Abacus.AI raises another $22M and launches new AI modules

AI startup RealityEngines.AI changed its name to Abacus.AI in July. At the same time, it announced a $13 million Series A round. Today, only a few months later, it is not changing its name again, but it is announcing a $22 million Series B round, led by Coatue, with Decibel Ventures and Index Partners participating […] Continue reading Abacus.AI raises another $22M and launches new AI modules

Dataloop raises $11M Series A round for its AI data management platform

Dataloop, a Tel Aviv-based startup that specializes in helping businesses manage the entire data lifecycle for their AI projects, including helping them annotate their datasets, today announced that it has now raised a total of $16 million. This includes a $5 seed round that was previously unreported, as well as an $11 million Series A […] Continue reading Dataloop raises $11M Series A round for its AI data management platform

Grid AI raises $18.6M Series A to help AI researchers and engineers bring their models to production

Grid AI, a startup founded by the inventor of the popular open-source PyTorch Lightning project, William Falcon, that aims to help machine learning engineers more efficiently, today announced that it has raised an $18.6 million Series A funding round, which closed earlier this summer. The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Bain […] Continue reading Grid AI raises $18.6M Series A to help AI researchers and engineers bring their models to production

WhyLabs brings more transparancy to ML ops

WhyLabs, a new machine learning startup that was spun out of the Allen Institute, is coming out of stealth today. Founded by a group of former Amazon machine learning engineers, Alessya Visnjic, Sam Gracie and Andy Dang, together with Madrona Venture Group principal Maria Karaivanova, WhyLabs’ focus is on ML operations after models have been […] Continue reading WhyLabs brings more transparancy to ML ops

Enterprise companies find MLOps critical for reliability and performance

Machine learning ops focuses on the ML model and datasets, as opposed to code. Data engineers run MLOps, but it’s likely that the specialized role of MLOps engineer will come about soon. Continue reading Enterprise companies find MLOps critical for reliability and performance

Video: Deepfakes – A Technical Peek Behind the Curtain

Watch Now for the Technical Foundations of AI for Deepfakes!
Video and Slide Deck from EH-Net Live! March 2020
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Silicone and AI Power This Prayerful Robotic Intercessor

Even in a world that is as currently far off the rails as this one is, we’re going to go out on a limb and say that this machine learning, servo-powered prayer bot is going to be the strangest thing you see today. We’re happy to be wrong about that, …read more

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Webinar: Deepfakes – A Technical Peek Behind the Curtain

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We’ve all seen deepfakes on the Interwebs… from funny videos to politics and, of course, from the impetus behind many technical innovations, an insatiable appetite for porn. At her talk … Continue reading Webinar: Deepfakes – A Technical Peek Behind the Curtain

Why Traditional Security Is Failing Us

This is the first part of a two-part series that explores the reasons behind the failure of security technologies to protect companies and their data from emerging threats in the age of cloud, connected devices and an ever-expanding threat surface. Af… Continue reading Why Traditional Security Is Failing Us