For life sciences and biotech companies, access to affordable dedicated lab spaces is hard to come by. Labs are prohibitively expensive to build and operate, posing significant financial barriers to innovation and research.

EMD Electronics will showcase innovation addressing the semiconductor ecosystem’s greatest opportunities and challenges in R&D, sustainability, and workforce development through collaboration

EMD Electronics, the Electronics business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany in the U.S. and Canada, has announced its plans for SEMICON West 2024. Highlights of this participation include two keynote presentations at the show’s CEO Summit by Kai Beckmann, Member of the Executive Board of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and CEO Electronics, and John Langan, Chief Technology Officer of Electronics.

According to Stocklytics.com, Google allocated an astounding $191 million to train the ingenious Gemini Ultra model in 2023. This reflects the immense financial investment required to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence. Notably, this figure significantly exceeds the training costs for GPT-4, which amounted to $78 million during the corresponding period.

How the introduction of generative AI is changing UK manufacturing

SQREEM are the worlds biggest digital behaviour aggregator, engaging and connecting consumers into a fully automated science for hundreds of brands and billions of consumers around the world. Headquartered in Singapore, SQREEM has clients and offices around the world.
They will deliver innovative consumer intelligence solutions to ensure that Saracens can understand their consumers and supporters better than ever before. SQREEM has a massive data capture infrastructure that turns entire markets into real time knowledge.

If you travel to AI conferences these weeks, you are bound to run into Jukka Korpi. The Finn works for Silo AI - which claims to be the largest private AI lab in Europe. The northern Europeans want to inspire European industry with their Poro model. They recently opened their first office in Munich. The Finns are also making technological progress. The training for Poro has been successfully completed.

AI-driven experimentation planner BayBE (Bayesian Back End) by Merck and Acceleration Consortium is available open-source on GitHub

Bayesian optimization engine that already powers dozens of use cases at Merck now open sourced to foster adoption
Close partnership to enable the self-driving labs of tomorrow

More than 200 leaders came together at the World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Summit to promote the responsible development and deployment of generative artificial intelligence.

Participants called for the establishment of a robust international AI governance framework.
Topics of discussion included the importance of closing the digital divide and trade-offs in open-source technology.
The World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Summit brought together more than 200 influential leaders from the Forum’s AI Governance Alliance (AIGA) and the broader artificial intelligence community to exchange insights and collaborate on the establishment of action plans to promote the responsible development and deployment of generative AI on a global scale.

The new grade meets the automotive sector's demand for material solutions to protect electric batteries from fire hazards

Solvay, a leading global supplier of specialty materials, has announced the launch of SolvaLite® 716 FR, an innovative fast-curing epoxy prepreg system designed for a wide range of structural parts and reinforcements in premium battery electric vehicles (BEVs).

Solvay’s partnership with iCOMAT will accelerate the commercialization of their patented Rapid Tape Shearing technology

Solvay is partnering with Bristol, UK based start-up iCOMAT who has developed Rapid Tape Shearing (RTS), a truly disruptive material deposition technology that will revolutionize the design and manufacture of composite parts, answering the industry’s need for lighter and more cost efficient composite structures.

The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023 report co-published by open access publisher Frontiers and the World Economic Forum has been presented today. The report identifies those technologies poised to have the biggest positive impact on society over the next three to five years. Curated by an international steering group of experts, the technologies were selected from nearly 100 contenders based on criteria including novelty, applicability, depth, and power.

Open Call: The best 6 SEMs/Startups developing novel AI-based applications and services will be supported with up to 60,000 Euros. Apply before the 31st of May, 2023 at 13:00 o´clock.