Artificial Intelligence

Tomorrow, Facebook and Twitter will testify in front of the Senate regarding the use of their platforms to influence elections. Fake accounts are the starting point for bad actors to operate on social media. To compare how effective Twitter and…

Dr. E.J. Chichilnisky is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University, where he and his lab are developing a retinal prosthesis. E.J. completed his B.S. in Mathematics at Princeton University, and his Masters in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Neuroscience at…

During Gamescom 2018, Nvidia introduced its new GeForce RTX product line — three graphics cards ($499-$999) based on its new Turing architecture. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the line’s primary innovation, real-time ray tracing, the “holy grail of computer graphics.”…

Shares of NVDA are down 5% after-hours. The company missed expectations in its OEM and IP segment as the decline in crypto pricing triggered softening demand for crypto-mining hardware. While crypto drives just ~3% of revenue, the miss in the…

Due to advancements in technology, as well as consumers’ growing appetite for locally grown leafy greens and vegetables that are both high in nutritional value and come with improved taste, an evolution is underway in the agriculture space. This is…

Today Apple became the first U.S. company in history to reach a $1 trillion market cap. What it tells us: In the long run doing the right thing is rewarded. Focus on one product, perfect it, protect user privacy, practice supplier…

We asked Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, and Cortana 800 questions each. This time, Google Assistant was able to answer 86% of them correctly vs. Siri at 79%, Alexa at 61%, and Cortana at 52%. As part of our ongoing effort…

Shares of GOOGL are trading up ~3.5% after hours as the company is defying the law of large numbers, growing revenue by 26% y/y vs. 26% in Mar-18, 23% in FY17, and 20% in FY16. AI, for the first time,…

At Loup Ventures, research is in our blood. The spirit of our team has always lived on the curiosity to discover new insights that yield investment opportunities. For years we did this on Wall Street, focused on public tech companies.…

A year ago, we published AI Portfolio: Non-Tech Companies Making AI Investments. We’re following up to see how the portfolio performed over the last year. As a quick refresher, to build our portfolio we scraped the text of the most recent…

Yesterday, Techcrunch reported that Apple’s head of AI, John Giannandrea, will take responsibility of Siri from Craig Federighi. This formalizes our April expectation that Apple’s voice program should be moved into its AI group. Voice is currently one of the…

We’re investing in Bumblebee Spaces as a play on AI and robotics helping to solve the problem of escalating housing costs. The company has a modular ceiling system to address storage needs. Bumblebee users can store a desk, bed, closet,…