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The first class action suits against GitHub Copilot have been filed

On November 3, a class action lawsuit was filed in a U.S. federal court in San Francisco against OpenAI, Microsoft and GitHub. The plaintiffs are challenging the legality of GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex, which allegedly violate the terms of the open source licenses. They are s...

Belgium adopts a national plan for the development of artificial intelligence

Like many other countries, Belgium intends to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by AI. In order to become a European leader in this field, it has adopted the ” National Convergence Plan for the Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, which was app...

Waymo turns its robot cabs into mobile weather stations

Bad weather can have an impact on an autonomous driving system. To improve its technology, Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet Group, decided to make Waymo Driver a mobile weather station. In a blog post on Nov. 14, the company announced that it has designed a new “quantitative...

Google Research introduces Code as Policies (CaP), a new code generation tool

Large-scale language models (LLMs) have been in the news more and more lately. Last April, Google Research presented PaLM (Pathways Language Model), a 540 billion parameter decoder. Last August, the researchers teamed up with Everyday Robots to develop PaLM-SayCan, a robotic algo...

IFRI publishes a study outlining the European smart city model

In the context of the Smart City Expo World Congress 2022, IFRI, the French Institute of International Relations, published on November 16, the study ” Neither surveillance nor algorithmic consumerism. Towards an alternative European model for smart cities”. Jacques P...

“Refik Anadol: Unsupervised”, when AI invites itself to the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Since November 19, visitors to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York have been able to see Refik Anadol’s exhibition, “Unsupervised.” Upon entering Grund Hall at the museum’s entrance, they are confronted with a 24-by-24-foot multimedia wall featurin...

Event: the 2nd edition of the Artificial Intelligence Forum organized by LNE will take place on December 6

On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, LNE is organizing the second edition of its Artificial Intelligence Forum, focusing mainly on regulations, with a view to the publication of the future European regulation estimated for 2023, and on the AI standardization strategy. Every day, with th...

Declaration of the Ministers of the GPAI members

On the occasion of the GPAI Summit held on November 21 and 22 in Tokyo, the ministers of the GPAI members issued the following statement. 1. We, the Ministers of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) members, meeting in Tokyo on November 21-22, 2022: 2. Reaffir...

The Wordcraft Writers Workshop evaluates Wordcraft, Google’s creative writing tool

On July 15, 2021, PAIR, a multidisciplinary team at Google, introduced Wordcraft, a creative writing tool based on the LaMDA language model, built on Transformer, a neural network architecture that Google Research invented in 2017. To gain insight into the potential role of AI in...

Event : The French Tech Grand Paris launches the 2nd edition of the Paris AI Week

The French Tech Grand Paris launched the second edition of the Paris AI Week on Monday, November 14. Like last year, the main goal of this festival of events is to open the doors of the French AI ecosystem to everyone, from November 14 to 25. To highlight the French AI ecosystem,...

Sierra Space partners with IBM to develop next-generation space technology

Sierra Space, a commercial space company, and IBM, a technology leader in the space industry, announced the signing of a new memorandum of understanding in late October. The two companies plan to collaborate on the development of the next generation of space technologies and soft...

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Meta unveils MultiRay, the platform for optimizing large-scale AI models

MultiRay is currently employed in over 125 use cases at Meta and supports up to 20 million requests per second, or 800 billion per day . Its first model, TextRay, supports text analytics applications to remove misleading content and improve users’ search experience on its p...

Meta AI and Papers with Code present Galactica, an open source scientific language model

Meta AI and Papers with Code, an autonomous team within Meta AI Research, on Nov. 15 introduced Galactica, an open source language model with 120 billion parameters trained on a large corpus that can store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge. The goal is to help find u...

Insilico Medicine, the latest startup chosen by Sanofi to accelerate drug discovery with AI

Insilico Medicine, an AI-based clinical-stage drug discovery company, announced a multi-year, multi-targeted strategic research collaboration with Sanofi on November 8. Under the terms of the agreement, which could be worth up to $1.2 billion, the collaboration will leverage Insi...

The French Tech Mission launches the Health20 program for healthcare start-ups

The sectoral programs of the Mission French Tech aim to support start-ups positioned in sectors identified as strategic in the framework of France 2030. After Green20, Agri20, DeepNum20, it is now the turn of the French Tech Health20 program to launch a call for applications: sta...

NVIDIA and Microsoft partner to build an AI supercomputer

NVIDIA announced this Wednesday, Nov. 16, a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft to build an AI supercomputer that is expected to be among the most powerful in the world, powered by Microsoft Azure’s advanced supercomputing infrastructure combined with NVIDIA GPUs, netwo...

AI and animal welfare: when AI helps stop the illegal pet trade

Identifying illegal ads on the Internet more quickly and following up on them is one of four pilot projects assigned to FARI by Bernard Clerfayt, Belgium’s Minister for Digital Transition. The Brussels-based institute, founded by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the...

Enter the world of AI” exhibition: going beyond the clichés of AI

AI strategies are at the heart of the research of Aurélien Garivier, a professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, a member of UMPA and an associate at LIP. Motivated by the demystification of this discipline, the researcher has been heavily involved in the Enter the AI wo...

Improving the inpatient experience with artificial intelligence

Since 2016, patients who have provided an email address to the healthcare facility, hospital or clinic where they were treated, receive an email a fortnight after their discharge containing a link to an optional online experience and satisfaction questionnaire: e-satis. At the en...

EDF offers manufacturers to optimize the quality of their products and services with the AI solution of its new subsidiary Yxir

Yxir.ia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the EDF Group and a product of the EDF Pulse Incubation intrapreneurship program, offers manufacturers a solution that enables them to better manage the processing and analysis of data from their quality management systems in order to better ...

Destination AI, a free online course to understand and demystify AI

The Institut Montaigne, the Abeona Foundation and Open Classrooms had joined forces to offer an online training program in French: Objectif IA. They have joined forces with UNESCO to offer a new free online course available in French and English: Destination AI, which aims to hel...

France 2030: the government unveils the first five winners of the “Intelligent and Sustainable Territories” call for proposals

Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate in charge of Digital Transition and Telecommunications, Olivier Klein, Minister Delegate in charge of Cities and Housing, and Bruno Bonnell, Secretary General for Inv...

Renault and Google strengthen their partnership to create the connected car of tomorrow

Initiated in 2018, the collaboration between the Renault group and Google is accelerating. On November 8, the group announced the signing of new contracts for the design and implementation of the digital architecture of the Software Defined Vehicle, the connected vehicle of the f...

Event: The 5th edition of the AI for Health conference will be held on November 16

AI for Health is back for its 5th edition, an expected anniversary for the international AI and healthecosystem .On November 16, at Station F, from 9am to 7:30pm, the annual AI for Health conference, co-founded by Artefact and Janssen France, will bring together the AI and Health...

Morocco inaugurates its International Center for Artificial Intelligence

On November 9, the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, based in Rabat, inaugurated the International Center for Artificial Intelligence. The first of its kind in Morocco and named “Ai mouvement”, this center is housed under the dome of the University and is one of the...

According to a report from Genius Consultants, 68% of companies believe AI in HR increases overall work accuracy

HR solutions provider Genius Consultants has released a report based on an online survey of more than 825 organizations across all industries, including banking and finance, construction and engineering, education, FMCG, hospitality, HR solutions, IT, ITES and BPO, logistics, man...

AI and health: how artificial intelligence helps fight knee osteoarthritis

Last May, the project ” Development of a functional score to guide the diagnosis and therapeutic recommendation of knee pathologies” was among the winners of the call for projects “For innovations of the future” from Axelys, a Quebec non-profit organizatio...

UC Berkeley researchers optimize neural networks with generative models of control points

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, propose a data-driven approach to optimizing neural networks using generative models trained on these parameters. Their study, ” Learning to Learn with Generative Models of Neural Network Checkpoints,” was publish...

Automation: Gartner study finds large organizations plan to double the number of AI projects in place

According to Gartner’s annual AI survey of 699 decision makers from organizations in the U.S., Germany and the U.K., conducted online from October to December 2021 and released in August, large organizations expect to double the number of AI projects in place, and 80 percen...

Report explores current malicious uses of AI to better understand the future of cybercrime

The exponential growth of communication technologies has led to an increase in cybercrime cases. In the research paper “Malicious Uses and Abuses of Artificial Intelligence,” security provider Trend Micro, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research In...

Replay: Conference “AI for the environment, the challenge of data” organized by the Hub France IA

Environmental issues are at the heart of today’s debates and challenges. The rapidly expanding digital sector is working to identify solutions and recommendations to reduce its own environmental footprint. Artificial intelligence is both a means of dealing effectively with ...

AudioGen, the text-to-audio AI model from Meta AI

Researchers from Meta AI and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem present AudioGen, an auto-regressive AI model based on Transformer that generates audio samples conditioned on text inputs. Their study entitled: ” AudioGen: textually guided audio generation” was publish...

Event: the 5th edition of the Soph.I.A Summit will take place from November 23 to 25, 2022 in Sophia Antipolis

Organized by the Université Côte d’Azur, the Sophia Antipolis Agglomeration Community and the Sophia Club Entreprises with the support of the Alpes Maritimes Department, the 5th edition of the Soph.I.A Summit will be held from November 23 to 25, 2022 in Sophia Antipolis. Th...

DeepMind gives voice to scientists using AlphaFold

AlphaFold, the AI system that can accurately predict 3D models of protein structures from their amino acid sequences developed by DeepMind, has revolutionized proteomics research. Since its creation, it has accelerated research in many fields: drug discovery, vaccine development,...

Humans and AI must be paired for effective online content moderation, survey finds

According to an August 11 Pollfish survey of 1,000 Americans conducted for TELUS International, a leader in digital customer experience, the vast majority (92%) of consumers surveyed think it’s important or very important that online content be reviewed by humans, not just ...

Posits, a revolution in mathematics?

Mathematics plays a prominent role in the developments brought about by artificial intelligence in recent years: we think in particular of machine learning, or computational neuroscience. Recently, two researchers have started what could be a revolution thanks to posits, which ar...

The Assises des Mathématiques will be held from November 14 to 16 at UNESCO House

“How can French mathematics participate in solving the great challenges of tomorrow?” is the theme of the Assisses des mathématiques, which will take place from November 14 to 16 at Unesco House under the high patronage of Emmanuel Macron. Organized by the National In...

Review of the second edition of the symposium “Artificial Intelligence and Medicine: promises and limits

CSAIL, the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the MIT Institute for Medical Science and Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine and the Health Data Club organized last year’s symposium “Artificial Intelligence and Medicine: promises and...

The webinar “Industry and AI in the challenge of gender, stereotypes and bias” organized by Digital Aquitaine and Aerospace Valley will be held on November 15

Aerospace Valley and IA Data science of Digital Aquitaine invite you to participate in the webinar: “Industry and AI in the challenge of gender issues, stereotypes and biases” on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 from 10:30 to 12:00 online. The deployment of artificial intel...

Learn more about SuccessfulAI, a platform for accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence

The MEDEF and the consultant BCG published in June 2022, on the occasion of La Ref Num, a second edition of their study on the digital maturity of companies. Their verdict is clear: French SMEs must accelerate. According to the study, while the health crisis has had an accelerati...

Meta presents “ESM Metagenomic Atlas”, a database of 617 million metagenomic protein structures

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this November 1 that Meta AI has created a model that predicts protein folding 60 times faster than state-of-the-art models: ESM-2, which has 15 billion parameters. The company published it along with the ESM (Evolutionary Scale Modelling) Metag...

Capgemini announces agreement to acquire Quantmetry

Capgemini announced on October 28 that it has reached an agreement to acquire Quantmetry, an independent consulting firm specializing in mathematical data modeling and the development of AI technology solutions. The group intends to strengthen its skills in data transformation at...

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Meta unveils AI-based Hokkien speech translation system

More than 40% of the world’s 7,000 living languages are transmitted orally from generation to generation and have no formal writing system. Meta, which aims to develop a universal speech translator, introduces a new AI-based speech-to-speech translation system dedicated to ...

Predicting cardiovascular events with retinal scans and artificial intelligence

Researchers at St George’s University of London used the QUantitative Analysis of Retinal Vessels Topology and siZe (QUARTZ) retinal image analysis algorithm developed in a previous study and applied it to retinal vasculometry (RV) to predict cardiovascular disease, myocard...

Meta unveils Grand Teton, a next-generation platform for large-scale AI

At the Open Compute Project (OCP) 2022 Summit held October 18-20 in San Jose, California, Meta shared its innovations, among them Grand Teton, a next-generation AI hardware platform using H100 GPUs based on the NVIDIA HOPPER architecture. AI models are becoming increasingly compl...

CNRS and IRSN launch the APP “Materials, Health and Measurements: at the heart of nuclear challenges

The Mission for Transversal and Interdisciplinary Initiatives (MITI) aims to promote, animate and coordinate interdisciplinarity at the CNRS, and more particularly the interaction between its ten institutes. In this context, it is launching a joint call for projects in 2023 with ...

Institut Pasteur researchers launch an open platform for sharing super-resolution microscopy data

Researchers from the Imaging and Modeling Unit at Institut Pasteur, led by Christophe Zimmer, propose ShareLoc.XYZ, an open platform for sharing single molecule localization microscopy data and tools. It will allow access to large collections of images produced by super-resolutio...

Focus on the “Girls, Math and Computing: A Luminous Equation” days

Convincing young girls interested in mathematics and computer science that they are capable of pursuing scientific studies, and fighting against social stereotypes are the objectives of the “Girls, math and computer science: a luminous equation” days. These events are...

French Tech DeepNum20 unveils the 20 winners of its 1st edition

This Thursday, October 27, 2022, Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate in charge of Digital Transition and Telecommunications and Clara Chappaz, Director of the Mission French Tech announced the list of winning start-ups of the1st edition of the French Tech DeepNum20, among which 6...

The “Laboratory of the Future” at the heart of the S.E.C.F. and INSA Rouen Normandie Scientific and Professional Day

The Société des Experts Chimistes de France (S.E.C.F.), INSA Rouen Normandie and its CFI department are organizing a Scientific and Professional Day (JSP) on Thursday 10 November on the theme of the “Laboratory of the Future”. On this occasion, many renowned speakers ...

Focus on the Exploratory Report on Metaverse Development

Rima Abdul Malak, Minister of Culture, and Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate in charge of Digital Transition and Telecommunications, received the exploratory report on the development of metavers on October 24. This report calls for the definition of a real French and European ...

UMR LIP6 and BodyCap launch their labcom ICI-lab, to screen for intestinal diseases

LIP6, a joint research unit of Sorbonne University and the CNRS, and Body CAP have created a joint laboratory called “Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Ingestible Capsules Lab” (ICI-lab) in collaboration with SATT Lutech, one of the Technology Transfer Acceleration...

Mila Institute and Multiverse Computing announce partnership to advance AI and ML

Multiverse Computing, a leading developer of value-added quantum computing applications, and MILA, an artificial intelligence research institute specializing in deep learning, announced a new partnership on October 25 that will use quantum methods to advance AI and machine learni...

Applications for the 2023 Academy of Sciences Lovelace-Babbage Computer Prize are now open

Created last year by the French Academy of Sciences in partnership with the Société Informatique de France, the “Lovelace-Babbage” computer science prize rewards scientists, women and men, whose work, from the most theoretical to the most applied, contributes to the c...

Google Cloud launches OpenXLA, an open source project to optimize ML model development

Google Cloud recently launched the OpenXLA project, a community-based open source ecosystem of ML compilers and infrastructure projects aimed at making ML frameworks easy to use with a variety of hardware backends for faster, more flexible and impactful development. Proprietary s...

Supply Chain Visibility: Shippeo announces a new €40 million round of financing

Shippeo, specialized in real-time multimodal transport visibility, announced on October 24th a €40M Series C round of financing in which all its historical investors participated: Battery Ventures, Partech, NGP Capital, ETF Partners, Bpifrance Digital Venture and SAP.io alongside...

Outsight announces a €22 million round of financing to accelerate the deployment of LiDAR

Outsight, a French provider of LiDAR-based software solutions, announced on October 20 that it had raised €22 million in a funding round co-led by Energy Innovation Capital (EIC) and the Defense Innovation Fund managed by Bpifrance, alongside ADP Group and historical investors BN...

The LIAvignon chair organizes a conference-debate on artificial intelligence

The LIAvignon chair, supported by the FrenchTech GrandeProvence, will organize a conference-debate on AI at Avignon University on November 15: self-supervised learning giga models, evolution or revolution? With or without Europe? LIAvignon, the partnership chair in AI at Avignon ...