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Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, February 12, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “How symmetry can come to the aid of machine learning” (MIT) “Bard becomes Gemini” (Google) “Acoustic Model Fusion for End-to-End Speech Recognition” (Apple) “Shaping the future of advanced robotics” (Deepmind) “Building geospatial foundation models via continual pretraining” (Amazon) 👏 Deals Nauticus Robotics, a Houston-based company developing subsea robots

Multimodal Learning

Multimodal learning is an approach in machine learning that involves the integration and processing of information from multiple modalities or sources. A modality refers to a distinct type of data, such as text, images, audio, video, or any other form of sensory input. In multimodal learning, the goal is to

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, February 5, 2024

📌 Readings Amazon earnings press release with strategic initiative details (link) Meta earnings call transcript (link) Microsoft product announcement (link) Alphabet earnings call transcript (link) AMD earnings slides (link) 👏 Deals Carpl, a CA-based radiology AI tech startup, has raised $6m in financing. Cohere Health, a Boston-based startup which provides intelligent prior-authorization

Helping Others See

When I flew back from Raleigh to New York Friday evening, I saw a doctor in his scrubs. He carried a box that has a label "human tissue inside." I looked closer, there is another label on the box that says "Miracle In Sight." In between

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in ML/AI, January 14, 2024

Musings Applications of emerging technology and data/ML/AI continue to take off in the marketplace. It's exciting to see Walmart expanding drone delivery in Dallas. I think it is the first of many, and through the drone delivery network, much data insights can be gained to add

Floreo VR - new potential for Autism therapy

Floreo VR, a portfolio company, has been granted FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and accepted into FDA's Total Advisory Product Lifecycle (TAP) Pilot program. Floreo provides immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences and VR-based lessons to help kids and adults with autism learn hard-to-teach skills. Floreo's lessons in

Cybersecurity Stack Report - 2023

Portfolio company Threater released its annual Security Stack Insights Report. The report is based on a survey of 200+ cybersecurity professionals (C-level to managers). Unlike many cybersecurity reports that emphasize on the nature of the cybersecurity vectors and remediations for enterprises, this report emphasizes on how cybersecurity professionals in small

Keep Going

Recently, a number of people in my network got more serious about entrepreneurship and they want to start their own startups. They have great ideas, are domain experts, and have access to engineers and data scientists. They have applied to a few well-known accelerators and got rejected without much of

Google's Gemini

Google launched Gemini today. Gemini 1.0 is a multimodal model that has been trained on image, audio, video and text data and is intended to be generalizable across different data modalities (e.g., you give an image, it can return text-based description of the image). Gemini comes in three

Giving Thanks

I love Thanksgiving for many reasons. One reason is that it gives me an extra opportunity to express gratitude. Indeed, I am very lucky to be able to do what I love. * I am grateful for the investors who back us. * I am grateful for the opportunity to work with