Startup Artisan has raised $11.5 million in seed funding to develop AI-powered “employees” for sales teams. The company offers an AI assistant named Ava that automates tasks such as lead research and personalized email creation. CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack told VentureBeat that Artisan has already secured over 120 customers and reached $1 million in annual revenue. …
Microsoft has launched Bing Generative Search, its answer to Google’s AI-powered search offerings. As reported by Kyle Wiggers, the new feature has been rolled out to all US users following a pilot phase in July. Bing Generative Search aggregates information from the web to provide summaries in response to search queries. Users can also dismiss …
Microsoft is pushing forward with the integration of artificial intelligence in Windows. The company has fundamentally redesigned the controversial Recall feature, which creates screenshots of the screen. According to David Weston, Vice President of Enterprise Security at Microsoft, Recall is now an opt-in feature with improved encryption and can be completely uninstalled. For Copilot Plus …
With NotebookLM, Google has developed a versatile AI note-taking and research tool that is increasingly suitable for professional use. It allows users to organize different types of documents, such as PDFs, websites, Google Docs and, more recently, YouTube videos and audio files, in a digital notebook. A core feature of this tool is AI-powered analysis …
Google is expanding the capabilities of its AI-powered note-taking tool NotebookLM. Users can now create summaries of YouTube videos and audio files, and share AI-generated audio discussions. This was reported by Jagmeet Singh for TechCrunch. The application, which was originally designed for educational purposes, is increasingly being used in a professional environment. According to Raiza …
OpenAI is introducing Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) for paying ChatGPT users. The feature will first be available to Plus and Team subscribers in the US, followed by Enterprise and Edu customers next week. AVM features a new user interface represented by a blue animated sphere. In addition to the redesign, OpenAI offers five new voices: …
Google today announced major updates to its Gemini AI platform. The Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002 models have been improved and now offer higher quality for mathematical tasks, long contexts, and visual applications. At the same time, Google is reducing the price of Gemini 1.5 Pro by more than 50% while significantly increasing the limits. A major …
A new iOS app called SocialAI offers a Twitter-like experience where users interact exclusively with AI bots. This was reported by Natasha Lomas for TechCrunch. The app was created by Michael Sayman, a 28-year-old programmer from New York. Users can share thoughts and receive endless replies from AI-generated bots with different personality types. Unlike traditional …
ClickUp has launched a new chat feature with extensive AI capabilities. The AI integration, based in part on OpenAI’s GPT-4, provides automatic summaries of missed conversations, identifies action items, and creates detailed tasks from chat messages. As Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat, users can ask AI-powered questions about projects, with answers pulled from chat history …
Microsoft is expanding its Office offerings with new AI features. A key innovation is “Copilot Pages”, a platform for collaborative work with AI. Users can work together on AI-generated content and enrich it with data from different sources. Microsoft describes this as an entirely new way of working that brings humans and AI together in …