All tagged artificial intelligence
Today we have with us, Mark Kurtz CTO at Neural Magic where Mark leads a team of engineers and researchers creating cutting-edge solutions for deep learning challenges. Neural Magic was founded in 2017 by MIT professors and research scientists, and most recently the company recently raised a $35M Series A round led by NEA, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, VMware, Verizon, Amdocs, Comcast, Pillar, and Ridgeline Ventures.
It seems that lately we are all in some state of persistent mental health crisis. Unfortunately, there are not enough mental health practitioners to go around. Today, we are talking to a company that is building tech to help solve the rationed care problem.
One of the things I love is seeing technology applied to everyday things you don't think much about. If you have ever spent much time in a high rise building, you have been startled by someone with a brush and squeegee outside of your window. Window washing is a business that hasn't changed a whole lot over its history, but now there is a company that is changing that.
Sandesh and I went to the HPC + AI Wall Street conference where friend of the show Ryan Quick was a featured speaker. There were a bunch of sessions focusing on everything from Quantum computing and Neuromorphic computing to Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. The show was run by Tabor communications that is the publisher of HPC Wire, Datanami, and EnterpriseAI to name a few.
In the world of security, operationalizing your security is a big challenge. Most companies don't have a good perspective on where their biggest threats lie, and what should be their focus. This means that money and effort doesn't always provide the biggest bang for the buck. Today we are going to be talking with a company that helps you understand you threat profile so you can build the right defenses.
Facial recognition is everywhere. We have heard stories about all kinds of surveillance, but facial recognition is even more integrated into our lives than you may realize. Every time I access my phone, it uses facial recognition, when you use filters on popular apps, that is facial recognition. Even the camera I am using right now is tracking my eyes to focus. Today we are going to talk with a company that builds one of these systems.
AI is now a part of our lives, and it will be critical in helping us make decisions, but it is not without its challenges. Today we are going to be talking with a company that focuses on solving some of the big problems, Hypergiant.
When Sandesh and I are talking with startups, they typically lack a critical piece in their path to success, someone to drive company culture and vision and to communicate that with both employees and customers. This is usually when you hear the phrase, “You just need someone like Hat, “ or, “If we only had Hat.” The Hat everyone is talking about is David Hatfield, co-CEO of the cloud security platform Lacework, which just raised and absolutely stunning $1.3B with an $8.3B valuation.
We have all had the dream that we could live in a world of automation, like George Jetson, just pushing a button. That dream has been slow to arrive, but now we are seeing the rise of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Assistants. Companies that specialize in automating the mundane, and not so mundane task of people, have finally arrive to help drag us all into the future.
