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NeurIPS 2019: AlphaNPI presented on the main stage in front of thousands 

AlphaNPI, the joint InstaDeep-Google DeepMind research published June 2019, was last Autumn awarded a spotlight talk at the conference, being one of the top 2.4% of submitted presentations. This meant it was selected to be presented on the main stage in front of an impressive crowd, a humbling achievement testament to InstaDeep’s capabilities, and it… Read more »

InstaDeep named top African AI-startup

Alliance4AI recently announced their list of 2019’s top AI adopters, naming InstaDeep as the leading African AI startup. The company, which stimulates Africa’s adoption of emerging technologies for development, highlighted InstaDeep’s strong partnerships with the Ministry of Industry and the launch of our DeepPBC product in late 2019 in their reasoning.  It is an honour… Read more »

Quarterly Digest Edition #4!

Firstly, Q4 saw us proudly release our first AI product, DeepPCB™! Furthermore, we presented our latest research on the main stage of NeurIPS in front of 7,000 people, and developed a world-first NLP model. The team also grew rapidly, and we onboarded new partners! We won’t give it all away and instead let you read… Read more »

Lagos Team Builds A World-First NLP Translation Model

The unique language model is built to fill a gap in language translation models which today mainly cater to very high-resource language speakers. With few data sources available, the InstaDeep duo trained an unsupervised Neural Machine Translation model, and essentially created a pidgin-English catalogue of word pairs from scratch, scraping 56,695 pidgin sentences and 32,925… Read more »

Quarterly Digest – Edition #3!

So much great stuff happened in Q3 at InstaDeep that we can’t wait for you to read all about it. Highlights included winning a tender contract with Deutsche Bahn and getting our joint InstaDeep-DeepMind research accepted for a spotlight presentation at the world’s most prestigious AI conference, NeurIPS 2019 with an unprecedented top 2.4% global… Read more »

InstaDeep on Intel AI Podcast

LONDON 14th OCT: Last week, Intel AI Builders featured InstaDeep CEO Karim Beguir on their podcast, Intel on AI. Here, Karim speaks about how InstaDeep is helping our customers solve complex decision-making problems that would traditionally have been solved with existing algorithms but that can much better be served with AI and Machine Learning (ML),… Read more »

Two InstaDeepers Qualify as Google Machine Learning Developer Experts

LONDON, 7th October: Last week, the Google Developers Expert (GDE) community announced that two of our colleagues at InstaDeep, Rihab Gorsane and Youssef Ben Dhieb, have qualified as Machine Learning experts for the network! The exclusive community only has 130 ML experts world-wide highlighting the stringent criteria the candidates must meet and fulfil. Historic achievement… Read more »

InstaDeep Selected as Travel & Hospitality Partner for Global VC Fund

LONDON, October 2019: The announcement follows a thorough selection process in August 2019 where a large number of start-ups pitched to Plug and Play‘s ventures team, who in conjunction with their corporate partners decided on the partner selection. “When we find great start-ups, we want to make a positive impact in their journey by connecting… Read more »

InstaDeep Hosts Africa & MENA’s Biggest AI Hackathon

We are still on a high following the incredible vibe that pulsated throughout AI Hack Tunisia 2019 – Africa and the Middle East’s largest AI hackathon to date – hosted from 20-22nd September. Throughout the three days, participants from more than 20 different countries competed in an individual and a team challenge hosted on our… Read more »

AlphaNPI Accepted for Spotlight Presentation at NeurIPS 2019

InstaDeep’s newly published research paper Learning Compositional Neural Programs with Recursive Tree Search and Planning (in short AlphaNPI), has been selected for a spotlight presentation at the world’s largest AI conference, NeurIPS 2019. Top 2.4% This year saw a record-breaking number of submissions, with a total of 6743 applications. From these, only 1428 were accepted,… Read more »