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Could a Little Startup Called Diffbot Be the Next Google?
Wade Roush In tech journalism, it’s inadvisable to call any company “the next Google.” It’s almost always breathless hype or marked naïveté. After all, people have been predicting the search giant’s...
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Superfish Aims to Dominate Visual Search, One Product at a Time
Elise Craig We’re awash in images. Human beings take one billion photos every day, and websites of all stripes have billions more. But most of those images vanish into the black hole of the Internet,...
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In Quest for Robotics Startups, Qualcomm Accelerator Scouts for AI
At a time when companies like Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Baidu, and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are engaged in an arms race in artificial intelligence, Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is...
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Haiku Deck Taps Artificial Intelligence for Automatic Presentations
Haiku Deck is building a tool to automatically create slide presentations using artificial intelligence informed by choices the Seattle company’s users have made in designing millions of slides over...
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There’s an Algorithm for That: Algorithmia Helps You Find It
These days, you don’t have to be an expert in natural-language processing or computer vision to make an app that can automatically summarize text or recognize faces. You just have to find the right...
View ArticleDiffbot Challenges Google Supremacy With Rival Knowledge Graph
When you do a Google search at your desktop for a common health condition, you’ll get links to tons of webpages you can sift through in hopes of finding the specific facts you want. But if you’ve...
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How Google Enables VR Content, From Pro Rigs to Smartphone Cameras
While investors might fret about when or whether forthcoming virtual reality headsets will be ready to support a new technology ecosystem, Google is building out a substantial one of its own around...
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Seattle Week in Review: Space, VR, Machine Intelligence
Welcome to Xconomy Seattle’s new Week in Review. Today, we’ll look back at significant happenings from the Seattle area and beyond, in space, virtual reality, and machine intelligence. The idea is to...
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How Self-Driving Vehicles Could Take Root in Indiana
Imagine a tractor-trailer without anyone at the wheel that has driven across three states. It exits the interstate and drops its trailer at a truck yard. Soon, another truck—this one driven by a...
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6 Boston Tech Deals You Might’ve Missed This Week
Desktop Metal’s $34 million round and Gemvara’s sale to a business owned by Warren Buffett’s company turned heads this past week. Here are several other Boston-area tech deals that flew somewhat under...
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Seattle Week in Review: Failure is Likely, But Not Guaranteed
Entrepreneurs know it, the angel investors and venture capitalists who back them know it: Building a business from scratch is difficult, and the odds of it becoming a runaway success are long. Xconomy...
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Advancing “Emotion A.I.” for Ads and Gaming: Affectiva Adds $14M
Computers can beat humans at games like chess and Go. They are obviously faster than us at calculations and numerical analysis. But they can’t read people’s emotions as well as we can, or do much of...
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Techstars Alum Netra Nabs Funding, Customers After Strategy Shift
Computer vision might one day enable things like completely autonomous cars, but for now, companies are more frequently applying such technology to more tractable (and lucrative) problems in sectors...
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Ford Says It Will Have Self-Driving Cars Within Five Years
Ask five auto executives to predict when we can expect to see self-driving cars make their commercial debut, and you’ll likely hear five different answers. Even though it’s an exciting technology that...
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Are Enterprise or Consumer Startups Best VC Bets? One VC’s View
When Shawn Carolan joined Menlo Ventures just after earning his MBA at Stanford in 2002, he found the venture capital firm “fairly enterprise focused.” But Carolan, a trained engineer who says he...
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The Convergence of Information Technology and the Life Sciences
We are at an incredible inflection point in the traditionally distinct fields of information technology and the life sciences. These broad disciplines are converging to advance fields of study like...
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Neurala, With More Cash, Advances A.I. for Drones, Self-Driving Cars
Artificial intelligence software firm Neurala cut its teeth developing technology for government entities, including working on advanced navigation software for NASA’s planetary exploration robots....
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With $29M in New Cash, Echodyne Advances “Radar Vision” for Machines
[Updated, 5/23/17, 5:50am. See below] One of the Northwest’s most intriguing startups has a new wad of cash. Bellevue, WA-based Echodyne said it has raised $29 million in Series B funding led by New...
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Boston Tech Watch: Leerink, E14 Fund, Jobcase, Freight Farms & More
This week in Boston tech, we’re tracking a new $313 million growth equity fund for digital health companies, more money for an MIT Media Lab fund, layoffs at Freight Farms, and the arrival of another...
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Healthcare + A.I. Northwest on Nov. 9: Agenda Highlights
Artificial intelligence—the catchall term for a broad swath of technologies imbuing computer systems with the capacity to perceive and act—is poised to upend industries across the economy. But nowhere...
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