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InstaDeep builds on presence in San Francisco, increasing the reach of its products and delivering AI expertise to industry

InstaDeep is always striving to deliver on its mission of an AI-first world that benefits everyone. This is reflected in the company’s active relationships and formal partnerships with leading academic institutions around the world, including the renowned Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley universities in California, where InstaDeep has proactively built a calendar of… Read more »

Unlocking the secrets of the Rubik’s Cube with Reinforcement Learning at UmojaHack Africa 2023

InstaDeep is pleased to continue its support for up and coming AI talent in Africa by once again sponsoring the UmojaHack Africa machine learning hackathon. This year – 2023 –  is a pleasing multiplicity of 3s: 3000+ students, hailing from more than 300 universities and 30 countries across the continent, will compete in real-world machine… Read more »

InstaDeep listed in FT1000 2023

InstaDeep is delighted to be named as one of Europe’s 1000 fastest-growing companies by Statista and the Financial Times. Only European businesses with the fastest revenue growth between 2018 and 2021 were included, and InstaDeep is honoured to be listed alongside many eminent companies. Furthermore, InstaDeep was specifically recognised as one of Europe’s Growth Champions… Read more »

InstaDeep Co-Founders named as Generative AI Power Players

Sifted have named InstaDeep co-founders Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim as the “architects of one of Europe’s highest profile generative AI exits” in their newly-published list of experts in this rapidly accelerating field of content production and consumption.  Sifted analysts reviewed the landscape of tech founders, commentators and key players to highlight those who they… Read more »

Exact Combinatorial Optimisation with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Exact Combinatorial Optimisation with Deep Reinforcement Learning

A blog post covering our recent publication: Christopher W. F. Parsonson, Alexandre Laterre, and Thomas D. Barrett, ‘Reinforcement Learning for Branch-and-Bound Optimisation using Retrospective Trajectories’, AAAI’23: Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023  Branch-and-bound solvers for combinatorial optimisation Formally, ‘combinatorial optimisation’ (CO) problems consider the task of assigning integer values to a… Read more »

InstaDeep Co-Founders honoured as ambassadors of Tunisian talent and innovation

Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim have been honoured as ambassadors of talent and innovation this week, highlighting the success of InstaDeep as a “message of hope” to young Tunisians. The award recognised InstaDeep’s exceptional company trajectory as an inspiration and example of international excellence. It follows the company’s recent acquisition by BioNTech and is testament… Read more »

New research from InstaDeep, NVIDIA and the Technical University of Munich beats expectations, provides new insights into genomics research

InstaDeep is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Technical University of Munich and NVIDIA, using the UK-based Cambridge-1 supercomputer to train large language models (LLMs) on diverse genomic datasets to examine the impact of model scale and data diversity on downstream task performance.   As part of the work, multiple foundation models for genomics… Read more »

BioNTech to Acquire InstaDeep to Strengthen Pioneering Position in the Field of AI-powered Drug Discovery, Design and Development

Acquisition to enable creation of a fully integrated, enterprise-wide capability to discover, design and develop next-generation immunotherapies at scale by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies across BioNTech’s therapeutic platforms and operations Builds on multi-year strategic collaboration between BioNTech and InstaDeep which included the formation of an AI Innovation Lab in 2020 and completion… Read more »

InstaDeep 2022: A year in review

2022 was a big year for InstaDeep. From start to finish, the team has broken records, created innovative software products and applications to solve some of the world’s most complex problems, written original and highly impactful research, and organised major events around the world – all as part of the mission to build an AI-First… Read more »

Population-Based Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization

Population-Based Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization

Continuing the innovation and application of machine learning to the hardest and most impactful challenges, InstaDeep is pleased to share its new breakthrough on applying reinforcement learning to complex combinatorial problems.  Our new work, “Population-Based Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization” introduces a new framework for learning a diverse set of complementary agents, and obtains state-of-the-art… Read more »

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