Malaysian-born artificial intelligence (AI) startup VOX said Monday it has harnessed ChatGPT with Sharly.ai and scored a $250,000 investment from Silicon Valley.

VOX said in a statement that the investment is aimed at covering operational costs of the platform for the first 50,000 users, which enables the team to put all their effort into innovating the user experience and workflows.

“To truly revolutionize workflows, we need to seamlessly connect to proprietary data sources,

“We are currently in discussions with various strategic partners to accomplish that,” said Simone, Chief Executive Officer of VOX.

He also elaborated at length about being a platform that anyone can build on, as well as privacy and security being a key pillar of any development, given the sensitive nature of any organization’s data.

Sharly AI addresses a universal problem: parsing through information takes time. Oftentimes key facts are hidden in long documents, audio recordings or videos.

According to the statement, in today’s world that people are rushing between back-to-back meetings, with only small screens in their hands, the average worker spends nearly five hours per day reading documents and emails.

Thus, a solution like Sharly AI will revolutionize productivity, for professionals to focus on actual decision making.

In a world where AI and generative applications continue to reshape industries, it said Sharly AI is believed to be a game-changer.

With the potent combination of Generative AI based technology, a relentless team, and ambitious goals, VOX believed the firm is well on its way of cracking the global market.

“While ChatGPT and similar models provide simple APIs to connect to, they come with a lot inherent limitations,” said Davide, the Chief Technology Officer of VOX.

“Our experience from previous products really helped to plug the holes, tune the model to be able to deal with thousands of pages while staying grounded in factual knowledge,” he added.

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