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AI Funding Data, News, and Tools. Edition #13
$401M+ raised last week across 23 funding rounds.
βWe have seen AI providing conversation and comfort to the lonely; we have also seen AI engaging in racial discrimination. Yet the biggest harm that AI is likely to do to individuals in the short term is job displacement, as the amount of work we can automate with AI is vastly larger than before. As leaders, it is incumbent on all of us to make sure we are building a world in which every individual has an opportunity to thrive.β
Welcome to Episode 13 of the AI Track β your destination for the latest news, tools, and funding data in AI and ML. π₯³
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discusses AI's impact and new cloud service
Canva introduces AI-powered video editing tools
Roblox launches generative AI game creation tools
Snap unveils Shopping Suite with AR and AI-powered shopping
Unity Software plans to launch AI marketplace for content creation
Stability AI releases Clipdrop tool for content generation
Adobe presents AI image generator Firefly, ensures protection of artists' work
CallTrackingMetrics introduces AskAI with ChatGPT
Mozilla.ai receives $30M funding for 'trustworthy AI' focus
Coca-Cola invites creators to use AI-based platform for artwork
Microsoft integrates AI-powered secondary image creator tool in Bing search
Opera adds AI-powered features to desktop browsers
GitHub unveils AI-powered software development tool Copilot X
Canva announces new suite of AI-powered tools
OpenAI introduces plugin feature for ChatGPT
Nvidia and Medtronic partner for AI platform in medical devices
Beamable launches live services marketplace for gaming backend software
Nvidia releases next-generation GPUs, DPUs, and AI accelerators
Runway launches AI-based text-to-video tool Gen 2
Acer reveals high-tech electric bike with built-in AI
Google launches Bard AI chatbot to compete with ChatGPT
Fintech Klarna introduces conscious badges enabled by Clarity AI
Scenario partnered with Sandbox.
Luma announced Luma AR.
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Last night I used GPT-4 to write code for 5 micro services for a new product.
A (very good) dev quoted Β£5k and 2 weeks.
GPT-4 delivered the same in 3 hours, for $0.11
Genuinely mind boggling
β Joe Perkins (@joeprkns)
9:19 AM β’ Mar 15, 2023
I wrote a new book with @OpenAIβs latest, most powerful large language model.
Itβs called Impromptu: Amplifying our Humanity through AI.
This, as far as I know, is the first book written with GPT-4.
Hereβs how it all beganβ¦
impromptubook.com/wp-content/uplβ¦
β Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman)
2:07 PM β’ Mar 15, 2023
Generate videos with nothing but words. If you can say it, now you can see it.
Introducing, Text to Video. With Gen-2.
Learn more at research.runwayml.com/gen2
β Runway (@runwayml)
12:57 PM β’ Mar 20, 2023
Introducing: @sequoia's latest market map!
AI is rewriting what software can do. AI is also rewriting how software is made.
Maybe Copilot is just the start. What else can AI do for developers? What about devops engineers?
β Charlie Curnin (@charliecurnin)
4:35 PM β’ Mar 23, 2023
1. ModelScope - The new kid on the block that appears to be the first publicly available TRUE Text-To-Video tool.
Prompt: "A Monkey on Rollerskates"
πhuggingface.co/spaces/damo-viβ¦
β Matt Wolfe (@mreflow)
11:20 PM β’ Mar 20, 2023
β¨Introducing the Milo plugin for ChatGPT.
openai.com/blog/chatgpt-pβ¦Our mission is to help parents make their minutes meaningful.
To tackle the invisible load, so we can all spend our precious minutes on what matters most, not on soccer emails, school reminders, endless to dos.
β Avni (@APatelThompson)
6:44 PM β’ Mar 23, 2023
β¨ Announcing Luma AR! Starting today, you can teleport back into your memories like you were there again. Reshoot to create natural camera moves π₯ in captured worlds, again and again, all from your iPhone!
Capture. NeRF. AR. Just like that! lumalabs.ai/ios
#ar#nerfβ¦ twitter.com/i/web/status/1β¦
β Luma AI (@LumaLabsAI)
3:15 PM β’ Mar 21, 2023
$401M+ was raised last week across 23 funding rounds.
π MedHub-AI - Series A ($700,000) | develops deep-learning video analysis algorithms that provide accurate diagnostic insights and practical guidance for physicians.
π Databloom AI - Pre-Seed ($50,000) | The most open and efficient data mesh for your data landscape.
π Astrus - Pre-Seed | AI to automate microchip design.
π PeAr Technologies - Seed (βΉ42M) | PeAr Technologies is a deep-tech and artificial intelligence-focused startup.
π Seldon - Series B ($20M) | Seldon is a machine learning deployment platform.
π Nimble Robotics - Series B ($65,000,000) | Nimble Robotics reimagines fulfillment with intelligent robots that can pick and pack anything.
π Yiwei Technology - Series B | One-dimensional technology provides highly integrated electric control assembly solutions for electric vehicles.
π Bang Jamin - Seed | Bang Jamin offers all-encompassing services and an AI-powered insurance buying and claims process.
π Secuvy Inc - Seed | Privacy, Security & Data Governance Simplified.
π Weixiang Space-time - Seed | Weixiang Spacetime is committed to applying the spatial computing intelligence platform technology.
π ONVY HealthTech - Angel | AI-based personal health management platform merging breakthrough science with collective intelligence.
π Klue - Grant ($2M) | Klue is an AI competitive intelligence platform enabling competitor research and sales battle cards delivery to B2B Sales teams.
π Saturn Cloud - Convertible Note ($3M) | AI development platform to build general-purpose AI, generative AI such as large language models, and enterprise-specific use cases.
π Bamboo Energy - Pre-Seed | Bamboo Energy develops a platform for retailers and aggregators to manage and trade distributed flexibility resources easily.
π ENKITEK - Pre-Seed | ENKITEK utilizes robotics, AI, and IoT to automate and monitor the production in indoor farming.
π Filmustage - Seed ($550,000) | Automatic movie script breakdown and scheduling service.
π Luma AI - Series A ($20M) | enables everyone to capture and experience the world in 3D.
π Numbers Station - Series A ($12.5M) | Numbers station is a software development platform that enables artificial intelligence workflows.
π Tavus - Seed ($6,100,000) | Record One Video, We'll Handle The Next Thousand.
π Mercator AI - Seed ($3,750,000) | Mercator AI is a real-time construction intelligence. Find and qualify new opportunities faster.
π OcureX Bio Technologies - Pre-Seed | A biotech and bioinformatics company pioneering research to help cure hair loss from chemotherapy, pattern baldness, and alopecia.
π Lambda - Series B ($44,000,000) | Lambda designs servers, workstations, and laptops for deep learning.
π Aspecta - Seed ($3,500,000) | Aspecta transforms Web2 & Web3 footprints into AI-generated identity for builders and beyond.
π Loadzpro - Pre-Seed ($120,000) | Loadzpro is an On Demand Trucking App connecting shippers of heavy items to reviewed Transportation Providers Domestically & Internationally.
π Flymingo - Seed | Eliminating mistakes across supply chain.
π Togal.AI - Seed ($5,000,000) | Togal.AI is the fastest estimating takeoff software powered by deep machine learning.
π Pilot AI - Seed ($2,200,000) | Pilot AI operates as a tool that automatically turns call recording.
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