Robot or fauxbot? This is my week of debriefs. CES has a way of hurling you into the new year, kicking and screaming, and it can be hard to find your bearings…
Category: Robotics & AI
VALL-E’s quickie voice deepfakes should worry you, if you weren’t worried already
VALL-E’s quickie voice deepfakes should worry you, if you weren’t worried already The emergence in the last week of a particularly effective voice synthesis machine learning model called VALL-E has prompted a…
FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market
FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. Because they’re relatively affordable…
HPE acquires Pachyderm as looks to bolster its AI dev offerings
HPE acquires Pachyderm as looks to bolster its AI dev offerings Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the company better known as HPE, today announced that it acquired Pachyderm, a startup developing a data science…
Pittsburgh’s AI expertise may give rise to an already growing startup market
Pittsburgh’s AI expertise may give rise to an already growing startup market Emerging markets tend to go in and out of vogue. First, Austin was the next biggest thing, then Atlanta and,…
Nvidia unveils new AI workflows to help the retail industry with loss prevention
Nvidia unveils new AI workflows to help the retail industry with loss prevention In a recent episode of “Customer Wars” a woman put a chainsaw down her pants in an effort to…
Veteran enterprise VC Peter Wagner on the opportunities for AI startups
Veteran enterprise VC Peter Wagner on the opportunities for AI startups Depending on whom you ask, artificial intelligence will either vastly improve our lives or take away our jobs. For veteran venture…
Seek lands $7.5M investment for AI that answers domain-specific questions
Seek lands $7.5M investment for AI that answers domain-specific questions Seek, an automation platform for data analytics tasks, today announced that it raised $7.5 million across pre-seed and seed rounds that had…
DeepL, the AI-based language translator, raises over $100M at a $1B+ valuation
DeepL, the AI-based language translator, raises over $100M at a $1B+ valuation Artificial intelligence startups, and (thanks to GPT and Open AI) specifically those helping humans communicate with each other, are commanding…
Inbenta, a provider of AI-powered chatbots and more, lands $40M
Inbenta, a provider of AI-powered chatbots and more, lands $40M In 2011, Jordi Torras, a former Oracle VP, had a realization: companies weren’t optimizing their search technologies as well as they could…