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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing
Sesamm, a French startup that helps financial firms and corporates adhere to their ESG goals by using natural language processing (NLP) to generate insights from digital content, has raised €35…
When Microsoft released Bing Chat, an AI-powered chatbot co-developed with OpenAI, it didn’t take long before users found creative ways to break it. Using carefully tailored inputs, users were able…
German startup Kern AI nabs seed funding for modular NLP development platform
Natural language processing (NLP), while hardly a new discipline, has catapulted into the public consciousness these past few months thanks in large part to the generative AI hype train that…
SoundHound, the voice AI company, raises $25M after laying off 40% of staff earlier this month
AI may be getting hyped as the next billion dollar (or much bigger) opportunity these days after that mega-round for OpenAI from Microsoft, but that rising tide is not lifting…
ChatGPT, the AI that can write poems, emails, spreadsheet formulas and more, has attracted a lot of negative publicity lately. Q&A coding site Stack Overflow temporarily banned users from sharing…
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Petals is creating a free, distributed network for running text-generating AI
BigScience, a community project backed by startup Hugging Face with the goal of making text-generating AI widely available, is developing a system called Petals that can run AI like ChatGPT by joining resources from people across the internet. With Petals, the code for which was released publicly last month, volunteers…
While anticipation builds for GPT-4, OpenAI quietly releases GPT-3.5
Released two years ago, OpenAI’s remarkably capable, if flawed, GPT-3 was perhaps the first to demonstrate that AI can write convincingly — if not perfectly — like a human. The…
Y Combinator-backed Andi taps AI to build a better search engine
It’s difficult to convince users to switch search engines. That’s one reason why public search service startups rarely succeed. Another is that it’s expensive to index a huge number of…
Tarci secures capital for AI designed to spot SMB sales leads
While small- and medium-sized (SMBs) businesses are the bulwark of the economy, driving up to 44% of activity in the U.S. alone, it can be hard for sales teams to…
Google’s new app lets you test experimental AI systems like LaMDA
Google today launched AI Test Kitchen, an Android app that allows users to try out experimental AI-powered systems from the company’s labs before they make their way into production. Beginning…
Aisera, a startup developing what it describes as an “AI-driven” support ticketing system, today announced that it raised $90 million in Series D funding led by Goldman Sachs with participation…
Flush with new cash, AssemblyAI looks to grow its AI-as-a-service business
Large-scale machine learning models are at the heart of headline-grabbing technologies like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and Google’s LaMDA. They’re impressive, to be sure, capable of generating images and text convincing…
PayTalk promises to handle all sorts of payments with voice, but the app has a long way to go
Neji Tawo, the founder of boutique software development company Wiscount Corporation, says he was inspired by his dad to become an engineer. When Tawo was a kid, his dad tasked…
Neuron7 raises $10M to help customer service agents find solutions
In the customer service arena in particular, enterprises are facing a historic labor shortage. Owing to burnout, flexibility and customer satisfaction challenges, agents are quitting at a faster rate than…
Proving that contact center tech remains desirable, Invoca raises $83M
Invoca, a platform that uses AI to analyze calls for marketing, sales and customer agent training purposes, today closed an $83 million funding round that values the company at $1.1…
Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code
Mintlify, a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 million in a seed round led by by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from…
Whether to power translation to document summarization, enterprises are increasing their investments in natural language processing (NLP) technologies. According to a 2021 survey from John Snow Labs and Gradient Flow,…
When big AI labs refuse to open source their models, the community steps in
Benchmarks are as important a measure of progress in AI as they are for the rest of the software industry. But when the benchmark results come from corporations, secrecy very…
Ava sets the example for universal live captioning and raises $10M to keep building
When we last checked in with AI-powered captioning service Ava, they had just raised a seed round and it was six months into a pandemic that would reshape how we…
Accern lands $20M for AI that analyzes financial documents on the web
Accern, which uses AI to analyze online conversations around particular companies, trends and industries, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B round co-led by Mighty Capital…
Natural language processing (NLP), the field of AI that involves parsing text for tasks including summarization and generation, is a fast-growing technology. According to a 2021 survey from John Snow…
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The emerging types of language models and why they matter
AI systems that understand and generate text, known as language models, are the hot new thing in the enterprise. A recent survey found that 60% of tech leaders said that their budgets for AI language technologies increased by at least 10% in 2020 while 33% reported a 30% increase. But…
In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv, an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform…
Today during its second Work Transformation Summit this week, Zoom announced Zoom IQ for Sales, a product that uses AI to analyze sales meetings and deals to provide insights. It’s…
New Salesforce AI chief eyes a future with voice-driven coding
As we start to see AI advance in business, the ways in which we interact with machines are beginning to change. Companies like Salesforce are looking for new opportunities for…
Agolo’s summary-powered search brings in government work and fresh funding
Search is hard, but even the decent tools developed by Google, Microsoft and others can’t seem to get it right when it comes to navigating the thousands of documents and…
AssemblyAI snags $28M for all-in-one API to transcribe, summarize and moderate audio
The explosion in audio and video content and interfaces over the last few years has been plain to see, but ways of dealing with all that media behind the scenes…
OpenAI’s impressive AI language model GPT-3 has plenty of things going it, but with 175 billion parameters no one would claim it’s particularly streamlined. The Allen Institute for AI (AI2)…
Google Cloud teams up with NLP startup Cohere on multiyear partnership around TPUs
Google Cloud announced a multiyear partnership with Cohere, an early-stage startup that is building a natural language processing platform to make it easier for developers to build natural language processing…
Cognigy raises $44M to scale its enterprise-focused conversational AI platform
Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly common part of how customer service works — a trend that was accelerated in this past year as so many other services went virtual…
