Tony Kontzer

AI Startup Speeds Up Derivative Models for Bank of Montreal

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To make the best portfolio decisions, banks need to accurately calculate values of their trades, while factoring in uncertain external risks. This requires high-performance computing power to run complex derivatives models — which find fair prices for financial contracts — as close to real time as possible. “You don’t want to trade today on yesterday’s Read article >

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In Pursuit of Smart City Vision, Startup Two-i Keeps an AI on Worker Safety

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When Julien Trombini and Guillaume Cazenave founded video-analytics startup Two-i four years ago, they had an ambitious goal: improving the quality of urban life by one day being able to monitor a city’s roads, garbage collection and other public services. Along the way, the pair found a wholly different niche. Today, the company’s technology — Read article >

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Duos Technologies Uses AI-Powered Inspection to Help Railway Operators Stay on Track

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In March, a 28-car freight train derailment in Gibbons, Neb., forced Union Pacific to shut down three rail lines, delaying shipments nationwide for up to 48 hours and costing it millions as its rail network slowed down substantially. Fortunately, no one was injured. Duos Technologies, based in Jacksonville, Fla., says its NVIDIA GPU-accelerated AI railcar Read article >

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Unstung Heroes: Startup’s AI-Powered Tomato Pollinator Gives Bees a Break

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There are nearly a half million acres of greenhouse tomato crops in the world, an area about 35 times the size of Manhattan. In other words, lots of tomatoes. Growing them requires more than soil, water and sunlight. The plants are self-pollinating, but they need a little help getting the pollen to drop onto the Read article >

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Fighting Fire with Insights: CAPE Analytics Uses Computer Vision to Put Geospatial Data and Risk Information in Hands of Property Insurance Companies

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Every day, vast amounts of geospatial imagery are being collected, and yet, until recently, one of the biggest potential users of that trove — property insurers — had made surprisingly little use of it. Now, CAPE Analytics, a computer vision startup and NVIDIA Inception member, seeks to turn that trove of geospatial imagery into better Read article >

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Hanging in the Balance: More Research Coordination, Collaboration Needed for AI to Reach Its Potential, Experts Say

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As AI is increasingly established as a world-changing field, the U.S. has an opportunity not only to demonstrate global leadership, but to establish a solid economic foundation for the future of the technology. A panel of experts convened last week at GTC to shed light on this topic, with the co-chairs of the Congressional AI Read article >

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Startup Green Lights AI Analytics to Improve Traffic, Pedestrian Safety

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For all the attention devoted to self-driving cars, there’s another, often-overlooked, aspect to transportation efficiency and safety: smarter roads. Derq, a startup operating out of Detroit and Dubai, has developed an AI system that can be installed on intersections and highways. Its AI edge appliance uses NVIDIA GPUs to process video and other data from Read article >

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Startup Couples AI with OR Video to Sharpen Surgeon Performance, Improve Patient Outcomes

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AI is teaching cars to make better decisions, so could it do the same for surgeons? Addressing that question is the mission of Theator, a startup based in Palo Alto, Calif., with an R&D site in Tel Aviv, that’s striving to fuel the nascent revolution in autonomous surgery. Theator co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Dotan Read article >

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Talk Stars: Israeli AI Startup Brings Fluency to Natural Language Understanding

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Whether talking with banks, cell phone providers or insurance companies, customers often encounter AI-powered voice interfaces to direct their calls to the right department. But these interfaces typically are limited to understanding certain keywords. Onvego, an Israel-based startup, is working to make these systems understand what you say, no matter how you say it. Before Read article >

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How AI Startup BroadBridge Networks Helps Security Teams Make Sense of Data Chaos

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Cybersecurity has grown into a morass. With increasingly hybrid computing environments, dispersed users accessing networks around the clock, and the Internet of Things creating more data than security teams have ever seen, organizations are throwing more security tools than ever at the problem. In fact, Jonathan Flack, principal systems architect at BroadBridge Networks, said it’s Read article >

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