Slang.ai, an AI-powered phone answering product for the restaurant industry founded by two former Spotify data scientists, has successfully closed a $20 million Series A funding round led by Hunter Walk’s and Satya Patel’s venture capital outfit Homebrew, with additional backing from other VCs and celebrity restauranteur Tom Colicchio of Top Chef fame. The funding will support Slang.ai’s…

Customer engagement software company Braze, a publicly traded firm that specializes in offering marketing tools for mobile apps, today announced its new generative AI solution: Sage AI by Braze, which it says enhances automation, personalization, and predictive capabilities for its customers. Braze already has a strong track record with some of the largest and most recognizable brands across…

Snowflake is making another generative AI push. Today at its annual conference, the data cloud company announced Document AI, a new large language model (LLM)-based interface that allows enterprises to quickly extract value from their barrage of documents. The move marks a major development for the data giant — which started off with a focus on structured data — and provides an easy way to…