Sesame, which is developing an AI agent with a natural-sounding human voice and smart glasses, raised a $250M Series B and opens an early beta of its iOS app
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Sources: Sesame, which makes realistic AI voice assistants, is in talks to raise $200M+ co-led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital, valuing the startup at $1B+
a startup that's created hyper-realistic artificial intelligence voice assistants named Maya and Miles …
Sesame's AI speech model demo has many users expressing astonishment at its realism, with some testers reporting an emotional connection to the voice assistant
In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants.
Sesame, headed by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, exits stealth with an undisclosed amount of funding, unveiling an AI speech model and plans for AI glasses
Here's an embedded 13-minute audio clip of my first attempt! — www.theverge.com/news/621022/ ... X: @sesame : At Sesame, we believe in a future where computers are lifelike. Today we are unveiling a...
Candy House announces Sesame smart lock with knock pattern recognition, remote access, 500 day battery life for $89; on Kickstarter now, shipping late April
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Sesame Street now has its own dedicated video-on-demand service called Sesame GO
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Sesame Bringing E-Books to the iPhone
Two weeks after Sesame Workshop said it would launch a line of digital books for children 2 to 6 years old, the nonprofit organization has launched an iPhone app that will let kids read Sesame books o...