Vi pratar med investmentbolaget Flat Capitals vd Hanna Andréen om bolagets tech-portfölj, deras senaste kapitaltillskott samt om Klarna, som är tätt förknippade med Flat Capital, och på väg mot börsen.
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We are living through an AI revolution: the past decade witnessed practically useful AI assistants, AI systems that can generate photorealistic images and videos, and even models that can predict the structure of proteins. But in spite of all these advances, human intelligence dramatically outpaces AI when it comes to the physical world…
The Lyst Index is a quarterly ranking of fashion’s hottest brands and products. Lyst is a fashion technology company and premium shopping app, used by more than 200 million people each year to browse, discover and buy items from brands and stores. The formula behind The Lyst Index takes into account Lyst shoppers’ behavior, including searches on and off platform, product views and sales. To track brand and product heat, the formula also incorporates social media mentions, activity and engagement statistics worldwide, over a three month period.
Sebastian Siemiatkowskis Flat Capital investerar 10 miljoner kronor i Budbee-grundaren Fredrik Hamiltons nya säkerhetsbolag Hemla. Totalt tar bolaget in 30 miljoner kronor, som även kommer från grundarna av Kry och Voi, i en kapitalrunda för att lansera sina första produkter under våren 2025.
"We’ve raised $6.6B in new funding at a $157B post-money valuation to accelerate progress on our mission. The new funding will allow us to double down on our leadership in frontier AI research, increase compute capacity, and continue building tools that help people solve hard problems."
NYC-based hub will focus on product research, innovation and development driven by surging demand among US businesses for DeepL’s enterprise-ready AI translation and writing tools. Newly-appointed CTO and CMO executives will further support DeepL’s rapid growth in the US and worldwide
Det svenska underklädesmärket CDLP backas av celebriteter som Cristina Stenbeck, Niklas Adalberth och Alicia Vikander. Nu tar bolaget in ytterligare 47 miljoner kronor till en något stukad värdering. ”Vi är inte lönsamma ännu och vårt främsta fokus framåt är såklart att bli det”, säger bolagets vd och medgrundare Andreas Palm.
Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, today announced new features to its AI assistant powered by OpenAI. The AI assistant now offers a chat-based shopping experience, helping users spend less time and supports them in finding the right goods at the right price. The AI assistant provides personalized product recommendations, expert advice, category and brand comparisons, and access to customer reviews—streamlining the path from inspiration to purchase.
“Vi har haft en strategi att följa de vassaste teamen och investerarna inom AI och är hittills väldigt imponerade av deras förmåga att sälja och rulla ut sina produkter”
I podden “Ett rikare liv” intervjuar vår reporter Helene Rothstein investerare, vd:ar, fondförvaltare och andra personer inom näringslivet som har en intressant historia att berätta.
"As we enter Harvey’s third year, we wanted to take a moment to share some of the key metrics and usage trends that get us really excited about this new era of technology adoption. We have more conviction than ever that professional service firms, especially BigLaw, will accelerate their already strong adoption of Harvey."
Klarna the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has launched two new products tapping into retail banks’ core business: everyday spending and saving. Launched in 12 countries across Europe and the US, this marks a significant step forward in Klarna’s mission to disrupt retail banking and become an every day spending partner to the world’s consumers.
We are excited to announce our Series C led by GV (Google Ventures) with participation from OpenAI, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, and SV Angel. This $100M investment at a $1.5B valuation will enable Harvey to continue scaling and improving our AI-powered technology across business functions and geographies.
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Klarna säljer sin kassalösning, som var med och lade grunden till bolagets framgångar i Sverige, för en total prislapp om 3,4 miljarder kronor. Köpare är en grupp svenska entreprenörer som leds av Kamjar Hajabdolahi.
Apple is partnering with OpenAI to put ChatGPT into Siri, the company announced at its wwdc 2024 keynote on Monday.
OpenAI has grown into a global organization serving hundreds of millions of consumers, millions of developers and the world’s largest companies. To make continued progress on our mission, we are doubling down on the things we have always done uniquely well: conducting world-leading research, and using it as the foundation to build and safely deploy AI products.
”Together, we hope to support our clients as they navigate the rapidly evolving landscape that is generative AI. We believe that more partnerships, more transparency, and ultimately more trust is the only path forward given the complexity of the times ahead. We are honored to partner with Mistral AI.”
GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds, which is similar to human response time(opens in a new window) in a conversation. It matches GPT-4 Turbo performance on text in English and code, with significant improvement on text in non-English languages, while also being much faster and 50% cheaper in the API. GPT-4o is especially better at vision and audio understanding compared to existing models.
Nordstjernan har tillsammans med Flat Capital och en rad andra investerare investerat i Oden Technologies, ett data- och ai-mjukvaruföretag för tillverkningsindustrin. Bakom bolaget, som har sin bas i New York, står svensken Willem Sundblad.