📝 Editorial 

NVIDIA has rapidly become one of the most consistent innovators in AI technologies. Most people associate NVIDIA with GPUs and AI-first chips, but their innovations in AI research and software platforms are second to none. This week during the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), NVIDIA unveiled an astonishing number of invitations across the entire deep learning spectrum. Here are some of the main software releases: 

• A new version of NVIDIA Triton™, an open-source hyperscale model inference solution.  

• A new release of NVIDIA Riva 2 speech AI SDK with new pretrained models.  

• NVIDIA NeMo Megatron’s famous framework for training large language models (LLMs) also released a new version.  

• NVIDIA Merlin 1.0, a new AI framework for building recommender systems. 

• NVIDIA Maxine is an audio and video quality enhancement SDK designed for real-time communications.  

Hardware was obviously front and center of GTC with new AI chips and a new platform that will power the faster AI supercomputer. There are only a handful of companies in the tech industry history that have been able to simultaneously lead software and hardware categories. For now, NVIDIA continues to deliver innovation in AI technologies at an incredible pace.  

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Now, let’s review the most important developments in the AI industry this week

🔎 ML Research

Google Docs Summarization 

Google Research published a very detailed blog post discussing the deep learning methods used to enable summarization Google docs →read more on Google Research blog

MoE and Azure Cognitive Services 

Microsoft Research published a paper detailing the adoption of mixture of experts (MoE) techniques in the Azure Cognitive Services Translator API →read more on Microsoft Research blog

Azure and Confidential Computing 

Microsoft Research published two papers discussing the use of confidential computing techniques in the Azure platform →read more on Microsoft Research blog

🤖 Cool AI Tech Releases

NVIDIA AI Announcements 

At its GTC conference, NVIDIA put together an impressive list of announcements about GPU and AI software in areas such as computer vision, speech, and metaverse technologies →read more in this press release from NVIDIA  

Mephisto 

Meta (AI) Research (FAIR) open sourced Mephisto, a framework for collaboration in dataset preparations →read more on FAIR blog  

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🛠 Real World ML

Causal Inference at Airbnb 

Airbnb published a blog post discussing how they leverage counterfactual inference models →read more on Airbnb blog

💸 Money in AI

Data/AI

• Data orchestration company Astronomer raised $213 million in a Series C round, led by global growth equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners. Astronomer also acquired data lineage tool Datakin. Hiring in the US and remote.

• Data-as-code company Datagen raised $50 Million in a Series B funding round led by Scale Venture Partners. Hiring in Tel Aviv/Israel and New York/US.

• Compute protocol Gensyn raised a $6.5 million seed led by Eden Block. Hiring remote.

AI-powered

• Finance automation platform Ramp raised $750 million in new financing round. Hiring in New York/US and remote.

• Consumer goods data and sustainability company Smarter Sorting raised $25 million in a funding round led by G2 Venture Partners. Hiring in Austin, TX, and Boulder, CO/US and remote.

• Creative Reality™ platform D-ID raised a $25 million Series B round led by investment firm Macquarie Capital. Hiring in Israel, the US, and UK.

• Cybersecurity platform MixMode raised $45 million in Series B funding round led by PSG. Hiring in Santa Barbara, CA/US or remote.

• Marketing strategy platform Brew raised a $12 million seed round led by Aleph and MizMaa. Hiring in Tel Aviv/Israel.

*This news digest is presented by Superb AI’s team. We thank Superb AI for their support of TheSequence.

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