We use technology to think beyond what’s possible …. is how BlackRock, the largest investment manager in the world with $6.4 trillion in AUM, welcomes visitors to it’s homepage. This week BlackRock and Microsoft announced a partnership to create a retirement solution investment platform with digital financial planning tools, alongside a new generation of BlackRock …
Blackstone and Goldman Sachs Asset Management this summer bought a minority stake in Dipanjan “DJ” Deb’s Francisco Equity Partners. Francisco Partners est. 2000 operates in London and San Francisco, and is a tech investor. This year they put $500m in LegalZoom jointly with GPI Capital, Franklin Templeton and Neuberger Berman. Francisco Partners also owns Bomgar, …
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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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Facebook AI Research is open-sourcing PyText, a modeling framework that blurs the boundaries between experimentation and large-scale deployment (built on PyTorch, its open source deep learning framework). FB wants to make to make it easier to build and deploy NLP systems for developers, according to a blog post by Ahmed Aly Hegazy and Christopher Dewan …
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The Neural Processing Information Systems conference is the Woodstock of artificial intelligence. Currently in its 32nd year, the conference sold out in less than 10 minutes… better than most rock stars for Madison Square Garden. In short, NIPS is a big deal. Well, it‘s not NIPS anymore, now that the organizers changed it to NeurIPS …
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The Bureau of Industry and Security within the US commerce department is reviewing the controls for certain emerging technologies, especially AI, to see whether and how tech firms can or cannot export and sell their technologies abroad (an interesting angle to the US/China trade and cybersecurity issues and the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi …
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Microsoft just signed an almost $500 million HoloLens contract with the US military, providing HoloLens prototypes for combat and training. With the expanded deal, some 100,000 soldiers might use the augmented reality headsets in combat. Microsoft beat out some of the venerable defense contractors over the summer (Booz Allen, Lockheed etc), showcasing how tech firms …
I get a lot of questions around where and how to learn (about) machine, deep and reinforcement learning. Open AI (the non for profit group founded by The Who is Who of technology) recently created Spinning Up (https://lnkd.in/eNjGXAt), an educational resource to learn about deep reinforcement learning – it has terminology introductions, essays, a curated …
In our meetings with AI pioneers globally throughout this year, Israel and its AI ingenuity were high on our list. For a good reason… not only are many of the leading US AI centers and university led by Israeli scientists, but the talent pool in Tel Aviv is deep (we also love the city for …
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