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Beamr demonstrated real-time video streaming capabilities poised to overcome 5G bottlenecks

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Video usage through real-time streaming is increasing rapidly, including video AI, generative AI, sports events, and multichannel broadcasting.

Key Points: 
  • Video usage through real-time streaming is increasing rapidly, including video AI, generative AI, sports events, and multichannel broadcasting.
  • As a result, the demand for high-quality video processes at scale, including AI capabilities, is increasing as well.
  • However, in the emerging video world, quality real-time streaming needs to overcome 5G bandwidth bottlenecks along with additional challenges.
  • The 5G bottlenecks are due to internet service providers struggling to support the upload speed required to stream at the right video quality.

Beamr Issues Q1-2024 CEO Letter to Shareholders: Cloud service and AI workflows

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Friday, April 12, 2024

On February 20 2024, we launched the Beamr Cloud SaaS solution, which enables everyone to perform high-quality, high-scale video processing at attractive pricing.

Key Points: 
  • On February 20 2024, we launched the Beamr Cloud SaaS solution, which enables everyone to perform high-quality, high-scale video processing at attractive pricing.
  • We plan to expand Beamr Cloud across the emerging markets in the video world: User-Generated Content, Generative AI, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Streaming (OTT).
  • In March 2024, we presented accelerated video AI workflows and our plans to integrate AI workflows into Beamr Cloud.
  • During Q2 2024, we plan to focus on enabling vision AI processes in Beamr Cloud.

Beamr to enable real-time video streaming over 5G with NVIDIA Holoscan for Media

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Beamr’s proven ability to significantly reduce video file size without compromising quality, now demonstrated in real-time video streaming, may provide a solution to this challenge.

Key Points: 
  • Beamr’s proven ability to significantly reduce video file size without compromising quality, now demonstrated in real-time video streaming, may provide a solution to this challenge.
  • The optimized real-time streaming, using Beamr’s optimization technology, is planned to be demonstrated using NVIDIA Holoscan for Media - a software-defined platform for building and deploying applications for live media.
  • Beamr CABR applied in Holoscan for Media fully supports AV1, combining latest codec efficiency from AOM and Beamr quality optimization for minimal bandwidth with optimal streaming quality.
  • Beamr is inviting all NAB Show attendees interested in Beamr tech’s real-time video streaming capabilities to schedule a meeting.

Beamr Boost for Machine Learning: Accelerating Neural Networks Training

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

But the players in this expanding arena face critical pain points, like storage and bandwidth bottlenecks or the difficulty to reach acceptable training and inferencing speeds.

Key Points: 
  • But the players in this expanding arena face critical pain points, like storage and bandwidth bottlenecks or the difficulty to reach acceptable training and inferencing speeds.
  • The video files used for machine learning training were optimized by Beamr Cloud, reducing file sizes by 24%-67%.
  • The current case study covers the more challenging task of training a neural network for action recognition in video.
  • In coming months, the Beamr R&D team plans to expand the initial experiment described above to large scale testing, including neural networks that operate in the cloud using GPUs.

Beamr presents accelerated video AI workflows at NVIDIA GTC

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

At GTC, Beamr will highlight its plans for integrating AI workflows into Beamr Cloud - Beamr’s recently launched video software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution powered by NVIDIA technology - allowing easy and wide access to advanced video processing.

Key Points: 
  • At GTC, Beamr will highlight its plans for integrating AI workflows into Beamr Cloud - Beamr’s recently launched video software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution powered by NVIDIA technology - allowing easy and wide access to advanced video processing.
  • AI startups or even seasoned AI firms face challenges training massive video AI models.
  • Beamr plans to focus its research and development efforts on providing AI and generative AI players access to video AI workflows, tailored to their needs, through Beamr Cloud.
  • Beamr’s video optimization tech - integrated with NVIDIA’s 8th-generation GPU encoder (NVENC) , available on NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core and NVIDIA RTX GPUs, and NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core , L40 and L40S GPUs - aims to accelerate video AI workflows and enhance video pre-training, training and inference capabilities in AI pipelines.

Beamr Issues Annual CEO Letter to Shareholders: Highlighting Beamr Cloud Launch, 2023 Financial Results and Achievements and Q2 2024 Upcoming Milestones

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Monday, March 4, 2024

As we look toward a promising and exciting year ahead, I am proud to reflect on Beamr’s achievements throughout 2023, including our financial results for 2023, our recent achievements so far in Q1 2024, and look forward to our plans for Q2 2024.

Key Points: 
  • As we look toward a promising and exciting year ahead, I am proud to reflect on Beamr’s achievements throughout 2023, including our financial results for 2023, our recent achievements so far in Q1 2024, and look forward to our plans for Q2 2024.
  • 2023 was the year we built the Beamr Cloud service, and 2024 is the year we plan to invest in expansion of our business.
  • Our new video cloud service, launched in February 2024, offers more capabilities than we initially expected.
  • During Q2 2024, Beamr plans to emphasize enabling vision AI processes in Beamr Cloud.

Beamr Cloud Launch: Ushering in a New Era of Video Processing for Everyone

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Now, in 2024, we are thrilled to unveil the culmination of our efforts - Beamr Cloud”.

Key Points: 
  • Now, in 2024, we are thrilled to unveil the culmination of our efforts - Beamr Cloud”.
  • Today, Beamr showcases its Beamr Cloud on Amazon AWS, with plans to extend its services to other cloud platforms.
  • Beamr Cloud is not just a service; we believe it's a game-changer, offering unparalleled quality, efficiency, and scalability to all.
  • Join us at beamr.com as we usher in a new era of video processing excellence”.

Beamr Imaging Ltd. Announces Closing of Public Offering and Full Exercise of Underwriter’s Option to Purchase Additional Shares

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Herzliya, Israel, Feb. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Beamr Imaging Ltd. (Nasdaq: BMR) (“Beamr” or the “Company”), a leader in video optimization technology, today announced the closing of its previously announced public offering of 1,971,300 ordinary shares, including 257,100 shares sold upon full exercise of the underwriter's option to purchase additional shares, at a public offering price of $7.00 per share.

Key Points: 
  • Herzliya, Israel, Feb. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Beamr Imaging Ltd. (Nasdaq: BMR) (“Beamr” or the “Company”), a leader in video optimization technology, today announced the closing of its previously announced public offering of 1,971,300 ordinary shares, including 257,100 shares sold upon full exercise of the underwriter's option to purchase additional shares, at a public offering price of $7.00 per share.
  • Total gross proceeds from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and other offering expenses, were approximately $13.8 million.
  • 333-272257) relating to the shares was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and became effective on February 12, 2024.
  • Copies of the final prospectus may be obtained from ThinkEquity, 17 State Street, 41st Floor, New York, New York 10004.

Beamr Imaging Ltd. Announces Pricing of $12 Million Public Offering

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Herzliya, Israel, Feb. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Beamr Imaging Ltd. (Nasdaq: BMR) (“Beamr” or the “Company”), a leader in video optimization technology, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 1,714,200 ordinary shares.

Key Points: 
  • Herzliya, Israel, Feb. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Beamr Imaging Ltd. (Nasdaq: BMR) (“Beamr” or the “Company”), a leader in video optimization technology, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 1,714,200 ordinary shares.
  • Each ordinary share is being sold at a public offering price of $7.00 per share for gross proceeds of approximately $12 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses.
  • In addition, Beamr has granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 257,100 ordinary shares to cover over-allotments at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount.
  • The offering is expected to close on February 15, 2024, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

Beamr and NVIDIA team up to accelerate adoption of the newest video standard - AV1

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Monday, February 12, 2024

Backed by tech giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an efficient emerging video format.

Key Points: 
  • Backed by tech giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an efficient emerging video format.
  • Today Beamr and NVIDIA are going to jointly present for the first time a proposed solution to this challenge, at the ACM Mile-High-Video 2024 conference.
  • The research presented today will highlight the Beamr-NVIDIA collaboration in facilitating the transition to AV1 adoption at scale.
  • Beamr and NVIDIA will describe an automated process to transfer video libraries and repositories into the emerging format.