NVIDIA today unveiled the NVIDIA DGX-1, the world's first deep learning supercomputer to meet the unlimited computing demands of artificial intelligence. The NVIDIA DGX-1 is the first system designed specifically for deep learning -- it comes fully integrated with hardware, deep learning software and development tools for quick, easy deployment. It is a turnkey system that contains a new generation of GPU accelerators, delivering the equivalent throughput of 250 x86 servers.1 The DGX-1 deep learning system enables researchers and data scientists to easily harness the power of GPU-accelerated computing to create a new class of intelligent machines that learn, see and perceive the world as humans do. It delivers unprecedented levels of computing power to drive next-generation AI applications, allowing researchers to dramatically reduce the time to train larger, more sophisticated deep neural networks. NVIDIA designed the DGX-1 for a new computing model to power the AI revolution that is sweeping across science, enterprises and increasingly all aspects of daily life.

Amazon has acquired PhotoTime creator Orbeus, an artificial intelligence startup that specializes in photo-recognition technology. The acquisition took place in the fall of 2015, according to sources familiar with the matter. This would be the latest in a string of acquisitions in the area of deep learning, with deals already completed for high-performance computing company Nice and video processing company Elemental Technologies. Orbeus developed photo-recognition technology based on a powerful type of AI called neural networks. It automatically identifies people and objects in photos and videos.

Tokyo, April 8, 2016 - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) today announced the development of "EMIEW3," a humanoid robot, and its "remote brain"*1 robotics IT platform. EMIEW3, capable of autonomously approaching customers requiring assistance, was developed to provide necessary services and guidance in stores and public facilities. Enhanced by the "remote brain" consisting of a robotics IT platform connected to cloud-based intelligent processing systems and a remote operation system to monitor and control multiple robots at various locations, EMIEW3 is able to provide high quality services. Since the announcement of "EMIEW" in 2005, Hitachi has continued to develop human symbiotic robots that can safely co-exist with humans, providing robot-based services with advanced communication capabilities. Using EMIEW2, first announced in 2007, Hitachi developed functions necessary for customer and guidance services, and demonstrated capabilities which include autonomous mobility at a brisk human walking pace, isolation of human voice from background noise, accessing information from the Web to identify objects and using indoor network cameras as "eyes" to locate objects.

Small business financing can be challenging and risky, especially with the uncertain nature of small businesses given that large corporations are aggressively penetrating various market niches. While traditional financial institutions may turn away from SMEs, some alternative lenders are quite successful in delivering financing to these businesses. One of the market leaders in the alternative small business finance space, CAN Capital, has announced that it reached 6 billion in delivering access to working capital for small businesses. During its 18 years in business, CAN Capital has provided access to more working capital than any other company in the space. To date, CAN Capital has helped facilitate over 170,000 small business fundings in hundreds of unique industries, such as restaurants, medical offices and beauty salons.

While companies such as Google chase the fully autonomous car, Toyota is taking a more measured approach toward a "guardian angel" car that would seize control only when an accident is imminent. But as starkly different as those approaches are, they both will require a wide range of data-intensive technologies, according to Gill Pratt (pictured), chief executive officer of the Toyota Research Institute, a research center focused on AI and robotics. He spoke at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose today. Toyota has made a huge bet–a billion dollars over five years, in fact–not only on semiautonomous cars but robots that could help older people with indoor mobility. The Toyota Research Institute, which will have facilities near Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is intended to focus both on what Toyota calls outdoor mobility (cars) as well as indoor mobility (robots).

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said his company is committed to playing a key role in the emerging market for artificial intelligence-based chat software, one week after the company's first Internet chat bot in the U.S. was so manipulated by users that it had to be pulled down within a day of its introduction. "It's a simple concept yet it's very powerful in its impact it is about taking the power of human language and applying it more pervasively in all our computing," Nadella said about the strategy the company has dubbed conversation as a platform. The CEO was speaking Wednesday at the company's Build conference for software developers in San Francisco. Later, in a keynote speech, Nadella will outline the company's strategy for conversation-based products working with bots, which are pieces of software that use artificial intelligence to automate or accomplish tasks, as well as tools for developers to create their own. Nadella has been trying to expand Microsoft's reach and influence in AI, emphasizing how the technology can augment products in the mobile and cloud-computing markets.

SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 30, 2016) - EverString, the fastest-growing predictive marketing SaaS company, today announced that its artificial intelligence-powered platform is now integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. The new integration empowers users to optimize the prospect-to-customer journey by enabling sales and marketing teams to prioritize existing prospects and also identify net new, high-quality leads using the power of predictive marketing. "Predictive Marketing is quickly becoming an integral piece of an intelligent customer engagement solution and we are excited to offer this powerful technology through our partnership with EverString," said Jujhar Singh, general manager, Microsoft Dynamics CRM. "With EverString's predictive marketing technology, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online customers can improve sales outcomes not only by prioritizing prospect conversations but also by filling their pipeline with high-value accounts." Delivered as a SaaS platform, the EverString integration provides marketers with the ability to analyze and validate their entire addressable market of prospects, then proactively select and target the optimal audience based on data from their Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and more than 20,000 external signals. EverString's predictive marketing technology leverages applied data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to find and analyze patterns in the pipeline of all prospects and customers existing in a user's instance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.

Lutron announced today that its Caseta wireless lighting systems are now compatible with Amazon's Alexa voice-control system, enabling owners of Amazon's Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, or Amazon Fire TV to control Caseta-connected lighting fixtures with voice commands. "Caseta users who also own Alexa-capable devices can now dim, brighten, and control individual lights or groups of lights using their voice," Lutron product manager Neil Orchowski said in an embargoed briefing last week.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digitisation will change the future of cars, challenge traditional business models and create immense potential for innovation. In future, cars will be cognitive not only will they recognize voices and be able to optimise the journey, they will also incorporate other cognitive technologies of AI - computer vision, machine learning, rules based systems as well as planning and scheduling. It is around these subjects that Frost & Sullivan's Intelligent Mobility event - taking place in London on the 28th and 29th of June - will evolve. Today, there are 4.4 million taxis globally. In 2020 this number is expected to reach 5.5 million.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digitisation will change the future of cars, challenge traditional business models and create immense potential for innovation. In future, cars will be cognitive not only will they recognize voices and be able to optimise the journey, they will also incorporate other cognitive technologies of AI - computer vision, machine learning, rules based systems as well as planning and scheduling. It is around these subjects that Frost & Sullivan's Intelligent Mobility event - taking place in London on the 28th and 29th of June - will evolve. Today, there are 4.4 million taxis globally. In 2020 this number is expected to reach 5.5 million.