DarwinAI Unleashes COVID-Net

COVID-19 has gripped the world for the past month as it brought global industries to a screeching halt and overwhelmed healthcare systems. From AI and big data to supercomputing, tech has been fighting back by leveraging complex data analysis to aid in diagnosis, epidemiology and treatment. Now, DarwinAI, a Canadian AI startup, has announced a new tool to fight back against the pandemic: COVID-Net. The news was announced in a blog post by Sheldon Fernandez, CEO of DarwinAI. "The global crisis brought on by COVID-19 has affected us all," Fernandez wrote.