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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrives in Israel, will meet the President, but not Netanyahu

04.06.23|Yuval Sade
There were attempts to arrange a meeting between Altman and the Prime Minister, but it is believed that Altman is not interested in meeting with Netanyahu partly due to the political situation and the PM's status as a controversial figure in the high-tech industry
Hyro team

Hyro raises $20 million for plug-and-play conversational AI platform

31.05.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup is developing a no-code platform for AI-powered call center, web, and mobile solutions
ועידת טוקיו 2023 איל אגמוני מייסד Chartered Group ו פרופ הייזו טאקנאקה אונ' קיו שר לשעבר וידאו

"The AI revolution, and especially generative AI, will completely change the world as we know it"

30.05.23|Meir Orbach
Takenaka Heizo, Professor Emeritus at Keio University, was speaking with Eyal Agmoni, Founder of Chartered Group, during the Israel-Japan Conference in Tokyo
Assaf Harel

Startups, prepare for your AI due diligence

29.05.23|Assaf Harel
"With great power comes great responsibility, and irresponsible use of AI, especially in startups, can have far-reaching consequences, impacting the company's valuation and its ability to be sold," writes Adv. Assaf Harel
דידי גורפינקל מיכל קיסוס הרצוג טל ברנוח startup+ סטארט אפ פלוס

"I think AI is perhaps the biggest revolution since the invention of the internet"

23.05.23|Maayan Manela
Tal Barnoach, General Partner of VC firm Disruptive, was speaking ahead of the finals of Calcalist and Poalim Hi-Tech's 2023 StartUp+ competition.
כלי אוטונומי קרקעי תעשייה אווירית

"Our mission is to turn the State of Israel into an AI superpower"

22.05.23|Reuters
Defense Ministry director-general Eyal Zamir also revealed that steps to harness rapid AI evolutions include the formation of a dedicated organization for military robotics in the ministry, and a record-high budget for related research and development this year
Ashdod Port Spinframe

Zim leads $8 million investment in vehicle-inspection startup Spinframe

17.05.23|Sophie Shulman
The Israeli startup’s AI-enabled platform creates “Digital Twins” for vehicles throughout the supply chain and detects anomalies from the assembly line throughout the vehicle journey to the dealership and end customer
מוסף חג העצמאות 25.4.23 חברת  UVEYE האחים אוהד  אמיר

UVeye secures $100 million Series D for automated vehicle-inspection systems

09.05.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup offers vehicle-inspection systems based on AI, computer-vision and machine-learning technologies that detect vehicle damage and mechanical issues
MindJourney אילוסטרציה לקרב בין קוד פתוח לקוד סגור.

Can open source defeat Google and OpenAI in the AI arms race?

09.05.23|Omer Kabir
A leaked Google document revealed the technology giant’s concern that it could be losing the generative AI arms race to open source researchers
הוליווד לוס אנג'לס קליפורניה

"The immediate fear of AI isn’t that our work will be replaced. It’s that we will be underpaid to rewrite its trash"

08.05.23|Viki Auslender
The Writers Guild of America is on strike to demand that AI be regulated and removed from writers’ rooms
מוסף שבועי 4.5.23 ד"ר גארי מרקוס

"This is the teenage phase of AI. Tools with extraordinary power that are completely unreliable”

08.05.23|Roni Dori
Gary Marcus, one of world’s foremost AI experts, recognizes the positive potential inherent in technology, but warns that we must urgently develop regulations against the spread of disinformation
נפתלי בנט בהצהרות לתקשורת

“Israel must position itself as one of the three leading AI powers in the world,” says former Prime Minister Bennett

08.05.23|CTech
In a long Twitter post, Bennett stressed the significance of AI and the important role Israeli high-tech should play in its development
Itay Inbar

Data infrastructure: The picks and shovels of the AI gold rush

01.05.23|Itay Inbar
"While we believe it is too early to call what AI will look like in a few years’ time given the mind-blowing pace of innovation, it is clear to us that a solid data foundation is key to enabling its progress," writes Itay Inbar of Greenfield Partners
צוות פיינקון

Pinecone hits $750 million valuation in $100 million round to build long-term memory for AI

27.04.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup has seen its valuation increase more than four-fold in one year
Yoav Shoham Ori Goshen Amnon Shashua A21

AI21 Labs: “It’s like the mobile revolution but maybe even bigger"

25.04.23|Sophie Shulman
The explosion of new generation artificial intelligence, with ChatGPT becoming a household name, also boosted the business of AI21 Labs - with Amazon being just one of its new customers
איור הייטק  יונתן פופר

Artificial intelligence discourse dominated by utopian and dystopian prophecies

23.04.23|Viki Auslender
Both sides of the AI argument, both the fascinated and the frightened, actually belong to the same passionate camp

The environmental pollution behind the boom in artificial intelligence

23.04.23|Viki Auslender, Shani Ashkenazi
Huge server farms that power AI have a climate impact that could increase to 14% of global carbon emissions