Q3 2021 in Artificial Intelligence
• July, August and September of 2021
• Tech news headlines at a glance
• Quick reference for a time-poor audience
• One-click access to each full tech news article
• Online and drawn from daily tech news
July 2021 | August 2021 | September 2021
AI news headlines: September 2021
- New Zealand: HeartLab raises $2.45M seed funding with AI-driven heart scanning and reporting platform for cardiologists, with sights on US entry early in 2022
- China: Black Sesame Technologies approaches $2BN valuation with artificial intelligence-based self-driving vehicle computing chips
- Vietnam-Australia artificial intelligence cooperation network launches, aiming to boost knowledge-sharing in the field
- China: LLVision Tech releases eyewear that converts speech into text in real-time for hearing-impaired people, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence
- Philippines: Connected Women social impact startup partnered by Union Bank to develop financial inclusion solutions contextualized for Filipinos
- Australia: GamefaceAI acquired in $33M deal by Slinger Bags equipment giant with AI-driven analysis of sports footage, providing insights on a match or sporting performance
- Australia: A brief intro to 10 sports-tech startups, working with analytics, AI, virtual reality and more
Artificial intelligence in August 2021
- Available to download: Australia’s AI Action Plan, a key feature of the Australian Government’s Digital Economy Strategy
- China: A brief overview of the state of play in the country’s microprocessor space, as China’s startups race to gain an advantage in the artificial intelligence chip market
- AI’s potential in financial crime detection: “In recent years, financial crime scandals involving front and shell companies have led to fines of hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars.”
- India: AgNext Technologies takes AI Gamechanger Program agriculture category win artificial intelligence in the post-harvest quality assessment process
- Download: Artificial Intelligence & Its Role In Delivering Economic Value To Indian Enterprises, from RBSA Advisors (pdf)
- India: Ministry of Science and Technology announces special incentives scheme to support 75 startups in telemedicine, digital health and artificial intelligence
- Philippines: Medhyve gains gov’t funding under Startup Research Grant with AI-driven medical supplies procurement and B2B platform
- Taiwan: Neurobit secures $1.1M with artificial intelligence-backed diagnosis of neurological disorders
- Taiwan: An intro to the 10 Taiwan Tech Arena startups set to showcase in the program’s first Global Innovation Pitch Showcase, in partnership with Berkeley SkyDeck
- Tech news: Recent technology headlines across artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity and the broad fintech space
- AI and phishing emails: “They were surprised to find that more people clicked the links in the AI-generated messages than the human-written ones – by a significant margin.”
- “You might think human lawyers would fear AI…but some are pleased, as the software can be used to quickly trawl through and sort vast quantities of case documents.”
- “An artificial-intelligence ‘artist’ got a solo show at a Chelsea gallery. Will it reinvent art, or destroy it?”
- An overview of Nvidia’s Inception AI startup program, currently tracking the progress of more than 8,500 artificial intelligence startups across the globe
- South Korea: A brief intro to the 10 startups taking part in TIPS Global Pre-accelerator 2021 program, working in AI, healthtech, fitness and more
AI news headlines in July 2021
- ICYMI: “Advances in AI are helping some startups develop another way to pollinate plants, which could increase yield compared with insects and human workers”
- Global Veritas Challenge 2021 proposal submissions close July 30th, seeking solutions around responsible use of artificial intelligence across 4 focus areas
- Download: Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2021, from Stanford University (pdf)
- AI and fraud detection: ” in the overall financial fraud stakes, internal fraud accounted for close to 70% of all cases annually…”
- AI x Gov 2021 online event set for July 27th, hosting sessions around the theme of ‘public sector innovation through artificial intelligence’
- “Using AI in journalism poses the greater ethical dilemma, Broussard said. ‘People are more forgiving when we use this kind of technology in fiction…’”
- ICYMI: A brief look at how Austrian publisher Kronen Zeitung uses machine learning to moderate user comments and boost reader engagement
- Australia: 2 AI projects to share Au$250K funding under NSW Gov’t Access to Justice Innovation Fund
- Australia: Skyfii acquires Los Angeles’ CrowdVision, building out location-based analytics with AI, computer vision and Lidar to study passenger flows at airports
- Big tech: “That YouTube’s AI is still – per Mozilla’s study – behaving so badly also suggests Google has been pretty successful at fuzzing criticism with superficial claims of reform.”
- China: An overview of Wisdon, using cloud-based AI and Internet of Things tech to make city infrastructure ‘smarter’, automating water, electricity and gas meter processes
- China: AutoX self-driving vehicles startup unveils Gen5 self-drive system designed for robotaxis, built on NVIDIA DRIVE auto grade GPUs
- China: Shanghai announces municipal Artificial Intelligence plan to look at rule changes around digital tech, technical standards risk monitoring
- India: Fountain9 raises $1.9M seed funding with AI-driven predictive inventory planning, in part looking at impacting a global food waste problem of $260BN
- New Zealand: Kāhu secures $3M with artificial intelligence tech for detecting skin cancers, aiding doctors in melanoma diagnosis
- Singapore: Monetary Authority launches Global Veritas Challenge to promote adoption of artificial intelligence solutions in the financial sector
- Singapore: CrediLinqAI gains $1M angel funding with AI-driven approach intended to change how credit is underwritten
- AI Singapore opens 5-month Trusted Media Challenge, seeking AI models and solutions to easily detect audiovisual fake media across both sound and vision
- An intro to Singapore’s Easy Eat AI, tech startup aiming to ‘transform restaurants into tech companies’, suggesting menu changes, inventory, and dishes for customers
- e-news, latest issue: Autonomous trucking in China, AI in media, legal-tech in Australia, Google’s India investments…
- Sri Lanka: A look at SpectrifyAI, producing spectral scanners for the agriculture supply chain able to analyse chemical composition of soil and crops in real-time
- Vietnam: MoMo payments startup acquires Pique AI startup in bid to further capitalize on user data using Pique’s recommendation engine
- South Korea: Mathpresso fast-growing edtech startup raises $50M Series C with app-based mobile learning incorporating AI
- India: Hyreo HR-tech startup raises pre-series A funding, using AI to improve the hiring process from the candidate’s point of view via ‘candidate experience management’ via
- e-news, latest issue: Singapore restaurant AI, B2B in Indonesia, Korean incubator, Australian on-demand parking…
- China: InferVision gains $139M with platform AI to screen, diagnose and treat cancers, and cardiovascular and infectious diseases
- Startup News Asia e-newsletter issue 009 online now – AI in Shanghai, IoT in India, Malaysia’s startups, BNPL in Vietnam and more
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