Language is the cornerstone of human intelligence. Transformer-based natural language processing models will play a critical role in helping machines understand language.

Raquel Urtasun, Founder and CEO of Waabi     .    Image Source: Waabi Editor’s Note: This week we are cross-posting a blog from Radical Ventures

The Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games kicked off last week, and once again, cyber espionage threatens to derail the games

Scientist, entrepreneur, and investor Barney Pell shares the crucial questions founders must ask themselves to ensure AI application success.

We are excited to announce Radical Ventures’ latest investment. BirchAI is building a cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) solution to automate call centre activity in healthcare.

language models (LLMs) are predicted to play an ever larger role for businesses across every industry in 2022. With that in mind, we invited Aidan Gomez, the CEO and co-founder of Radical portfolio company Cohere and a co-inventor of Transformers, and Jay Alammar, Partner Engineer at Cohere, to provide an introduction to LLMs.

Sanjana Basu – Venture capital investments in 2021 reached US$643 billion across the globe, almost doubling 2020’s record.

Radical Ventures Partner Rob Toews published his predictions for AI in 2022 including a deepening of the east-west technology divide, the next steps in language AI, and climate change becoming a spotlight for innovation.

Over the last year, Radical Reads and our podcast Radical Talks explored the many ways artificial intelligence is reshaping our world. As we turn the page on 2021, we are delighted to share our readers’ favourite features of the past year, exploring the intersection of technology, the economy, politics and culture.

The most notable topics, talks and themes emerging from NeurIPS 2021, the world’s leading conference for artificial intelligence researchers.