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25 Sep

Fiddler Labs Raises $10.2 Million For Explainable AI

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Earlier this week noted explainable AI engine startup Fiddler Labs announced that they have raised $10.2 million in Series A funding to accelerate their work in building breakthrough artificial intelligence engine with explainability at its heart. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lux Capital led this round, with participation from Haystack Ventures and Bloomberg Beta. Founded in…

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25 Sep

Haptik Acquires Conversational Commerce Platform Buzzo.AI

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Haptik, a conversational AI platform which is owned by Reliance Industries, has now acquired the Mumbai-based startup Buzzo.AI. This conversational commerce platform is set to enhance Haptik’s voice and chat solutions and leverage technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning for a multi-lingual experience. “But given our mission to enable the paradigm shift from clicks…

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24 Sep

Informatica Invests Over $2 Million In Hyderabad’s New R&D Facility

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Informatica, the enterprise cloud data management leader, this month announced the expansion of its Hyderabad development centre. The Hyderabad expansion is an integral part of Informatica’s global R&D investment, which exceeds $200 million a year, and enables the company to support its continued growth in India, propelled by its Hyderabad centre. The Hyderabad facility is…

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24 Sep

Deloitte Launches New Public Data Visualization Tool Open Source Compass

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Deloitte this month announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind public data visualization tool, Open Source Compass (OSC) intended to help C-suite leaders, product managers and software engineers understand the trajectory of open source development and emerging technologies. The information curated and shared through the new data visualization tool will provide insights to inform key business…

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23 Sep

Howdy, Big Data! PM Modi Pitches India As The New Global Data Haven

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Data was on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mind at the Howdy Modi event held in Houston, Texas last week. Speaking at the NRG stadium, alongside US President Donald Trump, PM Modi described data as the “new oil and gold” and said that India had the potential to lead the world in Industry 4.0, which is dependant…

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23 Sep

Facebook Selects Six Indian Projects For AI Ethics Research

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To encourage research in artificial intelligence ethics, social media giant Facebook announced the selection of six projects from India that will focus on three key areas — governance, cultural diversity and operationalising ethics. AI technological developments pose intricate and complex ethical questions that the industry alone cannot answer, and that is why research questions in…

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23 Sep

Vishal Sikka Raises $50 Million For His AI Startup Vianai From Undisclosed Investors

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Former Infosys chief Vishal Sikka’s startup Vianai has reportedly raised $50 million as seed funding from undisclosed investors. Sikka demonstrated a new AI platform vision last week during his keynote address at Oracle Open World. Vianai’s vision is to enable every company, in every industry, to utilize the explorable and explainable AI techniques. “Companies today have…

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13 Sep

A Day In The Life Of: A CTO Who’s Running A Bootstrapped Startup & Is In Love With Coding

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In our weekly column A Day In The Life Of, we are trying to step into the shoes of awesome techies from various organisations and sectors who are working in emerging tech areas like big data, data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and the internet of things, among others. This week Analytics India Magazine got…

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13 Sep

PepsiCo Sets Up Biz Hub In Hyderabad, Two More MNCs To Follow

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Putting up a competitive front for Bengaluru, the south Indian city of Hyderabad is upping its ante as a hub for emerging tech companies. After housing research and development labs for companies such as Adobe, State Street, PayPal in the last few months, the city is now set to have two more large-scale global in-house…

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12 Sep

Indian Institute Of Skills To Open In Mumbai, Will Focus On Expertise In AI, ML, Automation

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Union Skill Development Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey this week laid the foundation stone for the country’s first Indian Institute of Skills (IISs) in Mumbai. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship had approved the proposal to set up IISs in Kanpur, Mumbai and Ahmedabad in January this year. The IISs are slated to provide new-age skills…

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