Israel’s AI Startups Have Clout with the Cloud: Google, Microsoft & the War for AI Talent
Google just announced its intent to buy Alooma for cloud data migration and to grow its cloud footprint in Israel. Google’s VP of Engineering and Director of Product Management for the Cloud Platform commented that “one of the things we’re most excited about with Alooma is the deep expertise for both enterprise and open source …
Google Maps AR Mode – Welcome to the AI Future
After introducing an augmented reality mode for maps last year at I/O 2018, the WSJ got early access as Google is rolling it out to a limited number of users. As the WSJ reported today, when you start AR mode, the GPS matches your location with the vast amount of street view data collected by …
AQR hires star Head of ML from Guggenheim after lawsuit and team spin-out, then replaces him
Who says Machine Learning and computer/algorithmic investing can‘t be exciting? Prof Marcos Lopez de Prado in September 2018 joined AQR as their Head of Machine Learning/Principal with his team. „Our foundation in applied academia and our culture of intellectual curiosity mean we are always relentlessly looking for new data, signals and techniques to strengthen our …
Silicon Valley AI Startups, and how they sell to firms like Amazon, Google and Walmart
Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman first met at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and, while getting advanced computer science degrees at Stanford (and sharing an office with Sergey Brin), founded Junglee, a shopping search engine enabling customers to search for products from online and offline retailers in India, in 1996 (later bringing on two …
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Facebook hires Chief Data Scientist, Google hires Technical AI Director – both let them continue with consulting and research efforts: Flexicurity for AI Stars.
When Mark Zuckerberg last year hired Xin Fu as Head of Data Science from LinkedIn, the most interesting aspect for us was that he is letting him continue to be an advisor to Didi Chuxing’s CTO and Lynk Global’s CEO. Similarly, Google recently hired Amazon’s Senior Director for Alexa AI, Ashwin Ram, as Technical Director …
Facebook To Put FB, Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram into One Platform
Facebook is taking greater control over the back-end connections between Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, including encryption. The initiative is supposed to be implemented by 2020 and comes directly from CEO Zuckerberg. As mashable reports, Facebook is looking to stop the fading interest in the social network and hopes to benefit from the popularity of …
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JP Morgan Hires Senior Director for Data Science from SalesForce in AI Hiring Push
As said earlier this week, JP Morgan is continuously ramping up AI hiring efforts. Two months ago they snapped up the Chief Data Officer from Salesforce for their west coast AI efforts. Asset Management and AI, just the beginning… Naren Chittar sold his four staff company MinHash to Salesforce and joined the company as Senior …
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Amazon R2D2-esque AI Bot, Scout, Starting Deliveries in Washington
Meet Scout, the little R2D2esque AI box on wheels that is now making deliveries in Snohomish County, Washington, for Amazon. It will have a human with it in the beginning as the system is tested, but then Scout is on its own. Soon in a neighborhood near you, thanks to AI.
Microsoft buys Unit 8200 AI Boutique for Cloud App Security and to Build Up Israel
A few things we discussed this month are mixing together. Israel’s Innovation Authority released its from start-up to smart-up nation report on technology and AI, including challenges. And Microsoft, since engineer Satya Nadella became CEO, has shifted towards the cloud, AI and new industries/technologies – Azure is a big driver of the business and initiatives …
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