Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, October 7, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings

“Ask questions in new ways with AI in Search” (Google)

“We’re Entering Uncharted Territory for Math” (The Atlantic)

“Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap — and Companies Need to Prepare” (“HBR”)

“Movie Gen” (Meta)

“AI on the mainframe? IBM may be onto something” (CIO)

“Plots Unlock Time-Series Understanding in Multimodal Models” (Paper)

“Zodiac: A Cardiologist-Level LLM Framework for Multi-Agent Diagnostics” (Paper)

👏 Deals

Wispr, a CA-based company specializing in voice dictation technology with automatic edits and AI commands to allow users to use their voice instead of typing on their computers, has raised $12m in financing.

Desia, a London-based startup building AI tools to allow financial services professionals  to speed up due diligence and obtain real-time portfolio insights and solutions to complex questions, has raised $3.3M in pre-seed financing.

Loti, a Seattle-based startup utilizing AI to identify and remove fraudulent social media accounts, fraudulent endorsements, and deepfakes as well as unauthorized distribution of user’s content, has raised $6.65m in seed financing.

Artisan, a CA-based startup focused on transforming conventional sales software by utilizing AI-driven virtual employees to automate numerous tasks usually performed by sales representatives, has raised $11.5 in seed financing.

Thread AI, a New York-based startup building a composable Infrastructure platform to support organizations in designing, deploying, and overseeing AI workflows, has raised $6m in seed financing. 

xtype, a CA-based company offering multi-Instance management for ServiceNow teams through real-time visibility, governance, and automation to streamline delivery and compliance on the ServiceNow platform, has raised $21m in series A financing.

Briink, a Germay-based startup developing AI solutions to assist ESG and sustainability teams in addressing the growing demands of regulatory compliance, has raised €3.85m in seed financing.

DocJuris, a Houston-based startup specializing in AI-driven contract negotiation software to automate essential tasks in processes of reviewing and negotiating contracts, has raised $8m in series A financing.

iAsk, a Chicago-based startup building an AI search engine to allow users to ask questions and receive detailed responses instantly, has raised $4.2m in seed financing. 

Harmonic Security, a CA-based company focusing on protecting sensitive data by using large language models (LLMs) to classify, label, and identify such data before it is potentially shared with AI-enabled tools, has raised $17.5m in series A financing. 

Ameba, a London-based startup building an AI-driven supply chains management platform aimed at helping companies to lower operational costs and achieve on-time delivery, has raised €6.4m in seed financing.

Billables AI, a CA-based company developing an AI-powered platform to enable  professional service providers to align their work with relevant client issues, streamline multitasking, and create narrative descriptions, raised $3.9m in seed financing.

Integrated Biosciences, a CA-based biotech startup focused on integrating synthetic biology and machine learning to control cellular stress responses to treat age-related diseases, has raised $17m in seed financing. 

Kapa.ai, a Denmark and US-based startup employing LLMs to develop AI assistants to answer technical questions from developers, software users, and employees, has raised $3.2m in seed financing.

Valdera, a CA-based startup building an AI-powered product sourcing platform for chemicals and raw materials and to enable scalable supplier management, has raised $15 million in series A financing.