This week, CMU Africa announced that InstaDeep colleague Oluwafemi Azeez is the recipient of the university’s honourable award for “Rising Researcher 2020”. The accolade was launched in 2017 and is an annual fund in honour of late alumnus and faculty member Dr Jeremiah N. Mpagazehe. Strong academic preparation and passion for research The announcement was… Read more »
In the midst of Covid19, there is a spike in demand for machine learning solutions that can help tackle the pandemic or ease the societal transformation back into a sense of normality. Given that many countries are now easing lockdown restrictions, products that can assist in the controlled reopening of public functions whilst limiting the… Read more »
AI for Crisis Management Elyes kicked-off the week with a crash-course into ‘AI for crisis management’ on Monday 20th April explaining how AI works and the different ways AI can be used to deal with an international crisis. From predicting the number of casualties and detecting hot spots in need of extra care, to running… Read more »
Hosted on Zindi’s competition platform, the Radiant Earth Foundation challenge attracted 440 data scientists competing to build a machine learning model to classify crop types in farms across Western Kenya. The eight-week-long event, which ran from February 3rd to March 29th, is organised as part of the Computer Vision for Agriculture (CV4A) Workshop at the… Read more »
Mena Digital Days, a Google Developer Group initiative out of Dubai, kicked off on Sunday 22 March and will be running workshops and live talks every Sunday to Thursday until July 2020 on their YouTube channel. Covering technology, leadership, as well as various programs, week one focuses on ‘ML for Everyone’ and not less than… Read more »
This week, we’ve had the honour of welcoming Mr Nabil Ben Khedher, the Ambassador of Tunisia in the United Kingdom, to our headquarters in London. On Mr Ben Kheder’s agenda was our disruptive deep tech, in particular our world-first innovation in decision making for hardware, DeepPCB™, which was released as a beta last November. He… Read more »
From Tunis in the North to Cape Town in the South, InstaDeep branches out to cover the whole African continent. February officially marked the month that InstaDeep opened the doors to its sixth office in Cape Town, South Africa. The decision is part of a long-term strategy to build out our AI operations on the… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
