Seattle - based artificial intelligence ( AI ) start - up AI has raised $ 12 m in a series A funding round led by Madrona Venture Group . XNOR , which was spun out of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in 2017 , has developed a self - supporting software development platform , provisionally named AI for Everyone , Everywhere . XNOR ’s software localises the processing required for AI tasks in a device 's CPU . “ We ’re making it so simple that any developer will be able to deploy AI into their software and use it , ” says XNOR 's CEO Ali Farhadi . The company is aiming to release a developer evaluation kit this autumn .
Seattle-based artificial intelligence (AI) start-up XNOR has raised $12m in a series A funding round led by Madrona Venture Group. XNOR, which was spun out of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in 2017, has developed a self-service software development platform, provisionally named AI for Everyone, Everywhere. XNOR’s software localises the processing required for AI tasks in a device's CPU. “We’re making it so simple that any developer should be able to deploy AI into their software and use it,” said XNOR's CEO Ali Farhadi. The company is aiming to release a developer evaluation kit this autumn.