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Rockwell Automation Acquires AI-enabled Maintenance Management Company Fiix Inc.
January 19th, 2021
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 19, 2021 -- Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), one of the world’s largest companies dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, has completed the acquisition of Fiix Inc., an AI-enabled computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) company based ...
NIH and PhysIQ Complete Initial Phase of COVID-19 Digital Biomarker Development
January 19th, 2021
CHICAGO, Jan. 19, 2021 -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), exercised their option to enter Phase II of a multi-phase contract to ...
KONUX Secures USD 80 Million in Series C Financing for AI-based Sustainable Transportation
January 15th, 2021
MUNICH, Jan. 15, 2021 -- KONUX, a Munich-based AI scale up, has successfully secured a USD 80m Series C financing round, led by impact investor Sanno Capital. New to the round is technology investor Athos, the family office of ...
Fractal Acquires Enterprise AI Provider Zerogons to Strengthen its Cloud AI Business
January 15th, 2021
NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2021 -- Fractal, a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500 companies, today announced the acquisition of Zerogons, for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition will help strengthen Fractal’s Cloud AI ...
Sandvik Invests in Leading AI-powered Manufacturing Software Provider Oqton
January 15th, 2021
SANDVIKEN, Sweden, Jan. 15, 2021 -- Sandvik has acquired a minority stake in the privately owned American software company Oqton, a leading provider of AI-powered manufacturing solutions that allows manufacturers to manage, optimize, and automate their manufacturing workflows. "This ...
Rescale Named to Y Combinator’s Top Companies List
January 14th, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14, 2021 -- Rescale, a leading hybrid HPC cloud platform enabling intelligent computing for digital R&D, was recently named to Y Combinator’s Top Companies list, reaffirming their position as a power player among startups. “We're honored ...
Oxford Nanopore and NVIDIA Collaborate on DGX AI Compute System with PromethION Sequencer
January 14th, 2021
Jan. 14, 2021 -- Oxford Nanopore Technologies and NVIDIA are collaborating this year to integrate the NVIDIA DGX Station A100 into Oxford Nanopore’s ultra-high throughput sequencing system, PromethION. Partnering the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU technology with the PromethION ...
NCI Wins $807M Federal Task Order for AI-based Infrastructure Modernization
January 14th, 2021
RESTON, Va., Jan. 14, 2021 -- NCI Information Systems, Inc. (NCI), a leading provider of advanced information technology solutions and professional services to U.S. federal government agencies, announced today it has won a prime $807 million task order in ...
Broad Institute and Verily Partner with Microsoft on the Next Generation of the Terra Platform for Health and Life Science Research
January 14th, 2021
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., and SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 14, 2021 -- On Monday, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic partnership to accelerate new innovations in biomedicine ...
Octo Awarded Spot on Army’s Visual Augmentation System Contract
January 13th, 2021
RESTON, Va., Jan. 13, 2021 -- Octo is pleased to announce it will team with QinetiQ on the RS3 92 Situational Awareness and Augmented Reality Technologies contract to provide machine learning and deep learning support to the U.S. Army’s ...