BRN Discussion Ongoing

[Fullmoonfever]

Today, numerous articles on some of the promising future technologies Mercedes-Benz is exploring were published online, after the carmaker had recently invited journalists to its Future Technologies Lab in Sindelfingen.

And of course - you guessed it - neuromorphic computing was one of them.
(I also find solar coating another interesting concept).

There was also a press release by MB itself:

https://media.mbusa.com/releases/release-27244e6a47579560c441795d24003bbb-pioneering-innovations-for-the-car-of-the-future-mercedes-benz-provides-exclusive-insights-into-research-activities-and-future-technologies

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https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a62963154/mercedes-benz-is-driving-forward-to-the-future/

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Neuromorphic Computer soll Energiebedarf einschränken

Zukünftige Fahrzeuge werden mehr Funktionen wie autonomes Fahren bieten, was den Energiebedarf steigert. Mercedes-Benz setzt auf Neuromorphic Computing, um KI effizienter zu machen und den Energieverbrauch um bis zu 90 % zu senken.

mbpassion.de

Playmobil-Männchen im Einsatz…

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German magazine auto, motor und sport published both an online article and a video on MB & neuromorphic computing earlier today (both in German) that literally confirm what I’ve been suspecting: that Mercedes-Benz is nowhere near to implementing neuromorphic technology at scale into their serial cars…

Neue KI-Chips fürs automatisierte Fahren: So will Mercedes den Energiehunger der KI zähmen

Mercedes forscht an neuen Chips, um den Energieverbrauch von KI-Systemen zu senken, die fürs autonome Fahren unabdingbar sind. Wie die Technik funktioniert und was dahintersteckt.

www.auto-motor-und-sport.de

“Der Weg in die Serie ist noch weit.” - “It’s still a long way to serial cars”.

“Bis neuromorphe Chips ihren Weg ins Auto finden, wird es wohl noch einige Jahre dauern.” - “It’ll probably take a few years / It looks as if it will still take a few years until neuromorphic chips will find their way into (serial) cars.”


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Mercedes forscht an neuer KI-Technik: Mit mehr Effizienz zum automatisierten Fahren

Um den Energiehunger von KI-Systemen zu stillen forscht Mercedes an neuromorpher Hardware, mit der autonomes Fahren effizienter werden soll.

www.auto-motor-und-sport.de

“Diese Technologie steht jedoch noch am Anfang und erfordert umfangreiche Tests und Zertifizierungen, bevor sie in Autos eingesetzt werden kann.”

“However, this technology is still in its infancy and requires extensive testing and certification before it can be used in cars.”

Something similar is said in the video itself around the 5 min mark.


Other articles are behind a paywall, but maybe one of you happens to be a subscriber and could check out whether there are any additional snippets of interest worth sharing?

Das Auto der Zukunft: Besuch im Forschungslabor von Mercedes-Benz

Flotte Akkus, stromerzeugende Lacke und wartungsfreie Bremsen: Das Auto der Zukunft ist weit mehr als ein Smartphone auf Rädern. Ein Besuch im Forschungslabor von Mercedes-Benz.

www.faz.net

Seltene Einblicke: Bremsen ohne Feinstaub – und 5 weitere Zukunftspläne von Mercedes

Der Autohersteller Mercedes-Benz definiert sich als Innovationsmotor – und gewährt einen seltenen Blick in die Forschungswerkstatt. Was dort entwickelt wird, lesen Sie hier.

www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de

My guess is that the next Mercedes-Benz LinkedIn post regarding NC will give us some more details about the research collaboration with HKA (Hochschule Karlsruhe) on neuromorphic cameras. Or it might be a post announcing the collaboration between Mercedes and Neurobus that I had spotted on Nov 12 (https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-441454).

Hi @Frangipani

Thanks for the info.

The comments of certification etc tie in with a role advertised by BRN earlier this year where part of the requirements needed a working knowledge of Auto / ISO design processes etc.

It is something I believe Akida would need to meet either as part of a package or stand alone.

BRN Discussion Ongoing

I wonder if we'll get to know who they are being shipped to. I'm not expecting individual names but some info about the buyers such as industry classification, etc. would be a great piece of info for shareholders. FWIW

thestockexchange.com.au

 

[Fullmoonfever]

This gentleman popped up in a general search. Noticed with us for 5 mths but also a researcher at UC San Diego.

Worked on TENNS with us but is also "working" on ICA for State Space Models for audio denoising.

At UC San Diego he is working on video / LLMs for captioning. Wonder if a fit for us too?

https://in.linkedin.com/in/rohanshingre

Machine Learning @ BrainChip | MS Machine Learning & Data Science @ UC San Diego​

BrainChip UC San Diego​

San Diego, California, United States Contact Info

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• Machine Learning Engineer​

  BrainChip​

  Jul 2024 - Present 5 months
  - Working on implementing Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for effective basis extraction for State Space Models (SSM) to enhance audio denoising performance.
  - Worked on integrating sparsity techniques with Temporal Event-based Neural Network (TENN).
• 
  

  Graduate Student Researcher​

  UC San Diego​

  Jan 2024 - Present 11 months
  San Diego, California, United States
  - Developed a video captioning pipeline leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to capture high-level dynamics/actions in a video.
  - Augmented the captioning pipeline to handle 1M videos on Nvidia H100 cluster.
  - Developed a video filtering pipeline to extract suitable videos from Panda-70M dataset for our captioning pipeline.

 

[7für7]

Sign the contract big boy… sign the contract….

 

[Bravo]

Here's a Neurobus Internship starting January 2025. It states that "knowledge of artificial intelligence, neuromorphic computing and autonomous systems a plus".

Good to see major players like Airbus, ESA, and Mercedes-Benz listed here - all of whom are our partners with whom Neurobus also has strategic partnerships.

It makes me wonder if our work with the likes of Neurobus, ESA, Fontrgade Gaisler and Airbus on the next generation microprocessors will eventually see them utilized not only in space operations but also being incorporated into Mercedes-Benz vehicles. The next generation microprocessors are supposed to set a new standard for modern space-grade computing devices. It wouldn't be unheard of for them to be used in automobiles and smart phones IMO, as has been the case with other space-grade microprocessors, because of their demonstrated robustness.

Food for thought.

Founders Associate: Neurobus is hiring!

Neurobus is hiring a Founders Associate at its Paris offices.

jobs.stationf.co

 

[Diogenese]

Hi @Frangipani

Thanks for the info.

The comments of certification etc tie in with a role advertised by BRN earlier this year where part of the requirements needed a working knowledge of Auto / ISO design processes etc.

It is something I believe Akida would need to meet either as part of a package or stand alone.

BRN Discussion Ongoing

I wonder if we'll get to know who they are being shipped to. I'm not expecting individual names but some info about the buyers such as industry classification, etc. would be a great piece of info for shareholders. FWIW

thestockexchange.com.au

Some years ago, the company said that obtaining ISO certification would be done by the vehicle maker. However, that does not relieve the company of responsibility for ensuring the designs are ISO compliant.

Then there is the continuous development of the tech which inhibits customers from committing to silicon - hence, SDV.

I wonder how long it takes to get ISO cert for software, and for software updates. It would require documenttion of the software and of every code change as well as exhaustive testing. I would think that software testing would not take as long as hardware testing.

Hopefully TENNs/Akida2 will be part of the SDV software in the near term. TENNs 01 software has been around for a couple of years and would have undergone extensive testing, but we don't know what the latest version is or when it was available, let alone what's still in the pipeline.

 

[Getupthere]

Congratulations and Well done to Sean!!

Managed to go through the whole 2024 without achieving anything

Apart from getting his well deserved shares this week.

Great to see management followed through with their commitment to communicate better to their shareholders.

3 years lead has well and truly gone.