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Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M

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The cash injection brings Adept’s total raised to $415 million, which co-founder and CEO David Luan says is being put toward productization, model training and headcount growth. ” Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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This startup wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images

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Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. During Adato’s Ph.D. “I realized that there’s a real business use case for this,” Adato said.

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10 growth marketing experts share their 2022 predictions and New Year’s resolutions

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We reached out to 10 growth marketing experts to find how they were preparing for 2022 and to ask they had any New Year’s resolutions to share. The answers and advice we received were as varied as the people we polled, but nearly all of them indicated that learning — e.g., analytics training, getting started with AI tools, etc. —

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Singapore’s Skills Union wants to close the skills gap via live video training

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Online professional training isn’t new; it’s not uncommon to see medium-sized startups allocate several thousand dollars to individual employees each year to further their “personal development.” The company is exhibiting as one of the Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022.

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The Future of Product Management

Speaker: Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, Founder and CEO of The Product School

Why your organization should continuously invest in product training. Top trends to look out for in 2022 and beyond. March 23, 2022 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 6:00 pm BST. How these trends are influencing the future of Product Management. This is an exclusive session that you won't want to miss!

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Pitch on stage at TC Sessions: Space 2022

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In addition to the opportunity to pitch, you’ll get training with TC’s Startup Battlefield Editor, two complimentary passes to the entire TC Sessions: Space event. Pitch on stage at TC Sessions: Space 2022 by Neesha A. Incorporated anywhere (pitch will take place in person). The deadline to apply is November 27.

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V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models

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It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing and ingesting ever-larger data troves. But annotating and manipulating that training data takes a lot of time and money, slowing down the work or overall effectiveness, and maybe both. V7’s specific USP is automation.

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