Excited to announce that the Embodied AI team at Alana developed AlanaVLM, a new foundation model for egocentric video understanding. Best open-weight model which rivals GPT-4V on spatial reasoning questions in OpenEQA (by Meta AI). It outperforms Claude 3 and Gemini Pro Vision 1.0 on the OpenEQA benchmark. https://lnkd.in/dMrRUZUb #AI #NLProc
Alana
Technology, Information and Internet
London, London 1,234 followers
Next Generation User Experience
About us
Alana is a Heriot-Watt University Interaction Lab spin-off company focused on disrupting existing user experience and streamlining current processes through the most intuitive of interactions – natural conversation. Our NLP and Machine Learning software drives engaging multi-turn conversations over a wide variety of topics and information sources, and our technology can be rapidly tailored to a multitude of specialisms. Alana is being deployed across a range of sectors including healthcare, finance, entertainment, and education. At Alana, we apply AI technology designed to generate better communication and decision making, and in doing so seek to improve millions of lives.
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http://www.AlanaAI.com
External link for Alana
- Industry
- Technology, Information and Internet
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- London, London
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2021
Locations
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1 Pancras Square
London, London N1C 4AG, GB
Employees at Alana
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Oliver Lemon
Academic Co-Lead at the National Robotarium; Chief AI Officer and Co-founder at Alana AI ; Professor of Conversational AI
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Ioannis Papaioannou
Chief Technology Officer | NLP, Machine Learning
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Alessandro Suglia
Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University and Head of Visual Dialogue at Alana AI
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Radu Moisii
Finance Director I Manager I Consultant
Updates
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Exciting news! We are now working with University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust to help clinicians quickly access and search the latest medical guidelines. Our conversational AI will provide accurate, sourced answers, integrated seamlessly. Faster, smarter medical support is coming! #HealthTech #AI #NHS #Innovation
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What happens when you put together experts in NLP, data science, legal, ethical, interoperability, and HCI matters with clinical experts and the RES-Q Registry of Stroke Care Quality for three days in Aalborg? Lots of ideas and discussions that include all relevant perspectives at this RES-Q+ EU meeting. We'll harness natural language processing and interoperability to further the European Health Data Space and activate the quality in stroke care. Great progress! #res-q-plus-stroke-care
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Did you miss yesterday's webinar on #ArtificalIntelligence and #StrokeManagement? We have got you covered 👉https://lnkd.in/d8v-xZrF 🙏Special THANK YOU to our chair and speakers, to the +800 of you who registered and our +300 live attendees, participating in our polls and engaging in an insightful Q&A discussion! 👀More info? https://lnkd.in/e-mbBThD Carlos Molina Dra Adriana Conforto (neuro) Oliver Lemon Laura Ceci Galanos Dr. Gustavo Saposnik Teresa Ullberg World Stroke Organization Alana RES-Q+ #WSAWebinars #StrokeEducation
WSA Webinar - Advancing Stroke Management: is there a role for AI-based Technologies?
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🔔Tomorrow, 3pm (CET)! World Stroke Academy webinar on Advancing Stroke Management: Is there a role for AI-based Technologies? Have you booked your seat yet? If not, head here: https://lnkd.in/e-mbBThD In this 60-minute session, esteemed neurologists and AI experts will delve into the intersection of #artificialintelligence and #strokecare. Dra Adriana Conforto Oliver Lemon Teresa Ullberg Carlos Molina World Stroke Organization Alana RES-Q+ RES-Q Registry of Stroke Care Quality Topics: 🤖 Trustworthy AI Tools for Predicting Stroke Outcomes 🤖 AI-based Stroke Detection 🤖 Generative AI in a Personal Assistant for Stroke Care: the RES-Q+ project #WSAWebinars #StrokeEducation
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🌟📣 Announcing our #TEDxYouthStGeorgesEdinburgh #VoicesOfTheFuture 2024 speaker line-up! We're excited to welcome Yannis Konstas to the #TEDxYouth stage. Yannis is an Associate Professor in Computer Science Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh & co-founded Alana an AI spin-out. His expertise lies in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Generation (NLG), and Machine Learning (ML)💻 His work aims to build trusted, safe & fair NLP apps. Early research focused on data-driven ML & deep learning for apps like summarization & Q&A. 🔬 Now Yannis explores AI representation of online GBV. His #TEDxTalk will discuss this issue & how AI can help mitigate harm. 🌍✨ Follow TEDx Youth St Georges Edinburgh on Facebook for more updates 👉👉 https://ow.ly/gAS150QOrgf #AI #MachineLearning #TEDTalks #TEDx #EdinburghEvents #StGeorgesEdinburgh #StGeorgesEdinburgh #stgeCommunity #StGeorgesSchool #IdeasWorthSpreading
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🚀 The European Chatbot & Conversational | Generative AI Summit March 12-14, 2024, Dynamic Earth, #Edinburgh #Scotland. 🚀 Welcome our speaker Oliver Lemon Academic Co-Lead & Professor of Conversational AI The National Robotarium Topic: TRANSLATING GENERATIVE AI FROM RESEARCH TO REAL-WORLD USE CASES! Oliver Lemon will discuss the challenges and opportunities of developing Generative AI for real-world applications, where the latest innovations must be balanced responsibly with considerations of safety and privacy, for example in medical domains. Drawing on examples from several research projects at The National Robotarium and Alana AI, including SPRING (social robots for elder care), RES-Q+ (spoken dialogue to support stroke patients), and RNIB (assistive visual dialogue for partially-sighted people), I will discuss lessons learned and research directions for future real-world deployments of generative AI systems. You don't have to miss this session. Join us in #Edinburgh #Scotland & online on March 12- 14, 2024 to hear from decision-makers, partners, and influencers shaping the Conversational & Generative AI industry. Explore insights from top enterprises and brands utilizing Conversational & Generative AI, alongside expert speakers in bot and voice technologies. Agenda : https://lnkd.in/eBbMUTsQ Get your pass : https://lnkd.in/daVr5my Tickets are going fast let’s act fast #euchatbot #GenerativeAI #ConversationalAI #chatgpt #DigitalTransformation #CustomerExperience #CX #UX #LLM #AIML #machinelearning #voice #chatbots Angus Addlesee
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Thrilled to share a groundbreaking milestone in healthcare robotics! SPRING project. “The prospect of robots seamlessly collaborating with hospital staff to enhance the patient experience is now closer to reality” said Oliver Lemon. 🌐🤖 #HealthTech #Innovation #SPRINGProject #AIAdvancements https://lnkd.in/gm_cH527
Robots in Hospitals Pass Patient Testing Phase
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We’re #hiring a new DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh, Scotland. Apply today or share this post with your network.
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Can Generative AI revolutionise healthcare? Our Chief AI Officer Oliver Lemon discusses opportunities & challenges of applying generative models in healthcare. https://lnkd.in/eqrQwDRn #healthcare #healthcareinnovation #cambridgelanguagesciences
'Conversations with robots and AIs' - talk by Prof. Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University
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