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Not sure, but biggest one so far is probably Deepmind, from the UK.

Magic Pony (machine learning for reverse-compressing video data, re-adding data that was removed during the compression process) is pretty cool.

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I'm thinking from the perspective of "I'm sick of working at your standard SaaS. I'd like to see what else is out there for software developers."

Isn't that just a buzzword-heavy way of saying "better video compression"?

No. AFAICT, it's perceptual reverse-compression: ie, you look at a bad mp4 of a brick wall, and even though it's shitty, you mentally figure out the mass of pixels is a brick wall. Imagine if the computer actually re-added a crisp brick wall there.

Video compression algorithms already optimize for perception rather than objective measures like PSNR, so I still don't see the fundamental difference.

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