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Emory University team wins Alexa Prize Grand Challenge 3

Academic institutions are competing at the highest levels of conversational AI development, with substantial prize money validating the commercial potential of socialbot technology for voice assistants.

Why it ranks · · $500,000 prize amount · August 2020

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The six pillarsRanked by KeyRank · this month

Frontier

75% share

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 3 stories

  1. 1Teaching computers to recognize humor45
  2. 2Building product graphs automatically
  3. 3Taming Transformers for text classification with millions of classes

Tools

quiet today

The AI products people actually use. · 0 stories

  1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Agents

quiet today

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

  1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Money

quiet today

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 0 stories

  1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Chips

25% share

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 1 story

  1. 1Amazon’s open-source tools make embedding knowledge graphs much more efficient75

Work

quiet today

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 0 stories

  1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

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