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Irreverent Labs, backed by Samsung Next, set to revolutionize video content creation with AI

August 25, 2023
A relatively small artificial intelligence (AI) startup based in Bellevue, Washington has secured a strategic investment from Samsung Next that signals big ambitions to transform how video content is produced worldwide. Irreverent Labs, founded in late 2021 by veteran tech entrepreneurs Rahul Sood and David Raskino, announced today that it has closed financing from Samsung Next, the South Korean…
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Modular looks to boost AI mojo with $100M funding raise

August 25, 2023
Make no mistake about it, there is a lot of excitement and money in early stage AI. A year and a half after being founded, and only four months after the first previews of its technology, AI startup Modular announced today that it has raised $100 million, bringing total…
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Korea’s Naver joins generative AI race with HyperCLOVA X large language model

August 25, 2023
Another big gun is entering the AI race. Korean internet giant Naver today announced the launch of HyperCLOVA X, its next-generation large language model (LLM) that delivers conversational AI experiences through a question-answering chatbot called CLOVA X. The company said it has opened beta testing for CLOVA X in English and Korean and will make HyperCLOVA X available to enterprise users…
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Twilio expands CustomerAI capabilities with generative and predictive AI

August 24, 2023
At its annual Signal conference today, Twilio is announcing a significant expansion of its customer artificial intelligence (AI) tools, dubbed CustomerAI. Twilio has been steadily building out its partnerships and technologies for AI over the course of 2023 in the lead-up to Signal. Earlier this month the company announced a partnership with OpenAI as a precursor to the larger set of CustomerAI…
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Meet SeamlessM4T, the Meta AI model that can translate 100 languages into speech or text

August 23, 2023
As part of its broader effort to remove language barriers and keep people connected, Meta has developed a multilingual foundational model that can understand nearly 100 languages from speech or text and generate translations into either or both in real time. Officially dubbed SeamlessM4T, the multimodal technology has been publicly released to help researchers build on the development and…
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