Bret Kinsella
Founder, Editor, CEO and Research Director at Voicebot.ai
Conversational and Generative AI, Synthetic Media, Bots, Researcher, Branding & Marketing, Husband, Dad, fmr ultra runner @voicebotai https://t.co/UzL5mUGHOa
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Jun 18, 2024 |
voicebot.ai | Bret Kinsella
on June 18, 2024 at 12:07 pm McDonald’s made the bold move to acquire a voice technology startup with the promise of automating order-taking at its quick service restaurant (QSR) drive-thrus. Apprente was founded in 2017 and surprised the market when it sold to McDonald’s in 2019. Those events were followed by voice technology being incorporated into McD Labs, followed by the sale of the technology to IBM two years later.
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Apr 15, 2024 |
synthedia.substack.com | Bret Kinsella
Corporate buyers are increasing generative AI budgets, mostly selecting OpenAI and Google models, and expect to use more open-source solutions because they want control over their technology stack. These are some of the results of Andreessen Horowitz's (a16z) recently conducted interviews with 70 corporate generative AI buyers about their generative AI plans.
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Apr 13, 2024 |
synthedia.substack.com | Bret Kinsella
X.ai announced a new multimodal large language model (LLM) yesterday, Grok-1.5V. The “V” stands for vision. Grok-1.5V can interpret both text and images. The new model arrived the same week OpenAI’s GPT-4-turbo-vision model was released for general availability. Grok-1.5V, our first-generation multimodal model. In addition to its strong text capabilities, Grok can now process a wide variety of visual information, including documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photographs.
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Apr 6, 2024 |
synthedia.substack.com | Bret Kinsella
An SEC filing in December 2023 indicated X.ai had raised $135 million of a planned funding round of up to $1 billion. There was no reported valuation for that initial funding round. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that early investors in SpaceX and Tesla are considering investment in a new $3 billion funding round that values the company at around $18 billion.
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Feb 28, 2024 |
voicebot.ai | Bret Kinsella
on February 26, 2024 at 12:25 pm Abridge announced a new $150 million funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The new funding arrived just three months after the company closed its $30 million Series B led by Spark Capital. It is unusual for a company to have such large funding rounds over such a short period of time.
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