Zoom in: ProRata.ai's product, Gist Answers, lets publishers embed custom AI search on their websites. Publishers can show AI-powered summaries and recommendations exclusively based off their own content or showcase content from ProRata.ai's broader network of 750 publishers. "It's absolutely free to all the websites, and it's actually profit-making, small profit, but profit-making," Gross tells Axios. "Our whole goal is to get this ethical search distributed as far and wide as possible."
After vapes staved off the extinction of tobacco, a new generation of nicotine products is promising a safer, albeit no less addictive, form of consumption through tobacco-free pouches made popular by the likes of Zyn and Velo. Now, a celebrity-backed upstart called Sesh is trying to challenge those incumbents. Buoyed by $40 million in venture funding from Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale's 8VC, along with music stars Diplo and Post Malone,
EliseAI Raises $250M in Series E funding New York City-based EliseAI is focused on automating systems in healthcare and housing. For healthcare, it offers a platform that automates conversations with patients over voice, email, text and chat. It also helps schedule appointments with doctors, and sends alerts about billing and payment. Its Series E round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and included participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures and Navitas Capital.
As advances in computing and AI have quickened the pace of research and development, the sector has become a hotbed of startup and investor activity. Inside a fusion reaction, atoms are compressed and heated until they form a fourth state of matter known as plasma. When the plasma reaches the right temperature and pressure, those atoms begin to fuse, releasing tremendous amounts of energy in the process.