Artificial intelligence
April 2020 headlines
A brief collection of artificial intelligence and ML news headlines, focusing where possible on South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania, and drawn from the online English-language media across April 2020.
- The startups leveraging AI and machine learning in a bid to transform business, selected from the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2020 list
- MIT terminates research partnership with China’s iFlytek AI firm over supply of technology for surveillance, repression and detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang
- China: 4Paradigm AI firm, founded by former Baidu engineers, raises additional $230M, taking valuation to $2BN and adding to backing of China’s 5 largest banks
- Japan: Cogent Labs AI startup secures $13M with 4 service offerings, aiming to expand in Asia
- ICYMI: Agara selected for Singapore Tourism Accelerator with AI-powered Autonomous Voice Conversation engine to handle customer calls without agent involvement
- Google opens Cloud Healthcare API to allow organizations to manage and analyze data in response to COVID-19
- Hong Kong: An interview intro to Terminal 1 Recruitment, using AI and automation to improve the hiring process for tech companies
- Huawei open-sources MindSpore AI framework, aiming to take on Google’s TensorFlow and Facebook’s PyTorch in application development
- China: Shanghai courts launch 6-month pilot program to use AI assistants to transcribe case notes, pull out files and present digitised evidence
- Google AutoML AI tools showcase research suggesting existing software could potentially be updated to evolve unknown algorithms while also reducing human bias
- India: An intro to TravelDilSe, AI-backed travel assistant platform providing customised holidays, price comparison and bookings, itinerary management and more
