Artificial intelligence

Sber to open R&D center in Berlin “to expand horizons in machine learning”

November 5, 2021

Sber, the Russian financial and digital giant, is preparing to open an R&D center in Berlin — its first one in Western Europe. These plans were announced by Sber’s Executive Vice President and CTO, David Rafalovsky at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon. This initiative aims to attract high-class IT developers, architects and specialists. “Our center is …

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Russia and WEF to launch ‘Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ in Moscow

October 18, 2021

Last week the Russian government and the World Economic Forum announced Russia is joining the WEF’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (CFIR) Network. The agreement was inked in Moscow by WEF President Børge Brende and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.  CFIR Russia will be hosted by Digital Economy, a Moscow-based non-profit created by national technology leaders to facilitate …

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The pursuit of a human face: Can interfaces make machine learning accessible?

September 24, 2021

The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in various business processes is on the rise. This is evidenced, for example, by the steadily increasing media coverage, which indicates an increasing relevance of the technology. A growing number of application practices confirm the fact: the ICT.Moscow database, in 2021 alone, collected more than a …

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Russian mobile operator MTS to invest $100 million in AI startups across the world

October 11, 2021

MTS AI, the artificial intelligence arm of Russian telco MTS, is launching an international acceleration program and venture fund to invest in AI startups across the world. Dubbed ‘Intema,’ the platform plans to invest some $100 million in startups from late seed up to Series B. The investments focus on language, image and behavior analytics, edge computing and logistics, Alexey Posternak, CFO …

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Escaped killer of Russian meat magnate caught via facial recognition

September 14, 2021

The man accused of killing a Russian meat magnate in his sauna with a crossbow has been caught after escaping from jail, investigators said Tuesday.  Alexander Mavridi, who escaped from a pre-trial detention center in the Moscow region last month, was detained in the capital Tuesday after he was detected by the city’s facial-recognition surveillance cameras, the state-run TASS …

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New Russian fund intends to invest $100 million in AI/ML projects across Europe and Israel

September 14, 2021

The Russian investment club Promising Projects and the AI Cluster of the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok have teamed up to launch a $100 million fund focusing on AI, ML, data mathematics and cybersecurity. Dubbed ‘AI 1 Ventures’ and incorporated in Luxembourg, the new fund targets such areas as Eastern and Western Europe, including the Baltic states, as well as Israel. Tickets from $250,000 to $5 …

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Yandex, Cambridge and Oxford universities team up to launch international machine learning competition

July 26, 2021

Yandex, in collaboration with Oxford and Cambridge Universities and as part of the NeurIPS conference on machine learning, is launching the global ‘Shifts Challenge’, a three-pronged competition track designed to tackle the problem of distributional shift in ML that features the largest autonomous vehicle (AV) dataset in the industry to date. This dataset contains 600,000 scenes (or more than 1,600 hours …

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An innovative Russian device could restore eyesight using artificial intelligence

July 8, 2021

Elvis, a bionic eye solution created Sensor-Tech, is the first step towards restoring eyesight using artificial intelligence. The device sends images of object outlines in real-time directly into the brain using a combination of smart vision, a microchip, and electrodes. The device could change many lives in the years to come, as blindness affects millions …

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Russian digital majors invite children from across the world to AI contest

June 29, 2021

Children and teenagers from some 80 countries are taking part in the Artificial Intelligence International Junior Contest (AIIJC). Russia, India, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Bangladesh account for the largest cohorts of participants, but the Philippines, Canada, Ecuador and a variety of other countries are also involved.  This first-of-its-kind competition is organized jointly by Sber, Russia’s state-controlled financial and …

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M.Video uses high tech to automate CRM, raise service level and track employee attendance

June 29, 2021

M.Video, a part of the M.Video–Eldorado consumer electronics retail group, now processes nearly half of customer calls via a virtual assistant called ‘Alyona.’  “Voice processing technologies have enabled [us] to reduce the workload of [our] contact center staff, reduce response times and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty,” the company says.  The AI-based robotic customer support system …

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Tinkoff offers virtual phone secretary to all Russian mobile phone users

June 19, 2021

In early June Tinkoff, the Russian digital banking giant, announced the beta version of its free voice assistant ‘Oleg,’ making it available to all mobile users in Russia. ‘Oleg’ is also unique in the world in that “it can be easily activated both in the Tinkoff super app and via popular messengers such as Telegram …

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Russian neurotech startup raises $7.4 million to “accelerate computer-integrated human evolution”

June 2, 2021

A Moscow-based startup called Neiry is developing “human-friendly neural interfaces” applicable to a variety of daily tasks — from gaming and entertainment, to medical therapy, to training, to business. Supported by Russian state innovation programs, this startup believes it can “improve and restore human abilities and functions that were previously unattainable,” and contribute to “the acceleration …

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