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Hi Sirod69.....thanks for that breakdown.
Nice to see Peter and Anil still sitting at number 2 & 3 respectively...holding 13.75% of the company, plus 56.52% currently being held by
the rest of us outside the top 20...combined giving a nice 70.27% of the company...just an observation at this point, nothing more than that.
Regarding some nice news to drop just prior to the AGM, legally the company can't sit on information to make the timing of that possible,
it either plays out that way or not, maybe we could ask that the signing of a new IP License takes place on 22 May, that would work
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Whilst legally yes they can’t sit on information. However depending on how your relationships are with your customers and how well you have supported them and keep matters in house, there is nothing wrong with giving them your AGM date and requesting that if they were in a position to endorse the release of something the timing would be welcome around that time. Now it may not work out but the old saying if you don’t ask you don’t get. So you never ever know.
Bravo
If ARM was an arm, BRN would be its biceps💪!
OK, how did we miss this particular article?!!!
March 28, 2023 12:33 PM
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Cisco today unveiled AI-powered enhancements across its Webex suite, promising to deliver hybrid work experiences with automation, while protecting customers’ confidentiality and privacy.
The updates span workspace, collaboration and customer experience categories, built on the Webex platform, and join a long list of AI and machine learning (ML) features already embedded in Cisco products.
The next step forward for such collaboration is video intelligence, which Webex is expanding throughout the conference room operating system RoomOS.
With cinematic meeting experiences, cameras follow individuals through voice and facial recognition to capture the best angle of the active speaker. This ensures focus on the speaker, while making certain that hybrid workers not physically present in the room can still feel included, according to Cisco.
Cinematic meetings support a range of camera intelligence features, including speaker mode, frames, presenter and audience tracking and meeting zones.
“AI is fundamentally transforming the way we work and live,” Jeetu Patel, EVP and GM for security and collaboration at Cisco, told VentureBeat. “It has the potential to make collaboration radically more immersive, personalized and efficient.”
Cisco studied what he described as a “once-in-a-generation platform shift” that AI could support. The company’s efforts center around re-imagining hybrid work.
With the rise of hybrid work, it’s essential that organizations provide employees with the flexibility to work in different locations and in different ways. To address this, Cisco has introduced three new AI-based features into its Webex suite.
This includes a super resolution function that ensures crystal-clear video in Webex meetings, even in low-bandwidth conditions. This is achieved through deep neural network video recovery that hides choppiness, removes blocking artifacts and reconstructs the face and body to render in high-resolution images and videos.
Another new AI capability is smart re-lighting, which automatically enhances lighting in Webex meetings to ensure that people look their best in any environment. This is particularly useful when working in poor lighting conditions. The algorithm is trained to recognize different scenarios with people in different lighting, and automatically enhances the light on the facial foreground.
The third new capability is a “be right back” update, which automatically puts up a BRB message, blurs the background, and mutes audio when a user steps away from a Webex meeting. This feature saves time and is simple to use. By leveraging a 3D face mesh algorithm, Webex can detect when a user has stepped away and replace their video feed with a BRB indicator until they return. Users can turn their audio and video back on when they are back in front of the screen.
One of the new capabilities, topic analysis in Webex Contact Center, provides actionable insights to business analysts by surfacing key reasons customers are calling in. This feature is built using an AI large language model (LLM) that aggregates call transcripts and highlights trends for business analysts.
Another capability, agent answers, acts as a real-time coach for human agents by listening and instantly surfacing knowledge-based articles and helpful information for the customer. This capability uses learnings from self-service and automated customer interactions and applies AI to ensure that the highest match probability options are identified first.
Meanwhile, AI-powered chat summaries eliminate the need for agents to read lengthy digital chat histories and provide key takeaways in a quickly digestible format. Lastly, Webex Connect users can now describe the function they want to perform, and AI will generate and return the appropriate code instantly, making it easier to create and iterate customer journeys quickly.
venturebeat.com
Cisco updates Webex, aims to enhance hybrid work experiences with AI
Sri Krishna@SriTalkstechMarch 28, 2023 12:33 PM
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Cisco today unveiled AI-powered enhancements across its Webex suite, promising to deliver hybrid work experiences with automation, while protecting customers’ confidentiality and privacy.
The updates span workspace, collaboration and customer experience categories, built on the Webex platform, and join a long list of AI and machine learning (ML) features already embedded in Cisco products.
The next step forward for such collaboration is video intelligence, which Webex is expanding throughout the conference room operating system RoomOS.
With cinematic meeting experiences, cameras follow individuals through voice and facial recognition to capture the best angle of the active speaker. This ensures focus on the speaker, while making certain that hybrid workers not physically present in the room can still feel included, according to Cisco.
Once in a generation platform shift
RoomOS uses facial detection, information about where people are sitting in a room and voice location to direct the meeting and provide the best view. The feature individually frames and levels participants at eye height, and in speaker mode, uses audio triangulation from devices and an intelligent beam-forming table microphone to quickly and accurately identify the position of the active speaker.Cinematic meetings support a range of camera intelligence features, including speaker mode, frames, presenter and audience tracking and meeting zones.
“AI is fundamentally transforming the way we work and live,” Jeetu Patel, EVP and GM for security and collaboration at Cisco, told VentureBeat. “It has the potential to make collaboration radically more immersive, personalized and efficient.”
Cisco studied what he described as a “once-in-a-generation platform shift” that AI could support. The company’s efforts center around re-imagining hybrid work.
Targeting hybrid work experiences
With the rise of hybrid work, it’s essential that organizations provide employees with the flexibility to work in different locations and in different ways. To address this, Cisco has introduced three new AI-based features into its Webex suite.
This includes a super resolution function that ensures crystal-clear video in Webex meetings, even in low-bandwidth conditions. This is achieved through deep neural network video recovery that hides choppiness, removes blocking artifacts and reconstructs the face and body to render in high-resolution images and videos.
Another new AI capability is smart re-lighting, which automatically enhances lighting in Webex meetings to ensure that people look their best in any environment. This is particularly useful when working in poor lighting conditions. The algorithm is trained to recognize different scenarios with people in different lighting, and automatically enhances the light on the facial foreground.
The third new capability is a “be right back” update, which automatically puts up a BRB message, blurs the background, and mutes audio when a user steps away from a Webex meeting. This feature saves time and is simple to use. By leveraging a 3D face mesh algorithm, Webex can detect when a user has stepped away and replace their video feed with a BRB indicator until they return. Users can turn their audio and video back on when they are back in front of the screen.
AI-powered chat summaries
As customer expectations continue to rise and organizations handle billions of daily customer interactions, it has become challenging for agents and legacy systems to keep up with the volume and personalization required. To this end, Cisco is introducing new AI capabilities for its customer experience solutions, including Webex Contact Center and Webex Connect.One of the new capabilities, topic analysis in Webex Contact Center, provides actionable insights to business analysts by surfacing key reasons customers are calling in. This feature is built using an AI large language model (LLM) that aggregates call transcripts and highlights trends for business analysts.
Another capability, agent answers, acts as a real-time coach for human agents by listening and instantly surfacing knowledge-based articles and helpful information for the customer. This capability uses learnings from self-service and automated customer interactions and applies AI to ensure that the highest match probability options are identified first.
Meanwhile, AI-powered chat summaries eliminate the need for agents to read lengthy digital chat histories and provide key takeaways in a quickly digestible format. Lastly, Webex Connect users can now describe the function they want to perform, and AI will generate and return the appropriate code instantly, making it easier to create and iterate customer journeys quickly.
Cisco updates Webex, aims to enhance hybrid work experiences with AI
To support organizations in this era of hybrid work, Cisco introduces several new AI-based features across its Webex suite.
I'd suggest listening to the upcoming tech talk between ARM and Brainchip
May 9 11pm Perth
May 10 1am Sydney
The rather big question really is, once a prospective client becomes an official holder of an IP License, we should possibly consider that
mass production of a product or products could be added to that timeframe, maybe 24 months minimum from the day they actually sign
a contract, with no new IP Licenses currently signed many, I would suggest, haven't factored in a 24 month design cycle from that day forth.
Anyway, that's simply my view.....cheers.
Frangipani
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Unless Nandan Nayampally possesses the unlikely gift of bilocation, I’d suggest to contact our friends (?!) at Cisco to see whether/how they can help.
Let’s just assume for a moment that they are indeed hidden behind one of the NDAs. Dot, dot, dot…
I am thinking along the lines of a Webex Hologram demonstration as shown in that “Takei on Tech” video @Taproot shared with us the other day. Cisco is promoting their revolutionary tech (see how they’d complement each other?!) as “a real-time, photorealistic holographic interaction that goes beyond video conferencing for a truly immersive experience” on its homepage.
Here you are, in case you missed watching it when it was first posted:
Just imagine that Sydney AGM ballroom full of disgruntled shareholders abruptly going dead silent, when they are told that Nandan Nayampally will shortly be with them “in the room”, even though in actual fact he is physically in California, having dinner the night before his conference presentation (given the time difference of 17 hours). They’d all be left speechless (well except those of you who will also be attending in person and have now been tipped off by me…)
The only problem being, the audience members would all need their own AR headset to enjoy the cutting edge 3D Pacific-bridging experience. Mmmhhh… Maybe all shareholders could enter into an AGM lottery on arrival, and then a dozen or so winners would be drawn and get to experience and rave about this groundbreaking technology first-hand (or rather first-eye).
That would be a stellar PR coup for Brainchip and undoubtedly result in innumerable relieved shareholder faces as well as an explosion of (unexploding) lunar-boundin this space, while the Mickleboros of the world will be staring in disbelief at the BRN share price trajectory.
Sadly, the stock market feels more like a casino these days, so more likely there will be heaps of
instead, after the almost inevitable “sell on good news”.
P.S.: In case the BRN management happens to monitor this - I just wanted to mention in passing that I wouldn‘t mind being donated a couple of thousand shares as a reward for this ingenious proposal…
In the “This is our mission” podcast with Geoffrey Moore, Sean Hehir mentions from 5:12 min “a company in communications, something you wouldn’t even think about - and it’s not a handset - but they want AI functionality in their devices, and they’re gonna build chips, so world-class companies are usually driven by some competitive nature (…) it’s that competitive nature that’s really driving their verticalisation”.
So we get this is not about handsets such as smartphones or gaming controllers, but how about headsets, then? Besides the mixed-reality Cisco one I had referred to in my post above for Webex videoconferencing solutions, there is of course also the long-awaited possibly-soon-to-be-released Apple VR/AR-headset dubbed Reality Pro (this high-end model is rumoured to sell at around 3000 USD) and a more affordable version dubbed Reality One that is predicted to be launched at a later stage. Other posters have previously also commented on a speculative link to Brainchip re those upcoming Apple mixed-reality headsets that will have eye and gesture tracking and are said to operate independently of an iPhone, an iPad or a Mac.
Apple Vision Pro: Should You Buy? Reviews, Features, and Price
Apple Vision Pro is Apple's first wearable headset device, offering a mixed reality experience. Vision Pro is priced starting at $3,499, with...
www.macrumors.com
While we should keep in mind the word “speculative“ here, let us occasionally allow ourselves to daydream just a little. The English word earworm is a calque (loan translation) of the German word Ohrwurm, referring to a catchy piece of music that continues to occupy your mind long after it has been played. The song “A Whole New World” from the Disney movie Aladdin that I brought up in my post yesterday sure is one of those earworms for me. And not only for its captivating melody:
“
Unbelievable sights, indescribable feelingSoaring, tumbling, freewheeling
Through an endless diamond sky
A whole new world (Don't you dare close your eyes)
A hundred thousand things to see (Hold your breath, it gets better)
I'm like a shooting star, I've come so far
I can't go back to where I used to be (A whole new world)
With new horizons to pursue
I'll chase them anywhere
There's time to spare
Let me share this whole new world with you…”
Edit: In the light of what @TECH just posted minutes before me, I should add we’d better restrict our daydreaming to future product updates containing Akida, and shouldn’t set our hopes on recently released or soon to be launched products, as it is true that we would need to factor in long production timelines once an IP license has been signed (except if the deal was done through Megachips or Renesas, I assume?)
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Terroni2105
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Geoffrey Moore promoting the recent podcast with Brainchip on Twitter
Frank Zappa
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Sir Les Patterson
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I'm okay with the cycle to production. Here's hoping for 10 new IP licenses over the next 12 months. The market will factor in the future revenue.I'd suggest listening to the upcoming tech talk between ARM and Brainchip
May 9 11pm Perth
May 10 1am Sydney
The rather big question really is, once a prospective client becomes an official holder of an IP License, we should possibly consider that
mass production of a product or products could be added to that timeframe, maybe 24 months minimum from the day they actually sign
a contract, with no new IP Licenses currently signed many, I would suggest, haven't factored in a 24 month design cycle from that day forth.
Anyway, that's simply my view.....cheers.
Hi Tech,I'd suggest listening to the upcoming tech talk between ARM and Brainchip
May 9 11pm Perth
May 10 1am Sydney
The rather big question really is, once a prospective client becomes an official holder of an IP License, we should possibly consider that
mass production of a product or products could be added to that timeframe, maybe 24 months minimum from the day they actually sign
a contract, with no new IP Licenses currently signed many, I would suggest, haven't factored in a 24 month design cycle from that day forth.
Anyway, that's simply my view.....cheers.
The 24 months may be a reasonable period where the licence involves building an entirely new product, eg , Prophesee or Valeo with Akida, but there will be new licencees who want basically a COTS processor (ARM/SiFive/Intel) boosted by Akida. In those cases, once the initial batch is made, we could expect a shorter time to market.
We already know that Akida is processor agnostic and it has been confirmed that it does fit all ARM processors, so there must already be some progress in fitting Akida and ARM designs together.
Terroni2105
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Any idea why Socionext is not listed on the BrainChip website under the “You’re In Good Company” heading?
We know they are still working together and I would have thought it beneficial from BrainChip standpoint to have Socionext noted on their website in some capacity.
We know they are still working together and I would have thought it beneficial from BrainChip standpoint to have Socionext noted on their website in some capacity.
Fullmoonfever
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The other side of communications ties in potentially with cyber attacks and packet inspections which is part of what the CyberNeuro RT project is about.In the “This is our mission” podcast with Geoffrey Moore, Sean Hehir mentions from 5:12 min “a company in communications, something you wouldn’t even think about - and it’s not a handset - but they want AI functionality in their devices, and they’re gonna build chips, so world-class companies are usually driven by some competitive nature (…) it’s that competitive nature that’s really driving their verticalisation”.
So we get this is not about handsets such as smartphones or gaming controllers, but how about headsets, then? Besides the mixed-reality Cisco one I had referred to in my post above for Webex videoconferencing solutions, there is of course also the long-awaited possibly-soon-to-be-released Apple VR/AR-headset dubbed Reality Pro (this high-end model is rumoured to sell at around 3000 USD) and a more affordable version dubbed Reality One that is predicted to be launched at a later stage. Other posters have previously also commented on a speculative link to Brainchip re those upcoming Apple mixed-reality headsets that will have eye and gesture tracking and are said to operate independently of an iPhone, an iPad or a Mac.
Apple Vision Pro: Should You Buy? Reviews, Features, and Price
Apple Vision Pro is Apple's first wearable headset device, offering a mixed reality experience. Vision Pro is priced starting at $3,499, with...
While we should keep in mind the word “speculative“ here, let us occasionally allow ourselves to daydream just a little. The English word earworm is a calque (loan translation) of the German word Ohrwurm, referring to a catchy piece of music that continues to occupy your mind long after it has been played. The song “A Whole New World” from the Disney movie Aladdin that I brought up in my post yesterday sure is one of those earworms for me. And not only for its captivating melody:
“
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling
Through an endless diamond sky
A whole new world (Don't you dare close your eyes)
A hundred thousand things to see (Hold your breath, it gets better)
I'm like a shooting star, I've come so far
I can't go back to where I used to be (A whole new world)
With new horizons to pursue
I'll chase them anywhere
There's time to spare
Let me share this whole new world with you…”
Edit: In the light of what @TECH just posted minutes before me, I should add we’d better restrict our daydreaming to future product updates containing Akida, and shouldn’t set our hopes on recently released or soon to be launched products, as it is true that we would need to factor in long production timelines once an IP license has been signed (except if the deal was done through Megachips or Renesas, I assume?)
2022 paper here.
HERE
The other use case possibility is as their patent grant from 2022. They've gone to the effort to patent this
The latest patents awarded to BrainChip from the USPTO include:
BrainChip Fortifies Neuromorphic Patent Portfolio with New Awards and IP Acquisition
Explore BrainChip's strengthened neuromorphic patent portfolio and AI leadership through new awards and IP acquisition.
brainchip.com
- US 11,468,299 “An Improved Spiking Neural Network,” protects the learning function of BrainChip’s digital neuron circuit implemented on a neuromorphic integrated circuit/system (e.g., AkidaTM).
- US 11,429,857, “Secure Voice Communications System,” protects a system to establish secure voice communications between a local and a remote neural network device. Information is encrypted by transmitting spike timing rather than original data, rendering it useless to anyone intercepting the transmission.
Vladsblood
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Hi Denna, yes very low to extreme low volume “The Thermometer “ is showing the time frame is just about to turn cycle upwards. Once time runs out nothing can change the coming SP reversal as time is so much more important than price in forecasting future moves. Cheers Deena, Vlad.
rgupta
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If the cycle will go 24 months after signing an IP? That will mean EQXX is not going have akida inside. As Merc is saying launch is early 2024.I'd suggest listening to the upcoming tech talk between ARM and Brainchip
May 9 11pm Perth
May 10 1am Sydney
The rather big question really is, once a prospective client becomes an official holder of an IP License, we should possibly consider that
mass production of a product or products could be added to that timeframe, maybe 24 months minimum from the day they actually sign
a contract, with no new IP Licenses currently signed many, I would suggest, haven't factored in a 24 month design cycle from that day forth.
Anyway, that's simply my view.....cheers.
Or the other way around contracts are written differently with EAP.
Wait !!!
Fullmoonfever
Top 20
Not sure how I forgot this as well when it comes to communicationsThe other side of communications ties in potentially with cyber attacks and packet inspections which is part of what the CyberNeuro RT project is about.
2022 paper here.
HERE
The other use case possibility is as their patent grant from 2022. They've gone to the effort to patent this
The latest patents awarded to BrainChip from the USPTO include:
BrainChip Fortifies Neuromorphic Patent Portfolio with New Awards and IP Acquisition
Explore BrainChip's strengthened neuromorphic patent portfolio and AI leadership through new awards and IP acquisition.
- US 11,468,299 “An Improved Spiking Neural Network,” protects the learning function of BrainChip’s digital neuron circuit implemented on a neuromorphic integrated circuit/system (e.g., AkidaTM).
- US 11,429,857, “Secure Voice Communications System,” protects a system to establish secure voice communications between a local and a remote neural network device. Information is encrypted by transmitting spike timing rather than original data, rendering it useless to anyone intercepting the transmission.
Intellisense to use neuromorphic AI for next generation cognitive radio chip
Business news | March 22, 2023By Nick Flaherty
SENSING / CONDITIONING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AI
Intellisense Systems is to use neuromorphic AI technology from BrainChip to improve cognitive radio system on spacecraft and robotics.
Intellisense’s intelligent radio frequency (RF) system enable wireless devices and platforms to sense and learn the characteristics of the communications environment in real time, providing enhanced communication quality, reliability and security. By integrating BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic processor, Intellisense can deliver even more advanced, yet energy efficient, cognitive capabilities to its RF system solutions.
One such project is the development of a new Neuromorphic Enhanced Cognitive Radio (NECR) device to enable autonomous space operations on platforms constrained by size, weight and power (SWaP).
- NASA looks to BrainChip’s spiking neural network chip
- BrainChip integrates Akida AI core with ARM Cortex-M85
- BrainChip tapes out its AI chip in 22nm FD SOI
“By integrating BrainChip’s Akida processor into our cognitive radio solutions, we will be able to provide our customers with an unparalleled level of performance, adaptability and reliability,” said Frank Willis, President and CEO of Intellisense.
“Intellisense provides advanced sensing and display solutions and we are thrilled to be partnering with them to deliver the next generation of cognitive radio capabilities,” said Sean Hehir, CEO of BrainChip. “Our Akida processor is uniquely suited to address the demanding requirements of cognitive radio applications and we look forward to continue partnering with Intellisense to deliver cutting-edge embedded processing with AI on-chip to their customers.”
Thanks for your opinion
and yes, I was hinting at what you wrote on the first line.While other products and designs are/could be well underway, it's targeting the companies whom we have been engaged with that the
company is working hard on getting an IP License commitment from, which as you have eluded to numerous times isn't an easy gig.
While it's 100% true products are coming very soon, including others that won't be far behind, it's the companies goal to sign IP
Licenses in the first instance, so I would assume many are in the pipeline, we shall see.
Roll on 1 January 2025....looking forward to seeing a dollar or three in front of our share price !
Best regards.....Chris (Tech)
Hi Fmf,Not sure how I forgot this as well when it comes to communications
Intellisense to use neuromorphic AI for next generation cognitive radio chip
Business news | March 22, 2023
By Nick Flaherty
SENSING / CONDITIONING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AI
Intellisense Systems is to use neuromorphic AI technology from BrainChip to improve cognitive radio system on spacecraft and robotics.
Intellisense’s intelligent radio frequency (RF) system enable wireless devices and platforms to sense and learn the characteristics of the communications environment in real time, providing enhanced communication quality, reliability and security. By integrating BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic processor, Intellisense can deliver even more advanced, yet energy efficient, cognitive capabilities to its RF system solutions.
One such project is the development of a new Neuromorphic Enhanced Cognitive Radio (NECR) device to enable autonomous space operations on platforms constrained by size, weight and power (SWaP).
Intellisense’s NECR technology provides NASA numerous applications and can be used to enhance the robustness and reliability of space communication and networking, especially cognitive radio devices. Smart sensing algorithms will be implemented on neuromorphic computing hardware, including Akida, and then integrated with radio frequency modules as part of a Phase II prototype.
- NASA looks to BrainChip’s spiking neural network chip
- BrainChip integrates Akida AI core with ARM Cortex-M85
- BrainChip tapes out its AI chip in 22nm FD SOI
“By integrating BrainChip’s Akida processor into our cognitive radio solutions, we will be able to provide our customers with an unparalleled level of performance, adaptability and reliability,” said Frank Willis, President and CEO of Intellisense.
“Intellisense provides advanced sensing and display solutions and we are thrilled to be partnering with them to deliver the next generation of cognitive radio capabilities,” said Sean Hehir, CEO of BrainChip. “Our Akida processor is uniquely suited to address the demanding requirements of cognitive radio applications and we look forward to continue partnering with Intellisense to deliver cutting-edge embedded processing with AI on-chip to their customers.”
The link you posted leads to this rabbit warren:
BrainChip expands partners for neuromorphic AI IP
Business news | May 2, 2023By Jean-Pierre Joosting
https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/brainchip-expands-partners-for-neuromorphic-ai-ip/
The eeNews article refers to BrainChip's associations with Intellisense, Teksun, emotion3D, and AI Labs, as well as Akida gen 2, Global Foundries, ARM:
BrainChip Holdings Ltd, the first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI IP, saw the launch of its second-generation Akida™ processor IP platform and key partnerships with AI leaders on the first quarter of 2023.
The 2nd generation Akida technology platform is a hyper-efficient, yet powerful neural processing system designed for embedded Edge AI applications. The latest Akida platform adds efficient 8-bit processing to go with advanced capabilities, such as spatial-temporal domain convolutions and Vision Transformer (ViT) acceleration, for an unprecedented level of performance in sub-watt devices, taking them from perception toward cognition.
Other technology advancements made to BrainChip’s IP portfolio in 2023 include integration of its Akida processor family with the Arm® Cortex®-M85 processor, demonstrating the company’s commitment to developing cutting-edge AI systems that deliver exceptional performance and efficiency.
BrainChip also achieved tape-out of its AKD1500 reference design on GlobalFoundries’ 22nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology. This milestone is part of validating BrainChip’s IP across different processes and foundries, empowering partners with varied global manufacturing options.
As part of their commitment to improving functionality and options for partners, BrainChip entered several strategic partnerships to expand its partner ecosystem:
- Intellisense Systems chose BrainChip’s neuromorphic technology to improve the cognitive communication capabilities on size, weight, and power (SWaP) constrained platforms (such as spacecraft and robotics) for commercial and government markets.
- Their partnership with Teksun demonstrates and proliferates BrainChip’s technology through Teksun product development channels, impacting the next generation of intelligent vehicles, smart homes, medicine, and industrial IoT.
- BrainChip’s partnership with emotion3D enables an ultra-low-power working environment with on-chip learning to make driving safer and enable next-level user experience.
- Working with AI Labs Inc., both companies are collaborating on next-generation application development, leveraging the Minsky™ AI Engine in a cost-effective, compelling solution to real-world problems.
www.brainchip.com
How is this relevant to brainchip?..OK, how did we miss this particular article?!!!
Cisco updates Webex, aims to enhance hybrid work experiences with AI
Sri Krishna@SriTalkstech
March 28, 2023 12:33 PM
Image Credit: Piscine
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
Cisco today unveiled AI-powered enhancements across its Webex suite, promising to deliver hybrid work experiences with automation, while protecting customers’ confidentiality and privacy.
The updates span workspace, collaboration and customer experience categories, built on the Webex platform, and join a long list of AI and machine learning (ML) features already embedded in Cisco products.
The next step forward for such collaboration is video intelligence, which Webex is expanding throughout the conference room operating system RoomOS.
With cinematic meeting experiences, cameras follow individuals through voice and facial recognition to capture the best angle of the active speaker. This ensures focus on the speaker, while making certain that hybrid workers not physically present in the room can still feel included, according to Cisco.
Once in a generation platform shift
RoomOS uses facial detection, information about where people are sitting in a room and voice location to direct the meeting and provide the best view. The feature individually frames and levels participants at eye height, and in speaker mode, uses audio triangulation from devices and an intelligent beam-forming table microphone to quickly and accurately identify the position of the active speaker.
Cinematic meetings support a range of camera intelligence features, including speaker mode, frames, presenter and audience tracking and meeting zones.
“AI is fundamentally transforming the way we work and live,” Jeetu Patel, EVP and GM for security and collaboration at Cisco, told VentureBeat. “It has the potential to make collaboration radically more immersive, personalized and efficient.”
Cisco studied what he described as a “once-in-a-generation platform shift” that AI could support. The company’s efforts center around re-imagining hybrid work.
Targeting hybrid work experiences
With the rise of hybrid work, it’s essential that organizations provide employees with the flexibility to work in different locations and in different ways. To address this, Cisco has introduced three new AI-based features into its Webex suite.
This includes a super resolution function that ensures crystal-clear video in Webex meetings, even in low-bandwidth conditions. This is achieved through deep neural network video recovery that hides choppiness, removes blocking artifacts and reconstructs the face and body to render in high-resolution images and videos.
Another new AI capability is smart re-lighting, which automatically enhances lighting in Webex meetings to ensure that people look their best in any environment. This is particularly useful when working in poor lighting conditions. The algorithm is trained to recognize different scenarios with people in different lighting, and automatically enhances the light on the facial foreground.
The third new capability is a “be right back” update, which automatically puts up a BRB message, blurs the background, and mutes audio when a user steps away from a Webex meeting. This feature saves time and is simple to use. By leveraging a 3D face mesh algorithm, Webex can detect when a user has stepped away and replace their video feed with a BRB indicator until they return. Users can turn their audio and video back on when they are back in front of the screen.
AI-powered chat summaries
As customer expectations continue to rise and organizations handle billions of daily customer interactions, it has become challenging for agents and legacy systems to keep up with the volume and personalization required. To this end, Cisco is introducing new AI capabilities for its customer experience solutions, including Webex Contact Center and Webex Connect.
One of the new capabilities, topic analysis in Webex Contact Center, provides actionable insights to business analysts by surfacing key reasons customers are calling in. This feature is built using an AI large language model (LLM) that aggregates call transcripts and highlights trends for business analysts.
Another capability, agent answers, acts as a real-time coach for human agents by listening and instantly surfacing knowledge-based articles and helpful information for the customer. This capability uses learnings from self-service and automated customer interactions and applies AI to ensure that the highest match probability options are identified first.
Meanwhile, AI-powered chat summaries eliminate the need for agents to read lengthy digital chat histories and provide key takeaways in a quickly digestible format. Lastly, Webex Connect users can now describe the function they want to perform, and AI will generate and return the appropriate code instantly, making it easier to create and iterate customer journeys quickly.
Cisco updates Webex, aims to enhance hybrid work experiences with AI
To support organizations in this era of hybrid work, Cisco introduces several new AI-based features across its Webex suite.
Damo4
Regular
Teksun mentioned Brainchip was working with Toshiba, Cisco and (I forget the third company) but they amended their release and Brainchip said they didn't release the approved message.
Since then, Cisco has been on the radar, especially when our CEO has mentioned telecom, but not handsets or 4g, but potentially conference calling devices and networking.
All our ears are pricked for mentions of Ai and Cisco.
DaBenjamins
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It's no secret that Brainchip will be great in accelerating advances in medicine... which is why I like reading about active projects linking our chipper with the Australian Govt, Australian universities and other private enterprise.
IC210100056 — The University of Western Australia (funded by Australian Research Council)
Funding Commencement Year:2021
Grant Start Date:29 March 2023
Anticipated End Date:28 March 2027
Grant Value:$4,083,597.00
Investigators:
FoR/RFCD Codes:
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IC210100056 — The University of Western Australia (funded by Australian Research Council)
- Title:ARC Training Centre for Next-Gen Technologies in Biomedical Analysis
- Summary:The Centre for Next-Gen Technologies in Biomedical Analysis will deliver workforce trained in the development of transformative technologies that will rapidly expand the Australian pharmaceutical, diagnostic and defence sector. The university-industry partnership will increase Australia’s manufacturing capability by fast tracking screening, by integrating 3D printing, advanced sensing, big data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence for the delivery of optimal solutions in diagnosis, treatment and wellbeing. The centre will deliver training in Industry 4.0 skills which will boost early-stage scale-up and accelerate the sector’s supply chain, which is pivotal for the Australian industries to maintain a competitive edge.
- Program Name:Linkage
- Scheme Name:Industrial Transformation Training Centres
Type Name Industrial Transformation Priority Advanced Manufacturing Industrial Transformation Priority Cyber Security Industrial Transformation Priority Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals Science and Research Priority Health
Funding Commencement Year:2021
Grant Start Date:29 March 2023
Anticipated End Date:28 March 2027
Grant Value:$4,083,597.00
Investigators:
- Prof Killugudi Swaminatha-Iyer (TCD)
- Prof Richard Tilley (CI)
- Prof John Gooding (CI)
- Prof Nicolas Voelcker (CI)
- Prof Gustavo Carneiro (CI)
- Prof Donna Geddes (CI)
- Prof Charles Bond (CI)
- Dr Roey Elnathan (CI)
- Prof Brendan Kennedy (CI)
- Dr Nicole Smith (CI)
- Dr Haibo Jiang (PI)
- A/Prof Keith Stubbs (CI)
- Dr Nicolas Taylor (CI)
- Prof Fiona Wood (PI)
- Dr Denis Bauer (PI)
- Dr David Thirkettle-Watts (PI)
- Dr Kristen Nowak (PI)
- Adj A/Prof Alka Saxena (PI)
- Mr Peter Van der Made (PI)
- Mr Andrew Quick (PI)
- Dr Julio Ribeiro (PI)
- Dr Stuart Midgley (PI)
- Dr Wolfgang Jarolimek (PI)
- Mr Adam Guskich (PI)
- Dr James Miller (PI)
- Dr Leon Mitoulas (PI)
- Dr Melanie Nelson (PI)
- Mr Mark Unger (PI)
- Mr Vladimir Simonovic (PI)
- Dr Rene Hessling (PI)
- Dr Punit Seth (PI)
- Dr Helmut Thissen (PI)
- A/Prof Shery Chang (CI)
- Mrs Sally Holder (COO)
FoR/RFCD Codes:
- 030104 - Immunological and Bioassay Methods
- 030107 - Sensor Technology (Chemical Aspects)
- 100703 - Nanobiotechnology
- 970106 - Expanding Knowledge In the Biological Sciences
- 970108 - Expanding Knowledge In the Information and Computing Sciences
- 970110 - Expanding Knowledge In Technology
- The University of Western Australia
- The University of New South Wales
- Monash University
- The University of Adelaide
- PHARMAXIS LTD
- AVITA MEDICAL PTY LIMITED
- INVENTIA LIFE SCIENCE PTY. LTD.
- MEDIGROWTH AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
- CARL ZEISS PTY. LIMITED
- FERRONOVA PTY LTD
- BRAINCHIP HOLDINGS LTD
- MUPHARMA PTY. LTD.
- MEDELA AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
- Ionis Pharmaceuticals
- DUG TECHNOLOGY (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Illumina Inc.
- MILLENNIUM SCIENCE PTY LTD
- Defence Science and Technology Group
- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OF WA
- HARRY PERKINS INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH INC
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The Pope
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Really good podcast by Sean.
Any key reason the podcast finished at 15min 55sec and there is 12mins of nothing beyond this point? Some editing by BRN or forgot to press the stop button?
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