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Evinced’s $55M C round will help bring its accessibility dev tools (and AI) to Europe

Making sure your software is accessible is fast becoming a must rather than a nice-to-have, and Evinced is one of a wave of startups helping make that happen. The company is about to expand to Europe, where new accessibility regulations are about to take effect, and has raised $55 million to fuel the expansion. Evinced… Continua a leggere Evinced’s $55M C round will help bring its accessibility dev tools (and AI) to Europe

The founders of SlideShare are making sharing docs more social with their new platform, Jaunt

When SlideShare, the presentation-sharing service acquired by Scribd, launched in 2006, generative AI technology was significantly less advanced than it is today, and social networking platforms were just beginning to take off. Recognizing the evolution of AI and the increasing desire for innovative ways to share documents, the founders of SlideShare — Amit Ranjan (COO),… Continua a leggere The founders of SlideShare are making sharing docs more social with their new platform, Jaunt

Twelve Labs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos

AI models that understand videos as well as text can unlock powerful new applications. At least, that’s what Jae Lee, the co-founder of Twelve Labs, believes. Granted, Lee’s a little biased. Twelve Labs trains video-analyzing models for a range of use cases. But there may just be something to his assertion. Using Twelve Labs’ models,… Continua a leggere Twelve Labs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos

Twelve Labs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos

AI models that understand videos as well as text can unlock powerful new applications. At least, that’s what Jae Lee, the co-founder of Twelve Labs, believes. Granted, Lee’s a little biased. Twelve Labs trains video-analyzing models for a range of use cases. But there may just be something to his assertion. Using Twelve Labs’ models,… Continua a leggere Twelve Labs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos

It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem

OpenAI has never revealed exactly which data it used to train Sora, its video-generating AI. But from the looks of it, at least some of the data might’ve come from Twitch streams and walkthroughs of games. Sora launched on Monday, and I’ve been playing around with it for a bit (to the extent the capacity… Continua a leggere It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem

Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by today’s enterprises. “It’s very hard to find good site reliability engineers. There’s… Continua a leggere Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by today’s enterprises. “It’s very hard to find good site reliability engineers. There’s… Continua a leggere Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

Watch Google DeepMind’s Genie 2 generate playable 3D worlds

Last week, Google DeepMind announced Genie 2, a new video model that generates plausible, consistent, playable 3D environments based on a prompt image. DeepMind claims that Genie 2 has a slew of new and exciting emerging capabilities that improve the lighting, reflections, and can even generate videos from real-world images. Within these generated worlds, the… Continua a leggere Watch Google DeepMind’s Genie 2 generate playable 3D worlds

This Week in AI: Seeking balance in the deluge of news

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Longtime readers of the newsletter might’ve noticed that we skipped a week last week. That wasn’t our intent, and we do apologize. The reason was we’ve reached an inflection point in the AI news cycle. We’re… Continua a leggere This Week in AI: Seeking balance in the deluge of news

Founder who built Snap’s AI launches a snappy new take on video chatbots

A deep learning scientist whose last startup was acquired by Snap to build its My AI chatbot has raised seed funding for his latest venture: a platform for building and operating real-time, video-based conversational AI agents.  eSelf, as the startup is known, is today coming out of stealth with $4.5 million in its coffers to… Continua a leggere Founder who built Snap’s AI launches a snappy new take on video chatbots