byRegina Pernaz April 4, 2024 No comments 1 minute read Retail-tech Mercado Único raised $395K in pre-seed funding led by US accelerator TechStars, as the only Brazilian startup of this batch selected for the JP Morgan-backed program. Brazilian accelerator Strive and several angel investors also participated in the round. Mercado Único’s AI-powered platform connects retailers […]
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byRegina Pernaz April 3, 2024 No comments 1 minute read Inner AI, a Brazilian AI native productivity workspace for companies, raised a $2M pre-seed round led by Canary. LASP Capital, Play9, Alexia Ventures, Crivo Ventures, and Newtopia VC participated in the round. Inner AI will use the capital to launch its platform in the Brazilian
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byAraceli Dominguez March 26, 2024 No comments 1 minute read In this week’s Espresso, we cover news from WeKall, Leasy, and more! Outline of this episode: [00:28] – Foccuz raises $700K in a seed round [00:47] – Leasy raises $28M Series A round led by Magma Partners [01:05] – WeKall acquires Mexican startup Sirenna AI
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byAraceli Dominguez March 19, 2024 No comments 1 minute read In this week’s Espresso, we cover news from Niko, Visio.ai, MegaBite, and more! Outline of this episode: [00:28] – Sostengo raises $3.8M seed round [00:39] – Niko secures $3.3M seed funding [00:59] – Visio.ai raises $2.5M in seed round [01:14] – Megabite and Hungry House
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bySara Delgado March 19, 2024 No comments 1 minute read Visio.ai, a Brazilian AI platform that uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to help brick-and-mortar reduce costs and save workers’ time, raised $2.5M in a seed round led by DGF Investments. Alexia Ventures and Scale-Up Ventures also participated in the round. With the funds, Visio.ai
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byMatheus Tomé January 22, 2024 No comments 1 minute read Hotmart, a Brazilian platform that allows creators to sell digital products, acquired Brazilian generative AI startup Reshape for an undisclosed amount. Hotmart was previously Reshape’s client and seed investor. The acquisition aims to increase the addressable market for creators by offering them transcription and translation
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byErik Maestre December 18, 2023 No comments 1 minute read Mexican startup Yalo announced a $20M extension of its series C round to lead AI-driven conversational commerce in traditional retail stores. This extension comes as a result of an alliance with Glisco Partners, a growth capital firm based in Mexico City. “We are deeply grateful for Glisco’s support,
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AI buddy — There’s limited evidence for health benefits so far; early work suggests no one-size-fits-all. Beth Mole – Dec 12, 2023 12: 00 am UTC Enlarge / ElliQ, an AI companion robot from Intuition Robotics. Some seniors in New York are successfully combating their loneliness with an AI-powered companion robot named ElliQ—while others called
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only 14 shopping days ‘til Christmas — Unproven hypothesis seeks to explain ChatGPT’s seemingly new reluctance to do hard work. Benj Edwards – Dec 11, 2023 10: 50 pm UTC In late November, some ChatGPT users began to notice that ChatGPT-4 was becoming more «lazy,» reportedly refusing to do some tasks or returning simplified results.
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You are what you eat — Some experts think xAI used OpenAI model outputs to fine-tune Grok. Benj Edwards – Dec 11, 2023 8: 13 pm UTC Grok, the AI language model created by Elon Musk’s xAI, went into wide release last week, and people have begun spotting glitches. On Friday, security tester Jax Winterbourne
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Aurich Lawson Back in April, we ran a series of useful and/or somewhat goofy prompts through Google’s (then-new) PaLM-powered Bard chatbot and OpenAI’s (slightly older) ChatGPT-4 to see which AI chatbot reigned supreme. At the time, we gave the edge to ChatGPT on five of seven trials, while noting that «it’s still early days in
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Get ready for some restrictions, Big Tech — Legislation lays out restrictive regime for emerging technology. Javier Espinoza, Financial Times – Dec 9, 2023 12: 09 am UTC Enlarge / EU Commissioner Thierry Breton talks to media during a press conference in June. Thierry Monasse | Getty Images European Union lawmakers have agreed on the
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