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Talent Select AI automatically screens job candidates’ for psychological & personality traits during interviews

June 23, 2023
If you’ve ever had to take what appears to be a personality assessment test when filling out a job application for a prospective employer, you’re not alone: “100 million workers worldwide take psychometric tests…designed to study personality and aptitude,” making for a $2 billion annual market, according to a recent article in The New York Times. Such tests are used by 80% of Fortune 500…
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AI video creation app Captions bags $25M from top VCs

June 23, 2023
Captions, an AI-powered video creation app for iOS that launched in 2021 and counted more than three million users to date, today announced a $25 million in Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with additional funding provided by Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and SV Angel. The company has now raised a total $40 million. It was founded by Gaurav Misra, former head of design…
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In the AI arms race, Metal aims for enterprise dominance with $2.5 million war chest

June 22, 2023
Metal, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup focused on enterprise applications, announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by Swift Ventures with participation from Y Combinator and Chapter One. The funding will be used to expand Metal’s platform for building AI-powered applications and to provide increased support for large enterprise customers. Taylor Lowe, CEO and…
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MosaicML challenges OpenAI with its new open-source language model

June 22, 2023
MosaicML, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup based in San Francisco, announced today the release of its groundbreaking language model, MPT-30B. The new model, trained at a fraction of the cost of its competitors, promises to revolutionize the field of artificial intelligence in enterprise applications. Naveen Rao, the CEO and cofounder of MosaicML, said in an interview with VentureBeat that…
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