Microsoft on Monday released a white paper explaining a current effort to run convolutional neural networks — the deep learning technique responsible for record-setting computer vision algorithms — on FPGAs rather… Read more »
Microsoft researchers claim in a recently published paper that they have developed the first computer system capable of outperforming humans on a popular benchmark. While it’s estimated that humans can classify images in… Read more »
Chinese search engine giant Baidu says it has developed a speech recognition system, called Deep Speech, the likes of which has never been seen, especially in noisy environments. In restaurant settings… Read more »
The Chinese web giant Baidu has decided on Nokia as its mapping partner for services outside of China. ‘s Here platform is one of the key remaining businesses of the Finnish… Read more »
Recent comments by machine learning experts have caused a stir, but debate over the novelty or architecture of deep learning might be best left in academia . As AI techniques make… Read more »
Gigaom recently hosted a meetup featuring thought leaders and entrepreneurs in the world of artificial intelligence and deep learning. Watch the videos of their presentations here. Read more »
The privacy-friendly search engine DuckDuckGo has been blocked in China, company CEO Gabriel Weinberg has told Tech in Asia. Weinberg said he was unsure when the blockade began, but Chinese censorship… Read more »
If the GSMA’s predictions are correct, two-thirds of the nine billion non-M2M mobile connections in 2020 will be from smartphones, with the vast majority coming from emerging markets. Read more »
Zhang Yaqin has been a key figure in Microsoft’s Chinese strategy for seven years, but reports say he’s leaving to join Chinese search powerhouse Baidu. Read more »
Join Gigaom for a free meetup on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Speakers from Google, Microsoft Research, Baidu and more will discuss the state of the art in fields such as… Read more »