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Escorts Kubota enlists AI to reinvent railway, construction, and agriculture

CIO

Kakkar and his IT teams are enlisting automation, machine learning, and AI to facilitate the transformation, which will require significant innovation, especially at the edge. For example, for its railway equipment business, Escorts Kubota produces IoT-based devices such as brakes and couplers.

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Curtsy, a clothing resale app aimed at Gen Z women, raises $11 million Series A

TechCrunch

The app uses a combination of machine learning and human review to help the sellers merchandise their items, which increase their chances of selling. Curtsy also helps sellers to schedule a free USPS pickup to save a trip to the post office, and it will even send sellers a shipping label, if need be.

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CommonGround raises $25M for immersive video avatar technology that doesn’t rely on VR gear

TechCrunch

Based around machine learning, CommonGround’s platform is theoretically learning all the time from its users: The more you use it, the more you train it and the more accurate it becomes. That points to resourcefulness, and artificial intelligence technology with multipurpose potential at the end of the day.

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Kodiak Robotics pilots autonomous trucking between California, Texas and Florida

TechCrunch

Autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics recently completed a coast-to-coast commercial run between Texas, California and Florida for 10 Roads Express, a USPS mail carrier, according to Kodiak. “That’s a very common problem with AI and machine learning in general.

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V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models

TechCrunch

Artificial intelligence promises to help, and maybe even replace, humans to carry out everyday tasks and solve problems that humans have been unable to tackle, yet ironically, building that AI faces a major scaling problem. V7’s specific USP is automation.

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Sales scheduling platform Chili Piper raises $33M Series B funding led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

Chili Piper has a number of different tools for businesses to schedule and calendar accountments, but its key USP is in its use by “inbound SDR Sales Development Representatives (SDR)”, who are responsible for qualifying inbound sales leads. It’s used by Intuit, Twilio, Forrester, Spotify and Gong.

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Personalized nutrition startup Zoe closes out Series B at $53M total raise

TechCrunch

Zoe uses big data and machine learning to come up with predictive insights on how people will respond to different foods so that it can offer individuals guided advice on what and how to eat, with the goal of improving gut health and reducing inflammatory responses caused by diet.