Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, December 2, 2024
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce Shen.
📌 Musings and Readings
“Introducing the Model Context Protocol” (Anthropic)
“The Country Where 10 Percent of Workers Are Robots” (Newsweek)
“Supercharging Training using float8 and FSDP2” (IBM, Meta)
“Philips optimizes CT workflows with in-house AI, launches CT 5300 in North America” (Philips)
“Study: 94% Of AI-Generated College Writing Is Undetected By Teachers” (Fortune)
“Understanding LLM Embeddings for Regression” (Stanford University, Google DeepMind)
👏 Deals
PlayAI, a CA-based startup creating a voice AI platform that improves human-machine interaction through voice interfaces designed for individuals and businesses, has raised $21m in seed financing.
Secretome Therapeutics, a TX-based biotech company known for its platform to leverage neonatal cardiac progenitor cells to develop therapies aimed at treating serious cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases, has raised $20m in financing.
Boosted.ai, A New York and Toronto-based startup creating a GenAI investment management platform for capital markets that covers the full investment process, has raised $15m in financing.
Cofactor AI, a Chicago-based startup using AI to help hospitals to automate the complex insurance denial appeals process and maximize revenue recovery, has raised $4m in seed financing.
Centauri Therapeutics, a London-based healthcare tech company building antibody recruiting molecule (ARM) technology to leverage the body's natural antibodies to fight severe infectious diseases, has raised £1m in financing.
Wherobots, a CA-based company providing a spatial data ETL, analytics, and AI platform to help businesses process and manage geospatial data, has raised $21m in series A financing.
Circleback, a CA-based startup developing applications to record and transcribe both online and in-person meetings and providing action items and post-meeting summaries, has raised $2.5m in seed financing.
Roon, a New York-based startup creating an online video Q&A platform to provide expert answers to medical questions and help patients connect with others experiencing similar conditions, has raised $15m in series A financing.
Barton Blakeley, a UK-based company specializing in carbon conversion technology by capturing emissions, preventing their release, and permanently converting them into useful materials, has raised £2.7m in financing.
Argil, a France-based startup developing an AI-enabled video content creation platform to help creators produce multilingual and post-ready videos in minutes, has raised €4.9m in financing.
360Player, a NC-based company creating a unified digital platform featuring video analytics, player development, team management, and financial services for sports organizations, has raised $25m in financing.
Volter, a UK-based company developing a solar energy management platform to enable commercial and industrial clients and solar installers to deploy, manage, and optimize solar portfolios, has raised $3.2m in pre-seed financing.
Movopack, Milan-based company providing sustainable and reusable packaging from recycled materials for e-commerce to eliminate single-use waste, has raised £2m in seed financing.
Akhetonics, a Germany-based startup building an event and crowd management platform designed to help event organizers optimize operations, reduce costs, and improve the visitor experience, has raised €6M in financing.
PocDoc, a UK-based health tech startup developing a digital platform to enable patients to access cardio, metabolic, and renal disease screenings via smartphone and get quick results, has raised £5m in series A financing.