San Francisco-based Rasa, a startup working to streamline enterprise customer service with generative AI, has raised $30 million in a series C round of funding, co-led by StepStone Group and PayPal Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Accel and Basis Set Ventures also participated in the funding round.
Rasa has seen steady growth with its technology over the last few years and roped in some known…
True Source unveils AI LLM service based on The Wheel of Time
February 16, 2024
In a groundbreaking collaboration, iWot productions and AI software firm D1srupt1ve are creating True Source, a venture aimed at launching an AI-based large language model (LLM) based on Robert Jordan’s renowned The Wheel of Time series.
The AI service, branded as the One…
Looking for more intelligence from meetings? Otter.ai is taking a shot with ‘Meeting GenAI’
February 15, 2024
Otter.ai is expanding its namesake platform today with a series of new features the vendor has dubbed “Meeting GenAI,” designed to boost meeting intelligence.
The San Francisco-based startup provides online artificial intelligence (AI) powered voice transcription…
WellSaid Labs, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) voice company, unveiled a new technology today that allows users to direct the performance of AI voices in a more natural, nuanced way. The technology, called HINTS (Highly Intuitive Naturally Tailored Speech), enables content creators to shape AI voices by adding contextual annotations, like tempo or loudness adjustments, just like a movie…
The second full year of the generative AI era began in November 2023, but surveys show most enterprises are still just getting a handle on how they want to deploy the technology — and which models and applications to use.
For those who are still in that exploratory phase…
Bret Taylor, the former co-CEO of Salesforce and the current chairman of OpenAI’s board, just made his play in the rapidly growing conversational AI space with the launch of Sierra, an AI agent startup for businesses.
Founded with Google’s former head of VR Clay Bavor…
How AI is strengthening XDR to consolidate tech stacks
February 14, 2024
Deciphering weak telemetry signals by using AI to analyze behaviors and detect threats in real time is the future of extended detection and response (XDR).
VentureBeat continues to see CISOs and their security teams migrate from Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to XDR for greater consolidation savings and a more unified view of all attack surfaces and potential threats.
XDR is riding a…
AppLovin today released its second yearly report on Performance-Driven Ad Trends, in which it illuminates some of the most successful ad strategies and trends in 2023. According to the report, generative AI shows promise as a creative tool, while effective ad trends include…
Year of the dragon: We have entered the AI age
February 12, 2024
If you were hoping that the world would get over AI fever in 2024, you are going to be sadly mistaken. Advancements in hardware and software (everywhere) are opening up the floodgates to dynamic applications of generative AI that suggest that 2023 was the year where we…
Accenture has more than 743,000 people serving up consulting expertise on technology to clients in more than 120 countries. I met with one of them at CES 2024, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, and had a conversation about semiconductor chips, the foundation of our tech economy.
Syed Alam, Accenture‘s semiconductor lead, was one of many people at the show talking about the impact of AI on a…
