Schnitzel lover
Regular
His back
Couldn't help myself..
Go to ARM interview at 1hr 29-30mins.. Seriously how can you not get excited when you watch this?
His back
After a massive shake up this week with Banks SVB/Credit Suisse Struggling/Collapsing; very surprised to see such a great recovery on World markets so rapidly! ..... Good news!
Hopefully a GREEN day for BRN today
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Cheers Steve10We discussed them yesterday.
Not the sales figures though which indicate they are selling their tech for about $106 per vehicle.
701,049 cars on 31/12/2022 - 243,722 cars on 31/12/021 = 457,327 in 12 months / $48.8M annual revenue run rate = $106.70 per car.
457.3k / 125M cars/commercial vehicles pa = 0.37% market share so heaps of room for revenue growth. With laws making it mandatory for in-cabin driver monitoring soon will be a fast growing sub-market within automotive market.
125M vehicles pa x $106 = $13.25B TAM to be split between Seeing Machines, Nviso, emotion3D, Smart Eye etc. Most likely some unknown Chinese companies as well for Chinese market.
BRN could target 50M cars per year via Seeing Machines, Nviso, emotion3D & Smart Eyes. It looked like Nviso was using one Akida chip with Nvidia Jetson for Mercedes demos so 50M chips per year x 30-50c IP royalty = $15-25M pa BRN revenue for this type of application in this sub-market in automotive market. Will become more or less annual recurring revenue for BRN.
I laughted when I saw this in the Cerence clip.
Who would have thought that this location would have even been a contender?
Its at the 31 second mark
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7042138142958571521/
I did a 'WTF' when it flashed up, rewound to confrim my eyes were not deciving me, sure enough.
Hidden messages Im sure
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Probly said this before, but Cerence has several patents which refer to NNs, but they do not describe the circuit configuration for an NN. So either they are keeping their NN circuit secret (improbable), or they are getting their NN from someone else (probable).Forgive me if I sound like a broken record because everyone who doesn't live under a rock knows about my unhealthy obsession with Cerence and everyone knows that "Cerence's Immersive Companion" for in-car voice assistant is going to be rolled out in FY23/24 and everyone knows that I would be shocked and smack-gobbed( (thanks for that one @Diogense) if it didn't involve AKIDA in some way.
So, obviously I'm eager to share this news release hot off the press.
Optimized for the in-car experience, advanced biometric capabilities in Cerence Assistant empower drivers and passengers with safe, secure interactions
Cerence has introduced its next-generation, AI-powered biometrics engine in Cerence Assistant
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- March 16, 2023
Cerence Inc. (NASDAQ: CRNC), AI for a world in motion, today introduced its next-generation, AI-powered biometrics engine in Cerence Assistant, providing enhanced personalization and security capabilities for the mobility experience. Powered by the latest advances in AI, Cerence Voice Biometrics is now more accurate at creating driver profiles; identifying who is speaking; and enabling deeper opportunities for safe, secure, and individualized interactions with the in-car assistant.
Available across a multitude of global languages, Cerence’s next-generation biometrics solution is optimized for automotive and mobility use cases, putting the user at the forefront with a frictionless experience, providing the highest identification accuracies in a low-footprint, embedded solution. Going beyond voice, multimodal cabin biometrics are designed to support multimodal identification throughout the cabin, offering a more convenient and secure identification and authorization process. This allows users to automatically log in to their preferred biometric modality and configure step-up authentication for sensitive tasks, providing a frictionless authentication and authorization solution that can adapt based on context. For example, drivers can identify themselves with facial recognition when starting the car, and authorize a payment with their voice while on the road.
Architected to be embedded within the car for security and convenience, Cerence Voice Biometrics is core to Cerence’s multimodal biometrics capabilities, powering a range of authenticated, personalized experiences, including:
“Biometrics is a critical piece of virtual assistant interaction, especially in cases where multiple users are interacting with a single assistant,” said Prateek Kathpal, Chief Technology Officer, Cerence. “Our next-generation biometrics engine in Cerence Assistant represents an important step in our ability to serve automakers and their drivers with a AI-powered, frictionless experience that takes minimal effort from the user but provides maximum impact in terms of personalization and security.”
- Transparent, proactive enrollment and easy sign-in – The in-car assistant can learn speakers and their unique voices with only a few interactions and proactively offer to create a voiceprint once enough voice data has been gathered. This eliminates the need for drivers and each of their passengers to set up personal profiles with prescriptive phrases. From there, each time users enter the car, they are authenticated upon their first interaction with the voice assistant, whether it’s “Good morning, Cerence,” or “Drive me to the office.”
- Authenticated interaction from outside the car – Cerence Exterior Vehicle Interaction (EVI) is a suite of AI and voice-powered innovations that enables drivers to interact with their cars from the outside. To maintain safety and security, Cerence EVC now also leverages voice biometrics to limit certain capabilities to approved users only. For example, for security-relevant functions such as unlocking the car or opening the trunk, Cerence Voice Biometrics verifies the speaker’s identity to provide an additional level of protection and security.
- Convenient and secure payments – When integrated with in-car commerce apps, Cerence Voice Biometrics is a powerful tool for authorizing payments with no extra legwork by the user. Perfect while driving, your voice interaction is passively verified, offering an uninterrupted, secure transaction.
- Next-level control – Using the technology’s age detection capabilities, in-car assistants can offer parental controls to voice interactions, limiting what functions children can activate and what content they can access, including ensuring safe web searches in the car via Cerence Browse. Similarly, smart-home connectivity commands such as “Open the garage door” can be restricted by driver profile, user, age and speaker identity.
- Easy language switch – Using Cerence Voice Biometrics, Cerence Assistant can automatically adapt the dialogue and infotainment system language to match the user’s spoken language. This allows users to interact naturally with the in-car assistant, providing a seamless and personalized experience.
Several major global automakers have signed on to deploy Cerence Voice Biometrics in their cars. For more information about Cerence biometrics, visit https://www.cerence.com/cerence-products/core-technologies. To learn more about Cerence, visit www.cerence.com, and follow the company on LinkedIn and Twitter.
SOURCE: Cerence
Optimized for the in-car experience, advanced biometric capabilities in Cerence Assistant empower drivers and passengers with safe, secure interactions | Automotive World
Cerence has introduced its next-generation, AI-powered biometrics engine in Cerence Assistantwww.automotiveworld.com
Great to see so much happening.
Just wait till formal Ann's start rolling out
Bit going on personally so skimming posts here and there.
Liked the find on ANT61.
Not sure if this posted already but found this article about them on Medium.
Awesome to see the AWS / Amazon accelerator connection as well as Mass Robotics.
While no mention of Akida at this point, you'd like to think ANT61's partners well aware of us through ANT now as well.
ANT61 accelerated by AWS
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AWS accelerating ANT61 development in space
ANT61
ANT61 is a robotics & AI startup founded in the second half of 2021. Our main goal is to enable sustainable development in space and back on Earth; we believe that autonomous robots are the way to go about it.
Naturally, as a young company, we’ve started by simultaneously running into multiple directions: creating prototypes of our future technology, researching problems worth solving, sizing opportunities and building partnerships.
We have applied to several acceleration programs, and several of them accepted us, so we were fortunate to pick the ones we wanted to do. AWS Robotics, led together by AWS and Mass Robotics from Boston.
Here we would like to share our experience with AWS Robotics and talk about the program and how it challenged and propelled us further than we thought.
Following the program, we’ve been selected by Amazon to exhibit our first on-orbit service prototype at Re:MARS 2022 . If you also plan to be there, we’d be happy to catch up and talk the AWS Robotics program, our takeaways and future plans. Find us in the Tech Showcase area!
The program
AWS Robotics is a 4-week program that balances the workshops on business, technology, marketing and customer acquisition with dedicated 1:1 mentorship sessions. One of the program’s goals is to build something new and move your MVP or POC one step forward on technology and product lines.
The outcomes
We have received three primary outcomes from this program.
First and foremost, we’ve met a great mentor, Matthew Hanson, who has decades of experience in robotic system architecture and is one of the key robotic experts in AWS. His contribution to our success is invaluable and deserves a separate article!
Secondly, we’ve built our first digital prototype of the satellite repair robot and have validated our autonomous control system technology in accurate simulation.
The third and precious outcome: we’ve tapped into AWS ML engineers’ wisdom, significantly reduced our robot’s training costs, and took our AI game to the next level.
All of that in the record-break time and with the intense focus!
Outcome #1: The mentor
Every startup in the AWS Robotics Accelerator program is assigned a mentor.
We have been very fortunate to have the one and only Matthew Hanson.
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Matthew Hanson
Matt has a great experience in robotics architecture, everything from control systems, planning, behaviour, autonomy, simulations and of course, everything at AWS that has Robotics.
He understands the startup’s unique challenges and has helped us find the quickest path to our goal. Matthew is also very supportive of our cause of sustainable development in space, which means a lot.
As a new business in a conservative industry like space, forming a support group around your team is very important.
Matt was one of the first people who believed in us from the start when we didn’t have much to show except for our prior experience, ambition, hard work and tenacity. He has contributed to everything we did during the program and was kind enough to continue working with us after the program, doing everything he could to help us succeed. We will always remain grateful to Matt, and hopefully, one day, we’ll find a great way to reward him in return.
Outcome #2: The space MVP
The period of our AWS Robotics acceleration program coincided with our Space Accelerator run with the support of the Australian Space Agency in Adelaide. We were actively looking into the on-orbit repair and servicing and thought it would be great to build the first virtual prototype of our future space robot with AWS.
Since the AWS acceleration program is just four weeks, we won’t have time to develop all systems from scratch. Our main goal was to learn as much as possible about the spacecraft’s control systems and how robotic manipulators can be used for docking and repairing the satellite. And we’ve decided to learn from the best and used NASA’s Astrobee robot that has already flown in ISS as the base for our on-orbit servicing machine.
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Astrobee robot on ISS
As a result, we’ve been able to apply our ML-based control systems to demonstrate that our robot can autonomously match orbit with a satellite and safely reach out to it.
You can see the simulation video from our AWS Robotics Accelerator Demo day.
Outcome #3: The next-level AI training
The price of the experiment
At ANT61, we use Deep Reinforcement Learning to teach our robots skills that they can apply for autonomous installation. This approach means that our robots get better at their tasks simply by trying many-many times, rather than us writing slightly better code for them every day.
Reinforcement Learning is still a very new area of Deep Learning. It is akin to gold mining: you have the general directions where to look, but the rich vein can only be found by trying to dig in many places and analysing the results. Our AI engineers always experiment with various algorithms, reward regimes and parameters to get better and more consistent results. The more experiments we can run, the higher our chances of success. On average, one robot takes about two weeks of 24x7 work to learn an essential skill like drilling a hole in a wall with reasonably quality. It will then take several times more training hours to perfect this skill.
Time is our most precious resource, and compressing the time it takes us to determine whether the experiment is successful is very important in our business.
AWS=scale
Even before the accelerator, we have already been using multi-agent training, where experience from several robots is accumulated to train one brain, which is then deployed to the whole fleet, and the training continues. However, our budget severely limited how many robots we could run in parallel.
One of the great perks of the accelerator is direct access to senior engineers at AWS. Our mentor, Matthew Hanson, has linked us to the engineers in the AWS Sagemaker team, who provided us with some paths we could try to reduce our costs and run the distributed training of thousands of robots on the same budget.
Now the experiments take only hours instead of weeks, and we can run multiple experiments in parallel without breaking the bank.
Quantity ➩ Speed of Innovation
The ability to run multiple experiments, generating years-worth of the data in just a few hours, allowed us to significantly step up our game and use the RL techniques that are usually unavailable to robotics due to the high cost of each data point. Now we can run unsupervised hyper-parameter tuning and neural architecture search.
Essentially, instead of humans coming up with a new experiment to improve our training regimes, AI generates these experiments.
AI that is training other AIs.
As Károly Szolnai-Fehér says, What a time to be alive!
As well as appearing to hitch a ride on a SpaceX rocket via Space Machines.ANT also exhibited at the Aus Space Forum in Oct jointly with these guys.
Haven't looked at their connections yet.
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Jim Chalmers is doing more than changing the way we tax super – he is also changing the way we tax capital gains
In drawing up plans to more effectively tax large superannuation accounts, Treasurer Jim Chalmers might have stumbled upon an idea that, applied more broadly, could tax rich Australians like the rest of us, writes Peter Martin.www.abc.net.au
The Henry Review said collecting tax only on "realisation" (when assets were sold) rather than "accrual" (as they grew in value) encouraged investors to hold on to shares and property to delay paying tax — a response it called "lock-in".
This is pretty sucky for us, as this article is saying we could have to pay capital gains tax, on the increase in "value" of shares and property..
It will certainly be a bit of a leveler..
So if BrainChip has a breakout year, due to traction in revenue, NASDAQ listing, multiple IP deals etc, for that tax year.
Then you will have to pay Capital Gains tax, for that year, regardless of whether you sold shares.
In our case, these gains could be substantial and the only way to pay, will be by selling shares or other assets.
The tax man sucks eggs..
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Jim Chalmers is doing more than changing the way we tax super – he is also changing the way we tax capital gains
In drawing up plans to more effectively tax large superannuation accounts, Treasurer Jim Chalmers might have stumbled upon an idea that, applied more broadly, could tax rich Australians like the rest of us, writes Peter Martin.www.abc.net.au
The Henry Review said collecting tax only on "realisation" (when assets were sold) rather than "accrual" (as they grew in value) encouraged investors to hold on to shares and property to delay paying tax — a response it called "lock-in".
This is pretty sucky for us, as this article is saying we could have to pay capital gains tax, on the increase in "value" of shares and property..
It will certainly be a bit of a leveler..
So if BrainChip has a breakout year, due to traction in revenue, NASDAQ listing, multiple IP deals etc, for that tax year.
Then you will have to pay Capital Gains tax, for that year, regardless of whether you sold shares.
In our case, these gains could be substantial and the only way to pay, will be by selling shares or other assets.
The tax man sucks eggs..
That is just insane![]()
Jim Chalmers is doing more than changing the way we tax super – he is also changing the way we tax capital gains
In drawing up plans to more effectively tax large superannuation accounts, Treasurer Jim Chalmers might have stumbled upon an idea that, applied more broadly, could tax rich Australians like the rest of us, writes Peter Martin.www.abc.net.au
The Henry Review said collecting tax only on "realisation" (when assets were sold) rather than "accrual" (as they grew in value) encouraged investors to hold on to shares and property to delay paying tax — a response it called "lock-in".
This is pretty sucky for us, as this article is saying we could have to pay capital gains tax, on the increase in "value" of shares and property..
It will certainly be a bit of a leveler..
So if BrainChip has a breakout year, due to traction in revenue, NASDAQ listing, multiple IP deals etc, for that tax year.
Then you will have to pay Capital Gains tax, for that year, regardless of whether you sold shares.
In our case, these gains could be substantial and the only way to pay, will be by selling shares or other assets.
The tax man sucks eggs..
For illustration purposes, what "could" be introduced at some point..![]()
Jim Chalmers is doing more than changing the way we tax super – he is also changing the way we tax capital gains
In drawing up plans to more effectively tax large superannuation accounts, Treasurer Jim Chalmers might have stumbled upon an idea that, applied more broadly, could tax rich Australians like the rest of us, writes Peter Martin.www.abc.net.au
The Henry Review said collecting tax only on "realisation" (when assets were sold) rather than "accrual" (as they grew in value) encouraged investors to hold on to shares and property to delay paying tax — a response it called "lock-in".
This is pretty sucky for us, as this article is saying we could have to pay capital gains tax, on the increase in "value" of shares and property..
It will certainly be a bit of a leveler..
So if BrainChip has a breakout year, due to traction in revenue, NASDAQ listing, multiple IP deals etc, for that tax year.
Then you will have to pay Capital Gains tax, for that year, regardless of whether you sold shares.
In our case, these gains could be substantial and the only way to pay, will be by selling shares or other assets.
The tax man sucks eggs..
Buying, building, manning and maintaining nuclear subs aint cheap and those Tomahawks they are gonna be throwing around are about two million a pop (torpedoes are exie too) and the Chinese navy currently has about 350 ships and rapidly rising.![]()
Jim Chalmers is doing more than changing the way we tax super – he is also changing the way we tax capital gains
In drawing up plans to more effectively tax large superannuation accounts, Treasurer Jim Chalmers might have stumbled upon an idea that, applied more broadly, could tax rich Australians like the rest of us, writes Peter Martin.www.abc.net.au
The Henry Review said collecting tax only on "realisation" (when assets were sold) rather than "accrual" (as they grew in value) encouraged investors to hold on to shares and property to delay paying tax — a response it called "lock-in".
This is pretty sucky for us, as this article is saying we could have to pay capital gains tax, on the increase in "value" of shares and property..
It will certainly be a bit of a leveler..
So if BrainChip has a breakout year, due to traction in revenue, NASDAQ listing, multiple IP deals etc, for that tax year.
Then you will have to pay Capital Gains tax, for that year, regardless of whether you sold shares.
In our case, these gains could be substantial and the only way to pay, will be by selling shares or other assets.
The tax man sucks eggs..
![]()
Jim Chalmers is doing more than changing the way we tax super – he is also changing the way we tax capital gains
In drawing up plans to more effectively tax large superannuation accounts, Treasurer Jim Chalmers might have stumbled upon an idea that, applied more broadly, could tax rich Australians like the rest of us, writes Peter Martin.www.abc.net.au
The Henry Review said collecting tax only on "realisation" (when assets were sold) rather than "accrual" (as they grew in value) encouraged investors to hold on to shares and property to delay paying tax — a response it called "lock-in".
This is pretty sucky for us, as this article is saying we could have to pay capital gains tax, on the increase in "value" of shares and property..
It will certainly be a bit of a leveler..
So if BrainChip has a breakout year, due to traction in revenue, NASDAQ listing, multiple IP deals etc, for that tax year.
Then you will have to pay Capital Gains tax, for that year, regardless of whether you sold shares.
In our case, these gains could be substantial and the only way to pay, will be by selling shares or other assets.
The tax man sucks eggs..
I'm with you on the subs.I am not sure of the source, but here is no way this can happen without breaking down the whole ASX.
Imagine the sell down of shares and speculation in June of every year?!
How can a CGT tax discount can be reversed that if you hold longer you are punished?
Create a nation of traders? How can any company get equity and operate normally?
I really don't like the govenrment at the moment with all this AUKUS bollocks going on, but this will never happen IMO. I guess though we need to find money to pay all those billions for those stupid submarines.