Artificial intelligence

Yandex Browser translates texts in images from 47 languages

April 19, 2021

Last week Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian digital giant, announced a novelty in the field of image-to-text and automated translation technologies. Its browser, Yandex Browser, is now capable of translating text embedded within images “from 47 languages,” says the company, touting the feature as a world’s first for a desktop browser.  “Now users can easily translate and read [an] image that contain text …

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Moscow river transport monitoring system trained to recognize people in water

April 15, 2021

 On the night of April 8, Moscow rescuers found a woman sitting on a brick of ice in the Moscow (Moskva) River, 30 meters from the shore. The victim, born in 1995, showed signs of hypothermia and was hospitalized. She could not explain the reason for being on the ice. Following this incident, the Traffic …

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Russia’s AI Alliance launches training programs, contests and an investment platform

April 1, 2021

The board of the Artificial Intelligence Alliance met in late March in Moscow, providing updates about this organization created by large Russian companies 2019. An investment platform will be launched to “consolidate the AI project and idea pipeline” and provide participating companies with access to the corporate accelerators of the members. Dubbed ‘AI-Hub,’ this platform will also “allow …

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Russia considers opening patients’ medical data to AI developers

March 29, 2021

The Russian Ministry of Digital Development considers providing AI developers with access to anonymized medical data of Russian citizens. As reported by business daily Kommersant, patients’ data could be used by companies working on AI-based solutions for disease diagnosis or prediction, as well as for epidemiological purposes.  AI developers would be connected to a special …

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Yandex launches world’s first crowdsourced data-labeling course on Coursera

March 23, 2021

Last week Yandex, the Russian NASDAQ-listed digital tech giant, launched an online course on data labeling, presenting the initiative as a world’s first.  This five-week course aims to teach “efficient and scalable data labeling for ML and various business processes” based on a crowdsourcing approach. Students are explained how to “split complex challenges into small tasks and distribute them among a …

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Tinkoff launches AI-powered voice assistant on Clubhouse

March 13, 2021

Tinkoff, the Russian digital banking leader, has integrated its AI-powered voice assistant ‘Oleg’ into Clubhouse — claiming to be the first one in the world to do so. The capabilities of the voice assistant as a “a full-fledged Clubhouse user” are described as follows:  ‘Oleg’ can use its text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities (Tinkoff VoiceKit) in real time to “help …

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Sber adopts artificial intelligence ethics principles

March 3, 2021

The board of Sberbank has adopted ethical principles behind development and use of artificial intelligence across Sber Group. Principle #1: Secure AI The AI technologies Sber develops are secure, governable and controllable as much as possible. Sber takes into account the possible risks associated with the security of AI technologies and does not allow them to …

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Russian online freight service Deliver secures $7 million to pursue international expansion

January 6, 2021

In the last days of December Deliver announced it secured 500 million rubles (nearly $7 million at the current exchange rate) from VEB Ventures (formerly VEB Innovations), a venture fund backed by state development agency VEB.RF (Vnesheconombank). An internationally successful Russian online freight service, Deliver has set for itself the mission of “solving the inefficiencies of the logistics market by applying modern …

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Sber and Skoltech aim to “set the standards for using AI in public healthcare”

January 8, 2021

Sber Group, the state-controlled financial and digital giant, and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) are teaming up to create “an ecosystem for the development of artificial intelligence in Russian healthcare.”  Operated by SberMed.AI, a company established this past summer, this ecosystem will “combine the solutions designed by Skoltech research teams with Sber’s cloud-based engineering infrastructure.”  Aiming to “set the standards …

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Russian startup attracts $1.2 million to develop AI-powered diagnostics and disease risk assessment tools

December 25, 2020

Botkin.AI (Intellogic), a Russian startup that has developed an AI-powered radiology platform, has completed a 160 million rubles Series B round ($1.2 million at the current exchange rate). The money was injected by two medtech investors: investment holding Tashir Medica and RVC-backed Unicorn Capital Partners.   The funds which took part in the previous round (100 million rubles in June 2019) backed again the …

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Russia’s Cleverbots launches AI solution marketplace and secures $1 million from agroindustrial group

December 8, 2020

Cleverbots, a Russian integrator of AI-powered enterprise solutions, has raised $1 million from the agroindustrial group AST. No details of the transaction were disclosed.  The fresh funding will allow Cleverbots to hire new employees, support marketing and scale the business both domestically and abroad. AST’s existing offices in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates, may be used as launchpads for …

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Sber to launch international AI research institute in Russia

November 5, 2021

Last week Sber, Russia’s financial and tech giant (previously known as Sberbank) announced plans to open an international institute for artificial intelligence in Russia as early January 2021.  Sber’s head Herman Gref defined the main mission of the institute as “to provide an interdisciplinary approach to research” in the field of AI.   At the …

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