Arago's Chris Boos Leads Europe’s PEPP-PT COVID-19 Contacts Tracing Standard

In public health, contact tracing is the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person ("contacts") and subsequent collection of further information about these contacts.

MaintainPR contact Hans Christian Boos (CEO of influential AI startup Arago) recently spoke on a united EU government approach he is helping to spearhead. TechCrunch has the story.

“Europe’s PEPP-PT COVID-19 contacts tracing standard push could be squaring up for a fight with Apple and Google” — TechCrunch

Arago's CEO Chris Boos in WSJ on Positive Future with AI

With all of the dire predictions that some AI-practitioners like to dispel in order to drum up press, it's nice to hear a more balanced and productive counterpoint.

Marketwatch's Rachel Koning Beals recently spoke with MaintainPR client Arago on what a realistic future would look like with automation.

No need to squirm in your seat here because Chris Boos (Arago's CEO) has already been implementing AI for Fortune 100 companies in finance/IT and telecom for years!

AI is too smart and busy to knock off humans - WSJ/Marketwatch

Arago & ContentSquare Talk on EU Expansion to NYC

What's it like to expand your business from Europe and hire on the ground in NYC?  Jonathan Cherki (CEO ContentSquare) and Chris Boos (CEO of MaintainPR client Arago) are two artificial intelligence experts from France and Germany respectively.

They recently sat down to record a podcast for Anthony Noto at NY Biz Journal to discuss just that.

Give it a listen here: 

European AI experts recall their experiences of launching companies in N.Y.C. -- NY BIz Journal

Highly Cited -- Arago Empowering through AI

MaintainPR client Arago has recently started powering AI automation for NITT; UBS; Virtusa Polaris and many more.

Here are some clippings from their busy Q1. Stay tuned for some big West Coast news coming up in Q2!!

"AI Pioneer Wants to Build the Renaissance Machine of the Future" -- Bloomberg

"The Smartest Machines Are Playing Games" -- Bloomberg

"Benchmarking CrunchBase's Top 25 Artificial Intelligence Startups" -- Forbes

"NIIT partners with Arago to integrate AI with automation" -- ChannelWorldd

"IT solutions firm NIIT Technologies said it will be integrating Arago's AI technology" -- Business Standard

Arago Drops AI Bomb on TechCrunch Disrupt London

MaintainPR client Arago (www.arago.co) has been in the AI game since the 90s. They are a leading artificial intelligence company that helps businesses automate their IT processes through intelligent automation.

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt London, Arago dropped a bombshell: their proprietary AI platform HIRO, which uses reasoning and a knowledge-based problem-solving engine optimized by machine learning to deliver cutting-edge enterprise IT automation solutions to clients worldwide, is already beating human players at FreeCiv.

It's a huge accomplishment for a smaller company (Google's DeepMind, with much more resource, only just start accessing APIs to play Starcraft II) and some of the world's biggest AI players, like Facebook, said it couldn't be done at all!

For more details, check out the press release and coverage from TechCrunch's Darrel Etherington as well as IDG Paris bureau chief Peter Sayer. Both are Civ players themselves that never got close to even beating the game's built in AI!

Arago’s AI can now beat some human players at complex civ strategy games -- TechCrunch

Arago teaches an AI to play games, the better to manage IT systems -- PC World

Watch Arago’s HIRO Beat Out Human Gamers in Freeciv -- Futurism