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Explore the highlights of the past 15 years at Probayes
Probayes was founded in 2003 by scientists from Inria and France’s national center for scientific research, CNRS. The founders’ field of study was the modeling of complex interactions between robots and their environment.
Probayes developed a new probabilistic programming system, the first of its kind to automate calculations performed on models and factor in uncertainty. This advance was the result of early forms of artificial intelligence based on probabilistic modeling. In addition to providing strong mathematical formalism, the approach could also handle the complexity of the world and the uncertainties of the information being manipulated.
Back in 2003, these methods were part of a new cognitive science movement called “connectionism” that aimed to explain how the brain works using Bayesian and neural networks. Connectionism put forward an alternative to the “symbolic” movement, based on expert systems, which was beginning to show its limitations. This was the scientific environment in which the early versions of the probabilistic calculation and Bayesian modeling (ProBT) platforms were developed.
Probayes’ founders (Emmanuel Mazer, Pierre Bessière, Jean-François Miribel, Juan-Manuel Ahuactzin, Olivier Lebeltel, and Kamel Mekhnacha, currently Chief Operating Officer) held a strong belief that businesses would not only want, but need these innovations in the future. They set a course to make these new technologies reliable, robust, and scalable, so that they could be commercialized.
Probayes was founded in October 2003 as a bridge between advanced mathematics research and companies’ need to forecast and optimize in a sophisticated and complex world.
2003
MACHINE LEARNING
Probayes expands into machine learning.
2005
Defense: probability
Software components combining 5D geometry and probabilitiy for the defense industry.
2008
Operational research
Start of operational research and combinatorial optimization activities.
2009
Marketing: data mining and predictive analysis
Probayes addresses churn with data mining and predictive analysis techniques.
2011
Industry: optimization
New production optimization solutions for the microelectronics industry. Diversification of mathematical methods deployed on customer projects.
2013
Defense: innovation award
MCM – ITP projects (MBDA – DGA – DSTEL) win innovation award.
2016
Logistics & distribution: data recognition
Improved address recognition on letters and parcels.
2018
Chatbot: automatic/natural language processing
Online postage stamp store chatbot based on automatic language processing.
2019
Probayes founded
The first company to bring operational probabilistic tools to the market.
2004
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE: sensor fusion
Probayes develops an advanced driver assistance and sensor fusion program patented in 2009.
2007
Banking & finance: credit card fraud detection
7.5 million transactions analyzed
per day with a response time of 50 milliseconds.
2008
DEFENSE: aircraft trajectory prediction
Aircraft trajectory prediction and missile guidance optimization earn kudos from British Ministry of Defence and French DGA.
2010
Logistics: time-series data analysis
Innovation in time-series data analysis for gesture recognition applications. Prediction of maritime container flows.
2012
Energy: energy efficiency for buildings
Building energy performance service based on a patented technology introduced.
2014
A La Poste company
2017
Probayes team grows to 50
2018
Banking & finance
FraudIA solution released.
2003 - Création de probayes
Première société à mettre sur le marché des outils probabilistes
opérationnels2004 - Apprentissage automatique
Diversification de l’activité autour de l’apprentissage automatique et Machine learning
2005 - Véhicule autonome : fusion de capteurs
Développement d’un programme d’assistance avancée à la conduite et de fusion de capteurs qui débouche sur un brevet en 2009
2007 - Défense : probabilité
Composants logiciels alliant géométrie 5D et probabilités dans le domaine de la Défense
2008 - Banque : Détection des fraudes à la carte bancaire
Analyse de 7,5 millions de transactions de paiement
par jour avec un temps de réponse de 50 millisecondes2008 - Recherche opérationnelle
Démarrage de l’activité en recherche opérationnelle et optimisation combinatoire
2009 - Défense : Prédiction de trajectoires aériennes
Prédiction de trajectoires aériennes et optimisation du guidage de missiles. Travaux primés par la DGA et son équivalent britannique le MOD
2010 - Marketing : Data mining et analyse prédictive
Ouverture aux problématiques de l’attrition dans le marketing avec les techniques du data
mining et de l’analyse prédictive2011 - Logistique : Analyse de données temporelles
Innovation dans le domaine de l’analyse de données temporelles avec des applications de
reconnaissance gestuelle. Prédiction de flux de conteneurs maritimes.2012 - Industrie : optimisation
Optimisation de la production pour l’industrie micro électronique. Diversification des méthodes mathématiques appliquées dans ses projets.
2013 - Énergie : Réduction énergétique des bâtiments
Développement d’une offre de performance énergétique des bâtiments (technologie brevetée)
2014 - Prix meilleure innovation
Projets MCM – ITP (MBDA – DGA – DSTEL)
2016 - Filiale du Groupe La Poste
2017 - Distribution : reconnaissance de données
Amélioration de la reconnaissance des adresses sur les plis postaux
2018 - Probayes intègre son 50ème salarié
2018 - Chatbot : TAL / NLP
Traitement Automatique du Langage avec lancement du Chatbot « Mon timbre en ligne » #NPL
2019 - Banque
Lancement de l'offre FraudIA
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