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The Booming Voice AI Landscape: A VC Perspective

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Sierra AI , founded by Bret Taylor (former co-CEO of Salesforce, CTO of Facebook and current chairman of OpenAI) is currently raising hundreds of millions of dollars at $4 billion valuation, just a year or so from launch after unlocking AI voice agents for companies.

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – August 1st 2024

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In the wider tech world, Generative AI startups raised $14.4B There’s been huge progress in AI in the past two weeks including new models from Meta , Google DeepMind , OpenAI searchGPT and voice models, Hugging Face SlolLM. It’s a testament to the fact that Israeli tech delivers #NOMATTERWHAT.

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19 years of VC Cafe

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Looking Back: A Year Defined by Generative AI 2024 will go down in history as the year generative AI truly went mainstream. It wasnt just startups leveraging generative AIcorporates like Adobe, Salesforce, and Google integrated AI-powered features into their core products, making it ubiquitous.