AI assistant

Read AI raises $50M to integrate its bot with Slack, email and more

Now that we have so many startups offering AI bots that can do everything from listening to your meetings and transcribe them, to taking notes and surfacing insights, companies in the space are being forced to differentiate themselves by offering additional feature sets and integrations. One such company, Read AI is trying to do just

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Desktop AI assistant app Highlight spins out of Medal with $10M in funding

Earlier this year, Medal, a startup known for its video game clipping features, launched a cross-platform AI assistant called Highlight. Now, the company is spinning off Highlight into a new entity, which has raised $10 million in a funding round. General Catalyst led the funding round with Valor, SV Angel, and Conviction Embed participating in

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Opera’s new feature lets you group, pin and close tabs through natural language commands

Opera browser has a new AI-powered feature that lets you take action on tabs through natural language queries. Things you can do include grouping, pinning, bookmarking and closing tabs with these commands. The company said people can trigger the Aria command bar — by pressing Ctrl + / or Cmd + / — and type out

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Sybill raises $11M for its AI assistant that helps salespeople reduce administrative burden

Sybill, a startup that has built an AI assistant specifically for sales representatives, said on Wednesday it has raised $11 million in a Series A round led by Greycroft. The market for sales AI assistants has grown quite crowded as companies have leveraged generative AI and large language models to help salespeople automate grunt work

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Travel startup Mindtrip’s new feature lets you build an itinerary from a screenshot, YouTube or TikTok video

AI travel agent startup Mindtrip on Tuesday released a feature that lets you save places or build an itinerary from several places around the web. Mindtrip lets you insert a link like a Reddit post or a blog, and ask the AI assistant to build an itinerary based on the places mentioned. You can also

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Friend’s $99 necklace uses AI to help combat loneliness

AI hardware is all the rage in startup land — though receptions have thus far been mixed. Two notable examples, Rabbit and Humane, released devices to disappointing results. a16z-backed Limitless and Exor-backed Bee AI, meanwhile, are working on their own screenless AI wearables. Avi Schiffmann, a Harvard dropout who built a Webby Award-winning website tracking

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