So, here's a question for you dear reader. I'm planning the upcoming Conversational AI Mini Summit on 10th of September in London and given the timing is 5-7pm, I thought we should have some food present. Donuts? Maybe. Some Pret A Manger sandwich platters? Possibly. Is
London based Jaja Finance recently announced they've launched, Airi, a virtual chat assistant using Anthropic's Claude 3 model family – running on top of Amazon Bedrock. They published the news back in May and this one has been on my list to write about! I specifically wanted
Citi London is hiring a Director of Generative AI in the United Kingdom. They are hunting for an individual to lead a Generative AI engineering group at the bank: The ideal candidate has a track record in delivering AI products to production, and at scale, in domains of GenAI and
Some senior industry appointment news for you this afternoon: Leading Conversational AI vendor boost.ai has hired a new Senior Vice President of Global Alliances, based in London, UK. His name is Adam Fenwick and, according to his LinkedIn, he joins from energy transition expert Eliq, where he worked for
If you'd like to reach a highly targeted audience of senior executives, much like yourself, please send me an email and I'll send you the media pack and sponsorship opportunities document. It's a glorious 16-page epic filled with some ideas that I would hope
Here's an interesting case study of how Meta's Llama is being adopted by many organisations to help power their internal (Conversational AI) infrastructure. I'm documenting this one for all of my colleagues (some who I know are reading) who are constantly having difficult discussions
Have a quick look at the graphic above. That's SK Telecom's pyramid strategy for becoming a Global AI Company. It's ambitious, clear and makes a ton of sense. Can you imagine Vodafone doing this? Or Deutsche Telecom? Or AT&T? With the greatest
It's always useful to keep a close eye on some of the more advanced companies and cultures on the planet to get an idea of what might be coming our way. The Nordics, for example, is a great area to observe closely because the societies there have been
I recently wrote about the fantastic voice to text capabilities of Play.ht. One of the company's recent offerings (Play.ai) expands this capability to introduce a Conversational Voice AI agent capability. Their introductory post cites this mission: Our mission is to build a universal Voice Interface that
Plump.ai is a virtual assistant to keep your job search active 24/7 without having to do anything. I can imagine quite a lot of candidates thinking, 'Absolutely brilliant'. Here's how the company describes its offering: Plump takes care of search, application, communication and management
Have you been following Bland.ai? They've just announced $16M in funding after emerging from stealth – bringing their total raise to $22M. Here's the first paragraph from their release: Today Bland AI, the platform automating phone calls for the enterprise using hyper-realistic AI agents, emerged from
I've been meaning to make sure I wrote about what the team at Play.ht have been creating. The company offers AI Text to Speech, AI Voice Cloning and a Voice Generation API – and I have to say, the demos I've tried are really, really good.