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Nervana’s $400M+ Buyout Reflects Key Tech Trend in Machine Learning

Xconomy

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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AONdevices Launches AI Systems-on-a-Chip Effort

socalTECH

A new, Irvine-based startup AONdevices --based in the EvoNexus incubator--said this morning that it has launched its company, which is developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems-on-a-chip (SoC) technology to enable embedding of voice control technology in devices like smartphones and wireless headsets. READ MORE>>.

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Movio wants to make your marketing videos with generative AI

TechCrunch LA

A proliferation of startups is now trying to devise applications for this new class of language model , where the machine is capable of creating new text, images and videos based on simple human input. The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface.

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Interview with Bryan Biniak, Connected Travel

socalTECH

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. What are some of the challenges of big data and machine learning today you have encountered? So, we had land, air, and air and sea, indoor and outdoor.

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Hold Your Horsepower: For Mobility Industry, “Reality Is Sinking In”

Xconomy

Because there is no legal framework in place at either the state or federal level for fully autonomous vehicles to operate on the nation’s roads, there would presumably be human “safety attendants” on board in GM’s ridesharing fleet.

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Source13 Gathers the Biggest Names in Mobile

Tech Zulu Event

Here’s a quick snapshot of what you’ll learn: Aneil Mallavarapu Blipboard – a free mobile map where local “gurus” clue you in about interesting things in your city. Mallavarapu calls Blipboard a social map that gives you location based alerts in a follower network, not unlike Twitter’s model.

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