Using the same technology that suggests “friends” users may want to tag in photos or videos, Facebook’s new facial recognition features are designed to help people control their image on the social media platform by finding photos that they’re not tagged in and detecting when
Mirror AI, an AI-enabled emoji keyboard developer, obtained $3.5 million in financing. SoftBank Group, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, Y Combinator, I2BF Venture Capital, and Data Collective participated. Mirror Emoji used facial recognition technology to build a keyboard of emojis and stickers that look like users
AISense announced it acquired $10 million in Series A financing, led by Horizons Ventures and Draper Associates. Bridgewater Associates and DFJ DragonFund also participated. AISense seeks to improve enterprise productivity with Ambient Voice Intelligence, a speech recognition and deep learning platform designed to discern and
Glasses by Warby Parker is an artificial intelligence app that helps people find the perfect eyeglass frames using iPhone X’s TrueDepth camera. The app takes maps of people’s faces, and uses that data to recommend styles of glasses that will best fit their faces. It
WhatHisFace is an artificial intelligence app that provides face recognition for Netflix. It is a Chrome plugin that identifies actors on Netflix shows by using face recognition to display the names of actors onscreen. Users simply press CTR + Shift + E, and presto! WhatsHisFace
Ever AI announced it has raised $16 million in Series B financing led by Icon Ventures. Felicis Ventures and Khosla Ventures also participated. Ever AI is an advanced face recognition platform, developed from an ever-expanding private global dataset of more than 12 billion photos and