AI & Robotics

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 services. It integrates with many common meeting providers including Zoom. In June 2023, the company first debuted its Otter AI chat…

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, Sierra aims to empower enterprises with their own AI agents. This will enable them to take their digital operations to a…

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 only really began to scratch the surface.   This year — the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac — will see a…

Brilliant Labs, the developer of AI glasses, has launched Frame, the world’s first glasses featuring an integrated multimodal AI assistant. This leap in wearable technology is coupled with significant support from AR pioneer and Niantic CEO, John Hanke, whose company made Pokémon Go. Brilliant Labs has raised $6 million to date. Those riches from Pokémon Go are coming back to help the AI…