Six OpenAI Rivals Google and Microsoft Are Watching

Microsoft’s big bet on OpenAI, whose ChatGPT software can understand and generate conversational text, is starting to look like a stroke of genius. Microsoft plans to use OpenAI’s tech to improve...

TD’s AI chief quits to start health care firm, backed by bank and Inovia Capital

Tomi Poutanen’s latest startup, Signal 1, is aiming to bring to market an AI tool that will help hospitals determine which patients are at greatest risk of dying and need immediate intervention

U of T AI research star Raquel Urtasun raises US$83.5-million for self-driving startup four months...

The deal marks one of the largest inaugural venture financings of a woman-led Canadian startup

Pixxel takes orbital imagery hyperspectral with $25M A round | TechCrunch

Orbital imagery is one of the hot categories of the new space industry, but there's more to it than meets the (human) eye. Pixxel has raised $25 million

Securing Canada’s AI advantage

AI is already unlocking massive growth in industries across the economy. Many Canadians are already feeling the benefits of using AI to work smarter and faster.

Can a baby’s cry identify neurological disorders? Ubenwa says 'yes' | TechCrunch

When Charles Onu's cousin was born with birth asphyxia and later developed a hearing condition, the seed for Ubenwa, an audio biometric company geared at

Google executive joins Toronto’s Radical Ventures to help fund Canadian AI startups

Aaron Brindle will join Radical at the end of February, overseeing public affairs for the firm and helping companies in its portfolio craft their communications

As pandemic wreaks economic havoc, two Toronto startups see a spike in demand – and raise funding

Both businesses attribute recent success to a speed-up of customer adoption spurred by the coronavirus outbreak

RoadBotics Raises $7.5M in Series A Funding Round led by AI-focused Radical Ventures

/PRNewswire/ -- RoadBotics, which is standardizing road assessment globally using computer vision Artificial Intelligence, has closed a $7.5 Million Series A...

Synex Medical raises $6.99 million CAD seed round for health monitoring technology | BetaKit

Synex Medical has raised a $6.99 million CAD ($5.25 million USD) seed round of financing.

The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI

Hundreds of scientists around the world are working together to understand one of the most powerful emerging technologies before it’s too late.

To speed discoveries, U of T lab launches free library of virtual, AI-calculated organic compounds

Alán Aspuru-Guzik’s research group at the University of Toronto has launched an open-access tool that promises to accelerate the discovery of new chemical reactions that underpin the development of...

Five ways AI can democratise African healthcare

Barriers need to be overcome before data and information technology can be harnessed in poorer countries

The Expanding Universe of Generative Models – Davos - Radical Ventures

Radical Reads: AI Eats Software - Radical Ventures

Ed Clark, chair of the Vector Institute, explains the opportunities and challenges of an AI driven...

Howard Green speaks with Vector Institute chair Ed Clark.

Xanadu announces Canada's first quantum network designed for innovation and collaboration

The Canada Quantum Network (CQN) will advance potential applications in secure quantum communications and quantum computing with partners MaRS and

The Secret Auction that Set Off the Race for AI Supremacy

How the shape of deep learning—and the fate of the tech industry—went up for sale in Harrah's Room 731, on the shores of Lake Tahoe.

Crossing Minds brings in new capital to provide recommendations that don’t require identifiable...

Up to 60% of consumers are often new users of a shopping or media site, so that “cold start” can be a problem in terms of recommendations.

From AI Researcher to Entrepreneur with Charles Onu - Radical Ventures

Am I a Founder? - Radical Ventures

Groundbreaking effort launched to decode whale language

With artificial intelligence and painstaking study of sperm whales, scientists hope to understand what these aliens of the deep are talking about.

Healthcare AI Enters the Mainstream - Radical Ventures

Reka emerges from stealth to build custom AI models for the enterprise | TechCrunch

Reka, a startup developing custom AI models for enterprise use cases, has raised $58 million in a venture round.

Robotic AI firm Covariant raises another $80 million | TechCrunch

In May of last year, Covariant announced that it had raised a $40 million Series B. It was a healthy sum of money for the young company, bringing its