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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 »

InstaDeep joins the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Programme

London, United Kingdom, August 18, 2022 — InstaDeep today announced that it has strengthened its collaboration with Google Cloud by joining the Partner Advantage programme as certified Service and Build partners. Whilst the Service accreditation will allow InstaDeep to offer bespoke artificial intelligence (AI) consulting services for customers in the Google Cloud ecosystem, the Build… Read more »

InstaDeep open-sources CATX library, enabling contextual bandits in JAX

As part of its commitment to giving back to the international AI and technology community, InstaDeep is pleased to announce it has made its new CATX library available on GitHub. CATX translates the existing CATS algorithm to JAX – the high-performance numerical computing and machine learning research library from Google. CATX is based on the… Read more »

InstaDeep launches DeepPack Early Access Program

InstaDeep is pleased to announce our DeepPack Early Access Program. DeepPack is an AI-powered, scalable and easy to use SaaS that generates detailed, efficient and customisable loading plans in virtually real-time. It enables logistics and cargo operators to fully optimise containers, pallets, and ULDs, even for large and complex instances.  Why DeepPack?  Reduce cost and… Read more »