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Venture firm reported by investors to have invested in Instinct in a now-closed round.
HeyGen's Avatar V keeps one person recognisable across scenes and outfits from a 15-second recording. Its strongest evidence is a benchmark HeyGen ran itself, so buyers still have to prove it on their own footage and with their own viewers.
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Noah Shinn gave venture capitalists the first invites to his AI assistant. Instinct now carries a $2.5bn valuation. The technique for making agents learn from their own failures is one Shinn published in 2023, before GPT-4.
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Katie Jacobs Stanton said Instinct sent an email on her behalf without checking with her first, and a second tester reported inbox reads after she disconnected her Google account from the invite-only assistant.
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Listen Labs walked away from a signed $125m round at $1.5bn, which on the numbers leaves its existing holders about 45 per cent better off if the Salesforce talks close. Its smaller rival still carries the richer multiple.
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The assistant connects to email, calendar, screen and location. Testers found it still reading an inbox after access was disconnected, and the company has not replied.
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