BRN Discussion Ongoing

[cosors]

As far as I can see it's an investor conference held by Maxim Group LLC:

BrainChip to Participate in the Virtual Tech Conference Series: Emerging Growth in AI, Presented by Maxim Group LLC

BrainChip CEO Sean Hehir leads a virtual fireside chat, unveiling BrainChip's pivotal role in shaping the future of AI.

brainchip.com

This connection leads to money from Kazakhstan:

Freedom Holding Corp. Enters into Agreement to Acquire Investment Bank Maxim Group to Expand U.S. Presence

Freedom Holding Corp. is a corporation organized in the United States under the laws of the State of Nevada and is the parent company of several operating subsidiaries primarily engaged in a broad range of activities in the securities…

www.freedomholdingcorp.com

Silicon Valley is full of US investment bankers, so I wonder a bit why presentations like this are necessary. Or is it just a question of bad research by Brainchip?

Hard to say, but looks a bit strange, anyway.

Did you see the collapse of the Silicon Valley start-up bank? It's not like it's raining money from the sky for start-ups at the moment. Besides, there are a few more names and I wouldn't consider them insignificant.

from your link:

"FREEDOM HOLDING CORP. ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE INVESTMENT BANK MAXIM GROUP TO EXPAND U.S. PRESENCE​

February 16, 2023
Acquisition will expand capital markets, research, and investment banking capabilities

ALMATY, Kazakhstan & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Freedom Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: FRHC), a diversified multi-national financial services firm, announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Maxim Group LLC and its registered investment advisory affiliate Maxim Financial Advisors LLC (together “Maxim Group”), for a combination of cash and common stock. Including deferred payments and retention bonuses, the total consideration for the acquisition will be approximately $400 million (USD). Freedom continues its strategy of acquisitions following its 2020 purchase of Prime Executions, Inc., an institutional trading firm with operations on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange which was recently approved to conduct investment banking and equity capital market businesses under Freedom Capital Markets.

Maxim Group is a leading full-service investment bank headquartered in New York, that caters to emerging growth companies globally. Its business lines include investment banking, equity capital markets and institutional sales, equity research, merchant capital, and corporate and wealth management services. Maxim Group's corporate and institutional reach into Asia, Greece, Israel, and most of Western Europe will complement Freedom's brokerage and global distribution network. Together, the combined entity will provide a broad suite of product offerings to meet the needs of its diverse global client base.

Timur Turlov, CEO of Freedom Holding Corp., stated, "We are committed to growing our global footprint, and we recognize that having a significant U.S. presence is an important part of this strategy. Adding Maxim to our group as a trusted partner through this cornerstone transaction will turbocharge our growth as we continue to expand our U.S. operations."

Once the transaction is complete, Robert Wotczak, Chief Executive Officer of Freedom's U.S. operations, will be appointed Executive Chairman of Maxim Group and its subsidiaries, Clifford Teller will be promoted to Chief Executive Officer, and Chris Fiore, one of the Founders of Maxim Group, will remain as President.

"We look forward to building on Maxim's history of success and consistent profitability in varying market conditions," said Robert Wotczak. "Having worked alongside many Maxim team members throughout my career, I have tremendous respect for and confidence in this team's ability to accelerate growth across all business divisions."

"We are looking forward to working with the Freedom team in building a world-class financial services company," said Clifford Teller, President of Maxim Group. "With Freedom's differentiated distribution network, vast resources, and the synergies among the firms, Maxim will have the ability to expand exponentially in all areas of the investment bank while creating unique U.S. capital market solutions for our clients."

"I am extremely proud of the success Maxim Group has achieved over its twenty-year history. Speaking for our senior management and all of our dedicated employees, we look forward to starting our next chapter and working with an exceptionally strong and talented partner in Freedom," stated Michael Rabinowitz, Chairman of Maxim Group.

Completion of the transaction is subject to certain conditions and the receipt of required regulatory approvals.

About Freedom Holding Corp.

Freedom Holding Corp., a Nevada corporation, is a financial services holding company conducting retail financial securities brokerage, investment research, investment counseling, securities trading, investment banking and underwriting services, mortgages, insurance, and consumer banking through its subsidiaries under the name of Freedom Finance in Europe and Central Asia. Through its subsidiaries, Freedom Holding Corp. employs more than 2,900 people and is a professional participant in the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange, the Astana International Exchange, the Ukrainian Exchange, the Republican Stock Exchange of Tashkent, and the Uzbek Republican Currency Exchange and is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.

Freedom Holding Corp. is headquartered in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and has a presence in 14 countries, including Cyprus, the United States, Uzbekistan, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Freedom Holding Corp.'s common shares are registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and are traded in the United States on the Nasdaq Capital Market, operated by Nasdaq, Inc.

To learn more about Freedom Holding Corp., visit www.freedomholdingcorp.com.

About Maxim Group LLC

Maxim Group LLC is a full-service investment banking firm headquartered in New York with approximately 240 employees. Maxim Group provides a full array of financial services, including investment banking; private wealth management; and global institutional equity, fixed-income, and derivatives sales and trading, as well as equity research. The investment banking group focuses on middle market and emerging growth companies within the shipping, energy, health care, technology, retail, and business and financial services sectors. The institutional coverage of Maxim Group spans North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Maxim Group LLC is registered as a broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is a member of the following: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA); Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB); Securities Insurance Protection Corporation (SIPC); NASDAQ Stock Market and the NYSE Arca, Inc.

To learn more about Maxim Group, visit www.maximgrp.com."





For me, all this behind your link doesn't read bad.
So let's see what comes out of it.

"We want to welcome BrainChip (OTCQX: $BRCHF) to the Maxim Group LLC Emerging Growth in A.I. September 25-26, 2023 Learn more on B2i Digital at https://lnkd.in/eznwjbNc
BrainChip is a leader in edge AI on-chip processing and learning. The company’s first-to-market convolutional, neuromorphic processor, AkidaTM, mimics the event-based processing method of the human brain in digital technology to classify sensor data at the point of acquisition, processing data with unparalleled energy-efficiency and independent of the CPU or MCU with high precision. On-device learning that is local to the chip without the need to access the cloud dramatically reduces latency while improving privacy and data security. In enabling effective edge computing to be universally deployable across real-world applications, such as connected cars, consumer electronics, and industrial IoT, BrainChip is proving that on-chip AI is the future for customers’ products, the planet and beyond.
We look forward to seeing the continued results from Sean Hehir, Peter Van Der Made, Anil Mankar, Ken Scarince, Nandan Nayampally, Rob Telson and the rest of the BrainChip team!
Thanks to RITESH VEERA, Clifford A. Teller, Larry Glassberg, Brad Hoffman, Susy Camacho, Chris Avery, Eric Cheng, Pavlos L Mavrides, Mario Leite, Alex Jin, Jackson Tittle, CFA, the Maxim Senior Analysts, Allen Klee, Matthew Galinko, Jack Vander Aarde, Derek Greenberg and the rest of the Maxim Team for organizing these insightful events that cover cutting-edge topics."
https://www.facebook.com/b2idigital

 

[Lex555]

World’s first on-device demonstration of Stable Diffusion on an Android phone​

Qualcomm AI Research deploys a popular 1B+ parameter foundation model on an edge device through full-stack AI optimization
FEB 24, 2023


https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2...-demonstration-of-stable-diffusion-on-android
...
To shrink the model from FP32 to INT8, we used the AI Model Efficiency Toolkit’s (AIMET) post-training quantization, a tool developed from techniques created by Qualcomm AI Research and now incorporated into the newly announced Qualcomm AI Studio. Quantization not only increases performance but also saves power by allowing the model to efficiently run on our dedicated AI hardware and to consume less memory bandwidth. Our state-of-the-art AIMET quantization techniques, such as Adaptive Rounding (AdaRound), were able to maintain model accuracy at this lower precision without the need for re-training. The techniques were applied across all the component models in Stable Diffusion, namely the transformer-based text encoder, the VAE decoder, and the UNet. This was critical for the model to fit on the device.

For compilation, we used the Qualcomm AI Engine direct framework to map the neural network into a program that efficiently runs on our target hardware. The Qualcomm AI Engine direct framework sequences the operations to improve performance and minimize memory spillage based on the hardware architecture and memory hierarchy of the Qualcomm Hexagon Processor. Some of these enhancements resulted from AI optimization researchers working together with compiler engineering teams to improve memory management in AI inference. The overall optimizations made in the Qualcomm AI Engine have significantly reduced runtime latency and power consumption, and this much needed trend continues within Stable Diffusion.

Our industry-leading edge AI performance on the Qualcomm AI Engine with the Hexagon Processor is unleashed through tight hardware and software co-design. The latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with micro tile inferencing helps enable large models like Stable Diffusion to run efficiently — expect more improvements with the next-gen Snapdragon. Additionally, the enhancements made for transformer models, like MobileBERT, to dramatically speed up inference play a key role here as multi-head attention is used throughout the component models in Stable Diffusion.

The result of this full-stack optimization is running Stable Diffusion on a smartphone under 15 seconds for 20 inference steps to generate a 512x512 pixel image — this is the fastest inference on a smartphone and comparable to cloud latency. User text input is completely unconstrained.



"... a program that runs efficiently on our target hardware ..."!!!!

Hi @Bravo - remember what Ella says:
"Tain't what you do,
it's the way that you do it!"

Love your work dio though sometimes it’s hard to decipher your posts, is Qualcomm looking more likely to have Akida in there from what you read?

 

[Diogenese]

Love your work dio though sometimes it’s hard to decipher your posts, is Qualcomm looking more likely to have Akida in there from what you read?

Hi Lex,

Qualcomm have a patent application for the text video search system which uses a software NN and the Qualcomm article talks of using the software in cooperation with the Qualcomm hexagon processor. Akida does not use software in performing inferencing. So both the patent and the article point away from Qualcomm using Akida.

Of course, the system would be much more efficient and faster if it used Akida. .

 

[wilzy123]

View attachment 45538

Lol.. something definitely not right with you buddy.

Also, literally all your posts have nothing to do with brainchip or stock discussion.

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Dolphin has been mentioned previously re vision I think (?) this on voice and sound.

Using a mixed signal architecture apparently but... neuromorphic front end?

Always-on Voice classification at µW-level

Dolphin Design launches WhisperExtractor, a game-changer mixed-signal IP for the voice and audio-enabled SoCs. WhisperExtractor IP indeed enables voice and sound classification at µW level power budget, paving the way to breakthrough always-on voice user interface and always-on sound detection...

www.dolphin-design.fr

WhisperExtractor​

Neuromorphic Audio Front-End Enabling Always-On signal processing​

µWatts voice & sound classification​

“Unleash Your Voice, Unplug your charger”​

Only 10 µWatts
Near-zero power consumption

32 kHz RC clock
Always on domain friendly.

Seamless Integration
No software required.

Evaluation kit
Available.

Up to 99% energy saving​

while maintaining inference accuracy​

Google Speech Command (20 word) - accuracy​

Chinese KWS (25 words) - accuracy​

 

[Rise from the ashes]

Lol.. something definitely not right with you buddy.

You have way too much orange juice in you.

 

[TheFunkMachine]

Feel your pain mate. I have had a few tough conversations with my wife as well. She is handling this downturn extremely well. Did your wife feel good about buying brainchip at a much higher prize? If so. Re affirm the mile stone and work that Brainchip has achieved since that point. Did you have a sales strategy? Like for example, me and the wife agreed to hold to 2025 after the Mercedes news. If you had a year in mind, then remind her that even though the share price would have been much higher at this point, you still would not have been liquidating your holdings based on your plan. This might give her a sense of peace of mind that it doesn’t matter where the SP is until your goal to hold past a certain time frame.

Allow your wife to express her concerns and sympathise with her feelings. Then help her understand why you are excited by the company and the technology and why you believe the SP is not a true reflection of who the company is, what they have achieved and where they are expected to be in the future.

Going through financial pressure like we all are experiencing today is hard on everyone to varying degrees. But by opening up the conversation and looking at the situation with facts and perspective, hopefully we can take some of the emotions away from the equation.

Again, I feel the pain, and wish you and the wife a prosperous long future together

No more than 1 hour after posting this, my wife had a bit of a breakdown. She has been doing really well, but today got to her. Can someone give me a pep talk now?

She just feels as though we must have missed something to cause it going from $2 - 18c

I tried the best I could to reassure her, but it is friggin hard to see you life savings under attack including 70% of life’s super.

What are people actual thoughts on why we are free falling? Let’s have a moment of real talk. I can’t think of one logical reason other than manipulation and uneducated retail freaking out.. in fact I only see positive after positive, but if anyone can think of 1 good reason to why we are free falling let me know. I need to know

 

[wilzy123]

A while ago I asked Zee if he could change the ignore feature so that when another poster replies to someone you’ve ignored, it doesn’t prompt to “show ignored content”

I don’t know about you guys but sometimes when you drive past a horrific car crash and the cops are trying to hide the fact that there’s blood and guts everywhere, you know you don’t want to look but it just happens instinctively.

He didn’t implement my request at the time but i thought I’d try again, and this time ask for a “delete poster” function.
So anyone else that likes reading their dribble will still see it but the poster will effectively and irreversibly cease to exist for me, and if someone else replies to them it will just seem like they’re talking to a brick wall.

Would this feature suit anyone else? Or are we all happy with the way things are on this forum?

This would be a great feature given the current infestation on here.

 

[Rise from the ashes]

Yes that would be great wouldn't have to see anything regarding your posts. Even though you post their isn't anything there anyway.

 

[BaconLover]

So much ''stock discussion''.

Literally attacking every poster who has something to say he does not like. Not cool.

 

[Rise from the ashes]

So much ''stock discussion''.

Literally attacking every poster who has something to say he does not like. Not cool.

View attachment 45546

The content of your post is absolute rubbish.

 

[Quatrojos]

This is a recent Qualcomm patent application which does image searches in a video based on a description of the scene. They use an Electra natural language processor.
The patent originated in India.

WO2023167791A1 ON-DEVICE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VIDEO SEARCH 20220303

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[0018] FIGURE 6A is a block diagram illustrating an example architecture for query and search of a video, in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.

A computer-implemented method for on-device video query and search using an artificial neural network (ANN) includes receiving by the ANN, a video and a search query. The video includes a sequence of frames and associated subtitle information. First representations for a first set of words in the search query and second representations for a second set of words in the subtitle information are generated, at the mobile device by the ANN. A correlation between the search query and the subtitle information is determined at the mobile device by the ANN based on the first representations and the second representations. The ANN, at the mobile device, predicts a portion of the video including content responsive to the search query based on the correlation.

[0067] The search query and the subtitle information for the video may be supplied to an on-device neural network 606. The on-device neural network 606 may be a transformer neural network, for example. A transformer neural network is a deep learning model that uses self-attention and provides context information for any position within an input sequence. In some aspects, the on-device neural network 606 may be an efficiently learning encoder that classifies token replacements accurately (ELECTRA) small model. Of course, this is merely an example and other architectures such as bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT), robustly optimized BERT approach (RoBERT a), XLNet, Transform er-XL, and the generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) family of transformers may also be employed. An ELECTRA small model is a question answering natural language processor (NLP). The ELECTRA small model may be pre-trained to predict an answer given a query and an input paragraph.


The patent shows signs of being hastily drafted.

Old song, though.

 

[Perhaps]

Did you see the collapse of the Silicon Valley start-up bank? It's not like it's raining money from the sky for start-ups at the moment. Besides, there are a few more names and I wouldn't consider them insignificant.

from your link:

"FREEDOM HOLDING CORP. ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE INVESTMENT BANK MAXIM GROUP TO EXPAND U.S. PRESENCE​

February 16, 2023
Acquisition will expand capital markets, research, and investment banking capabilities

ALMATY, Kazakhstan & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Freedom Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: FRHC), a diversified multi-national financial services firm, announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Maxim Group LLC and its registered investment advisory affiliate Maxim Financial Advisors LLC (together “Maxim Group”), for a combination of cash and common stock. Including deferred payments and retention bonuses, the total consideration for the acquisition will be approximately $400 million (USD). Freedom continues its strategy of acquisitions following its 2020 purchase of Prime Executions, Inc., an institutional trading firm with operations on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange which was recently approved to conduct investment banking and equity capital market businesses under Freedom Capital Markets.

Maxim Group is a leading full-service investment bank headquartered in New York, that caters to emerging growth companies globally. Its business lines include investment banking, equity capital markets and institutional sales, equity research, merchant capital, and corporate and wealth management services. Maxim Group's corporate and institutional reach into Asia, Greece, Israel, and most of Western Europe will complement Freedom's brokerage and global distribution network. Together, the combined entity will provide a broad suite of product offerings to meet the needs of its diverse global client base.

Timur Turlov, CEO of Freedom Holding Corp., stated, "We are committed to growing our global footprint, and we recognize that having a significant U.S. presence is an important part of this strategy. Adding Maxim to our group as a trusted partner through this cornerstone transaction will turbocharge our growth as we continue to expand our U.S. operations."

Once the transaction is complete, Robert Wotczak, Chief Executive Officer of Freedom's U.S. operations, will be appointed Executive Chairman of Maxim Group and its subsidiaries, Clifford Teller will be promoted to Chief Executive Officer, and Chris Fiore, one of the Founders of Maxim Group, will remain as President.

"We look forward to building on Maxim's history of success and consistent profitability in varying market conditions," said Robert Wotczak. "Having worked alongside many Maxim team members throughout my career, I have tremendous respect for and confidence in this team's ability to accelerate growth across all business divisions."

"We are looking forward to working with the Freedom team in building a world-class financial services company," said Clifford Teller, President of Maxim Group. "With Freedom's differentiated distribution network, vast resources, and the synergies among the firms, Maxim will have the ability to expand exponentially in all areas of the investment bank while creating unique U.S. capital market solutions for our clients."

"I am extremely proud of the success Maxim Group has achieved over its twenty-year history. Speaking for our senior management and all of our dedicated employees, we look forward to starting our next chapter and working with an exceptionally strong and talented partner in Freedom," stated Michael Rabinowitz, Chairman of Maxim Group.

Completion of the transaction is subject to certain conditions and the receipt of required regulatory approvals.

About Freedom Holding Corp.

Freedom Holding Corp., a Nevada corporation, is a financial services holding company conducting retail financial securities brokerage, investment research, investment counseling, securities trading, investment banking and underwriting services, mortgages, insurance, and consumer banking through its subsidiaries under the name of Freedom Finance in Europe and Central Asia. Through its subsidiaries, Freedom Holding Corp. employs more than 2,900 people and is a professional participant in the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange, the Astana International Exchange, the Ukrainian Exchange, the Republican Stock Exchange of Tashkent, and the Uzbek Republican Currency Exchange and is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.

Freedom Holding Corp. is headquartered in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and has a presence in 14 countries, including Cyprus, the United States, Uzbekistan, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Freedom Holding Corp.'s common shares are registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and are traded in the United States on the Nasdaq Capital Market, operated by Nasdaq, Inc.

To learn more about Freedom Holding Corp., visit www.freedomholdingcorp.com.

About Maxim Group LLC

Maxim Group LLC is a full-service investment banking firm headquartered in New York with approximately 240 employees. Maxim Group provides a full array of financial services, including investment banking; private wealth management; and global institutional equity, fixed-income, and derivatives sales and trading, as well as equity research. The investment banking group focuses on middle market and emerging growth companies within the shipping, energy, health care, technology, retail, and business and financial services sectors. The institutional coverage of Maxim Group spans North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Maxim Group LLC is registered as a broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is a member of the following: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA); Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB); Securities Insurance Protection Corporation (SIPC); NASDAQ Stock Market and the NYSE Arca, Inc.

To learn more about Maxim Group, visit www.maximgrp.com."





For me, all this behind your link doesn't read bad.
So let's see what comes out of it.

"We want to welcome BrainChip (OTCQX: $BRCHF) to the Maxim Group LLC Emerging Growth in A.I. September 25-26, 2023 Learn more on B2i Digital at https://lnkd.in/eznwjbNc
BrainChip is a leader in edge AI on-chip processing and learning. The company’s first-to-market convolutional, neuromorphic processor, AkidaTM, mimics the event-based processing method of the human brain in digital technology to classify sensor data at the point of acquisition, processing data with unparalleled energy-efficiency and independent of the CPU or MCU with high precision. On-device learning that is local to the chip without the need to access the cloud dramatically reduces latency while improving privacy and data security. In enabling effective edge computing to be universally deployable across real-world applications, such as connected cars, consumer electronics, and industrial IoT, BrainChip is proving that on-chip AI is the future for customers’ products, the planet and beyond.
We look forward to seeing the continued results from Sean Hehir, Peter Van Der Made, Anil Mankar, Ken Scarince, Nandan Nayampally, Rob Telson and the rest of the BrainChip team!
Thanks to RITESH VEERA, Clifford A. Teller, Larry Glassberg, Brad Hoffman, Susy Camacho, Chris Avery, Eric Cheng, Pavlos L Mavrides, Mario Leite, Alex Jin, Jackson Tittle, CFA, the Maxim Senior Analysts, Allen Klee, Matthew Galinko, Jack Vander Aarde, Derek Greenberg and the rest of the Maxim Team for organizing these insightful events that cover cutting-edge topics."
https://www.facebook.com/b2idigital

Freedom Holding Corp. is headquartered in Kazakhstan. Management looks like that:

Management Team

The management team at Freedom Holding Corp. includes several noteworthy individuals with experience in business, economics, and finance.

www.freedomholdingcorp.com

I have some knowledge about structures in Russia and ex-Soviet republics, my wife is Ukrainian and I lived several years in Ukraine and Russia. From my personal view this looks a bit like investing oligarch money. It doesn't has to be that way, but at least it smells a bit.

With a low SP in mind the next investor might have a big foot in the door of Brainchip, so I do care about it.
With the running NASA and DARPA projects, the partnerships with ISL and Intellisense in safety relevant industries, I would just prefer an US investor, that's all.
Of course this is pure speculation, but hey, the forum is full of it.

 

[skutza]

No more than 1 hour after posting this, my wife had a bit of a breakdown. She has been doing really well, but today got to her. Can someone give me a pep talk now?

She just feels as though we must have missed something to cause it going from $2 - 18c

I tried the best I could to reassure her, but it is friggin hard to see you life savings under attack including 70% of life’s super.

What are people actual thoughts on why we are free falling? Let’s have a moment of real talk. I can’t think of one logical reason other than manipulation and uneducated retail freaking out.. in fact I only see positive after positive, but if anyone can think of 1 good reason to why we are free falling let me know. I need to know

IMO it is a really simple answer. But maybe just because I've convinced myself of it.

1. Not many understood BRN, early days remember "What is a neuromorphic chip anyway?" Therefore it became a bit of a meme stock
2. It gained a bit of interest but still early days and ...."What is a neuromorphic chip anyway?". Then we sold a few licences
3. The Mercedes EQXX got a few excited, maybe even a few shorters got anxious and bought back, but overall momentum went crazy
4. We entered the asx 200 and suddenly a mountain of shares became available to be shorted. and so....they did.
5. 4c after 4c came and no revenue the shorts just had too many shares and the sell pressure became way too much.
6. What I think is happening now is the sorting through of all the shorted shares, we are seeing large volume but no big drop, shorters selling and buying into each other. The sellers that have sold are now buying more shorts sells. A team effort churning and soon the buying pressure will finally overtake the selling and we will see a rise as the shorts need to cover.
7. The only chance of the short squeeze is if we get Mercedes to buy a licence or someone as big. A well known household name, other than that, the shorts will have made a squillion.

That's what I believe, but I'm just a mug. But I do believe that BRN will get there, that is why I've still got my super shares. It was a 5 year hold, it's now a 4 year hold. they need to hurry up

 

[Quatrojos]

Old song, though.

This is a recent Qualcomm patent application which does image searches in a video based on a description of the scene. They use an Electra natural language processor.
The patent originated in India.

WO2023167791A1 ON-DEVICE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VIDEO SEARCH 20220303

View attachment 45541


View attachment 45540


[0018] FIGURE 6A is a block diagram illustrating an example architecture for query and search of a video, in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.

A computer-implemented method for on-device video query and search using an artificial neural network (ANN) includes receiving by the ANN, a video and a search query. The video includes a sequence of frames and associated subtitle information. First representations for a first set of words in the search query and second representations for a second set of words in the subtitle information are generated, at the mobile device by the ANN. A correlation between the search query and the subtitle information is determined at the mobile device by the ANN based on the first representations and the second representations. The ANN, at the mobile device, predicts a portion of the video including content responsive to the search query based on the correlation.

[0067] The search query and the subtitle information for the video may be supplied to an on-device neural network 606. The on-device neural network 606 may be a transformer neural network, for example. A transformer neural network is a deep learning model that uses self-attention and provides context information for any position within an input sequence. In some aspects, the on-device neural network 606 may be an efficiently learning encoder that classifies token replacements accurately (ELECTRA) small model. Of course, this is merely an example and other architectures such as bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT), robustly optimized BERT approach (RoBERT a), XLNet, Transform er-XL, and the generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) family of transformers may also be employed. An ELECTRA small model is a question answering natural language processor (NLP). The ELECTRA small model may be pre-trained to predict an answer given a query and an input paragraph.


The patent shows signs of being hastily drafted.

If I was dot-joining, I'd say they've been working on it for a while. Unless one of them really loves Billy Eilish.

 

[Tothemoon24]

 

[Stable Genius]

No more than 1 hour after posting this, my wife had a bit of a breakdown. She has been doing really well, but today got to her. Can someone give me a pep talk now?

She just feels as though we must have missed something to cause it going from $2 - 18c

I tried the best I could to reassure her, but it is friggin hard to see you life savings under attack including 70% of life’s super.

What are people actual thoughts on why we are free falling? Let’s have a moment of real talk. I can’t think of one logical reason other than manipulation and uneducated retail freaking out.. in fact I only see positive after positive, but if anyone can think of 1 good reason to why we are free falling let me know. I need to know

Hi @TheFunkMachine

Mercedes are still making cars.

Renesas is still releasing some tech with us (soon?)

Great chance we’re in Valeo with $25B of pre-orders.

40+ known EAPS or Uni’s working with us who have been listed numerous times. They wouldn’t all be with us if we weren’t special.

Intel for example would have hated taking us onboard as we are direct competition for their Loihi and yet they have because we can offer what they can’t.

We are in MB future EV’s where both Nvidia and Qualcomm are also involved: what does that say? Again we are offering what they can’t.

Have another look at the Gen2 Pre-Release promotion and what SI-Five, Renesas have said!

Defence are all over us: they have deep pockets.

In the end if you have done your research back your judgement in and own your decision. I have and despite being deep in the red am very confident in the long term future because the potential is massive and we only need a small percent of the large market to be successful.

That’s my opinion but I’d better end with the disclaimer: I am not a financial adviser so do your own research.

All the best to the everyone, please be kind, have empathy and support each other.

I am hopeful the Gen 2 release will start the SP back in the right direction and we can celebrate the company‘s achievements and success.

 

[manny100]

One certainty is that the cloud will not cope with the expected exponential growth in AI at the Edge.
Another certainty is that AI at the Edge is via Neuromorphic - AKIDA on chip is far superior to AI at the Edge via the cloud eg NVIDIA.
Think Latency, cost, power and security.
Exponential growth in At the Edge will weigh heavily in favour of the Neuromorphic approach. eg EV's, or in future AKA chips on wheels, precision machinery, etc.
Our only risk is that we will be leap frogged. However it appears we still hold a first mover advantage.
The way i see it is if, say, NVIDIA came up with their own method of by passing the cloud one of the other big players would be forced to swoop on us for our patents to offer viable competition or even stay in business. It would be 'BRN name your price'.
I am in for the patents that allow us to avoid the costly journey to the cloud. Anything more will just be a bonus.
TBH i am not concerned at all about the SP as they (for any company) go up and down all the time.
Its just about waiting for demand to meet the product offering which BRN management have no control over. They can only control their readiness to meet the demand when it arrives. They are doing this with ecosystems, marketing and product development, EG Gen 2 with plans for gen 3 later this year.

 

[JoMo68]

World’s first on-device demonstration of Stable Diffusion on an Android phone​

Qualcomm AI Research deploys a popular 1B+ parameter foundation model on an edge device through full-stack AI optimization
FEB 24, 2023


https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2...-demonstration-of-stable-diffusion-on-android
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To shrink the model from FP32 to INT8, we used the AI Model Efficiency Toolkit’s (AIMET) post-training quantization, a tool developed from techniques created by Qualcomm AI Research and now incorporated into the newly announced Qualcomm AI Studio. Quantization not only increases performance but also saves power by allowing the model to efficiently run on our dedicated AI hardware and to consume less memory bandwidth. Our state-of-the-art AIMET quantization techniques, such as Adaptive Rounding (AdaRound), were able to maintain model accuracy at this lower precision without the need for re-training. The techniques were applied across all the component models in Stable Diffusion, namely the transformer-based text encoder, the VAE decoder, and the UNet. This was critical for the model to fit on the device.

For compilation, we used the Qualcomm AI Engine direct framework to map the neural network into a program that efficiently runs on our target hardware. The Qualcomm AI Engine direct framework sequences the operations to improve performance and minimize memory spillage based on the hardware architecture and memory hierarchy of the Qualcomm Hexagon Processor. Some of these enhancements resulted from AI optimization researchers working together with compiler engineering teams to improve memory management in AI inference. The overall optimizations made in the Qualcomm AI Engine have significantly reduced runtime latency and power consumption, and this much needed trend continues within Stable Diffusion.

Our industry-leading edge AI performance on the Qualcomm AI Engine with the Hexagon Processor is unleashed through tight hardware and software co-design. The latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with micro tile inferencing helps enable large models like Stable Diffusion to run efficiently — expect more improvements with the next-gen Snapdragon. Additionally, the enhancements made for transformer models, like MobileBERT, to dramatically speed up inference play a key role here as multi-head attention is used throughout the component models in Stable Diffusion.

The result of this full-stack optimization is running Stable Diffusion on a smartphone under 15 seconds for 20 inference steps to generate a 512x512 pixel image — this is the fastest inference on a smartphone and comparable to cloud latency. User text input is completely unconstrained.



"... a program that runs efficiently on our target hardware ..."!!!!

Hi @Bravo - remember what Ella says:
"Tain't what you do,
it's the way that you do it!"

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No more than 1 hour after posting this, my wife had a bit of a breakdown. She has been doing really well, but today got to her. Can someone give me a pep talk now?

She just feels as though we must have missed something to cause it going from $2 - 18c

I tried the best I could to reassure her, but it is friggin hard to see you life savings under attack including 70% of life’s super.

What are people actual thoughts on why we are free falling? Let’s have a moment of real talk. I can’t think of one logical reason other than manipulation and uneducated retail freaking out.. in fact I only see positive after positive, but if anyone can think of 1 good reason to why we are free falling let me know. I need to know

Hi Funkmachine, I really feel for you. I don’t believe the free fall in our share price has anything to do with our fundamentals. I firmly believe we are better placed than ever. I do, however, think that the combination of being a pre-revenue tech startup, broader macroeconomic factors like interest rates in the US (stocks have been in free fall everywhere), plus a bit of opportunistic mischief-making by shorters/instos because we are pre-revenue, has resulted in our current share price. I simply do not believe that all of the announced partnerships (plus more than a few hidden relationships surmised here) will come to nothing. It is happening - we just have to be patient (and have nerves of steel!!)

 

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No more than 1 hour after posting this, my wife had a bit of a breakdown. She has been doing really well, but today got to her. Can someone give me a pep talk now?

She just feels as though we must have missed something to cause it going from $2 - 18c

I tried the best I could to reassure her, but it is friggin hard to see you life savings under attack including 70% of life’s super.

What are people actual thoughts on why we are free falling? Let’s have a moment of real talk. I can’t think of one logical reason other than manipulation and uneducated retail freaking out.. in fact I only see positive after positive, but if anyone can think of 1 good reason to why we are free falling let me know. I need to know

Hi Tfm,

I don't know how many short shares are outstanding, or how much ammunition the shorters have, but I guess the shorters are a lot more savvy than we are. They would have known BRN was to be dropped from ASX 200 and loaded up. I don't think I'm saying anything that we all didn't know, but the sell off by the instos with ASX 200 obligations compounded by downward pressure from the shorters/manipulators, has driven us well into the oversold region. I certainly never thought we could drop below $1.

But none of this has anything to do with the technical capabilities or market potential of Akida which, with Akida 2, has given us half a decade's lead on any competition. In particular TeNNs has really excited the NDAs/EAPs. Everyone (well the few who are capable) is(are) doing ViT, but no one is doing TeNNs, except BRN.

As we've just seem Qualcomm is trumpeting its Hexagon software driven AI quasi-edge GPT. Basically Qualcomm think NNs are software to run on CPUs /GPUs.

Recall the EAP comments on Akida 2 (I can't bloody find it now! Maybe it's been hidden so as not to distract from the launch).

https://brainchip.com/akida-generations/ - general availability Q3 2023, so, if it's not this week, the announcement is imminent.

Akida 1 was miles ahead of the competition. Akida 2 doubles the lead. A lot of EAPs had Akida 1 at various stages of testing. They wouldn't have continued testing if it was a dud. But then they put Akida 1 on the back burner when they heard about (or tested the software simulation of) Akida 2.

The rapidly evolving technology, and the consequent changes necessitated thereby has delayed BRN's success, as did the change to IP only. VVDN will belatedly partially rectify the IP delay. The bypassing of LSTM and the surpassing of transformers by TeNNs (patent pending) has assured Akida's technological leadership. BRN's leading edge technology and its agility in adapting to massive change in the last 5 years, as well as peer recognition will go a long way to assuring success.

Of course there are no certainties, but we are in prime position to ride the wave(s) of the coincidence of ADAS, lidar, event cameras, medical applications, AI generally, ... the list is endless.