dollar nervous system for war. Luckey announced on his Twitter account Thursday that Anduril was one of the selected vendors for the project, known as the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). Over the last four months, the Air…
Alexa is getting teachable AI. Chris Monroe/CNET Amazon has unveiled new artificial intelligence capabilities for Alexa, aimed at making the voice assistant more conversational in your home. Alexa will be “more natural and more expressive,” Amazon said during its annual product launch event Thursday.Tapping tech advancements in neural text-to-speech, Amazon said it’s using AI to…
Most medical algorithms were developed using information from people treated in Massachusetts, California, or New York, according to a new study. Those three states dominate patient data — and 34 other states were simply not represented at all, according to the research published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The narrow…
Microsoft will exclusively license OpenAI’s GPT-3 model to expand the Azure-powered AI platform. OpenAI’s GPT-3 model is an autoregressive language model that can create human-like text. As highlighted in a recent Microsoft blog post, GPT-3 is the largest and most advanced language model in the world. It utilizes 175 billion parameters and is trained on…
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