Thales champions start-up innovations in Artificial Intelligence with Season 5 of AI@CENTECH
Following a global call for partners, Thales selected the four start-ups – including one that is returning for a second Season – that best responded to this year’s to solve real-life problems from space through to collaborative combat:
, a returning Season 1 alumnus in which Thales took an investment position in 2022, and a pioneer in reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) – a technique instrumental in the making of ChatGPT – whose award-winning Cogment™, an innovative AI-Human adaptive-learning platform is used by Thales, CAE, and NavCanada.
, an AI specialist that proposes Anomaly Detection and Labeling solutions to help businesses leverage their time series and audio data to find the blind spots and optimize operations.
, which hit a major milestone in March 2022 when its new-generation AI defeated 8 world champions at the game of Bridge. Today, NukkAI successfully deploys its tools in Defense and Transportation/Logistics.
, whose automatic sound event and speech utterance detection transforms audio signals into actionable data, unlocking new possibilities tailored to every customer’s needs.
“In a uniquely collaborative model within Centech’s open innovation ecosystem, Thales extends its work with AI start-ups to grow their potential and help them become game-changers in their markets. This Season’s start-ups will further evolve our success in developing trusted AI technologies and solutions for Thales’ customers globally.” Siegfried Usal, Vice-President, Digital Innovation and General Manager, Thales Digital Solutions
Montreal is home to one of three Thales Digital Factories that accelerate digital potential for Thales’ core business and customers. AI@Centech exemplifies Thales’ long-standing commitment to Canada to drive innovation in key industrial capabilities like AI. Through its first four seasons, AI@Centech connected with more than 575 start-ups in Canada and around the world.