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Mercedes-Benz and Microsoft recently announced a partnership to make vehicle production more efficient, resilient and sustainable through the new MO360 data platform. This unified data platform, standardized on Microsoft Azure, provides Mercedes-Benz with the flexibility and clou...

Lettria, a platform specializing in the automation of natural language processing, has announced a seed round of €5 million from Galion.exe, Jezby Ventures (Octave Klaba, OVH), and Business Angels. Thanks to this financing, Lettria, which already counts among its clients large gr...

AMAP was launched as a simple mapping and geolocation application. After integrating it with other local services to better cater to the facets of Chinese life and maintain agility in a highly competitive industry, Alibaba recently announced an AI-powered feature upgrade to AMAP....

Within the framework of the “Higher Education and Research” call for projects, ESIGELEC has received the support of Metropole Rouen Normandie to launch the “ROOC Platform” project. This project aims at developing an online platform allowing the provision o...

INTEL announced last May that it was working on a computer vision software platform: Sonoma Creek. At Intel Innovation 2022 in San Jose, California, the chipmaker introduced its renamed Intel Geti platform and a new version of its OpenVINO toolkit. While simplifying the training ...

Aqemia announced on October 19 that it had raised €30 million in a Series A financing round co-led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance via its Large Venture fund, with the participation of Elaia, its historical investor. The deeptech company, which specializes in the discovery of drug candi...

California-based VMware announced in early October, the opening of the VMware Next G-AI Research and Innovation Center at Centech and ETS in Montreal. The Center will bring together VMware’s multi-cloud infrastructure, advanced networking and modern application development ...

After announcing its first autonomous shuttle deployment in Portugal on Oct. 10, NAVYA reports a platoon demonstration of two Navya Autonom shuttles beginning Oct. 17 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, a first for a U.S. airport. Navya, a French company sp...

Six Nations Rugby, the official organizer responsible for the largest annual international rugby competitions, announced on October 18 a partnership with Sage, a provider of accounting, financial, HR and payroll technologies for small and medium-sized businesses. Sage will provid...

Human languages are very complex (vocabulary, grammar, syntax…), linguists thought that no machine would be able to analyze the sounds of a language and the structures of words as linguists do. However, a team of researchers from Cornell University, MIT and McGill Universit...

Shared bikes are a solution to the problem of urban traffic jams and the pollution they cause: the city of Lille set up V’Lille, its self-service bike rental service, in 2011. Users can check on an application if bikes are available in real time, Optimo Technologies, for it...

OpenAI recently released Whisper, a 1.6 billion parameter AI model capable of transcribing and translating speech audio from 97 different languages, showing robust performance on a wide range of automated speech recognition (ASR) tasks. The model trained on 680,000 hours of audio...

Picsellia, a start-up specialized in artificial intelligence, has just finalized a seed round for 2 million euros. This fundraising follows a first round of financing carried out a year ago. Several business angels, including some specialized in the field of AI, took part in this...

ENGIE New Ventures, the investment structure of ENGIE’s Research and Innovation division dedicated to innovative start-ups accelerating the energy transition, participated, alongside INNOVACOM and High-Tech Gründerfonds, in the round that enabled the French deeptech company...

The French defense procurement agency (DGA) has awarded Preligens a seven-year contract worth around €240 million. Named TORNADE (Traitement Optique et Radar par Neurones Artificiels via Détecteurs), it involves the acquisition of software licenses for AI solutions for processing...

Last April, the French National Authority for Health (HAS), the French National Cancer Institute (INCa) and the French Digital Health Agency (ADA) launched the iDoc Health Challenge, which aims to improve access to, and the dissemination and use of, health-related knowledge. The ...

Tech Show Paris will take place on November 16-17, 2022 in Paris, Porte de Versailles – Hall 3. The unique event that brings together the leaders and decision-makers of the French tech industry, with a conference program led by industry experts through our 5 co-organized sh...

Matrix multiplication is at the heart of many computational tasks, including neural networks, 3D graphics… DeepMind recently introduced AlphaTensor, a deep reinforcement learning approach based on AlphaZero, ” to discover new, efficient and provably correct algorithms...

At the Microsoft Ignite 2022 event, Panos Panay, product manager, presented the new Surface line of laptops and tablets, new software but also Microsoft Designer, a graphic design application available with Microsoft 365, powered by AI including DALL∙E 2 from OpenAI. The Dall-E 2...

UN-Habitat, the United Nations program responsible for promoting sustainable urbanization in more than 90 countries, has released its report “AI & Cities: Risks, Applications and Governance”. A collaboration with Mila, a Quebec-based AI institute, the paper presen...

Damo Academy, Alibaba Group’s in-house research institute, has announced the launch of a joint lab with the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, capital of the eastern province of Anhui. There, the two partners will conduct fundamental research on ...

After acquiring Singapore-based Aodigy Asia Pacific last month to strengthen its capabilities in Asia Pacific and Knowledge Expert, a provider of digital transformation services, Capgemini announced two new acquisitions this month: Braincourt, a business intelligence and data sci...

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) announced the launch of the Deep Tech Talent Initiative at the INNOVEIT EIT 2022 Summit in Brussels on October 11, encouraging its 3,400 partners and the European innovation community to join its efforts to train one milli...

The Idiap research institute, an AI expert based in Martigny, Switzerland, and InflamAlps, a company specializing in pharmaceutical research and development, have announced a partnership in the ABRoad project. Supported by the Ark Foundation, it aims to develop a digital platform...

Main contributors: Axionable, DC Brain, Intel, Microsoft, Orange – members of the Impact AI Environment taskforce Impact AIis the Think & Do Tank of reference for ethical artificial intelligence in France. Our vision is to work together with the digital ecosystem (compa...

After having used artificial intelligence to publish court decisions in open data, the Cour de cassation decided to use it again to detect divergences in case law between different courts and to check whether the justice rendered is the same for all. For this purpose, it called o...

Monnai, a California-based startup founded just one year ago, had completed a pre-seed round in late 2021 with 500 Global, EMVC and Ginkgo Ventures. They participated in a $3.15 million seed round led by Better Tomorrow Ventures in late September, which was also joined by Commerc...

Synthetic data is of interest to more and more sectors, particularly to deal with the lack of training data, but it also raises many questions. This is one of the subjects we worked on in ActuIA magazine n°9, currently on newsstands. Within DataCebo, the study of synthetic data h...

Created in 2015, the Think Smartgrids association aims to develop the Intelligent Electric Networks (IE) sector in France and to promote its know-how in Europe and internationally. Each year, it organizes a thesis prize with its Scientific Council to reward young researchers for ...

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) announced on October 4 that six sites across the European Union have been selected to host and operate the first EuroHPC quantum computers following a March 2022 CEI: Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, It...

AI is an important issue for the Gendarmerie Nationale, and is one of the pillars of its GEND 20.24 strategy, which aims to enable it to adapt to the technological environment in order to guarantee the safety of our fellow citizens. Our magazine n°9 is dedicated to the theme of s...

Current technological advances are pushing us further from fiction to a reality that is both tangible and artificial. Machines, prostheses, and other robotic devices invade our daily life. But the human eye cannot be deceived. Because well beyond our consciousness, we cannot tole...

The current EU product liability rules, based on strict liability of manufacturers, are almost 40 years old. Adapting these rules to digital transformation, new technologies such as AI, the circular economy and the impact of global value chains is necessary. To this end, the Euro...

One of the objectives of the Confiance.ai collective, which recently presented the results of its work, is to contribute to the operational implementation of the future AI-Act. On October 6, it announced a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with a German consortium led by VDE, one o...

NASA’s Artemis program aims to send astronauts to the south pole of the Moon, where water in the form of ice has been confirmed, rather than near the equator as with the Apollo mission. The dark areas are likely to contain more ice than the others but also to be dangerous f...

The Domains of Excellence, IA Data Science and Connected Commerce Club, of the Digital Aquitaine association, the Bordeaux Mathematics Institute and INRIA are organizing a free workshop entitled “Pricing Algorithms” on October 6, 2022. This day aims to organize an ope...

In January 2021, the Confiance.ai program, implemented as part of the Grand Défi “Securing, making reliable and certifying systems based on artificial intelligence” and the Programme d’investissements d’avenir (PIA), was launched. The first significant res...

NAIA.R, the Neo-Aquitaine forum on artificial intelligence and robotics, will be held on October 13, 2022 at the Cité Numérique in Bègles. The day will be structured around conferences, workshops and pitches that will address the evolution of AI and robotics in our daily lives th...

While many countries, including France, are working on the train of the future running in a low-pressure tube, the hyperloop, according to the concept imagined by Elon Musk in 2013, Urbanloop, as its name indicates, targets the urban and suburban market. The aim is to compete eff...

Lowe’s, a chain of home improvement stores in the U.S. and Canada, unveiled at NVIDIA’s GTC the industry’s first interactive digital store twin, which it is currently testing in two of its stores – in Mill Creek, Washington and Charlotte, North Carolina. L...

There are more than 30 species of dolphins in the world, the Māui dolphin, which lives off the west coast of the North Island, New Zealand, faces a threat of extinction. To save this rarest of the world’s dolphins, a nonprofit organization has been formed called MAUI63 (Mar...

The Nobel Prize in Physics took place this Tuesday, October 4. It distinguishes scientific figures who have rendered great services to humanity through their work. During this new edition, quantum physics was honored. A rapidly evolving discipline, quantum science is progressivel...

It’s fall, and the leading magazine on artificial intelligence is back! Discover new exclusive content focused on research, business and the impact of AI in this edition that closes the year 2022 in style. In this 9th issue, our team has finely chiseled the following topics...

Heart rate variability is an indicator of heart health. Mohammad Moshawrab’s research on this topic received the best paper award at the 19th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Persuasive Computing (MobiSPC), held August 9-11 in Niagara Falls, Canada. Like the o...

The global fintech market is growing at a steady rate worldwide. In a recent study, BlueWeave Consulting, a strategic consulting and market research firm estimated the size of the global AI in fintech market at $10.14 billion in 2021 and forecasts that it will grow at a robust CA...

Meta AI unveiled a new research project and showcased clips produced with Make-A- Video, an AI system that generates seconds-long videos from text prompts, in late September. Make-A-Video builds on Meta AI’s recent progress in generative technology research, including Make-...

The Hubbard model is a studied model in condensed matter theory and a formidable quantum problem. A team of physicists used deep learning to condense this problem, which previously required 100,000 equations, into just four equations without sacrificing accuracy. The study, title...

Surge, a biotech and medical AI startup, announced on September 22 a €2.5 million fundraising round led by HCVC, a Franco-American early-stage fund dedicated to high-potential technology startups, and Boutique Venture Partners, an American fund from Silicon Valley. Experienced bu...

The Franco-German conference on applied AI, AIxIA, is back this year for a 4th edition! Organized by the France IA Hub and its German partner the Digital Hub Karlsruhe, it will be held on November 15 and 16, around the theme “From no-code machine learning to general intelli...

Servier, an international pharmaceutical company, and Oncodesign Precision Medicine (OPM), a subsidiary of the Oncodesign biopharmaceutical group, announced on September 22, “STarT Pancreas”, a collaborative research agreement to identify and validate new therapeutic ...

Rail has many advantages over other means of transport, but digitization is now essential in view of its obsolete technologies and European requirements. To this end, the German rail network Deutsche Bahn has created Digitale Schiene Deutschland (DSD), a company responsible for t...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. medical research agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, announced in early September, the launch of Bridge2AI. This NIH Common Fund program aims to facilitate the widespread adoption of AI by generating new fla...

Incepto, an AI solutions platform applied to medical imaging, announced on September 19 that it had raised €27 million in a round of financing led by LBO France, with the participation of Wille Finance and its historical investors AXA Venture Partners (AVP), the Patient Autonomy ...

On September 2, 2019, Scalian, an international group specialized in consulting and engineering, and the engineering school IMT Mines Albi signed a 5-year renewable industrial partnership. The joint SCAN (Systems of Agile and Digital Collaboration) laboratory, dedicated to R&...

As part of its strategy to disseminate knowledge related to AI, the Toulouse Interdisciplinary Institute of Artificial Intelligence (ANITI) and Ekitia (formerly Occitanie Data) launched on September 22 a citizen consultation on the knowledge, acceptability and ethical issues conc...

For companies, understanding and continuously improving the customer experience has become as important as product development, innovation or marketing. To help its partner brands better understand their customers’ expectations, Galeries Lafayette has developed “Tailo...

NVIDIA and Deloitte announced on Sept. 20 at GTC 2022 that they are expanding their partnership to help companies develop, implement and deploy hybrid cloud solutions using the NVIDIA AI and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise platforms. Deloitte employees will be able to leverage these ...

The use of the telephone while driving, although reprimanded by law, is one of the main causes of driver distraction. Despite all the awareness campaigns, it is becoming commonplace: according to road safety figures, about 69% of French people admit to using their smartphone whil...