Sonos revealed during its quarterly earnings report that it has acquired voice assistant startup Snips in a $37 million cash deal, Variety reported on Wednesday. Snips, which had been developing dedicated smart device assistants that can operate primarily locally, instead of relying on consistently round-tripping voice data to the cloud, could help Sonos set up … Continue reading Sonos acquires voice assistant startup Snips, potentially to build out on-device voice control
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Andrew Mason’s Descript snags $15M, acquires Lyrebird to let users type text to create audio in their own voices
The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the decline of broadcast radio. Now riding the wave of that growth, a startup called Descript that’s building tools to make the art of creating podcasts — or any … Continue reading Andrew Mason’s Descript snags $15M, acquires Lyrebird to let users type text to create audio in their own voices
DeepMind is helping Waymo evolve better self-driving AI algorithms
Waymo’s self-driving cars now have something in common with the brains that guide regular vehicles: their intelligence comes partly from the power of evolution. Engineers at Waymo, owned by Alphabet, teamed up with researchers at DeepMind, another Alphabet division dedicated to AI, to find a more efficient process to train and fine-tune the company’s self-driving … Continue reading DeepMind is helping Waymo evolve better self-driving AI algorithms
VMware acquires ML acceleration startup Bitfusion
VMware today announced that it has acquired Bitfusion, a former participant in Techcrunch's Startup Battlefield competition. Bitfusion was one of the earliest companies to help businesses accelerate their complex computing workloads on GPUs, FPGAs and ASICs. In its earliest iteration, over four years ago, the company’s focus was less on AI and machine learning and … Continue reading VMware acquires ML acceleration startup Bitfusion
Ruby on Rails in Machine Learning – Yay or Nay?
Machine Learning is a trending field of Computer Science turning computer’s computations into a new level and giving a number of unique opportunities. It’s getting more and more popular, and it’s common for modern web application as well as services, such as Netflix, Spotify, Amazon.com and Facebook. Machine Learning is a good solution for apps … Continue reading Ruby on Rails in Machine Learning – Yay or Nay?
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