Machine Learning
Landing AI raises $57M
Landing AI has raised a Series A funding round of $57 million. The investment was led by McRock Capital.
Google invests $1B in derivatives marketplace CME
Google Cloud, part of Alphabet, has made an investment of $1 billion in derivates marketplace CME Group (CME). The companies have also inked a cloud agreement.
UC Berkeley researchers receive $2M grant to build criminal justice Big Data tools
CS Prof. Joseph Hellerstein, and Assistant Profs. Aditya Parmeswaran and Sarah Chasins, are among the principal investigators of a new lab that received a $2 million grant from the NSF.
The practical way this tech company is fighting racist algorithms — Fast Company
Pinterest’s new technology builds on the company’s efforts to establish a more inclusive product experience, writes Elissaveta Brandon.
Here is the link: https://www.fastcompany.com/90673897/pinterest-gets-80-million-beauty-related-searches-monthly-heres-how-theyre-making-those-results-less-racist
Nvidia developed a radically different way to compress video calls — Ars Technica
Nvidia Maxine uses Generative Adversarial Networks to re-create video frames, writes Timothy Lee.
Here is the link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/nvidia-used-neural-networks-to-improve-video-calling-bandwidth-by-10x/