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As set out in his keynote at the GCVI Summit in 2019, Lin has focused Intel Capital’s investments on leading more rounds in more diverse companies.

Aisin, Airbus, Intel, LG, SBI, Hella and SK Hynix all celebrated a win as AEye agreed to a reverse merger with CF Finance to list on Nasdaq at a $2bn valuation.

Spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX has pushed its valuation to $74bn, a more than sixfold increase on the $12bn it fetched when Google led a $1bn round in 2015.

Qihoo 360 has exited the Brazil-based peer after it joined AI technology group CyberLabs to form a new company, CyberLabs Group.

Cloopen, also known as Ronglian and Yuntongxun, priced its shares at $16 to raise $320m in an initial public offering that provided an exit for Telstra Ventures and New Oriental.

Google’s Gradient Ventures has returned to help bring the total financing for AI data training platform developer Labelbox to $79m.

Q&A with Itamar Sivan, the co-founder of Israel-based quantum computer orchestration technology developer Quantum Machines.

Nature’s laws of physics are difficult to replicate through an arrangement of binary computer switches, no matter how many of the switches we have access to.

Cloud servers can be thought of humanity’s first truly global infrastructure given they act as the bedrock for executing artificial intelligence (AI), or so went the argument in a November edition of The Economist.

DeepMind Technologies’ achievement of applying machine learning to predict 3D protein structures has certainly got the scientific world excited, with some experts hailing a massive step forward for medical research.

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