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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

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Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

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Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data

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Founded out of Berlin in 2021, Qdrant is targeting AI software developers with an open source vector search engine and database for unstructured data, which is an integral part of AI application development particularly as it relates to using real-time data that hasn’t been categorized or labeled. That Qdrant has now raised $7.5

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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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Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform

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Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. When asked, Heartex says that it doesn’t collect any customer data and open sources the core of its labeling platform for inspection.

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List of Top 10 Machine Learning Examples in Real Life

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But with technological progress, machines also evolved their competency to learn from experiences. This buzz about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning must have amused an average person. But knowingly or unknowingly, directly or indirectly, we are using Machine Learning in our real lives.

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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

CIO

Most relevant roles for making use of NLP include data scientist , machine learning engineer, software engineer, data analyst , and software developer. TensorFlow Developed by Google as an open-source machine learning framework, TensorFlow is most used to build and train machine learning models and neural networks.