Artificial intelligence

Russian retail giant X5 uses advanced speech technologies to automate call centers

October 2, 2020

X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer, is deploying a robotic telephone platform based on advanced speech technologies. Used to handle incoming calls and make outgoing calls without human intervention, the group’s new voice assistants simulate dialogue with customers and help resolve their issues.  “After the caller formulates a question, the bot uses complex machine learning algorithms and accumulated data to identify the …

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Russian and Emirati sovereign wealth funds invest $13 million in sensitive face recognition technology

September 29, 2020

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, has teamed up with its Emirati peer Mubadala to invest “more than 1 billion rubles” (approximately $13 million at the current exchange rate) in Russian face recognition startup NtechLab.  Touting itself as “the global leader in computer vision systems based on artificial intelligence and neural networks,” NtechLab provides solutions …

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Yandex launches new AI-powered professional services

September 27, 2020

Yandex presented new AI ​​services DataSphere and SpeechKit Pro during the Yandex Scale conference , which runs from September 23 to 25.  DataSphere presents itself as “a service for ML development that combines the most popular tools and scalable resources for the full cycle of machine learning: from an experiment to the launch of a finished model.” It includes both a development environment and computing …

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Developing artificial intelligence in Russia: Objectives and realities

September 15, 2020

Russia’s leaders have been paying close attention to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for several years now. President Vladimir Putin has said on numerous occasions that the leader in the field of AI would become “the master of the world.” Until recently, however, Russia remained virtually the only large country without its own AI development strategy. …

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In Singapore, a Russian-born startup uses AI to penetrate the mysteries of human longevity

August 13, 2020

Can artificial intelligence and machine learning help mankind address diseases related to ageing, and delay mortality?  Gero, a Singaporean company with Russian roots, believes so. To address this biological and technological challenge, Gero has teamed up with the National University of Singapore, conducting experiments involving aged animals. These works “demonstrated mortality delay (life-extension) and functional …

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Top investors to review SaaS startups from Emerging Europe, Finland and Israel (application deadline: Aug. 9)

August 5, 2020

Flashpoint VC — an international investor previously known as Buran VC — has launched an international startup challenge dedicated to SaaS technologies. The challenge is open to Seed and post-seed companies with an MRR of $10,000-$100,000 and no more than $3 million raised. The targeted segments are AI, DevOps, Remote work & productivity tools, HealthTech and …

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Moscow subway to deploy facial recognition surveillance system

November 12, 2020

The subway cars working in the Moscow Metro will soon be equipped with facial recognition systems, reports the BBC Russian Service. According to a tender announced on July 9, the Moscow Mayor’s Office is spending 1.4 billion rubles (more than $19.7 million) on the purchase of the necessary surveillance cameras and specialized software. The first stage …

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How a Russian AI ‘graphic designer’ fooled the world for an entire year

July 9, 2020

The Artemy Lebedev design studio created a neural network capable of creating its own designer logos. The AI was being developed in strict secrecy by a team of computer wizards working in isolation. The artificial intelligence itself was only known to the rest of the design bureau as ‘Nikolay Ironov’ – a pretty ordinary Russian …

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Coronavirus and the rise of the AI economy

June 6, 2020

As the Covid-19 outbreak is having a growing impact on the global economy, countries need new economic growth models, writes Rainer Michael Preiss in his Forbes column. Preiss is a portfolio strategist based in Singapore, covering global macroeconomics and geopolitics with a focus on emerging markets and emerging technologies. While artificial intelligence powered by 5G …

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Deepfake video of Elon Musk singing Soviet space song appears after successful ‘SpaceX’ launch

June 5, 2020

With the successful launch of the Crew Dragon capsule, Elon Musk’s space travel company SpaceX sent its first astronauts to the International Space Station on May 30. To celebrate the occasion, Russian Internet users released a clever deepfake video of Musk singing “Grass at Home,” a famous song by the Soviet rock band “Zemlyane” (“Earthlings”). Russia’s state space corporation, Roscosmos, …

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In Russia’s next-gen retail outlets, an “intellectual surveillance system” will replace cash and cashiers

May 26, 2020

Sberbank, the state-controlled finance and technology behemoth, Azbuka Vkusa, a leading grocery retail outlet network, and Visa have teamed up to launch “Russia’s first store fitted with computer vision solutions.” Located in the Moscow City business center, the ‘Take&Go’ store features an “intellectual surveillance system” which “constantly tracks the products on shelves.”  When entering the store, customers …

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Speech recognition technology from Russia stands out at international contest

May 9, 2020

Last week Russia’s Speech Technology Center (STC) and ITMO University saw their speaker diarisation and speech recognition technology win an international contest, the CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (CHiME-6).  The technology demonstrated a superior ability to recognise English speech from multiple microphones in a natural, noisy environment. It took the first place the most difficult …

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