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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release. Epic Games.

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Disney Accelerator Demo Day: Artificial Intelligence, 3D Printing, More

socalTECH

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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Techstars Names New Los Angeles Accelerator Class

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Techstars Los Angeles has just named the ten companies that will be joining the startup accelerator for its 2017 class, saying its theme this year was "going long on LA and southern California". READ MORE>>.

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Snap accelerator names its latest cohort

TechCrunch LA

TRASH — using this machine learning-based video editing toolkit, users can quickly create and edit high-quality, short-form video. This class shows us that there’s no shortage of innovation at the intersection of creativity and technology, and we’re excited to be part of each company’s journey.”.

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How ZestFinance Is Using Machine Learning to Reshape Lending, with Jay Budzik

socalTECH

One of the hottest sectors of the technology startup market today is the use of artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning across many different sectors including finance. We worked with them to create a machine learning model for that line of business, which significantly outperforms traditional methods.

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Do you really want to be the first to market?

Berkonomics

Artificial intelligence thirty-four years ago. I recall the introduction of artificial intelligence into the hotel reservation process, a “one-up” on the airline method of yield managing the price of airplane seats. For argument’s sake, let’s credit the iPhone with igniting an entire product class.

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Techstars Los Angeles Launches 2019 Class

socalTECH

Techstars Los Angeles , one of the startup accelerators run by Techstars in Los Angeles, has announced its 2019 class. According to Techstars, ten companies were selected for the startup accelerator, which kicked off this week. The companies will have their Demo Day on October 15th.