BRN Discussion Ongoing

[Getupthere]

Here's a question to no one in particular.

Who benefits by having the share price tightly controlled at this level or even sub 60c?

Tech x

Someone is loaning out shares to the shorters.

They make money for loaning out their shares, while at the same time accumulating more shares while the share price gets pushed down to the 60’s.

It looks like the loaners don’t won’t the price below a price range that kicks BRN out of the ASX 200.

Something tells me it might be someone that voted against Peter at the last AGM.

IMO

DYOR.

 

[FJ-215]

Great article on us about our Benchmarking.

BrainChip says new standards needed for edge AI benchmarking | Edge Industry Review

Benchmarking used to measure AI performance in today's industry tends to focus heavily on TOPS metrics, which do not accurately depict real-world applications.

www.edgeir.com

BrainChip says new standards needed for edge AI benchmarking​

Jan 23, 2023 | Abhishek Jadhav

CATEGORIES Edge Applications | Edge Computing News | Industry Standards

BrainChip, a provider of neuromorphic processors for edge AI on-chip processing, has published a white paper that examines the limitations of conventional AI performance benchmarks. The white paper also suggests additional metrics to consider when evaluating AI applications’ overall performance and efficiency in multi-modal edge environments.

The white paper, “Benchmarking AI inference at the edge: Measuring performance and efficiency for real-world deployments”, examines how neuromorphic technology can help reduce latency and power consumption while amplifying throughput. According to research cited by BrainChip, the benchmarking used to measure AI performance in today’s industry tends to focus heavily on TOPS metrics, which do not accurately depict real-world applications.

“While there’s been a good start, current methods of benchmarking for edge AI don’t accurately account for the factors that affect devices in industries such as automotive, smart homes and Industry 4.0,” said Anil Mankar, the chief development officer of BrainChip.

Recommended reading: Edge Impulse, BrainChip partner to accelerate edge AI development

Limitations of traditional edge AI benchmarking techniques​

MLPerf is recognized as the benchmark system for measuring the performance and capabilities of AI workloads and inferences. While other organizations seek to add new standards for AI evaluations, they still use TOPS metrics. Unfortunately, these metrics fail to prove proper power consumption and performance in a real-world setting.

BrainChip proposes that future benchmarking of AI edge performance should include application-based parameters. Additionally, it should emulate sensor inputs to provide a more realistic and complete view of performance and power efficiency.

“We believe that as a community, we should evolve benchmarks to continuously incorporate factors such as on-chip, in-memory computation, and model sizes to complement the latency and power metrics that are measured today,” Mankar added.

Recommended reading: BrainChip, Prophesee to deliver “neuromorphic” event-based vision systems for OEMs

Benchmarks in action: Measuring throughput and power consumption​

BrainChip promotes a shift towards using application-specific parameters to measure AI inference capabilities. The new standard should use open-loop and closed-loop datasets to measure raw performance in real-world applications, such as throughput and power consumption.

BrainChip believes businesses can leverage this data to optimize AI algorithms with performance and efficiency for various industries, including automotive, smart homes and Industry 4.0.

Evaluating AI performance for automotive applications can be difficult due to the complexity of dynamic situations. One can create more responsive in-cabin systems by incorporating keyword spotting and image detection into benchmarking measures. On the other hand, when evaluating AI in smart home devices, one should prioritize measuring performance and accuracy for keyword spotting, object detection and visual wake words.

“Targeted Industry 4.0 inference benchmarks focused on balancing efficiency and power will enable system designers to architect a new generation of energy-efficient robots that optimally process data-heavy input from multiple sensors,” BrainChip explained.

BrainChip emphasizes the need for more effort to incorporate additional parameters in a comprehensive benchmarking system. The company suggests creating new benchmarks for AI interference performance that measure efficiency by evaluating factors such as latency, power and in-memory and (on-chip) computation.

Hi TechGirl,

I expect that we will see a few more of these articles in the next week. Love all the dot joining here but we seem to have lost sight of the fact that we are in the midst of a capital raise. If you are selling your car you need to advertise. Giving it a wash and pumping up the tyres is a good plan too.

 

[BaconLover]

Here's a question to no one in particular.

Who benefits by having the share price tightly controlled at this level or even sub 60c?

Tech x

I'm happy as long as LDA is happy ☺

 

[hotty4040]

I don't think it is controlled as such. Don't forget we have at least 30M shares to be dumped into the market. Buyers won't rush in to buy.

By whom Cyw, care to elaborate ?? unless you mean," our guarantors "

Akida Ballista >>>>> " Breaking News Imminent " I expect, quite soon <<<<<

hotty...

 

[Quatrojos]

UNITH to deploy digital humans in Japan with emotional intelligence through collaboration with NVISO - The Sentiment

According to the Nomura Research Institute, by the year 2035, half of all jobs in Japan could be performed by AI robots. Known for its adaptive approach to innovative technology, artificial intelligence company UNITH (ASX: UNT) is cashing in on the trend by launching their digital avatars in...

thesentiment.com.au

 

[Esq.111]

Here's a question to no one in particular.

Who benefits by having the share price tightly controlled at this level or even sub 60c?

Tech x

Afternoon TECH,

Good question & the only cenario I can think of is a large entity in our field of business screwing the price down.

But one of many ways...

Large entity goes out & on market Buys say the equivalent of say 100,000,000 shares for a combined average value of say $140,000,000.00.

Next step thay then proceed to use these shares, lend them out to a separate entity , although still the same parent entity, all linked through various offshore accounts , brokers etc to short the crap out of our share price.

In doing so thay...

1, pick up to $140,000,000.00 tax loss for the books.

2, the Short side of the equation Buys back and makes a profit at of $X...

3, Most importantly by playing with a relative pittance , $140,000,000.00, by screwing the price down said company then mysteriously appears & offers a buyout price of say $2.50 per share, White Knite, which after the enduring torment thay have inflicted on the average retail shareholder for over a year, dare say alot would accept.

4, Large acquiring company has literally saved itself billions of $ off the purchase price simply by playing games with only $140,000,000.00

* As I have said earlier, I personally believe the fair value of Brainchip shares pressently should be well north of $4.50 Au , even pricing in world events.

The above is purely what I think is playing out before our eyes.

Regards,
Esq.

 

[mrgds]

Here's a question to no one in particular.

Who benefits by having the share price tightly controlled at this level or even sub 60c?

Tech x

Sure as hell ain"t the retail shareholders.

Id enjoy "Blind Freddies" reply to your question.

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[alwaysgreen]

Afternoon TECH,

Good question & the only cenario I can think of is a large entity in our field of business screwing the price down.

But one of many ways...

Large entity goes out & on market Buys say the equivalent of say 100,000,000 shares for a combined average value of say $140,000,000.00.

Next step thay then proceed to use these shares, lend them out to a separate entity , although still the same parent entity, all linked through various offshore accounts , brokers etc to short the crap out of our share price.

In doing so thay...

1, pick up to $140,000,000.00 tax loss for the books.

2, the Short side of the equation Buys back and makes a profit at of $X...

3, Most importantly by playing with a relative pittance , $140,000,000.00, by screwing the price down said company then mysteriously appears & offers a buyout price of say $2.50 per share, White Knite, which after the enduring torment thay have inflicted on the average retail shareholder for over a year, dare say alot would accept.

4, Large acquiring company has literally saved itself billions of $ off the purchase price simply by playing games with only $140,000,000.00

* As I have said earlier, I personally believe the fair value of Brainchip shares pressently should be well north of $4.50 Au , even pricing in world events.

The above is purely what I think is playing out before our eyes.

Regards,
Esq.

$4.50? We are still essentially pre revenue.

I'll take it but that would value us at over $7 billion!

 

[Esq.111]

$4.50? We are still essentially pre revenue.

I'll take it but that would value us at over $7 billion!

Afternoon Alwaysgreen,

YEP.

Forgetting my loose math arriving at $4.50 , our CEO Sean , yet really Hehir from stated in an early interview that we should be valued at multiples of were we were at the time, or words to such effect.

From my memory, the share price was north of $1.00 at the time & as we all know , the plethora of engagements since.

Regards,
Esq.

 

[Techinvestor17]

Afternoon TECH,

Good question & the only cenario I can think of is a large entity in our field of business screwing the price down.

But one of many ways...

Large entity goes out & on market Buys say the equivalent of say 100,000,000 shares for a combined average value of say $140,000,000.00.

Next step thay then proceed to use these shares, lend them out to a separate entity , although still the same parent entity, all linked through various offshore accounts , brokers etc to short the crap out of our share price.

In doing so thay...

1, pick up to $140,000,000.00 tax loss for the books.

2, the Short side of the equation Buys back and makes a profit at of $X...

3, Most importantly by playing with a relative pittance , $140,000,000.00, by screwing the price down said company then mysteriously appears & offers a buyout price of say $2.50 per share, White Knite, which after the enduring torment thay have inflicted on the average retail shareholder for over a year, dare say alot would accept.

4, Large acquiring company has literally saved itself billions of $ off the purchase price simply by playing games with only $140,000,000.00

* As I have said earlier, I personally believe the fair value of Brainchip shares pressently should be well north of $4.50 Au , even pricing in world events.

The above is purely what I think is playing out before our eyes.

Regards,
Esq.

Where has the material interest disclosure been then?

 

[Techinvestor17]

Here's a question to no one in particular.

Who benefits by having the share price tightly controlled at this level or even sub 60c?

Tech x

If you look at the volume per day and the movement in the short interest you’ll find that it explains the majority of the trading

 

[VictorG]

"It's not about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward." - Rocky Balboa
Queue Rocky theme

 

[TopCat]

I’ve probably missed this previously but this nViso general company presentation from December has some good info in it. Here’s a couple of slides. Neuromorphic module available this year at quite a large price variation. What percentage would Brainchip get I wonder?

Investor Fact Sheet | NVISO

NVISO are leading experts in artificial intelligence and deep learning to accurately detect and predict human behaviors using visual intelligence.

www.ir.nviso.ai

 

[TheDon]

Afternoon TECH,

Good question & the only cenario I can think of is a large entity in our field of business screwing the price down.

But one of many ways...

Large entity goes out & on market Buys say the equivalent of say 100,000,000 shares for a combined average value of say $140,000,000.00.

Next step thay then proceed to use these shares, lend them out to a separate entity , although still the same parent entity, all linked through various offshore accounts , brokers etc to short the crap out of our share price.

In doing so thay...

1, pick up to $140,000,000.00 tax loss for the books.

2, the Short side of the equation Buys back and makes a profit at of $X...

3, Most importantly by playing with a relative pittance , $140,000,000.00, by screwing the price down said company then mysteriously appears & offers a buyout price of say $2.50 per share, White Knite, which after the enduring torment thay have inflicted on the average retail shareholder for over a year, dare say alot would accept.

4, Large acquiring company has literally saved itself billions of $ off the purchase price simply by playing games with only $140,000,000.00

* As I have said earlier, I personally believe the fair value of Brainchip shares pressently should be well north of $4.50 Au , even pricing in world events.

The above is purely what I think is playing out before our eyes.

Regards,
Esq.

Hi Esq,
In the event of the acquisition can the BRN Team block it or say its worth more the what they are offering?

Regards
TheDon

 

[VictorG]

Hi Esq,
In the event of the acquisition can the BRN Team block it or say its worth more the what they are offering?

Regards
TheDon

It is blocked if 25% or more of the outstanding shares vote against it

 

[Esq.111]

Afternoon TheDon,

A while ago this conversation was discussed in some depth.

Short answer is I am not up on the percentages required, but Peter, Anil & several others should have enough shares / percentage of company to block a takeover if thay so choose, & any offers of a takeover need to be divulged to shareholders as and when thay arrive.

Regards,
Esq.

 

[Esq.111]

Where has the material interest disclosure been then?

Afternoon Techinvestor17,

You would be amazed at all the bits of paper which fail to be lodged , accidentally... cough , on time or at all if it isn't spotted .

But alas, the ASX , ASIC and a few other gov agencies keep them on a tight leash....coughing..

Esq.

 

[HopalongPetrovski]

I hold some shares in Aus Super. I’ve started to move away from buying under this structure as when I questioned them about voting rights, I received the same response as above. I then questioned Aus Super on dividends and apparently they aren’t distributed to your account as Aus Super owns the shares. So basically going forward you are reliant on share price increase only. I now hold shares in several structures and am seen as multiple holders. I am not a financial advisor or accountant and am going only on my own research. So DYOR
@Fact Finder, I really miss your contribution to this forum. You wisdom reaches further than you realise. I appreciate all the hours of reading, notes, background checks you have put into your posts. Thank you!!

With Care Super...... "dividends or distribution payments will generally be credited to your cash hub within a few days of the payment date".......
"Tax is payable on dividend income and this is deducted from the cash hub balance after the dividend is deposited."
"Any franking credits will generally be applied to your cash hub after you have satisfied the '45 day rule' holding requirements."

I am very surprised to hear it is different with Aus Super?
I would double check on that as I definitely would not use any facility that did not pass on the earnings of shares that I hold a beneficial interest in.
Apparently there are also "some corporate actions" that I can participate in but they are a bit sketchy about exactly which and are supposed to notify me by email if any occur.
That is yet to happen, but you'll hear me screaming in Sydney if they don't give me my Divvies when they start to flow.

Bring It, Brainchip!

 

[chapman89]

Agreement to develop Interactive Digital Avatars

24th January, 2023

NVISO Japan KK (“NVISO”) and Unith Ltd (“UNITH”) have signed a binding Heads of Agreement outlining how Unith and NVISO will collaborate to integrate their respective technologies to demonstrate and then deliver an Interactive Digital Avatar and will promote and sell this solution in the Japanese market targeting products such as digital kiosks.

Click here to register for NVISO Webinar on Gaming and Avatars

Yokohama, Japan – 24th January 2023 – NVISO Japan KK (NVISO), a Japanese subsidiary of NVISO SA, the leading Human Behavioural Analytics AI company, is pleased to announce it has signed a binding Heads of Agreement with Unith Ltd (“UNITH” ) to integrate behavioural analytics into digital humans in conversational settings for deployment into digital kiosks in Japan.

The HOA will provide NVISO with access to UNITH’s Talking Head platform for the purpose of building integrations into NVISO’s holistic platform that features predictive analytics tied to emotional and transactional outcomes. The integrations will be designed to deliver interactive digital avatars that are able to understand various behavioural and emotional facets of its interactors through eye tracking and facial detection. The collaboration will be assisted by the BonAPPs program which will accelerate development work by providing a €74,000 (approx. $A117,000) grant to the project.

UNITH CEO, Idan Schmorak commented: “UNITH is excited to be partnering with NVISO on this collaboration which will initially target Japan. The Japanese market is well established for automation through computer-to-human interactions with digital characters and NVISO’s presence and expertise in Japan brings significant added value to the partnership”. “By deploying a digital avatar to a kiosk and humanising it with behavioural detection, we will deliver an AI solution that can know how a human is feeling, understand their attentiveness and facilitate an outcome accordingly. This step is consistent with UNITH’s distribution strategy to scale the reach of the Talking Head technology while developing the platform.”

NVISO delivers solutions for a wide range of use cases including those in the areas of Smart Living, Smart Mobility and Smart Health. This is achieved through a range of AI Apps providing visual observation, perception and semantic reasoning capabilities, in supporting autonomous “human like” interactions.

NVISO AI Apps are specifically designed for resource constrained low-power and low-memory hardware platforms deployed at the extreme edge. These AI Apps analyse core signals of human behaviour, such as body movements, facial expressions, emotions, identity, head pose, gaze, eye state, gestures or activities, and identify objects with which users interact. In addition, these AI Apps can be optimised for typically resource constrained, low power and low-cost processing platforms deployed on the edge, as demonstrated with ultra-compact models such as the Emotion Recognition AI App with less than 100KB of memory. Furthermore, NVISO AI Apps can be easily configured to suit specific camera systems for optimal performance in terms of distance and camera angle, and thanks to NVISO’s large scale proprietary human behaviour databases NVISO’s AI Apps are robust to the imaging conditions often found in real world deployments. Unlike cloud-based solutions, NVISO’s solutions do not require information to be sent off-device for processing elsewhere so user privacy and safety can be protected.


“Increasing efforts by customer-centric firms to provide emotionally engaging experiences to customers is a key factor driving adoption of digital human avatars globally” said Colin Mason, Country Manager of NVISO Japan K.K. “Customers will be able to communicate with digital human avatars via text or speech to receive product recommendations. Additionally, these avatars can assist users in navigating through a product catalogue and proactively mimic a salesperson by starting a conversation in any language. These avatars can then understand user preferences through their responses based on a prebuilt algorithm, allowing them to give appropriate answers to users' queries.”

 

[buena suerte :-)]

Agreement to develop Interactive Digital Avatars

24th January, 2023

NVISO Japan KK (“NVISO”) and Unith Ltd (“UNITH”) have signed a binding Heads of Agreement outlining how Unith and NVISO will collaborate to integrate their respective technologies to demonstrate and then deliver an Interactive Digital Avatar and will promote and sell this solution in the Japanese market targeting products such as digital kiosks.

Click here to register for NVISO Webinar on Gaming and Avatars

Yokohama, Japan – 24th January 2023 – NVISO Japan KK (NVISO), a Japanese subsidiary of NVISO SA, the leading Human Behavioural Analytics AI company, is pleased to announce it has signed a binding Heads of Agreement with Unith Ltd (“UNITH” ) to integrate behavioural analytics into digital humans in conversational settings for deployment into digital kiosks in Japan.

The HOA will provide NVISO with access to UNITH’s Talking Head platform for the purpose of building integrations into NVISO’s holistic platform that features predictive analytics tied to emotional and transactional outcomes. The integrations will be designed to deliver interactive digital avatars that are able to understand various behavioural and emotional facets of its interactors through eye tracking and facial detection. The collaboration will be assisted by the BonAPPs program which will accelerate development work by providing a €74,000 (approx. $A117,000) grant to the project.

UNITH CEO, Idan Schmorak commented: “UNITH is excited to be partnering with NVISO on this collaboration which will initially target Japan. The Japanese market is well established for automation through computer-to-human interactions with digital characters and NVISO’s presence and expertise in Japan brings significant added value to the partnership”. “By deploying a digital avatar to a kiosk and humanising it with behavioural detection, we will deliver an AI solution that can know how a human is feeling, understand their attentiveness and facilitate an outcome accordingly. This step is consistent with UNITH’s distribution strategy to scale the reach of the Talking Head technology while developing the platform.”

NVISO delivers solutions for a wide range of use cases including those in the areas of Smart Living, Smart Mobility and Smart Health. This is achieved through a range of AI Apps providing visual observation, perception and semantic reasoning capabilities, in supporting autonomous “human like” interactions.

NVISO AI Apps are specifically designed for resource constrained low-power and low-memory hardware platforms deployed at the extreme edge. These AI Apps analyse core signals of human behaviour, such as body movements, facial expressions, emotions, identity, head pose, gaze, eye state, gestures or activities, and identify objects with which users interact. In addition, these AI Apps can be optimised for typically resource constrained, low power and low-cost processing platforms deployed on the edge, as demonstrated with ultra-compact models such as the Emotion Recognition AI App with less than 100KB of memory. Furthermore, NVISO AI Apps can be easily configured to suit specific camera systems for optimal performance in terms of distance and camera angle, and thanks to NVISO’s large scale proprietary human behaviour databases NVISO’s AI Apps are robust to the imaging conditions often found in real world deployments. Unlike cloud-based solutions, NVISO’s solutions do not require information to be sent off-device for processing elsewhere so user privacy and safety can be protected.


“Increasing efforts by customer-centric firms to provide emotionally engaging experiences to customers is a key factor driving adoption of digital human avatars globally” said Colin Mason, Country Manager of NVISO Japan K.K. “Customers will be able to communicate with digital human avatars via text or speech to receive product recommendations. Additionally, these avatars can assist users in navigating through a product catalogue and proactively mimic a salesperson by starting a conversation in any language. These avatars can then understand user preferences through their responses based on a prebuilt algorithm, allowing them to give appropriate answers to users' queries.”

Just posting that (withdrawn!!) ... Exciting stuff .. cheers Jesse