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

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That’s why Skills Union wants to connect tech startup workers looking to level up with an array of field-specific experts over live video. Much of the skills training for high-growth startups is happening through pre-recorded videos on platforms like Coursera or Codecademy. The model also enables more flexible learning.

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Deep Render lands $9M for its AI-powered video compression tech

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Deep Render , a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. Deep Render isn’t the only venture applying AI to the problem of video compression, nor is its AI a silver bullet necessarily.

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Nvidia launches new cloud services and partnerships to train generative AI

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At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-specific tasks,” like writing ad copy.

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Twelve Labs lands $12M for AI that understands the context of videos

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To Jae Lee, a data scientist by training, it never made sense that video — which has become an enormous part of our lives, what with the rise of platforms like TikTok, Vimeo and YouTube — was difficult to search across due to the technical barriers posed by context understanding. Image Credits: Twelve Labs.

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Dynamic video content moderation and policy evaluation using AWS generative AI services

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Organizations across media and entertainment, advertising, social media, education, and other sectors require efficient solutions to extract information from videos and apply flexible evaluations based on their policies. Popular use cases Advertising tech companies own video content like ad creatives.

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

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This is a quiet period for marketing: End-of-year campaigns are already underway, teams are on holiday vacations and there’s little to do until after the new year. Growth marketers have a wide variety of tools available, but which ones do the pros use? Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups.

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Unique closes $6M seed for its AI-driven video calls platform aimed at sales teams

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Unique , a video calls platform that uses AI to teach sales teams how to improve their pitches, has closed a $6 million seed round from a bunch of angel investors. The video recordings of these then help sales people work out which parts of their pitch work best. These include Philipp Stauffer (U.S and People.AI, (both unicorns).

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