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Zest AI | March 02, 2022

Zest AI, a leader in software for AI-driven lending, today announced the launch of Zest Race Predictor (ZRP). This open-source machine-learning algorithm estimates the race/ethnicity of an individual using only their full name and home address as inputs. ZRP can be used to analyze racial equity and outcomes in critical spheres such as health care, financial services, criminal justice, or anywhere there's a need to attribute the race or ethnicity of a population dataset when ra...

The Verge | February 05, 2020

The web may soon have fewer crappy, mandatory video ads for you to endure. This August, Google’s Chrome web browser will start blocking long, “non-skippable” preroll ads, ads that block a big chunk of your video, and ads that interrupt your videos in the middle, if the video you’re watching is under eight minutes long. That’s actually the official guidance from the Coalition for Better Ads, of which Google is a board member, and will probably impact other companies ...

Omron | July 06, 2020

The company says the artificial intelligence-based technology “captures defects with human-like sensitivity”. It claims the system reproduces human sensibility and the techniques of skilled inspectors, reliably detects defects that were once difficult to capture, automating human vision-based visual inspection. Skilled inspectors are hard to come by these days, and labor costs have risen sharply, says Omron. Manufacturers are now facing intense pressure to automate processes that rel...

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SambaNova Systems | March 01, 2023

On February 28th, 2023, SambaNova Systems, the first company to market with pre-trained foundation models for generative AI, introduced the new SambaNova Suite. The Suite is a selection of the most accurate generative AI models tailored for the enterprise and deployable on-premises or in the cloud. The solution offers cutting-edge, open-source, and pre-trained models, such as SambaNova's GPT offering, all of which can be fine-tuned on an organization's data for greater a...