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Press Release// France’s leading audiovisual group, France Télévisions, is taking its technological transformation forward with Capgemini and Perfect Memory
France’s leading audiovisual group, France Télévisions, is taking its technological transformation forward with Capgemini and Perfect Memory
A duo of data and artificial intelligence to enable France’s leading audiovisual group to draw upon the data generated by more than 500,000 active TV programs
Paris, December 7th 2020 – France Télévisions, the country’s leading audiovisual group, has appointed Capgemini to develop its “Data and Artificial Intelligence” department based on the DAM (Data Asset Management) solution from the French start-up Perfect Memory, with the aim of continuing the ongoing modernization of its TV program production and broadcasting resources.
Operating within the technology department, the “Data and Artificial Intelligence” (“DaAI”) function was created in late 2019 to support the modernization of resources for the production and broadcasting of TV programs. Recently scooping the Technology & Innovation award 20201 given by the European Broadcasting Union for its assistance system used in the analysis of political debates, France Télévisions has decided to strengthen this department to be able to carry out more projects and recently conducted two tenders with this in mind.
Frédéric Brochard, Technology Director at France Télévisions said, “In 2019, I set out to create a Data and Artificial Intelligence department to unite and stimulate the company’s initiatives in these two areas concerning transformation and modernization, both of which are vital for us. Achieving greater efficiency in our processes, assisting with decision-making for our programs and channels, providing better search tools for our journalists and guaranteeing improved exposure for our content, are all areas which this department has the task of identifying and developing. To achieve this, I would like to draw upon existing expertise and best practices, and I am very proud of and confident in the relationships we have forged with Capgemini and Perfect Memory.”
The increasing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions is today providing major benefits in the classification of audiovisual content. The fifteen or so data experts from the “DaAI” department have the task of carrying out monitoring work, testing AI solutions and producing proofs of concepts to be able to then incorporate these tools within France Télévisions’ workflows. The constantly increasing audience sizes for the France Télévisions group’s digital products is automatically ushering in new services (clearer navigation, better recommendations, a more comprehensive search from among the thousands of programs available at any time, etc.), behind which the quality and variety of the programs’ descriptive data play a key role.
Capgemini chosen to design new usage scenarios for AI applied to television
France Télévisions launched a Europe-wide public tender in April 2020 involving 25 companies or groups. At the end of this tender, France Télévisions chose Capgemini’s expertise for the organization and implementation of new projects in the fields of data and artificial intelligence applied to France Télévisions’ activities. As examples, data and artificial intelligence can be used for audience prediction purposes, looking beyond the possibilities offered by traditional measurement tools, or for the creation of decision-making tools to assist with the programs and for information purposes. Drawing upon its experience with technological transformation projects for international businesses in the media industry, Capgemini stood out for its extensive knowledge of data and AI projects performed worldwide and its capacity to put together a team of experts.
Xavier Moy, Media & Entertainment Sector Director at Capgemini in France: “Capgemini is particularly proud to be supporting France Télévisions in its digital transformation. As part of our work for France’s leading audiovisual group, we will be drawing upon our international experience with media challenges and opportunities and our Data and Artificial Intelligence center of excellence to assist the different activities around their use of data.”
Cooperation with Perfect Memory for the deployment of a knowledge engineering platform
France Télévisions also selected the start-up Perfect Memory for the development of an engineering platform for the knowledge, data and content to be collected and used by the group, all these tools being aimed at information and program creation specialists.
Perfect Memory’s “DAM” product will create France Télévisions’ Data-Hub2, a Cloud solution reserved for authorized staff and services, containing high value program data collected and enhanced by the DaAI Department, to fill the ‘Media Factory’. For the purpose of this project, DaAI handles the task of data identification and recovery (both within France Télévisions and from outside), and the AI processing and consolidation of all data in a Datalake, i.e. a cloud-based secure distributed storage area. All of the AI expertise and development needed to create this Datalake is available in-house.
Steny Solitude, founder of Perfect Memory, explained: “We are very proud to have been selected by an institution like France Télévisions for such an ambitious project. The decision by France TV to focus on the revelation and preservation of the wealth of digital assets created and managed in-house will see the group engaging in a competitive process which could eventually enable it to outperform certain major players in the digital sector. The introduction of a genuine life-cycle governance system for data and content – from its creation and monetization to its processing, enrichment and sharing – represents a genuine paradigm shift in the broadcasting world”.
About the France Télévisions Group
As the leading audiovisual group in 2019 with a 28.9% audience share, each day France Télévisions reaches 32 million French people thanks to a rich and diverse range of editorial content. Comprised of 4 national channels with complementary content (France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5), a regional and overseas network and a news service active in all media, franceinfo, the France Télévisions Group is involved in all types of programmes bringing viewers real choice at all times.
Further information: https://www.francetelevisions.fr/groupe
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology, and engineering services. The Group is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients’ opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Building on its strong 50-year heritage and deep industry-specific expertise, Capgemini enables organizations to realize their business ambitions through an array of services from strategy to operations. A responsible and multicultural company of 265,000 people in nearly 50 countries, Capgemini’s purpose is to unleash human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. With Altran, the Group reported 2019 combined global revenues of €17 billion.
Visit us at www.capgemini.com
About Perfect Memory
Founded in 2008 by its CEO Steny Solitude, Perfect Memory is today part of the implid group. With the objective of bringing its clients the best of big data, Digital Asset Management and the Semantic Web, the start-up markets a cloud-based semantic Digital Asset Management platform that improves and enriches product descriptions and searchability for web players’ products and services. Perfect Memory helps web players to boost their turnover thanks to rich and engaging product catalogues. At the outline stage up until now, an initial version of the product was launched in 2013, with its DAM-as-a-Brain Perfect Memory first being marketed in 2015. Perfect Memory caters to the media, the media agencies and the e-commerce market. Perfect Memory has been awarded “Top 10 Semantic Startups” status during the SemTech Business in San Francisco. It was a Finalist Awardee for the IBC 2013 Innovation for Content Management Award, joined the “Excellence Club” of the French Public Investment Bank (BPI) in September 2014 and European Excellence Award in September 2015.
1 See press release: “ T&I award 2020 goes to France TV’s AI tool for election reporting”
2 Data-Hub is a technical solution which can be plugged in to this Datalake. This solution serves four main functions:
- A powerful search engine able to make the most of data linked to more than 500,000 active programmes.
- A graphical user interface with a media player able to present the content and all of the associated knowledge.
- A capacity to present the data to the users, whether human or machine, while at the same time managing their access rights.
- A processing management function combined with a rules engine to enable each individual programme, programme family, series, genre or sub-genre to be considered differently with regard to the use and enhancement of its data.
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US Air Force Awards ThroughPut.ai Direct-to-Phase-II Contract for Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Sikorsky Mission Design Series to Accelerate Aircraft Readiness
Leveraging Data to Drive Maintenance-first actions that improve overall supply chain throughput across the DAF.
NEW YORK, May 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — ThroughPut.ai, the Supply Chain Decision Intelligence Pioneer, announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a (SBIR Direct-to-Phase II contract) in the amount of $1,248,627.00 focused on “AI-Powered Proactive Supply Chain Capabilities” to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF). The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) process by accelerating the small business experience through faster proposal to award timelines, changing the pool of potential applicants by expanding opportunities to small business and eliminating bureaucratic overhead by continually implementing process improvement changes in contract execution. The DAF began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018 which expanded the range of innovations the DAF funded and now on April 17th, 2024, ThroughPut.ai will start its journey to create and provide innovative capabilities that will strengthen the national defense of the United States of America.
“ThroughPut.ai looks forward to supporting efforts to accelerate inventory flow across the United States Air Force,” said Ali Raza, CEO & Founder of ThroughPut.ai. “By driving inventory/materiel management changes at the maintenance endpoint first, supply chain improvements can then be amplified across the greater industrial base to create aircraft capacity.”
“The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Air Force, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.”
About (ThroughPut.ai)
ThroughPut.ai is a Silicon Valley-based supply chain optimization & predictive replenishment company. The company’s software AI platform has the ability to identify location-, product-, and customer-based demand changes sooner in order to adjust order frequencies, vendor sources, and parts buffer levels at a global and local scale. ThroughPut’s platform was designed by Fortune 500 & technology executives with real-world experience managing demand & supply chain disruptions and war-zone logistics across the Middle East.
About AFRLThe Air Force Research Laboratory is the primary scientific research and development center for the Department of the Air Force. AFRL plays an integral role in leading the discovery, development, and integration of affordable warfighting technologies for our air, space and cyberspace force. With a workforce of more than 12,500 across nine technology areas and 40 other operations across the globe, AFRL provides a diverse portfolio of science and technology ranging from fundamental to advanced research and technology development. For more information, visit afresearchlab.com.
About AFWERXAs the innovation arm of the DAF and a directorate within the Air Force Research Laboratory, AFWERX brings cutting-edge American ingenuity from small businesses and start-ups to address the most pressing challenges of the DAF. AFWERX employs approximately 370 military, civilian and contractor personnel at five hubs and sites executing an annual $1.4 billion budget. Since 2019, AFWERX has executed over 6,100 new contracts worth more than $4 billion to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base and drive faster technology transition to operational capability. For more information, visit: www.afwerx.com.
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Data Center Investments Soar: 200% Rise Since 2016 and Projected 89% Increase by 2028
USA News Group CommentaryIssued on behalf of Avant Technologies Inc.
VANCOUVER, BC, May 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Since 2016, investment in data centre infrastructure has risen 200%, with a further 89% increase expected by 2028 as more opportunities emerge with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). According to Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.’s CEO Christian Ulbrich, data centers are “the hottest asset class at the moment.” Analysts at Technavio are projecting the global data center market to record an additional US$329.82 billion in growth at a CAGR of 12.73% through 2027. Capitalizing on the opportunity are several players recently announcing developments regarding their involvement in the data centers sector, including
Avant Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: AVAI), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Applied Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: APLD), Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), and Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX).
As an early pioneer in generative AI, Avant Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: AVAI) continues to enhance its flagship asset, Avant AITM, a sophisticated machine and deep learning AI system designed for versatility and customization across various industries and applications. Recently, Avant announced plans to equip its AI-managed data center, currently in development, with High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems. According to IBM, HPC technology utilizes clusters of powerful processors working in parallel to process massive multi-dimensional data sets and solve complex problems at exceptionally high speeds.
“The rise of AI is revolutionizing industries, and Avant Technologies is committed to being at the forefront of this transformation,” said William Hisey, CEO of Avant. “By building an AI-managed data center with HPC systems, we will gain the computational power and infrastructure required to train and deploy sophisticated AI models, which will ultimately provide even greater value to our customers.”
The new data center will leverage AI-driven management technology to optimize resource allocation and enhance efficiency in all aspects of data center operations. Avant will meticulously design its HPC infrastructure to meet the demands of AI workloads, selecting high-performance CPUs and GPUs (or TPUs) specifically suited for deep learning tasks. This cutting-edge facility will enable Avant to accelerate AI advancements, delivering innovative solutions to clients by improving data center efficiency and empowering them with exceptional AI capabilities.
Additionally, Avant will implement a high-speed network to ensure efficient data transfer and select a scalable storage solution to manage the large datasets necessary for training and utilizing AI models. The HPC systems will prioritize security, incorporating robust measures to protect sensitive data and create a secure environment for AI deployment. Furthermore, the data center will integrate energy-efficient technologies and sustainable design practices, reflecting Avant’s commitment to environmental responsibility.
Avant Technologies also recently announced plans to implement AI-empowered Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) across its data center operations. Additionally, the company has expanded its AvantAI™ platform to include intelligent, proactive monitoring and management for data centers.
Over the past few weeks Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has collectively committed to investing $20 billion into new data centers for its subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS). The first to be announced was an $11-billion data center to be built in Indiana, with another $9 billion set to accelerate cloud-infrastructure in Singapore. The moves fall in line with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s projection that 85% of IT spending will remain on premises, in the race for Gen AI supremacy.
Amazon also recently announced an extension on its partnership between AWS and CrowdStrike to unify cybersecurity protection on its CrowdStrike Falcon platform. As per the agreement, Amazon is replacing a variety of cloud point products with Falcon Cloud Security, is using Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to secure big data logging and is deploying Identity Threat Detection and Response to prevent identity-based attacks.
“CrowdStrike and AWS have a deep history of working together to secure the most innovative companies in the world,” said CJ Moses, Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Security Engineering at Amazon. “Amazon uses CrowdStrike to provide visibility, detection, and response across our businesses in order to protect the cloud, infrastructure, and services for our customers. This is part of our shared mission to help all organizations build, operate, and secure their business.”
In a move to shore-up its market position as a designer, builder, and operator of next-generation digital infrastructure designed for High-Performance Computing (“HPC”) applications, Applied Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: APLD) recently announced the appointment of industry veteran Todd Gale as its new Chief Development Officer. The announcement came just one month after the company announced it had issued a $50 million unsecured convertible debenture to advance its HPC Data Center Project in Ellendale, North Dakota.
“We intend to use the net proceeds from the private financing, supplemented by the proceeds from our announced sale of the Garden City facility, to finance substantial advancements in our construction phase of the HPC data center in Ellendale, North Dakota,” said David Rench, CFO of Applied Digital. “Concurrently, we continue negotiating our project-level financing to ensure timely project completion and fulfillment of our contractual obligations.”
Applied Digital intends to utilize chipmaking giant NVIDIA’s new Blackwell platform into its cloud offerings. The company’s next-generation data center campuses are specifically designed to host HPC/AI applications, offering more cost-effective and efficient alternatives to traditional data centers.
In Japan, Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR) recently announced the expansion of its NRT Campus, by commencing construction of its third data center to support AI. Upon completion of the site in late 2025, the campus’s capacity will rise to 104MW, with the intention of meeting rising demand for next-generation infrastructure, and seamless access to Japan’s connected data communities.
“Japan’s rapidly increasing demand for AI deployments creates the need for scalable, flexible, and highly connected AI-ready data centers in the Tokyo metropolitan area,” said Serene Nah, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific, Digital Realty. “We believe NRT14’s next-generation data center infrastructure and Digital Realty’s connected global open data center platform provide the foundational pillars our customers need to drive innovation in the coming years.”
Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX), another digital infrastructure company, has recently launched a $600 million joint venture with PGIM Real Estate to develop and operate the first xScale data center in the US, situated in California’s Silicon Valley. This follows their successful collaboration on the first xScale data center in Australia in 2022, which was part of a similar $575 million joint venture announced in 2021.
Under the terms of the new agreement, PGIM Real Estate will hold an 80% equity interest in the joint venture, while Equinix will retain a 20% equity stake. xScale data centers by Equinix enable hyperscale companies to expand their core deployments within Equinix’s IBX data centers, facilitating growth in over 70 global metros through a platform that supports direct interconnections with more than 10,000 customers.
This joint venture complements Equinix’s existing hyperscale collaborations in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, significantly enhancing the global xScale data center portfolio. Once completed, this global expansion is set to exceed $8 billion, encompassing more than 35 facilities and providing over 725 megawatts of power capacity.
Source: https://usanewsgroup.com/2023/10/26/unlocking-the-trillion-dollar-ai-market-what-investors-need-to-know/
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Lucinity Wins the Microsoft Partner Awards for 2024 for Partner of the Year – Iceland and Sustainability and Social Impact
REYKJAVÍK, Iceland, May 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Lucinity, a leading AI company for financial crime prevention, won two awards at the Microsoft Partner Awards for 2024, including Partner of the Year – Iceland and Sustainability and Social Impact, highlighting Lucinity’s innovations and contribution to positive societal change.
“Congratulations to Lucinity for being recognized as the Partner of the Year – Iceland 2024! Lucinity is leading digital transformation and delivering innovative products in their domain,” says Microsoft’s leadership.
“For the past year, they have played a key role with their offerings, skilled resources, and their ability to drive change and innovative solutions both locally in Iceland and across the globe. Lucinity has had significant social impact and growth while supporting our joint customers in their AI-transformation journeys.”
In June 2023, Lucinity launched the world’s first copilot for FinCrime prevention powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI called Luci. Luci stands out in the financial services industry with specialized skills for FinCrime prevention such as adverse media checks, case analysis, and SAR writing.
Built on the robust and scalable Microsoft Azure platform, Lucinity offers customers a trusted SaaS product. Additionally, Lucinity’s presence on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace allows companies to leverage their Microsoft Azure credits to access the platform.
The seamless integration with Microsoft’s Azure stack has enabled Lucinity to implement advanced AI capabilities, fostering rapid innovation and enabling banks and fintech companies to utilize AI securely and audibly. Furthermore, Luci significantly reduces investigation times from 2.5 hours to just 25 minutes, saving Tier 1 banks an estimated $25 million annually.
Guðmundur Kristjánsson (GK), Lucinity’s Founder and CEO comments, “These awards are a testament to the strength and reliability of our solutions, made possible by our strategic partnership with Microsoft. Utilizing Microsoft Azure, we have been able to drive rapid innovation and create a robust, scalable platform that meets the rigorous requirements of compliance teams.”
On the Sustainability and Social Impact Partner Award, Microsoft says, “Lucinity, with their innovative AI solutions, has really tried to combat this huge global challenge. They use ‘Human AI’ to enhance financial crime prevention, combining AI with human expertise for efficient, user-friendly solutions. Additionally, Lucinity has developed a tool called Luci, an AI-powered copilot that helps transform financial crime prevention from a process that took hours to one that takes minutes.”
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