Week at a Glance (4th – 10th Nov. ’17): Top News from Data Science

Last week saw some interesting partnerships between tech giants, new tool announcements in the conversational AI space, significant version updates and further advancement towards the democratization of  AI development and usage. Here is a quick rundown of news in the data science space worth your attention!

News Highlights

• China’s Baidu launches Duer OS Prometheus Project to accelerate conversational AI
• Frenemies: Intel and AMD partner on laptop chip to keep Nvidia at bay
• Introducing “Pyro” for deep probabilistic modeling
• Salesforce myEinstein: Now build AI apps with ‘clicks, not code’
• Apache Kafka 1.0: From messaging system to streaming platform
• Cisco Spark Assistant: World’s first AI voice assistant for meetings

In Other News

10th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

• AI.io launches PLATO, an AI-based operating platform for enterprise
• HPE developing its own neural network chip that is faster than anything in the market
• Atos launches next generation AI servers “BullSequana S” that are ultra-scalable, ultra-flexible

9th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

• Bitcoin price surges to record high, then tanks, as plans to split digital currency is called off
• MongoDB 3.6 released: Change Streams, Retryable Writes among key updates in MongoDB’s biggest ever release
• Introducing Grid: A scalable Blockchain system for better performance, resource segregation and working governance model

8th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

• spaCy 2.0 released with 13 new neural network models for 7+ languages
• Microsoft says it will extend Hololense AI processor to other devices from daily life
• Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL integrates high availability and replication
• Artificial Intelligence creeps into CryptoTrading, AiX claims to develop first AI broker

7th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

• Google introduces Tangent, a Python library for automatic differentiation
• Salesforce, Google form strategic partnership on cloud
• Rockwell unveils Project Scio, a scalable analytics platform for industrial IoT applications
• HPE launches Superdome Flex platform for high performance data analytics for mission critical workloads
• Google releases its internal tool Colaboratory
• Neuromation announces ICO to facilitate AI adoption with blockchain-powered platform
• DefinedCrowd unveils data platform API at Web Summit 2017

6th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines

• Tableau announces support for Amazon Redshift Spectrum in Tableau 10.4
• IBM brings new cloud data tools, updates Unified Data Governance Platform
• IBM’s Goodbye to Bluemix brand
• Periscope Data unveils new platform to bolster “data driven culture” for professional data teams
• Caviar announces real estate-backed digital asset platform
• SIA: MCN collaborates with SAS to unveil single source data platform