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AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding

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LOVO , the Berkeley, California-based artificial intelligence (AI) voice & synthetic speech tool developer, this week closed a $4.5 The proceeds will be used to propel its research and development in artificial intelligence and synthetic speech and grow the team. “We

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China’s work automation startup Laiye raises $160M, acquires France’s Mindsay

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Guanchun Wang, Laiye’s founder and CEO, saw the “value of artificial intelligence” in the years he worked at Baidu’s smart speaker department after his film discovery startup was sold to the Chinese search engine giant.

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Artificial Intelligence 101: What It Is, Its Evolution and Potential Jobs

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Artificial Intelligence 101 has become a transformative force in many areas of our society, redefining our lives, jobs, and perception of the world. AI involves the use of systems or machines designed to emulate human cognitive ability, including problem-solving and learning from previous experiences.

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Annotell raises $24M for tech that tests autonomous vehicle perception systems to improve how they work

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The gap in the market that Annotell is looking to fill is a pretty critical one: autonomous systems are built on huge troves of driving data and machine learning used to process that information to “teach” those platforms the basics of driving. We also take that seriously. That’s why we wanted to focus on the problem.”

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VFX artists show that Hollywood can use AI to create, not exploit

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Hollywood may be embroiled in ongoing labor disputes that involve AI, but the technology infiltrated film and TV long, long ago. At SIGGRAPH in LA, algorithmic and generative tools were on display in countless talks and announcements. We may not know where the likes of GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion …

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Papercup raises $20M for AI that automatically dubs videos

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Dubbing is a lucrative market, with Verified Market Research predicting that film dubbing services alone could generate $3.6 Founded in 2017 by Shemen and Jiameng Gao, Papercup offers an AI-powered dubbing solution that identities human voices in a target film or show and generates dubs in a new language. billion annually by 2027.

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Can We Please Still Have Nice Things That AI Hasn’t Touched?

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Google Cloud and DeepMind , in collaboration with the Sphere in Las Vegas, have used something theyre calling performance generation and outpainting to enhance the films resolution and extend the background beyond what was ever shot. A few extra lily pads generated by machine learning. Its a deeply human film.

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