AI & RoboticsNews

Hugging Face raises $15 million to build open source community for cutting-edge conversational AI

December 17, 2019
Hugging Face has announced the close of a $15 million series A funding round led by Lux Capital, with participation from Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher and OpenAI CTO Greg Brockman, as well as Betaworks and A.Capital. New-York based Hugging Face started as a chatbot company, but then began to use Transformers, an approach to conversational AI that’s become a foundation for…
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GamingNews

Electronic Arts has earned the Star Wars license

December 17, 2019
It has taken more than six years, but Electronic Arts has finally proven itself worthy of the Star Wars video game license. The company only shipped three games since making the deal in May 2013. But after a humbling experience with Battlefront II, it has spent years turning that game around with tons of new content from the entire saga. And then it released one of the best of the year in Star…
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MobileNews

OxygenOS 10.0.5 rolling out for OnePlus 7T Pro w/ photo quality, RAM improvements

December 17, 2019
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AI & RoboticsNews

Voximplant raises $10 million to automate call campaigns with AI

December 17, 2019
Can the cloud-based unified communications market, which is anticipated to reach $167.1 billion by 2025, be materially transformed by AI? Alexey Aylarov, Andrey Kovalenko, and Sergey Poroshin firmly believe so. They’re the founders of Voximplant, a startup developing products that imbue web and mobile apps with voice, text, and video chat. Voximplant provides the required infrastructure and…
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