In a world where artificial intelligence (AI) can beat chess grandmasters and drive cars, researchers may face their toughest challenge: teaching machines to tell a good joke. As AI systems grow increasingly sophisticated, tackling everything from medical diagnoses to autonomous vehicles, a new frontier has...
September 11, 2024
Conversational commerce startup Connectly has raised $20 million in funding. The Series B round, announced Wednesday (Sept. 11), was led by Alibaba, with participation from Unusual Ventures, Volpe Capital, RX Ventures, Falabella Ventures and Philippos Kourkoulos Latsis. Connectly, founded in 2020 by veterans of Facebook, Google, Uber and McKinsey, uses artificial intelligence (AI) models to […]