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Hume EVI 2: Emotionally Inflected Voice AI vs GPT-4o Voice

September 20, 2024
When we last reported on Hume, the AI startup co-founded and led by former Google DeepMinder/computational scientist Alan Cowen, it was the spring of 2024 and the firm had just raised $50 million in a Series B private equity funding round for its unique approach to developing a voice AI assistant. EVI 2 also supports features like voice modulation, allowing developers to fine-tune a voice along…
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How to prompt on OpenAI’s new o1 models

September 16, 2024
OpenAI’s latest model family, o1, promises to be more powerful and better at reasoning than previous models.  Using GPT-o1 will be slightly different than prompting GPT-4 or even GPT-4o. Since this model has more reasoning capabilities, some regular prompt engineering methods won’t work as well. Earlier models needed more guidance, and people took advantage of longer context windows to…
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What does it cost to build a conversational AI?

September 16, 2024
More than 40% of marketing, sales and customer service organizations have adopted generative AI — making it second only to IT and cybersecurity. Of all gen AI technologies, conversational AI will spread rapidly within these sectors, because of its ability to bridge current…
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Landbase unveils AI platform to transform go-to-market strategies, secures $12.5M in funding

September 13, 2024
Landbase, a startup aiming to transform sales and marketing automation, emerged from stealth mode today with a $12.5 million seed funding round. The company introduced what it calls the world’s first “agentic AI” platform for go-to-market strategies, potentially reshaping how businesses approach customer acquisition and revenue growth. Founded by AppDirect co-founder Daniel Saks, Landbase…
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Adobe previews Firefly Video AI model offering high-quality generations

September 12, 2024
Adobe has announced a new addition to its suite of creative tools: the Adobe Firefly Video Model, its own foray into the increasingly competitive AI video generation space, built atop its existing and ever-expanding family of Firefly generative AI still image models, which the company claims as ethically trained and commercially safe thanks to using only data it owns or has the license to…
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