Category AI

Creative Automation: How Generative AI is reshaping creativity

The introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 marked a transformative moment in content creation. I’ve been writing about this since 2021 on VC Cafe. As an investor in entertainment tech, gaming, and next-gen consumer tech at Remagine Ventures, this topic…

Five Advancements Powering the Future of Content Creation

You’ve heard about the streaming wars, the cloud gaming/console wars, the rise of the creator economy. Behind all of these multi billion dollar markets vying for the consumer’s time and money, content plays a key role. Quality content makes users…

AI in Israel Grows Beyond Computer Vision

Computer vision

More than 1,200 AI startups (broadly defined) were created in Israel since 2010.  79% of which are still active, 6% have been acquired, and 15% have ceased to operate. With more than 667 of them raising at least one founding…

How Venture Capital Funds Leverage AI and Big Data

big data analytics

Venture Capitalists invest in tech, but how much tech do they actually USE in running their own business? From sourcing investment opportunities to choosing which ones will take off,  I took a look at the latest trends in AI and…

Roundup of 2018 AI Predictions

In this post I round up various AI predictions, not so much the ‘eye rolling’ apocalyptic ones, but the more practical view on how will AI progress next year.

No need to mention that forecasting is not easy, and you have to take these with a big pinch of salt, but it’s still interesting to extend an imaginary line from an existing trend and see where it leads.

Israel’s Top Deep Learning Startups

Israeli startups in Deep Learning

This guest post by Chris Rowen of Cognite Ventures answers the question "Where are all the Israeli deep learning startups?” 
Several large clusters are particularly noticeable:

* Chat-bots for engaging with customers more continuously and adaptively and coaching sales people
* All kinds of e-commerce optimization - enhanced bidding, ad campaign optimization, pricing and incentives
* Fraud protection in ecommerce including ad fraud
* Predictive maintenance in manufacturing and operations
* IT infrastructure management especially for cyber security
* All sorts of brand management and promotion

Read the full post for the list and other insights from Chris.