by Angela Guess

A new press release reports, “Remark Media, a global digital media technology company, announced it has been chosen by Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, to provide its artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to Alibaba Cloud’s extensive developer network. As part of the partnership, Remark Media will provide its advanced facial recognition and image classification services, leveraging its proprietary KanKan Data Intelligence Platform, to Alibaba Cloud’s ‘AI-based Robotic Vision Ecosystem Union.’”

Kai-Shing Tao, Remark Media’s Chairman and CEO, commented, “We are excited to expand our relationship with Alibaba Group by becoming a close technology partner with Alibaba Cloud. Utilizing our KanKan Data Intelligence Platform, we have developed AI-based technologies that provide developers and Alibaba Cloud customers with a highly disruptive solution to removing many bottlenecks associated with data modeling and automated image classification within the cloud computing environment. We are proud to be working with Alibaba Cloud to make AI technologies more widely available.”

The release goes on, “Remark Media’s image and video recognition technologies are based on Deep Learning, a type of algorithm-based machine learning that is used to model high-level abstractions in data. In developing its technologies, Remark Media leveraged its extensive KanKan data platform to train its AI with tens of millions of supervised and unsupervised samples, developing models that extract facial features and recognize objects in images or videos such as branded logos, animals, airplanes, license plates, etc., with high precision.”

Read more at PR Newswire.

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