In addition to OpenAI, which other AI companies are worthy of attention from the perspective of financing?

The AI industry is still in a blue ocean of expansion.

Written by: Heart of the Metaverse

As stated in Microsoft's official blog, OpenAI leads the worldwide trend with ChatGPT. Not long ago, it officially announced that it will support networking functions and more than 70 third-party plug-ins, which guarantees the timeliness of ChatGPT, and its understanding, Integration and practicality have been expanded to a greater extent; last week, OpenAI officially launched the ChatGPT iOS application, and the transfer to mobile devices is undoubtedly an important strategy for its market expansion.

And just yesterday, Microsoft behind OpenAI dropped a series of blockbusters at the annual developer conference, the most explosive is that the Windows system will be fully connected to the AI assistant. Using a computer and just need to chat? PC interaction has been completely subverted by Microsoft! For details on the important content of the Microsoft Build Conference, please refer to "Microsoft King Explosion Update: AI is fully integrated into the Windows system!" Plug-in function upgrade" article.

This competition on AI has already entered a white-hot stage, and wonderful technological innovations are being staged every day. As one of the industry leaders, OpenAI knows that only by constantly updating and iterating can "the latecomers prevail."

But in addition to OpenAI, there are other AI companies that are also secretly working hard, and they have come up with their own "housekeeping skills" to win their own place in the AI field. This article has compiled 15 that also deserve our attention. AI companies at home and abroad are mainly based on the dimension of total financing to consider. In the future, we will bring you more representative companies in the domestic AI field, so as to jointly understand the overall situation of the AI industry and better grasp market trends.

1. Anthropic

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
  • Financing: $1.5 billion
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Anthropic is an AI security company dedicated to "building reliable, explainable, and manipulable AI systems." It was established in early 2021, and the founding team came from OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT and an artificial intelligence institution. Due to differences in the direction of OpenAI's development, fearing that Microsoft's first $1 billion investment in OpenAI will take it on a more commercial path and deviate from its original focus on advanced AI security, OpenAI's vice president of research and development Dario The team led by Amodei eventually chose to leave and form Anthropic.

Anthropic wants to make artificial intelligence safe, the company's current focus is research on the method called "constitutional AI" (constitutional AI), that is, without any human intervention, without flagging any mistakes, AI is capable of completely independent self-improvement provided it is provided with a set of principles.

And just in March of this year, Anthropic launched a chat robot Claude comparable to ChatGPT, which can help us deal with mountains of text, have natural conversations, have a huge training corpus, and automate work. Based on customer feedback, Claude is far less likely to produce harmful output, easier to talk to, and easier to navigate.

2. AI Scales

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
  • Financing: $603 million
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Scale AI was founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo (Lucy has since left the company). Scale AI’s core business is data labeling. It started from autonomous driving scenarios, and then cut into government, e-commerce, robots, large models and other scenarios, corresponding to the emergence of several major opportunities in the AI industry in the past. Benefiting from Alex's super personal ability and super team execution, Scale AI can quickly capture opportunities when every major trend comes, launch corresponding products, and quickly achieve a very high market share in subdivided fields.

Currently, Scale AI is very aggressively entering the field of MLOps and LLM, providing various tools, platforms and services. Including Scale Catalog, a picture generation tool for e-commerce scenarios, Scale Spellbook, a large language model developer tool platform, and Scale Synthetic, a synthetic data product, etc.

Among them, Scale Catalog is mainly aimed at e-commerce and retail enterprises. In addition to providing labeling services, it can also automatically generate product maps. It is a core product for Scale to enter the field of Generative AI applications. Scale Spellbook is a business that Scale has recently invested heavily in. It brings together Scale's core talents and is committed to building a developer-oriented tool platform based on large language models. Scale Synthetic is a tool for synthesizing data. As the model parameters continue to increase and the modes continue to enrich, the requirements for data volume are getting higher and higher. The real data volume can no longer meet the demand, and synthetic data has begun to attract attention.

3. Dialpad

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
  • Financing: $450 million
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"The foundation of our progress on the new Bing is our excellent cooperation with OpenAI," Dialpad, founded in 2011, is an artificial intelligence-driven customer intelligence platform that enables enterprise employees to communicate through voice, video and short messages through various devices . The company's mission is "to make communication easier". It has the ability to integrate multiple platforms, and provides personalized function options. It is committed to changing the traditional communication experience through innovative products and establishing new cooperative connections. .

Its business services include: allowing users to start or resume their business operations anytime, anywhere, and allowing full access from a single device source; chrome extensions allow users to easily manage contacts, receive call analysis, port numbers without interruption, and improve Overall productivity; Dialpad integrates telephony, messaging, video conferencing and contact center, simplifies IT management and connects teams and customers in one clear and simple control interface. Dialpad’s Ai Contact Center helped resolve customer requests 23% faster with built-in tools like sentiment analysis and real-time agent coaching**, an omnichannel workspace that manages all voice and digital customer interactions.

4. Insilico

  • Headquarters: Hong Kong, China
  • Financing: $401 million
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Founded in 2014, Insilico is a partner company of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation. It aims to provide solutions to world-renowned pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies through continuously updated and iterative AI technologies, so as to change the way innovative drugs and treatments are discovered and accelerate their development. R & D process.

The company has built a fully integrated new drug development software suite Pharma.AI, which includes PandaOmics, a new target discovery and sequencing platform, Chemistry42, a compound design and novel molecule generation platform, and InClinico, a clinical trial design and prediction platform.

Currently, among the world's top 20 pharmaceutical companies, 9 have authorized the introduction of Insilico's artificial intelligence drug research and development platform, including multinational pharmaceutical companies such as Merck and UCB. The industry also has a high evaluation of the company. Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman and CEO of Innovation Works, once mentioned, "Insilico is the first company that links biology, medicinal chemistry, drug clinical development and modern computing science with artificial intelligence. company."

5. Grammarly

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
  • Financing: $400 million
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Founded in 2009, Grammarly was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential Companies, and has topped Forbes' Cloud 100 and Software Report 100, among other lists. The company's grammar check software helps users check and correct errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and provides complete suggestions to correct text. It is currently used by 30 million daily users worldwide, including 50,000 professional institutions that provide grammar proofing services.

Grammarly offers four different tools to check your writing, including Grammar Checker, Plagiarism Checker, Proofreader and MS Office Add-in. In addition, Grammarly also supports third-party integration, allowing you to connect it with other applications. For example, if you connect a web browser to it, it can automatically check the text you write on the Internet and make sure that your writing is correct.

Compared with ChatGPT, an AI tool that also supports third-party plug-ins, Grammarly's algorithm is more accurate, can identify and correct errors more accurately, and provide users with better suggestions and improvement solutions. Although ChatGPT has a wider language knowledge and more language styles, it is still slightly inferior in functions such as document review, duplicate vocabulary check, and vocabulary expansion.

6. ASAP

  • Headquarters: New York, USA
  • Financing: $380 million
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ASAPP (Artificial Intelligence Call Center Company) is an artificial intelligence software service provider established in 2014. Headquartered in New York, USA, with offices in San Francisco Bay Area and London. The company's AI business is mainly to provide intelligent solutions for call center customer service, helping call center agents work more efficiently and with high quality.

ASAPP, Inc. aims to transform the customer experience in the contact center using artificial intelligence services and applications. Therefore, it does not want to replace the call center employees with AI through "machine replacement", but analyzes the incoming calls received by the most efficient agents in the call center, and draws reply suggestions and templates, which will be timely Suggestions are sent to all other agents to let customer service know how to respond to customers.

At the same time, ASAPP is advancing artificial intelligence to enhance human productivity and fully automate the world's workflow. Its products include: Contact Center AI, Messaging AI, Voice AI, Automation AI, etc.

7. Github Copilot

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
  • Financing: $350 million

Github Copilot is an artificial intelligence-assisted development tool. It is a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool jointly developed by GitHub and OpenAI. It was established in June 2021 and aims to provide developers with automated code hints and intelligent suggestions through machine learning algorithms. Thereby improving the quality and efficiency of software development.

On June 22, 2022, Copilot was officially launched, it is an artificial intelligence technology-based code auto-completion tool that can convert comments into code. Just write a comment to describe the logic you want, and GitHub Copilot can automatically "understand" and write the code for the corresponding function. It can also automatically fill in repeated codes, and can describe English input codes and translate codes between programming languages. For example, automatic completion of keywords, grammar suggestions, debugging suggestions, etc.

Github Copilot helps users of Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains integrated development environments (IDEs) complete code automatically. Trained on billions of lines of publicly available code, it can generate solution code when presented with a programming problem in natural language. Turning natural language prompts into coding suggestions in dozens of languages lets developers use GitHub Copilot to write code faster, focus on business logic instead of boilerplate code, and focus on more important things.

8. Lightricks

  • Headquarters: Jerusalem, Israel
  • Financing: $335 million
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Lightricks is an Israeli computer vision and image processing technology unicorn company founded in 2013 by five entrepreneurs with comprehensive knowledge in the fields of computer graphics, image processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Integrate advanced technologies such as computer vision, computer graphics, and image processing into mobile products to provide high-quality photo and video editing applications. Its headquarters is located in Jerusalem, Israel, and it also has a branch in Haifa, the country, and offices in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Lightricks' AI business is to provide users with services such as beauty, filters, and video editing. At present, the company's main products include Facetune, Facetune 2, Lightleap, Photofox, Videoleap, Quickshot and more than ten products. Among them, the selfie editing app Facetune is especially famous. With just a few taps, you can whiten your teeth, remove blemishes, smooth your skin, brighten your complexion, enlarge your eyes and slim your face in videos and photos with just a few taps. Loved by the majority of users.

Lightricks' Value is "CREATE FUN", which is about creating passion and keeping fun in the workplace. The company creates products and services at the constant technological limit, conceives the way creators express themselves, and uses innovative technology and sophisticated design to reshape the creator experience.

9. Moveworks

  • Headquarters: Mountain View, California, USA
  • Financing: $305 million

Moveworks is an American artificial intelligence company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. Moveworks has developed an AI platform designed for large enterprises that uses natural language understanding (NLU), probabilistic machine learning, and automation to resolve workplace requests. Works with everything from Microsoft to Workday to Salesforce. Its mission is to make language a universal user interface.

Moveworks' AI business is providing automation solutions for businesses, including automating IT support, HR, facility management, and more. Moveworks' main product is an AI assistant called Moveworks Assistant, which can interact with employees through apps like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and more. Use advanced conversational artificial intelligence in three powerful ways. First, it understands exactly what employees want, no matter what they ask for. Next, it handles the natural flow of conversation without needing to follow a script. Finally, it integrates with the user's entire technology stack, which means it automatically delivers the most relevant solutions without requiring teams to maintain them.

10. Anyscale

  • Headquarters: Mountain View, California, USA
  • Funding: $259 million
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Founded in 2019, Anyscale is a distributed computing platform based on Ray. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA. The company's purpose is to explore the standardized process of distributed computing and abstract it into simple and easy-to-use products. It enables more people engaged in AI/ML, such as data scientists and machine learning engineers, to independently complete distributed computing without relying on high-level IT personnel.

Anyscale's AI business is providing automation solutions for enterprises, including automating IT support, HR, facilities management, etc.. Anyscale's main products are an open source distributed computing framework called Ray, and the commercial product Anyscale.

Ray is an open source distributed computing framework consisting of a core distributed computing architecture (Ray Core) and a tool library (Ray AIR) for simplifying ML computing. The tool library includes tools and services for multiple links such as Data and Train, which can expand AI/ML and Python workloads from a single machine to multiple computers, thereby improving the operating efficiency of the workload, and running on any machine, cluster, cloud, Runs on Kubernetes.

One of its advantages is: It is a development environment that integrates many machine learning tools and platforms, which can realize the seamless connection from development to production. Moreover, if customers use Anyscale, they do not need an internal self-built team to build and maintain a distributed computing system, which is convenient and reduces labor costs.

11. Dupdub

  • Headquarters: Beijing, China
  • Financing: $252 million
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Dupdub, the overseas version of Magic Voice Workshop, is a new generation of AI voice workshop for content creators designed and developed by the artificial intelligence unicorn company invested by Google. Since 2012, it has focused on voice AI interaction and software and hardware integration, providing B2B and B2C AI products and services to more than 40 countries and regions.

Dupdub currently has more than 1 million global users, more than 400 AI voice-overs, and supports more than 40 languages and dialects. It can create fascinating and realistic AI narration subtitles for pictures or videos in a few minutes, and it can also be online for a few seconds Bell converts text to speech.

In addition, DupDub also provides efficient tools - transcription, translation, subtitle alignment and video download, supports multiple editing functions, including but not limited to adjusting sound speed, pitch, pause, rhythm, setting multiple voice-overs in one file, modifying Pronunciation, adding sound effects and background music make the editing process more efficient. Using Dupdub to generate AI dubbing costs only more than ten dollars per month, which can save costs and time, and quickly achieve professionalization and globalization.

12. Inflection AI

  • Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, USA
  • Financing: $225 million
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Inflection AI is an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman. It has launched its first artificial intelligence chatbot product Pi. The Inflection team includes some of the industry's top AI experts who have worked at DeepMind, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

Pi is the abbreviation of Personal Intelligence (artificial intelligence). It is a computer program built on a proprietary large-scale language model that can process billions of lines of text that can be developed. It can talk to users, chat, answer questions, etc., whether it is common sense theory , or interpersonal relationships. The model is developed and trained entirely in-house by Inflection AI, without using any third-party language model APIs.

Suleyman said Pi is more like a human companion, with the advantage of being more empathetic and compassionate than other AIs. Compared with ChatGPT, Pi is more concise, humorous and innovative, and does not want to compete with humans in legal, financial, medical and other professional fields. Pi can be downloaded from the App Store and supports multiple platforms including message, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.

13. Weights&Biases

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
  • Financing: $200 million
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Weights&Biases mainly develops development tools suitable for machine learning. Its founder is Biewald, who was the co-founder of FigureEight. Weights&Biases is the developer's first MLOps platform to build better models more efficiently using weight and bias experiment tracking, making it easy to manage and version data and collaborate with teams to focus on building the best model possible.

The Weights&Biases platform helps users streamline their weights and biases workflow from start to finish. The development of its software is quite different from the traditional software development methods, and it pays more attention to issues such as data management and model updating.

Currently its most well-known product is wandb for experiment management, which has more functions of team management and user management, and has been used by cutting-edge artificial intelligence teams including OpenAI, NVIDIA and cohere.

14. There is

  • Headquarters: Toronto, Canada
  • Financing: $191 million
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Founded in 2014, Ada is a Canadian intelligent chat robot company. The company mainly improves intelligent customer service through AI technology, and provides customized services for corporate customers in different fields.

Ada is based on changing the customer experience with artificial intelligence. Ada is built on the basis of large-scale language model (LLM), using generative artificial intelligence to automatically solve the most customer service inquiries through more channels and languages with the least effort. Provide cost-effective solutions, backed by global security and privacy standards, provide customers with advanced and intelligent experience, and provide strength and assistance to the team.

The Ada platform can be proficient in the business field of the target customer in a short period of time. The natural language understanding engine developed by it abandons the heavy and old-fashioned code, and solves more customer inquiries with less manpower on an easy-to-use platform. It is powered by dialogue, The recognition rate is as high as 90%.

15. Examples

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
  • Financing: $168 million
  • Official website:

PrimerAI is a language service company based on ChatGPT technology research and development, mainly provides knowledge management, summarization and enterprise search for enterprises, and is famous for its anti-counterfeiting technology. PrimerAI's slogan is Beyond Thinking, Beyond Space, and Beyond Maneuvering, and it mainly provides data analysts with the help to understand and act on large amounts of unstructured data in real time, whether from text and images, or audio and video.

Its NLP products and technologies provide clients with agile artificial intelligence solutions to accelerate decision cycles and leverage data for strategic and tactical advantage. PrimerAI's ability to see people, organizations, and places in real-time from large-scale text, image, and audio data can help detect early warning signs hours before traditional methods.

Conclusion

AI is like a hurricane, quickly sweeping the world. It can provide personalized experience for individuals and realize modern digital development for enterprises. The global financial market and major technology giants' attention and investment in AI are enough to prove that this industry is still in the blue ocean of expansion.

Cutting-edge companies like OpenAI are driving innovation and shaping the latest trends and advances in the AI industry, making them, or soon to be, the most visible businesses in 2023. Their products may break through the boundaries of cognition and pave the way for AI to revolutionize the entire era.

Even if some of the company's products specialize in areas that seem to be far away from the lives or work of ordinary people, these AI companies deserve our continued attention, because the future predicted by AI is coming. The invention of the computer was originally only to serve the military data calculation during World War II, but today, the application of the computer has already involved all walks of life. The biggest change that AI can bring to the world is unknown. In addition to those commonplace topics, we may have to learn to dance with the uncertainty that subverts the boundaries of imagination and knowledge.

We are in the fourth wave of technological revolution represented by AI. The ebb and flow may leave only truly innovative technologies.

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