Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A year ago, the leading Chinese Internet company Tencent Holdings pegged the global number of artificial intelligence researchers and professionals at 300,000 or less—just as the unmet demand for such experts was pushing salary offers to as much as $1 million. Now, Silicon Valley company Diffbot has used its A.I.-powered

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web. Innovation is valued by our society, by investors and certainly by consumers.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

[ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based Whistle , which develops a software platform for hotels to text message their guests, said this morning that it has added new artificial intelligence capabilities to its software. According to Whistle, the modules are being piloted at an un-named, major hotel chain. Whistle is led by CEO Christopher Hovanessian.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2017

According to Soylent, its new "nutrition-obsessed artificially intelligent spokesperson" will appear both on its virtual store on its site, as well as other channels, including broadcast, digital social, and beond. The new "bot" was created by marketing/creative firm Wieden+Kennedy (W+K).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

RingDNA, led by founder and CEO Howard Brown, says it is using artificial intelligence for enterprise sales acceleration and voice automation, and now counts such customers as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Amazon Web Services, Autodesk, SAP Concur, Cvent, Lyft, and Twilio. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Irvine-based cybersecurity software developer Cylance says it has extended its artificial intelligence driven, endpoint protection software, CylancePROTECT, to the AWS Marketplace. AWS Marketplace is Amazon's marketplace for business software that runs on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing infrastructure.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2019

The promise, and pitfalls, of artificial intelligence became more apparent in the last year, and for Dave Copps, founder of A.I. What can help to smooth the transition to our new machine learning-enabled future is an effort on the part of technologists to build trust between ourselves and these tools.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2014

Keith Bonnici: We have created a platform that lets standard web publishers tap into the growing pool of money being spent by app developers to market their products. However, I really like algorithmic content recommendation, using machine learning and other crazy geek tech stuff to help provide information to consumers.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup. TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning. Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. SketchAR : an augmented reality drawing app with social tie-ins. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Gil Elbaz: The primary developer demographic for our products is people building web and mobile applications. That data can also be via web crawls, where we are applying natural language, machine learning, and other techniques to extract or validate facts from web pages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This is the current dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who invented the (first) World Wide Web. He calls his dream ‘Web 3.0’ or the ‘Semantic Web,’ meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Web 3.0 As you search the Web, the browser records your interests in your local storage.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

According to Ars Technica , back in April, Musk secured a range of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) from computer hardware behemoth Nvidia, necessary for building the large language models that power chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT. Corp” in Nevada, according to business records seen by the Financial Times. Will xAI Rival OpenAI?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2019

According to the company, its platform "makes for faster, more affordable hiring" and includes such features as scouring the web for "ready to run" talent and those likely to soon be on the market, and works "with or without the aid of real-life recruiters." The startup claims to use artificial intelligence software as part of its platform.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Want to browse the web privately? ? Anthropic largely focuses its work on building large language models (LLM) and the chatbots that subsequently use them. Language model Claude is the name given to both the Chatbot and the large language model developed by Anthropic.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has developed technology to give people a way to pay bills outside of traditional methods, such as through the mail, over the phone or via a Web portal.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2019

Santa Monica-based GumGum , which develops artificial intelligence-driven advertising software, has partnered with ad safety firm White Ops , to provide anti-fraud protection to GumGum's programmatic advertising exchange, the two said this morning. Terms of the deal between the companies were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web. And innovation is what creates value. So, who will be the next Ford, Jobs, or Musk for AI?

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2015

Diffbot , the developer of artificial intelligence, visual recognition, and natural language processing software for interpreting web pages which is backed by Sky Dayton , has scored $500,000 more in funding, the company said this week. The funding--a continuation of the firm's seed funding--came from Bloomberg Beta.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Shamrock Capital reports this morning that it has led a $30M investment in Pixellot , an Israeli firm developing automatic, artificial intelligence-driven software for producing streaming sports video. The funding was led by Shamrock, and also included other, existing, un-named investors.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Custom Search API - Google Custom Search enables you to search over a slice of the web, such as your own website, or a collection of websites. Right now (more are expected soon) it provides: Buzz API - Google Buzz provides developers with a powerful set of API endpoints for searching, reading, and updating post content and metadata.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2017

Yhat develops self-service data science tools for developing, managing and deploying machine learning models to web and mobile applications. Irvine-based data analytics software developer Alteryx has acquired New York-based Yhat , a developer of data science software, the company announced on Tuesday morning.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

El Seguno-based SmartAction , which is developing artificial intelligence-driven, call center automation software, said today that it has raised funding in a management recapitalization by private equity investors Staley Capital and TVC Capital. Financial details of the recapitalization were not announced.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

However, I saw that the people building traditional products were still not familiar with the social web. For example, some of my biggest competitors--such as Flintstones vitamins--have been around for 40 years, have virtually no web presence, and a PageRank of 2. We feel we've build, from the ground up, an internet brand.

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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2018

The Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and related technologies are being used to connect ovens, refrigerators, and other kitchen appliances to the Web. When it comes to connected homes, the hottest spot is located in your kitchen. Feeling unsure about cooking that fish dish?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris runs a popular web interview series on TechCrunch so is used to being the guy asking the questions. He is the CEO of Hunch , company that I believe is solving a very big problem that I have been telling entrepreneurs needs to be solved for the past 2 years. If he implements it well I think it will be a very big business.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Watson--along with his co-founders, John Myers, Ali Golshan and Laszlo Bock--were engineers and developers who had worked for the National Security Agency, Google and Amazon Web Services.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Early next year, twenty students will have the opportunity to study machine learning for 10 weeks with Google engineers, college professors, and coaches—free of charge. The bootcamp-like machine learning course is part of a broader Google initiative to bring computer science instruction that it designs.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Launched four years ago, the Nanodegree courses allow students worldwide to gain expertise in areas such as data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous flight engineering by completing coursework that can take as little as six months.

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2015

Cornerstone OnDemand said that its Cornerstone Insights product uses machine learning and big data to help businesses better hire, train, manage, and retain their top talent.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. To augment and overcome physical distance, we are starting to use drones, virtual reality, and driverless cars.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology. For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. What's your background, and how did you decide to start the company?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing service of Amazon, has launched anew Los Angeles zone, which will give local customers and companies much faster access to the AWS cloud.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2019

—Ezoic, a startup that developed software for web publishers that uses machine learning techniques to personalize layouts and ad placements for site visitors, raised $33 million to further develop its technology. Read on for news of recent financings, plus upcoming opportunities to connect with the local tech community.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2018

Diffbot , a tech startup that continuously scours the Web to assemble a “knowledge graph” of billions of facts in context, announced today that it’s opening up the searchable resource to the public—with starter rates as low as a cable TV bill.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2015

Santa Monica-based The Mobile Majority --which recently zoomed past $50M in revenues--has acquired a Brazilian web development company called Elastic , according to the company. The Mobile Majority said it is adding talent in product development, UI, backend, high speed API integration, operations, and machine learning.

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