HeyGen, an AI video startup, raises $500 million in funding lead by Benchmark, totaling $60 million. Benchmark's Victor Lazarte becomes a board member as the business seeks to transform avatar-based digital communication. Despite difficulties and criticism over its roots, HeyGen, which has over 40,000 customers and a profitable Q2 in 2023, uses AI for multilingual avatars, improving visual storytelling in business applications.
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Sakana AI, co-founded by former Google researchers, achieves unicorn status with a $1.1 billion valuation, marking the fastest rise in Japan. Discover how their distinct, evolution-inspired AI model, which requires less resources and processing power draws in big venture capital firms.
DeepL secures $300 million investment at a $2 billion valuation to revolutionize business communication with advanced AI language solutions. Discover how DeepL's specialized AI models drive cost savings, efficiency, and accuracy for over 100,000 global businesses.
Samsung Electronics secures an order for 2-nanometer AI chips from Japanese startup Preferred Networks, highlighting a significant advancement with its SF2 technology set to launch in 2025. This deal underscores partnerships with major Japanese firms and promises enhanced performance and efficiency, positioning Samsung as a competitive force in the semiconductor industry
Discover how Midjourney is revolutionizing AI image creation. Learn about its advanced features, new personalization options, and how it's taking AI-generated images to new levels of realism and creativity.
In Austria, eligible customers of Amazon Prime may now request refunds of up to €36.50 in response to a contentious 2022 price increase. The Federal Chamber of Labor (AK), which contested the increase as illegal, was successful in reaching a settlement. Learn who qualifies and how to submit your refund request by September 11, 2024. Plus, discover ongoing consumer rights actions in Germany against Amazon Prime Video.
Learn about Google's 'Proofread' feature in Gboard, providing quick and easy sentence and paragraph corrections with a single tap. Boost your typing accuracy and speed with this advanced AI tool.
German startup Black Semiconductor raises €254.4 million in Series A funding by combining public and private investments. The startup wants to promote technical sovereignty with its innovative chip-connecting technology that is based on graphene. In order to improve production capacities and produce commercial products by 2031, the money will support R&D, a new production facility in Aachen, and partnerships with significant chip makers like ASML
Discover Apple Intelligence from WWDC 2024: Enhanced AI for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS with smarter Siri, generative emojis, advanced photo editing, and robust privacy features.
Learn about Creance.ai, the new AI project from PwC and Aleph Alpha that simplifies legal compliance using the same technology that powers ChatGPT. With a focus on automating intricate regulatory processes, Creance.ai, under the direction of Carsten Dirks and supported by large investments, helps financial institutions efficiently comply with EU DORA regulations.
Find out how Tobiko's new dbt-compatible database is advancing the data industry with $21.8 million in investment. With the help of founders from Netflix, Apple, Airbnb, Google, and other companies, and by integrating SQLMesh and SQLGlot, Tobiko offers a low-code interface that makes creating data pipelines simple.
