Alphabet-backed Indian lender files for $171M IPO
Aye Finance, a lender targeting small- and medium-sized businesses in India, is seeking to raise $171 million from its initial public offering, it disclosed in a filing Tuesday. The offering…
2024
This AI Paper from Microsoft and Novartis Introduces Chimera: A Machine Learning Framework for Accurate and Scalable Retrosynthesis Prediction
Chemical synthesis is essential in developing new molecules for medical applications, materials science, and fine chemicals. This process, which involves planning chemical reactions to create desired target molecules, has traditionally…
How Data Collection Plays a Crucial Role in Developing Facial Recognition Models
Humans are adept at recognizing faces, but we also interpret expressions and emotions quite naturally. Research says we can identify personally familiar faces within 380ms after presentation and 460ms for…
Meta AI Releases Apollo: A New Family of Video-LMMs Large Multimodal Models for Video Understanding
While multimodal models (LMMs) have advanced significantly for text and image tasks, video-based models remain underdeveloped. Videos are inherently complex, combining spatial and temporal dimensions that demand more from computational…
Nubank leads $250M round in African digital bank Tyme at $1.5B valuation
Tyme Group, a South African-born fintech operating in the African country and the Philippines, has secured $250 million in a Series D round, pushing its valuation to $1.5 billion. The…
Hexa, the startup studio behind Aircall and Swan, unveils its next batch of startups
Hexa, a Paris-based startup studio that has launched dozens of B2B software companies, is sharing a list of its next batch of projects that are soon going to become independent…
UBC Researchers Introduce ‘First Explore’: A Two-Policy Learning Approach to Rescue Meta-Reinforcement Learning RL from Failed Explorations
Reinforcement Learning is now applied in almost every pursuit of science and tech, either as a core methodology or to optimize existing processes and systems. Despite broad adoption even in…
Gaze-LLE: A New AI Model for Gaze Target Estimation Built on Top of a Frozen Visual Foundation Model
Accurately predicting where a person is looking in a scene—gaze target estimation—represents a significant challenge in AI research. Integrating complex cues such as head orientation and scene context must be…
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has 100M daily active users
Meta’s X rival Threads is growing steadily with more than 100 million people using the service daily, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday. Zuckerberg also noted that Threads now…
What are some trends that mattered to SEA audiences (and the media) in 2024?
Tracking industry trends, and learning what audiences and the media have to say about them, is a large part of what we do at Isentia. With that in mind, we’ve…