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21 Sep

Alibaba Is Surprisingly OK With India’s Data Localisation Policy Draft

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Contrary to most industry insiders’ opinion, Chinese tech giant Alibaba recently revealed that they backed India’s draft on data localisation. To the immense surprise of its global competitors, Simon Hu, President of Alibaba Cloud said that the core principle of their company was “respecting data security and privacy”, which is what they are doing, by supporting […]

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20 Sep

India Among Top 3 Countries In AI Skills: LinkedIn Report

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In an exciting revelation, a new LinkedIn report has suggested that India has the third-highest penetration of artificial intelligence skills in the world. The report also added 46% of the Indian workforce studied in this research didn’t need any upskilling, as their skill sets were already up-to-date. This number stands at 48% for China and […]

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20 Sep

IBM Launches ‘AI Fairness 360’ To Detect Bias In Artificial Intelligence

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IBM is launching a new tool which will check biases in algorithms and try to understand how and why they crept in, and how to mitigate them. Called AI Fairness 360 (AIF360), this product by IBM is a comprehensive open-source toolkit of metrics to check for unwanted bias in datasets, machine learning models, and state-of-the-art algorithms. […]

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18 Sep

Mate Labs raises seed funding from Omphalos Ventures India and Other Investors

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  Mate Labs a machine learning and AI startup based out of Bengaluru has raised its seed funding worth $550,000. The seed round was led by Omphalos Ventures India LLP.  Others investors that participated in the seed round were Eagle 10 Ventures, 91Springboard, Deepak Sharma (ex-Chairman of CITI Bank), Khattar Holding, Sumit Sinha and Tejan […]

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18 Sep

Valued At $3 Billion, RPA Co UiPath Now Plans To Increase India Workforce

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UiPath, a noted enterprise robotic process automation company, has closed its series C funding raising $225 million at a valuation of $3 billion. The round was co-led by existing investor CapitalG and new investor Sequoia Capital. UiPath is reportedly one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in the world. The company announced in early July […]

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18 Sep

Cypher 2018: Fourth Edition Of India’s Largest Analytics Summit To Be Held In Bengaluru From 26-28 September

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Cypher 2018, the fourth edition of India’s largest analytics summit is set to take the centre stage on 26-28 September at Hotel Radisson Blu, Bengaluru. A simple idea which started in 2015 has been connecting the ever-growing analytics community across the country since then. This year, the summit will see a spectacular lineup of 120+ […]

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17 Sep

Kris Gopalakrishnan Says Today’s Youth Needs To Figure Out Jobs Of The Future To Stay Relevant

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On one hand, enterprise adoption of AI technologies in India is booming. A PwC report indicated that 36 per cent of the financial institutions such as banks and insurers have invested in artificial intelligence-focused technologies, while 70 per cent plan to embrace it in the near future. There has been a spurt in AI-focused innovation […]

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17 Sep

Kris Gopalakrishnan Says Today’s Youth Needs To Figure Out Jobs Of The Future To Stay Relevant

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On one hand, enterprise adoption of AI technologies in India is booming. A PwC report indicated that 36 per cent of the financial institutions such as banks and insurers have invested in artificial intelligence-focused technologies, while 70 per cent plan to embrace it in the near future. There has been a spurt in AI-focused innovation […]

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17 Sep

Artificial Intelligence Helps Track Down Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts

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Taking a new step forward in the search for “little green men” and “extraterrestrials” in the universe, the University of California, Berkley, has reportedly used machine learning to discover 72 new fast radio bursts from a “mysterious” source some three billion light years from Earth. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are bright pulses of radio […]

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14 Sep

Meet Tesla T4, NVIDIA’s Fastest Data Centre Inferencing Platform

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Fueling the growth of artificial intelligence-based services worldwide, NVIDIA launched an AI data centre platform that delivers the industry’s most advanced inference acceleration for voice, video, image and recommendation services. The tech giant debuted the Tesla Turing 4 graphics processing unit (GPU) chip to speed up inference from deep learning systems in data centres. According to […]

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