Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli artificial intelligence startup specializing in audio technology and facial analysis. The deal values the company at between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, making it Apple’s second-largest acquisition after the $3 billion Beats purchase in 2014. Q.ai was founded in 2022 by Aviad Maizels, Yonatan Wexler, and Avi Barliya in …
The artificial intelligence industry faces a critical shortage of high-quality data needed to train more powerful models. A new startup, Moonlake AI, aims to solve this problem by creating data from interactive 3D worlds. Rashi Shrivastava reports for Forbes. The company was cofounded by former Stanford PhD students Sharon Lee and Fan-Yun Sun. They are …
The AI startup Moonvalley has released a new video generation model named Marey, designed specifically for the film industry. The company aims to position its tool as a collaborative partner for filmmakers rather than a replacement for human creativity. A key feature is that Marey is trained exclusively on licensed data, a strategy intended to …
The $1.5 billion AI startup Builder.ai has filed for bankruptcy after revelations that it used human developers instead of artificial intelligence. Vinay Patel reports for International Business Times that the company’s supposed AI system was actually operated by 700 Indian programmers pretending to be automated bots. Builder.ai raised over $450 million from prominent investors including …
Palo Alto startup Akool has unveiled Live Camera, an AI tool that generates photorealistic avatars and translates speech in real time during video calls. The technology, reported by Dean Takahashi for GamesBeat, allows users to appear as digital avatars while maintaining natural expressions and gestures with sub-100-millisecond latency. “We want to make it so you …
Recraft, an AI startup focused on image generation, has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by Accel. As reported by Charles Rollet for TechCrunch, the company’s “red_panda” model recently outperformed OpenAI’s DALL-E and Midjourney on the Artificial Analysis benchmark. Founder and CEO Anna Veronika Dorogush highlighted that Recraft’s technology excels specifically at brand-focused …
Operative Games has unveiled its AI-driven interactive storytelling platform after emerging from stealth with backing from 1AM Gaming, Samsung Next, and LongJourney.vc. As reported by Dean Takahashi, the company was founded by Jon Snoddy, former head of Walt Disney R&D, Jon Kraft, founding CEO of Pandora Media, and game industry veteran Pegi Bryant. Their proprietary …
A growing number of AI startups are redefining Silicon Valley’s traditional growth model by operating with minimal staff while achieving significant revenue and user numbers. According to an article by Erin Griffith in The New York Times, these companies are leveraging AI tools to maximize employee productivity across all business functions. Gamma, an AI startup …
Mira Murati, former Chief Technology Officer at OpenAI, has unveiled her new venture, Thinking Machines Lab. The startup aims to develop artificial intelligence systems that prioritize human-AI collaboration rather than focusing solely on autonomous AI development. The company launches with approximately 30 employees, including several former OpenAI colleagues. Key leadership positions are filled by Barret …
Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI) is raising over $1 billion at a valuation exceeding $30 billion, Bloomberg’s Kate Clark reports. Greenoaks Capital Partners leads the investment with $500 million. The startup, co-founded by Sutskever after leaving his position as OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, focuses exclusively on developing safe AI systems. SSI’s valuation has increased significantly from …