AI news headlines in Q4 2021
• October, November & December of 2021
• Technology and startup news headlines
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The fourth quarter 2021 collection is drawn from
Startup News Asia’s daily updates.
October 2021 | November 2021 | December 2021
October 2021 headlines
Asia’s AI Agenda / MIT Tech Review (pdf)
- Facebook AI’s Ego4D, a long-term project built with consortium of 13 uni’s & labs in 9 countries, 2,200 hours of first-person video and over 700 participants in their daily lives
- Nvidia and Microsoft build world’s largest artificial intelligence-powered language model to date, superceding OpenAI’s GPT-3 AI
- South Korea’s Aniai from the Born2Global Centre selected as 1 of 10 companies to participate in Q3 intake of Microsoft for Startups with AI-backed robotic kitchen tech
- India: Microsoft launches startup-focused AI Innovate programme and AI Playbook to provide resources, partnerships and guidance around deploying AI at scale
- Asia’s tech news, issue 095: Tech & the Quad, HSBC JumpStarter, AI in India, BNPL in Vietnam, Uber & Sri Lanka…
- ‘Principles for Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Approach Document for India, Part 1’ (pdf)
Accenture: Digital Commerce Today, Quantum Commerce Tomorrow (pdf)
November 2021 headlines
The Global Risks Report 2022 / World Economic Forum (pdf)
- ICYMI: The Global AI Vibrancy Tool – an interactive visualization allowing cross-country comparison of up to 26 countries across 22 indicators
- H2Oai closes $100M in funding led by Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with CBA set to explore artificial intelligence-driven products and services
- India: Bihar State Election Commission trials Staqu AI startup’s video analytics with optical character recognition to analyse CCTV feeds at counting booths during local elections
- India: Cadbury launches website allowing shops to create custom advertisements featuring Shah Rukh Khan, using AI tech to recreate the actor’s face and voice
- Singapore: The 100 Experiments, AI Singapore programme aiming to solve industrial artificial intelligence problem statements, helping them build their own AI teams
Asia’s AI Agenda / MIT Tech Review (pdf)
- China: Wision AI tains Europe’s CE mark for AI-enabled, real-time polyp detection software used in colonoscopy procedures
- India’s AI conundrum: “Thriving automation and artificial intelligence industries pose difficult decisions for a country with an ever-growing workforce.”
- South Korea: An intro to 10 K-Startup Center startups taking steps into overseas markets in Singapore program
- ICYMI: Quantumcyte selected as Singapore’s SLINGSHOT Grand Winner, with AI-driven tissue dissection, providing more accurate test results for cancer patients
- Australia: Construction Startup Competition 2021 in the US selects Presien and ProcurePro amongst winners, with AI-driven HR risk management and subcontractor procurement respectively
- Asia’s tech news, issue 117: Korean VC in Singapore, AI & med-tech, Japan e-commerce, Australian legal-tech…
- Asia’s tech news, issue 115: India & automation, Malaysia’s startups, fake news in Korea, VC in India, VC education in Australia…
pwc: The Future Of Work – The journey to 2022 (pdf)
December 2021 headlines
MIT Tech Review: Asia’s AI Agenda – The Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence
- ICYMI: Sanas, an artificial intelligence-powered software startup that aims to beat poor communication by changing people’s accents in real time
- China’s SenseTime IPO plan uncertain as US blacklists company over AI-driven ‘facial recognition programs that can determine a target’s ethnicity’
- Facebook AI’s Ego4D, a long-term project built with consortium of 13 uni’s & labs in 9 countries, 2,200 hours of first-person video and over 700 participants in their daily lives
- Nvidia and Microsoft build world’s largest artificial intelligence-powered language model to date, superceding OpenAI’s GPT-3 AI
- South Korea’s Aniai from the Born2Global Centre selected as 1 of 10 companies to participate in Q3 intake of Microsoft for Startups with AI-backed robotic kitchen tech
Artificial Intelligence and the future of Europe (pdf)
- India: Microsoft launches startup-focused AI Innovate programme and AI Playbook to provide resources, partnerships and guidance around deploying AI at scale
- ‘Principles for Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Approach Document for India, Part 1’ (pdf)
- 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’s Artificial Intelligence Action Plan
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