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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 »

Record Number of Poster Presentations at Indaba

Seven posters presented End of August saw 15 InstaDeepers travelling to the Kenyan capital with research notes, lectures and practical presentations ready in their luggage – and boy did the team deliver! During the week-long event, we presented a record number of seven poster presentations. The topics ranged from multi-agent Reinforcement Learning, to a differential privacy… Read more »

MLSS Sponsorship To Support Future ML Champions

InstaDeep is delighted to sponsor this year’s Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) in London – a twelve-day event where students from the world over, come together to learn about all thing Machine Learning (ML). Kicking off on 15th July, the students have two jam-packed weeks of intensive courses on a variety of topics in ML,… Read more »

InstaDeeper Wins International Maths Competition in South Africa

London-based PhD student and AI R&D Engineer at InstaDeep, Valentin Courgeau, travelled to South Africa to compete in the annual ACQuFRR Financial Mathematics Team Challenge (FMTC) end of June. And boy was it worth the trip, as Valentin and his team climbed to the top! A new standard for interest-rates The team led by Valentin,… Read more »