InstaDeep, a Tunisian business specializing in deep learning, will soon establish a presence in the United States. Karim Beguir, the company’s co-founder and CEO, has confirmed this in a statement.
As of today, InstaDeep has offices in six different countries, including Tunisia, the United Kingdom (UK), France, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Nigeria, and South Africa.
The company’s future US branch will be the company’s first office in North America. The startup market in the United States is vast, but it is also quite competitive. When InstaDeep enters this industry, they may be provided with more opportunities to scale.
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A Look At What InstaDeep Does
Founded in 2014 by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim, InstaDeep uses advanced machine learning techniques to bring AI to applications within an enterprise environment.
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The AI and machine learning capabilities of the eight-year-old company, according to Beguir, tackle a variety of problems. They can range from a huge shipping corporation attempting to figure out how to transfer thousands of containers efficiently to a railway station with over 30,000 kilometers of track seeking to automate 10,000 train schedules. Designing sophisticated therapies with silicon and arranging components on a printed circuit board are two further examples.
In late November last year, the startup built an early warning system (EWS) in partnership with Google for detecting high-risk SARS-CoV-2 variants, which was one of its best efforts. According to a report from the Financial Times, this EWS discovered more than 90% of World Health Organization (WHO) designated variations two months ahead of time on average, and spotted Omicron three days before it was categorized as a variant of concern by the WHO.
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Beguir claimed the startup started with just “two computers, $2,000, and a lot of passion,” with many investors and observers in the African tech and AI industry dismissing InstaDeep’s ambition to partner with the likes of DeepMind and Google.
InstaDeep now employs more than 170 people. More than 130 people work in AI research, engineering, machine learning, and DevOps, with half of the team based in South Africa, Nigeria, and Tunisia.
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