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Los Angeles-based ‘deep tech’ investment firm Riot Ventures is raising a $75M fund

TechCrunch LA

The firm has largely flown under the radar, but it has been investing in startups applying innovations in automation, artificial intelligence, computer vision, computational biology, material sciences and robotics to industrial products and processes for the past two years. Oculus, Snap, Tinder and others.

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

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And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio.

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AI.LA New Realities Expert Panel #1

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Thursday, July 27, 2017 -- AI.LA Debunk the hype around AI Explore the intersections between VR and Artificial Intelligence Gain insight on the most entertaining advancements in new technologies Discuss biases in data and creator when developing an AI. New Realities Expert Panel #1. Why attend?

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Techstars Music Names New Class Of Startups In LA

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Techstars Music Accelerator says that its program is being supported by Warner Music Group, Sony, Concord, Bill Silva Entertainment, Silva Artist Management, RecoChoku, Royalty Exchange, Q Prime Management and others.

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N3XT CON

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Sunday, April 2, 2017 -- N3XT CON. Hear from industry leaders in technology, entertainment and startups in three rooms at the Pasadena Convention Center.

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Interview with Nikhil Jain, ObEN

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Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Entertainment Co., Nikhil Jain: We plan on doing our product launch in Q2 of 2017. What has been the biggest lesson you've learned from your past startups which you are applying here? Gordon Cheng (Cameron Pace Group China), and Idealab.

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The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films

TechCrunch LA

The eight-people team is led by Cheng Lyu, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who goes by Jesse and helped Baidu build up its smart speaker unit from scratch after the Chinese search giant acquired his voice startup Raven in 2017. Rct wants to take the experience to the next level by recruiting artificial intelligence for screenwriting.

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