Sherpa has raised $8.5M from Managing Partner at Apax Digital – Marcelo Gigliani, the chairman of British Airways – Alex Cruz, and Mundi Ventures and Ekarpen, Spanish investment firms. The fund will be used to expand from conversational AI to B2B privacy-first federated learning services. Sherpa.ai, based in Bilbao and Silicon Valley, is the provider…
Apple Inc. the American multinational technology company headquartered in California, today announced that John Giannandrea has been named to the company’s executive team as senior vice president of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy. He joined Apple in April 2018. Apple’s move comes as the company’s HomeKit devices are facing competitions from Amazon’s Echo and…