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AI Funding Data, News, and Tools. Edition #18
$474M+ raised last week across 50 funding rounds.
“The countries with the highest robot density have among the lowest unemployment rates. Technology and humans combined in the right way will drive prosperity.”
Welcome to Episode 18 of the AI Track – your destination for the latest news, tools, and funding data in AI and ML. 🥳
Let's get into it. The latest AI tools are right below the news 👇
Replit Developer Day Recap
Stability AI Pitch Controversy
Breezeway Automates with ChatGPT
Microsoft Chatbot's Online Personality
Nvidia's Text-generating AI Toolkit
Nvidia Guardrails for AI Chatbots
Avidbots' Industrial Floor Scrubber
Klarna's AI Shopping Assistant
Google's Cybersecurity AI System
Opera One Browser Launch
AI for Podcast Search, Measurement
Snapchat My AI Faces Criticism
Apigee's AI API Protection
Real-time CDS Platform Launch
ChatGPT's Russian Rival: GigaChat
Galaxy Enhance-X AI Editor
Tracking Desert Ants with CATER
SAP's ChatGPT-Powered Use Cases
Stability AI's Free ChatGPT Alternative
ChatGPT Privacy Enhancements
11-Year-Old's Eye Disease AI App
Spotify's AI DJ Voice Model
Ondato KYB Protection in Poland
WAE's Elysia BMS Launch
Google's New Web Crawler
ChatGPT vs. Accounting Students
Hexaverse's Metaverse Learning Platform
Square Enix's AI Mystery Game
Elon Musk's X.AI Start-up
Google Bard Helps Code Generation
Northeastern's AI-Driven 5G Network
Epic's AI Tool Moves Research VP
Worker or Sheikh AI Game
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Gen-1 now supports 15 second generations.
Try it now at runwayml.com
— Runway (@runwayml)
1:00 PM • Apr 27, 2023
TikTok has a NEW generative AI avatar creator! 🤖🎨📷
View thread to see what it can do 👇
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
11:57 PM • Apr 25, 2023
Finished my generative AI experiment for game asset creation 👀🤓
◆ Generate variants of any 3D model (2 in demo)
◆ Every generation can be a used for further mutations
◆ Stable Diffusion for textures/materialsRead more rainer.im/blog/creating-…
Try: mutables.vercel.app
— Rainer Selvet 👨💻 (@rainerselvet)
8:21 PM • Apr 23, 2023
We integrated ChatGPT with our robots.
We had a ton of fun building this!
Read on for the details:
— Santiago (@svpino)
12:01 PM • Apr 25, 2023
$474M+ was raised last week across 50 funding rounds.
Dipsy - Pre-Seed | DTx, healthtech, Natural Language Processing.
Heirloom Cloud Corporation - Seed | Celebrates all memories using connective artificial intelligence.
Verteego - Seed ($2.76M) | Provides customizable AI solutions to retail and CPGs to optimize prices, promotions, inventory, assortment, and resources.
Amorai - Pre-Seed | Offers an AI relationship coaching app targeting young adults.
Sinecure.ai - Seed ($2.5M) | Enterprise SaaS platform reinventing talent acquisition and retention through artificial intelligence.
IRIS Audio Technologies - Series A ($7M) | IRIS Listen Well is bringing back living sound and enabling the world to Listen Well.
aiXplain - Seed ($8M) | No-code low-code AI IDE and a marketplace for small and medium enterprises offering Large Language Models, GPT, Multimodal AI.
MedHub-AI - Series A ($1M) | Develops deep-learning video analysis algorithms that provide physicians with accurate diagnostic insights and practical guidance.
The Attention Exchange - Seed | Advertising platform helps advertisers connect with consumers using real-time banking data.
Hydrosat - Series A ($15M) | Provides geospatial intelligence for food security, critical infrastructure, and the environment.
Kluster - Series A ($5M) | Offers data-driven sales analytics and forecasting solutions, helping B2B SaaS companies optimize their sales process.
Hakimo - Series A ($6M) | AI platform designed to bring cybersecurity-like tools to the physical security industry.
Hydrosat - Grant ($5M) | Provides geospatial intelligence for food security, critical infrastructure, and the environment.
West Lake Intelligent Vision - Angel | Artificial intelligence and computational imaging fusion technology developer.
Euler Digital - Convertible Note ($250K) | HQ Company. Brands include AI Forum (Research, News, Services), AI GEN (Genz & A Community), and Watermark (Content Augmentation Technology).
Crono - Pre-Seed ($5) | Develops and creates an online tool that manages processes and improves the productivity of sales teams.
AI WORLD - Seed ($3M) | Focusing on global artificial intelligence technology innovation and blockchain application projects.
DEEPerceptron - Series A | Provides an industrial machine vision solution based on 3D structured light.
Dspace - Seed ($1M) | LBS social graph protocol platform that provides social graph protocol services based on real geographic.
Silicon True Intelligence - Angel | AI digital human technology developer.
Circle Security - Seed | Ground-breaking security API unites identity and data security solutions into a single architecture empowering organizations.
MrCall - Debt Financing ($109.6K) | Digitalizes and integrates the phone channel with internal and external digital services.
Consensus - Seed ($3M) | Search engine that uses AI to find answers in scientific research.
Hyperspec-ai - Seed | Expands navigable roadways for autonomous vehicles from 3% to 95% today by equipping each car with onboard vision hardware.
Weaviate - Series B ($50M) | Builds, maintains, and commercializes the open-source vector database Weaviate.
FiVerity - Seed ($4M) | Intelligent Solutions for Cyber Fraud Detection in Financial Institutions.
Vivid Machines - Seed ($3.19M) | revolutionizes agricultural production to help fruit and vegetable farmers produce more food.
Cognecto - Seed ($486.9K) | AI Solutions company with a laser focus on providing analytics solutions to fleet of construction equipment.
CulturePulse - Seed ($1M) | Assists firms in communicating with potential customers in a tone that is less likely to elicit a negative reaction.
Robust.AI - Series A ($20M) | Manufactures robots for warehouses.
Oso - Series A ($10.97M) | Business that focuses on ambient intelligence for carers and persons in vulnerable situations.
Certn - Series B ($30M) | Provides AI background screening solutions for recruiters and businesses.
Lablup - Series A ($7.93M) | Provides the Enterprise cluster operating software from Building AI to Service. NVIDIA DGX-ready software partner.
Qdrant - Seed ($7.5M) | Open-source vector search engine focused on similarity search.
Productive Machines - Seed ($2.2M) | Develops AI-powered industrial equipment for smart manufacturing.
CarbonChain - Series A ($10M) | Provides carbon accounting and risk management software for companies in high-emission sectors.
OX - Series A ($12.6M) | Builds electric bikes and electric scooters with swappable battery technology.
Cosmic Lounge - Seed ($4M) | Mobile games development studio founded by industry veterans.
Bobsled - Series A ($17M) | Cross-cloud data-sharing platform simplifying data transfer between cloud services.
Preact Technologies - Series B ($20M) | Develops predictive analytics software to optimize user acquisition and retention for mobile apps.
Replit - Funding ($97.4M) | Valuation ($1.16B) | Offers an online coding platform and collaborative development environment.
Amboss Technologies - Seed ($4M) | Develops AI-driven medical diagnostic software for healthcare professionals.
Aadya Security - Series A ($5M) | Cybersecurity startup focused on increasing headcount and accelerating growth.
Clara Fintech - Funding | Spend management solution for Latin America using a corporate card and expense management platform.
Airops - Seed ($7M) | Develops and deploys AI-based software solutions for the aerospace industry.
OpenLayer - Funding ($4.8M) | Offers creator tools for testing and verifying machine learning models.
Pinecone - Series B ($100M) | Develops generative AI-driven vector database technology.
AiXmed - SAFE ($2.75M) | Develops AI-powered medical devices and solutions for healthcare providers.
DeepHow - Series A ($14M) | Creates AI-driven training solutions for skilled trades using video analysis.
Harvey - Funding ($21M) | Legal AI-focused firm providing advanced analytics solutions for the legal industry.
Lasso MD - Funding ($2M) | Develops a digital health platform connecting patients with medical professionals for personalized care.
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