May 11, 2022

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Musical waves passing by our brain
May 11, 2022

Hit Picker: SoundCloud Acquires AI to Predict Hit Music

A neural network may help an online music service to spot songs with the potential to go big. Musiio uses AI to identify specific attributes and qualities in recorded music. Online audio distributor SoundCloud purchased the Singapore-based startup.
Bodiam Castle at East Sussex, England
May 11, 2022

The Batch: Liberation for Large Language Models, AI Picks Music Hits, Robots in Hospitals

Last week, I described trends that AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, has seen in building AI startups. I'd like to discuss another aspect of building companies that’s unique to AI businesses: the controversial topic of data moats.
Robot nurse helper
May 11, 2022

Nurse’s Mechanical Helper: Inside the Moxi AI-Powered Hospital Robot

Hospitals are using robots to lighten the load on clinical staff. A number of U.S. hospitals are using Moxi, a robot from Diligent Robotics, to ferry supplies, lab specimens, soiled laundry, and other items.
Didactic diagram of a hypothetical embedded-model architecture
May 11, 2022

Image Generation + Probabilities: New Method Boosts Performance for Normalizing Flow

If you want to both synthesize data and find the probability of any given example — say, generate images of manufacturing defects to train a defect detector and identify the highest-probability defects — you may use the architecture known as a normalizing flow.
Graph Average across 14 NLP Tasks parameters versus Average Accuracy
May 11, 2022

GPT-Free: Meta Releases Open Source Large Language Models OPT

Itching to get your hands on a fully trained large language model? The wait is over. Meta introduced the OPT family of transformer-based language models with nearly unfettered access to source code and trained weights.
Bodiam Castle at East Sussex, England
May 11, 2022

How to Build AI Startups Part 2: Will a Data Moat Protect You?

Last week, I described trends that AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, has seen in building AI startups. I'd like to discuss another aspect of building companies that’s unique to AI businesses: the controversial topic of data moats.

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