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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

CIO

And we recognized as a company that we needed to start thinking about how we leverage advancements in technology and tremendous amounts of data across our ecosystem, and tie it with machine learning technology and other things advancing the field of analytics. Watch the full video below for more insights.

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Apple acquired a startup using AI to compress videos

TechCrunch

Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne , that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups.

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OctoML raises $85M for it for its machine learning acceleration platform

TechCrunch

OctoML , a Seattle-based startup that helps enterprises optimize and deploy their machine learning models, today announced that it has raised an $85 million Series C round led by Tiger Global Management. The company also recently worked with Microsoft on a project about deploying video content moderation at scale.

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Revyze is building the TikTok of educational videos

TechCrunch

And that’s probably the reason why educational videos are so popular on YouTube and TikTok — the hashtag #LearnOnTikTok is massively popular for instance. If you watch an interesting video on TikTok, the social app might recommend something completely different when you skip to the next video. So what does Revyze feel like?

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Picsart acquires R&D company DeepCraft in seven-figure deal to aid video push

TechCrunch

Picsart today offers a range of digital creation and editing tools aimed at both consumers and professionals alike that make photo and video editing more fun and approachable. technical talent and its breakthroughs in computer vision and machine learning will enhance Picsart’s own A.I.

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Dynamic video content moderation and policy evaluation using AWS generative AI services

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Organizations across media and entertainment, advertising, social media, education, and other sectors require efficient solutions to extract information from videos and apply flexible evaluations based on their policies. Popular use cases Advertising tech companies own video content like ad creatives.

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Deep Render lands $9M for its AI-powered video compression tech

TechCrunch

Deep Render , a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. Deep Render isn’t the only venture applying AI to the problem of video compression, nor is its AI a silver bullet necessarily.

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