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Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar

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How Klaviyo used data and no-code to transform owned marketing (3,000 words/12 minutes). Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional (2,200 words/9 minutes). And in the little-known capital lender space, Shopify is using machine learning to lend money to startups. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman.

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Deepdub raises $20M for AI-powered dubbing that uses actors’ original voices

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Netflix’s Korean drama “Squid Game” was one of the most-watched dubbed series of all time, proving the massive potential for foreign-language programming to become a hit in overseas markets. The company was founded in 2019 by two brothers, Ofir and Nir Krakowski , whose backgrounds included machine learning and AI expertise.

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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.

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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.

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Supporting content decision makers with machine learning

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Our catalog of thousands of films and series caters to 195M+ members in over 190 countries who span a broad and diverse range of tastes. The commissioning of a series or film, which we refer to as a title , is a creative decision. as is the uncertainty of the outcome (it is difficult to predict which shows or films will become hits).

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

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An ambitious Chinese startup wants a slice of the flourishing global work automation market. 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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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

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Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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