Lithuania & Turkey-based Co-one offers data tools & services for AI companies to quickly, accurately & securely label image, video & text data. It provides firms with an “Annotation Management Dashboard”, which allows said to do so more efficiently. Moreover, the company’s Kovan App allows users to earn income by labeling data. This unique “crowdsourced” approach has been a key factor in the company’s success so far (using the “bounding box method” as a preferred labeling technique). So why does effective data annotation matter? simply put, 80% of time for an AI project is consumed by data preparation (data identification 5%, data aggregation 10%, data augmentation 15%, data cleansing 25% & - Co-one’s focus -...

France-based PASQAL is quantum computing startup <quick primer on quantum computers: instead of bits, which conventional computers use, a quantum computer uses quantum bits – known as qubits. To illustrate the difference, imagine a sphere. A bit can be at either of the two poles of the sphere (0,1), but a qubit can exist at any point on the sphere (0,1 &/ 1,0). So, this means that a quantum computer can store an enormous amount of info & uses less energy to so (as it can operate at room temperature) vs a classical computer>. Now onto the good stuff… What makes PASQAL stand out is that the startup is betting on “neutral atoms quantum computing”....