InstaDeep partner with Kickstart to drive AI innovation in Smart City & Technology in Switzerland

Kickstart, one of Europe’s largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms, today announced that InstaDeep is amongst nine companies selected to their Smart City & Technology vertical to assist in driving innovations in Switzerland. The Zurich based company runs a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate groundbreaking deep tech solutions through… Read more »

InstaDeep produces baselines for the NeurIPS 2020 train routing challenge

While routing a single train from point A to point B is easy, the problem intensifies when you are faced with trains breaking down randomly or how to avoid trains blocking each other at intersections. The NeurIPS 2020 Flatland challenge aims to solve this hard problem using an approach that was developed and evaluated in… Read more »

Webinar: How to Build an AI Startup in Africa

On the topic of how to build an AI startup in Africa, Karim and Aniedi explore what it takes to become an African AI pioneer using InstaDeep’s successful journey and humble beginnings as a pure bootstrap as an example. Karim explains the genesis of InstaDeep and some of the reasons why we are the leader… Read more »

InstaDeep a key organizing partner in the Indaba Grand Challenge to cure Leishmaniasis praised by WHO

Over the last few months, several volunteers at InstaDeep, including the two Co-Founders Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim, have been working closely with the Deep Learning Indaba Steering Committee to develop the incredibly ambitious Indaba Grand Challenge! The initiative kicked-off on the 30th June and aims for nothing less than finding a cure for Leishmaniasis,… Read more »

IEEE 2020 Panel Participation by Zohra Slim

IEEE Melecon 2020 took place from 16-18 June and amongst the participants were InstaDeep’s very own Zohra Slim who was invited to take part in a panel featuring ‘Successful Startups’. The international forum focuses on presenting design methodologies, techniques, and experimental results in emerging electro-technologies that aim to provide resources and services to foster entrepreneurial… Read more »

InstaDeep Hosts Online RL Training Course for GTC 2020

Based on our considerable experience in Reinforcement Learning, including our ongoing work with the German railway company Deutsche Bahn and research published at NeurIPS, InstaDeep was selected to host an RL training course titled ‘Learning to Route Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning’ at this year’s Nvidia GTC conference. While the training initially was supposed to be… Read more »

Prestigious Research Award Presented to InstaDeep Team Lead

This week, CMU Africa announced that InstaDeep colleague Oluwafemi Azeez is the recipient of the university’s honourable award for “Rising Researcher 2020”. The accolade was launched in 2017 and is an annual fund in honour of late alumnus and faculty member Dr Jeremiah N. Mpagazehe. Strong academic preparation and passion for research The announcement was… Read more »

InstaDeep and Zindi Team up to Build Free AI-tool for Face Mask Detection

In the midst of Covid19, there is a spike in demand for machine learning solutions that can help tackle the pandemic or ease the societal transformation back into a sense of normality. Given that many countries are now easing lockdown restrictions, products that can assist in the controlled reopening of public functions whilst limiting the… Read more »

InstaDeep’s ICLR contributions available online

April 2020 saw InstaDeep proudly participate in ICLR for the first time with no less than three research papers! Following a successful virtual conference, the content has been made publicly available for everyone to enjoy. The papers were part of the workshop ‘AfricaNLP: Unlocking Local Languages’ aiming to ‘put Africa on the NLP map’ which… Read more »

InstaDeep contributes to ICLR for the first time

The six-day conference, referred to as the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancements of deep learning, is filled with invited talks and workshops, as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. 2020 is our first year contributing to ICLR and we are excited to present on the topic of NLP. AfricaNLP… Read more »