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InstaDeep CEO featured on ‘Most Inspiring Africans’ list

For Africa Day 2021, The Africa I Know (TAIK) announced its inaugural list of Africa’s most inspirational leaders from across the STEM industries, “The TAIK 54 Most Inspiring Africans.” To InstaDeep’s great honour, CEO and Co-Founder Karim Beguir featured on the prominent list. TAIK compiled the list as part of its mission to positively change… Read more »

AI research collaboration between InstaDeep and University of Oxford accepted to ICML 2021

Residual networks (ResNets) have displayed impressive results in pattern recognition and, recently, have motivated the neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODE) architecture which garnered a lot of interest in the Machine Learning community. A widely established claim is that the Neural ODE is the limit of ResNets as the number of layers increases. A collaboration effort between InstaDeep and the University of Oxford challenges this claim by investigating the properties of weights trained by stochastic gradient descent and their scaling with network depth through detailed numerical experiments.

InstaDeep CEO to participate in Africa Day 2021 to discuss AI’s possibilities on the continent

Tuesday 25th May marks the 58th anniversary of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity, which first took place in 1963. In celebration of Africa Day, The Africa I Know (TAIK) is hosting a half-day webinar devoted to reflections of the progress that Africa and Africans have made, as well as focusing on solutions to the challenges still faced by the continent.

The Innovator names InstaDeep ‘Startup of the week’!

The online news outlet features promising companies from the world over on a weekly basis, focusing on connecting business with technology and taking a human angle to communicate the thought leadership behind the brand.  Innovator Founder and Editor Jennifer L. Schenker spoke to InstaDeep Co-founder and CEO Karim Beguir about the company’s unique ability to… Read more »

InstaDeep Promoted to NVIDIA Elite Service Delivery Partner

London, UK, April 23, 2021: InstaDeep today announced that it has qualified as an Elite-level service provider within the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN). InstaDeep is one of only two companies in the EMEA region to  earn this designation, which requires a greater engagement with NVIDIA and demonstrated expertise deploying GPU-accelerated supercomputing solutions. “We are delighted… Read more »

Karim Beguir on Intel AI Podcast: Applying RL in the real world!

InstaDeep’s CEO and Co-Founder Karim Beguir joins host Jake Smith from Intel to talk about how AI is driving autonomous decision-making at the enterprise level on Intel’s podcast ‘Conversation in the Cloud’.  The biweekly podcast features IT leaders who are driving the future of a software-defined infrastructure based data center. This week, Karim and Jake… Read more »

InstaDeep takes to the NVIDIA GTC stage with four contributions this spring

The first NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) of 2021 starts on Monday 12th April. InstaDeep will present cutting-edge developments in protein design and conversational AI for underrepresented language highlighting how GPUs, specifically the new DGX A100, accelerate InstaDeep’s R&D efforts.  Known for highlighting the advanced technologies transforming today’s industries, GTC 21 kicks off with a… Read more »

Join InstaDeep in fighting the flu by participating in UmojaHack Africa

UmojaHack Africa is back for its second year following a successful premiere in 2020! The hackathon, which runs on the Zindi.Africa platform on March 27th and 28th, features three tracks from beginner level to advanced, and InstaDeep is proud to bring you this years’ advanced track with the theme of bioinformatics.  Develop a better treatment… Read more »

Prize-winning researcher joins InstaDeep South Africa

As our fifth member of the fast-growing team in The Mother City, Kale-ab is already well-known in the AI industry and community! In addition to being a highly-skilled research engineer, he has an impressive track record of doing AI for good including being a dedicated member of Deep Learning Indaba (DLI), an active contributor to… Read more »