Generative AI
Generative AI video creation startup Pika has raised $35 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture..
Amazon introduced a generative AI-powered chatbot designed to assist AWS customers named Q during this year’s re:Invent conference. Available for..
Inflection AI has introduced a new iteration of its foundational large language model, Inflection-2, calling it “the best model in..
Amazon has augmented several AWS services with new generative AI features, including Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Personalize, and Amazon Lex. The..
Synthetic media content marketplace Civitai has raised $5.1 million in a seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Civitai offers..
Amazon has unveiled a new program to provide free AI skills training to two million people globally by 2025. The..
Artificial Intelligence News
The Simpsons acquired a smart speaker on Sunday’s episode. It did not go well. That the episode was titled “Thanksgiving..
Chipotle’s custom voice assistant is handling phone orders for all 2,500 branches of the popular fast-casual Mexican chain. The company..
There are intermittent discussions within the voice technology community and in the media about the gender of popular consumer voice..
Correct Call-to-Action Recall by Users is Twice as High for Human Voices as Synthetic for Voice Apps
You may think that consumer preference for human over synthetic voices in voice apps is simply an aesthetic concern. Data..
Four independent developers discuss their experience building for Samsung Bixby and react to announcements from Samsung Developer Conference 2019, including..
Healthcare-focused voice AI developer Orbita is rolling out a virtual health assistant called OrbitaAssist to help patients better communicate with..