TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The market for corporate training, which Allied Market Research estimates is worth over $400 billion, has grown substantially in recent years as companies realize the cost savings in upskilling their workers. By creating what Agley calls “knowledge spaces” rather than linear training courses. ” Image Credits: Obrizum.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

These customers predominantly use the tool for training videos, it said, but also use Synthesia for monthly updates to the broader team or delivering information that would normally come via email. Interestingly, founder Victor Riparbelli said that user behavior didn’t necessarily match up to his earlier expectations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Access to rich interaction data combined with pre-trained ML models, automated workflows and configurable front-end components enables developers to drastically shorten development cycles. Through enhanced data protection and compliance, productivity infrastructure safeguards critical data and mitigates risk while reducing time to ROI.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

IT hiring has clearly come down from its peaks of 2021, where the pandemic pressured many organizations to expand their digital offerings and responded to that by over hiring tech talent, and in that fight to find talent, paying premium salaries during a period of low interest rates,” says Fiona Mark, principal analysts at Forrester. “AI

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CIO

MAY 27, 2024

If there is a single theme circulating among Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) right now, it is the question of how to get stakeholders on board with more robust cybersecurity training protocols. Framing cybersecurity training as an essential investment rather than an optional expense is critical.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

According to the recent Hiscox annual cyber readiness report , 41% of SMBs in the US fell victim to a cyberattack in 2023, a figure that has nearly doubled since 2021. We know that cybersecurity training is no longer optional for businesses – it is essential.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

Most artificial intelligence models are trained through supervised learning, meaning that humans must label raw data. Through the AIMMO DaaS platform, its sales and volume of its data labeling increased by 200% in 2021 compared to the previous year. AIMMO posted $10 million of revenue in 2021, according to its IR pitch deck.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For context, the United Kingdom’s entire GDP in 2021 was $3.1 Vertical-specific training data Does the startup have access to a large volume of proprietary, vertical-specific data to train its LLMs? The more industry-specific the training data, the better. trillion to $4.4 trillion annually.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

(Previously, ChatGPT’s knowledge was limited to dates, events and people prior to around September 2021.) Image Credits: OpenAI The live web is less curated than a static training data set and — by implication — less filtered, of course. Meta’s since-disbanded BlenderBot 3.0

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We have companies trying to build out the data centers that will run gen AI and trying to train AI,” he says. The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner. “We

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2025

ChatGPT ChatGPT, by OpenAI, is a chatbot application built on top of a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) model. OpenAI launched the original DALL-E model in 2021, and the DALL-E 3 deep learning model leverages computer vision and natural language processing to create visuals.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

. “The not so hidden secret about AI today is that in spite of all the technological and tooling advancements, roughly 80 to 90% of the cost and time for an average AI project goes into just manually labeling and collecting and relabeling this training data,” he said. ” How artificial intelligence will be used in 2021. .

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

The company closed its own robotics division in 2021 and then invested in companies like Figure and 1X. Cosmos enables AI models to simulate environments and generate real-world scenarios, accelerating training for humanoid robots.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

For example, attacks like the SolarWinds and Kaseya incidents that happened in 2020 and 2021 that impacted many entities across the globe show how hackers can inject malicious code into software updates, affecting thousands of organizations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

D-ID’s Speaking Portraits may look like the notorious “deepfakes” that have made headlines over the past couple of years, but the underlying tech is actually quite different, and there’s no training required for basic functionality. This one will also work with the existing background in the photo only.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

While last year’s lockdown has impacted carpooling, it shouldn’t be compared with trains or flights. Car is and will be the universal connector that doesn’t rely on train stations or bus stops,” Brusson said. The company wants to build a multimodal app where you can find all shared travel — carpooling, buses and soon trains.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But since the unicorn changed its business model to a pure marketplace focusing on senior developers, other platforms such as AltSchool Africa are trying to fill one of the gaps it left: training people to become junior to mid-level engineers. African tech took center stage in 2021. The company (not to be confused with U.S.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Grok is trained off data from another Musk-owned company, X, (formerly Twitter). billion round in 2021. That deal included Anthropic naming Amazon Web Services its primary cloud provider, as well as using AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train and deploy its models. The immediate investment was $1.25

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

billion in private investment in 2021, can’t be realized without carefully labeled data sets that tell machines what exactly they’re looking for. We think that transitioning to an approach where you really think about the training data in the first place will help accelerate the progression of these models.”. It would take just 3.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

by training the platform on historical accounting data and processes from tens of thousands of public companies. The training data set contained accounting documents and corresponding journal entries that were reviewed by accountants at consultancy firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers. Unlike some AI vendors, Vic.ai ” Vic.ai

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Our competitors either focus on basic tools that only allow a small range of creative freedom, or they take a lot of training and practice to get good at.” million Seed round in October 2021. ” Kittl started out as Heritage Type, founded by Heymann and Tobias Saul in 2020, but went on to rebrand after raising a €1.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

billion in 2021 to $4.5 First, the declining cost of training cutting-edge machine learning tech and advances in research have propelled both in-house teams and startups alike. And the investment dollars keep flowing, not shockingly. billion in 2022. Angel and seed deals have grown, as well, with 107 deals and $358.3 million in 2018.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Emerging from stealth today, Exafunction is developing a platform to abstract away the complexity of using hardware to train AI systems. GPUs and the aforementioned specialized chips used to “train” AI systems — i.e., feed the data that the systems can use to make predictions — are frequently underutilized.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

But here’s the good news: While it remains an ongoing challenge to get these numbers in sync with other industries, there were two developments specifically in 2020 that may beget more action in 2021. Specifically, the school’s $32 billion endowment — led since 1985 by investor David Swensen — told its 70 U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Machines are trained based on historical data. These algorithms have already been trained. A critical component of any machine learning model is the data that is used to train the model. Again, the EU is leading the way after releasing a 2021 proposal for an AI legal framework.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 ” We’re publishing on a light schedule between now and New Year’s, but we’ll be back with another roundup on Friday, December 31 to close out 2021. By July 2021, startup founders had raised $268.7 billion in VC, “dwarfing the previous record of $14.6 Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Homage now has a regional network of more than 6,000 pre-screened and trained care professionals. It claims that its business outside of Singapore has grown more than 600% year-over-year in 2021, and it has more than tripled revenue over the past year. The gray revolution: Fundraising within the older adult space.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Beyond the TOEIC mobile app, the company launched an ACT prep mobile app with ConnectMe Education in early 2021 in Egypt, Turkey, UAE, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It also unveiled the GMAT beta version, in partnership with Kaplan, in 2021, aiming at the Korean market first. Canada, Brazil, and Vietnam. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A 2021 survey from CRM software vendor SugarCRM found that 50% of companies don’t know how to access customer data across their marketing, sales and service systems, while 53% said the administrative burdens of their CRM software causes friction for their sales team. share of the CRM segment in 2021 (by one estimate ).

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2024

France’s competition authority fined Google, its parent company Alphabet, and two subsidiaries a total of €250 million ($271 million) for breaching a previous agreement on using copyrighted content for training its Bard AI service, now known as Gemini. Generative AI, Regulation

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

That deal included Anthropic naming Amazon Web Services its primary cloud provider, as well as using AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train and deploy its models. Founded in 2021, Cyera has raised $760 million to date, per the company. billion in 2021. The immediate investment was $1.25 billion, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun. At roughly the same time, Y Combinator (YC) and other accelerators emerged as a largely analog means for entrepreneurs willing to commit three months of time and ~6% of their company to receive en masse training and connections to mentors, peers and funders. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

An April 2021 study , for example, found that statistical models used to predict suicide risk in mental health patients performed well for white and Asian patients but poorly for Black patients. DeepMind spent days training AlphaFold 2 on tensor processing units (TPUs), Google’s costly AI accelerator hardware.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And to underscore that fact, Go1 — one of the rising stars in the world of enterprise learning, providing education and training to businesses in turn to offer to its employees or users — is announcing a significant round of $100 million, at over a $2 billion valuation, to fuel its growth.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But researchers need much of their initial time preparing data for training AI systems. The training process also requires hundreds of annotated medical images and thousands of hours of annotation by clinicians. Healthtech startup RedBrick AI has raised $4.6 Artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous in clinical diagnosis.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

For example, Walmart announced in 2021 that it would invest nearly $1 billion over the next five years to provide its employees with access to higher education and training. billion from VCs between early 2021 and 2022. billion from VCs between early 2021 and 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Because a lot of the “shefs” have not sold food before, the company also requires extensive food safety training and certification during the onboarding process. TechCrunch profiled the company in 2021 when it raised a $20 million Series A and was only in seven cities.

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