UK AI companies win grant to advance data curation

Innovate UK, the operating name of the UK Technology Strategy Board, has awarded two AI companies more than £300,000 ($387,600) and will co-invest an additional £130,000 ($168,000) from the grant's funding pot of £20m ($25.8m). The money will be used by the companies to deliver a partnership project entitled: "Chemeia: A synergistic AI integrated architecture for augmenting high value dark-data". The two businesses, Manchester-based Biorelate and Cambridge-based Intellegens, announced their success in the third round of Innovate UK's open grant funding competition. Intellegens has developed Alchemite, which uses AI to predict ranked unknown data-points and uncertainties, while Biorelate is in the process of developing text analytics and data mining cloud-based platform Galactic AI. Project Chemeia (pronounced Chem-ee-a) will test the potential for combining the capabilities of both company's platforms to produce up-to-date, comprehensive and reliable datasets for high-value R&D work.