This week the artificial intelligence and machine learning space was abuzz with interesting and innovative projects. Researchers and developers have been pushing forward a number of new projects and implementations. Whether you’re looking to update your AI strategy, get access to new data or learn more about the latest AI advances, our AI-week roundup highlights the most important updates from the past week.
Vimeo is integrating new AI tools for paying users, including an AI script generation feature powered by OpenAI’s tech. The company is promoting the tools as a way for users to “create a fully produced video in minutes,” and stressing the utility for corporate customers — potential use-cases range “from quickly creating highlight reels, to hosting virtual events or company meetings, to exporting quote clips for short marketing videos.”
Sojern announces the latest version of its Sojern Travel Marketing Platform with enhanced Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered audiences. Sojern has leveraged its long-standing AI capabilities to provide expanded support for more than 10,000 travel marketers annually. Customers include hotels and resorts of all sizes, destinations, attractions and airlines. “At Sojern, we’ve always believed in AI’s potential to enhance the travel experience. The latest iteration of our Platform benefits both our travel marketing customers and their end consumers,” Weinsheimer added.
Parrot made its public debut today announcing $11 million in Series A funding and the release of the first product specifically offering AI-generated deposition summaries to legal professionals. Amplify Partners and XYZ Venture Capital led the round bringing the total funds raised to $14 million for the tech-enabled court reporting company. Funds will be used to expand go to market, accelerate product development and deepen its investment in artificial intelligence.
Algolia unveiled its latest innovation, AI-powered Query Categorization, which automatically associates a query with the appropriate category (or categories). As the only company providing this powerful, new capability, Algolia enables merchandisers, business users and non-tech practitioners in e-commerce or media companies to better understand their consumers’ intent as they begin a search for items, which ultimately drives higher conversions and revenue.
Noogata, the AI-powered eCommerce growth platform, launched their proactive AI assistant that allows CPGs, digital brands, and eCommerce teams to monitor millions of data points and generate actionable recommendations and strategies for pricing, advertising, and sales growth. The Noogata AI assistant is built for eCommerce brands and consumer packaged goods companies selling on the Amazon marketplace.
DeepMind says that it has developed an AI model, called RoboCat, that can perform a range of tasks across different models of robotic arms. That alone isn’t especially novel. But DeepMind claims that the model is the first to be able to solve and adapt to multiple tasks and do so using different, real-world robots. “We demonstrate that a single large model can solve a diverse set of tasks on multiple real robotic embodiments and can quickly adapt to new tasks and embodiments,” Alex Lee, a research scientist at DeepMind and a co-contributor on the team behind RoboCat, told TechCrunch in an email interview.
Versus Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:VS, CSE:VS) has announced the launch of a new, self-service version of its powerful digital promotional marketing platform, Winfinite. The engagement and rewards company said with the new Winfinite, advertising agencies, brands, and marketers of any size can create their own interactive, rewarded advertising campaigns that drive customer engagement, incremental sales, and consented first-party data collection. “A self-serve version of Versus’ Winfinite platform will let any brand create custom, interactive, rewarded games,” Versus Systems CEO Matthew Pierce said in a statement.
Meltwater announces new AI-powered product innovations across its suite of solutions that allow customers to save time, unlock deeper insights, and take action. With this latest release, Meltwater has solidified its leadership in AI innovation, bringing to market two new writing assistants designed to save teams time, and new AI-powered summarization capabilities that surface rich insights to customers without any manual work necessary.
