Critical Start

Tesla | February 19, 2020

Elon Musk has called for tighter regulations in place for organizations that are developing advanced AI, including Tesla. Musk said his former organization OpenAI "should be more open.” ...

GENERAL AI

Continual | December 20, 2021

Continual, a company building a next-generation AI platform for the modern data stack, today announces its public beta launch with $4 million in seed funding. The round was led by Amplify Partners, a firm that invests in companies with a vision of transforming infrastructure and machine intelligence tools. Illuminate Ventures, Essence, Wayfinder, and Data Community Fund also participated in the round. The modern data stack centered on cloud data warehouses like Snowflake is rapidl...

VentureBeat | March 10, 2020

A preprint paper coauthored by scientists at Facebook AI Research describes Rewarding Impact-Driven Exploration (RIDE), an intrinsic reward method that encourages AI-driven agents to take actions in an environment. The researchers say that it outperforms state-of-the-art methods on hard exploration tasks in procedurally generated worlds, a sign it might be a candidate for devices like robot vacuums that must often navigate new environments. As the researchers explain, reinforcement learning, whe...

SOFTWARE, COMPUTER VISION

Deci | September 26, 2022

Deci, the deep learning company harnessing AI to build AI, today announced a new set of industry-leading semantic segmentation models, dubbed DeciSeg. Deci’s proprietary Automated Neural Architecture Construction (AutoNAC) technology automatically generated semantic segmentation models that significantly outperform the most powerful models publicly available, such as the MobileViT released by Apple, and the DeepLab family released by Google. Deci’s models deliver more than 2x lower l...