AI

Malaysian AI Startup VOX scores $250,000 investment from Silicon Valley

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.

Singapore’s Cosmose valued at $500M after latest strategic Investment from NEAR Foundation

Cosmose AI (Cosmose), a Singapore-based platform that predicts and influences how people shop offline, has on Monday announced the strategic investment from NEAR Foundation, a Web3 technologies firm based in Switzerland, valuing the company at $500 million.

United States’ Nextiva acquires Indian AI company Simplify360

Nextiva, the United States-based conversation platform, has on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Simplify360, an artificial intelligence (AI) customer experience platform based in India.

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The future of AI-assisted development: A deep dive into GitHub Copilot X and GPT-4 with GitHub’s Shuyin Zhao [Q&A]

As Copilot X becomes a more integrated AI assistant throughout the development lifecycle, developers can expect to see improvements in code generation, logical reasoning, and better summations of documentation

Indian early-stage venture fund pi Ventures raises $12M from SIDBI

Indian early-stage venture fund pi Ventures has received a commitment of INR 100 Crores ($12 million) or 15 percent of the corpus out of Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS) managed by Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI).

Calls to pause development of AI ‘more powerful than GPT-4’ won’t solve the challenges ahead, says Bill Gates

The technologist-turned-philanthropist also said in the Reuters' interview the details of any pause would be complicated to enforce.

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Before jumping on the AI wave, remember these few things

In the face of new technologies, founders need to go back to the essentials of entrepreneurship and first ask themselves what pain points they can solve and in which industries. Only after they have taken these first two steps should they ask: “What role can the new tech play in this use case?”

Elon Musk, tech experts call for ‘pause’ on advanced AI systems

The open letter came as tech giants and AI startups are rushing to develop better and more powerful AI systems to rival ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by AI startup OpenAI which has gained popularity almost instantly.

Staying ahead of the curve in AI innovation: A conversation with CUE Group Southeast Asia’s Managing Director Daniel Posavac [Q&A]

Posavac discusses how AI technology can help discover outliers and missing values in big data and gives examples of how video AI technology can be customized to address different pain points for businesses or organizations beyond security and surveillance.