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"Don't be afraid to make any mistakes. Don't get in love with your product, get in love with the solution." In a recent episode of Tech Salescraft, Elad Ben-Israel, Co-Founder and CEO of Wing, delves into the challenging yet rewarding path of navigating the startup landscape. With extensive experience in tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, Elad shares his insights on the importance of innovative sales strategies and the evolving role of a CEO in a tech startup. Explore our latest blog for a detailed look at how Elad’s journey and Wing’s approach to building impactful tech solutions highlight the significance of passion, leadership, and community in driving startup success.👇 https://lnkd.in/ez37nbQ7 #StartupStories #TechSalesRecruitment #TechSalescraft #TechSalesBlog

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Have you integrated generative AI into your applications? Alon Gubkin, CTO from Aporia, is here to help! Alon, an entrepreneurial full-stack engineer and the CTO of Aporia, leads a team dedicated to creating innovative solutions that enhance the reliability and effectiveness of AI applications. His expertise in the field is demonstrated through his work on Aporia Guardrails, a tool trusted by top enterprises to mitigate risks in AI deployment. 🗣 In his talk, “Mitigating RAG Hallucinations with Aporia Guardrails”, Alon explored: - The Inherent Risk: More than 70% of companies plan to release a RAG chatbot in 2024, but the risk of hallucinations could derail many projects. - Proactive Mitigation: How Aporia Guardrails address hallucinations, ensuring the integrity and reliability of generative AI applications. 🔑 Key takeaways attendees learned: - The critical role of observability and evaluation in generative AI applications. - Strategies to mitigate RAG hallucinations with Aporia Guardrails. - Practical guidance on incorporating robust safety measures in AI applications. If you’re building a RAG chatbot or implementing one into your product, don’t let hallucinations derail your project from reaching production. 🎥 Watch the full session on our YouTube channel! https://lnkd.in/ebmgq6g5

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An Israeli startup that uses sophisticated AI software to dub movies and shows into foreign languages has launched its new Enterprise Plan, which includes API integration to meet an increasing need for scalable, high-quality localization solutions by major Hollywood studios and global dubbing houses. By using deep learning algorithms, Deepdub’s AI dubbing software can be trained to quickly learn the patterns of a particular voice sample and convey the voice actor’s specific tone and emotion, as well as adapt to different local cultural contexts and accents from country to country. “This technology caters perfectly to the growing economic and production demands of Hollywood and dubbing studios worldwide. Our 5X revenue growth this year is a testament to the market’s confidence in our solutions”, said Deepdub CEO Ofir Krakowski. #aisoftware #dubbing #foreignlanguages #APIintegration #Hollywoodstudios #EnterprisePlan #dubbingworkflows #israelinnovation #israelitech https://lnkd.in/dB9raEZw

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  Tel Aviv and IBM teams question the conventional benchmarking practices, which typically involve training models from scratch with random initialization as modeling long-range dependencies in sequences has led to notable architectural advancements, with state space models (SSMs) emerging as a significant alternative to Transformers. According to the team, this method may overestimate the differences between architectures.   The researchers propose pretraining models using standard denoising objectives with downstream task data, a method they term selfpretraining (SPT). This approach significantly narrows the performance gap between Transformers and SSMs. For example, pretrained vanilla Transformers can match the performance of advanced SSMs like S4 on benchmarks such as the Long Range Arena (LRA). Specifically, SPT improved the best reported results of SSMs on the PathX-256 task by 20 points.   Key findings from the study include:   1. Transformers vs. SSMs: Properly pretrained vanilla Transformers can achieve performance comparable to S4 on LRA tasks, challenging the notion that Transformers are less capable of modeling long-range dependencies. 2. Redundancy of Structured Parameterizations: Structured parameterizations in SSMs become mostly redundant with data-driven initialization through pretraining, suggesting that simpler models can match the performance of more complex architectures. 3. Effectiveness Across Data Scales: SPT is particularly beneficial when training data is scarce, with relative gains more pronounced with smaller datasets. 4. Adaptability of Convolution Kernels: Data-driven kernels learned via SPT adapt to specific task distributions, enhancing performance on long-sequence tasks.   The study emphasizes the importance of incorporating a pretraining stage in model evaluation to ensure accurate performance estimation and simplify architecture design. This approach not only provides a fair comparison between different architectures but also highlights the efficiency of pretraining in leveraging task data.    Arxiv: https://lnkd.in/enaH3mhu

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"𝗬𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗺'𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗥 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁." Yotam Tzuker, CEO and co-founder of Team Me, is featured on Calcalist כלכליסט's Growth+ project, where he met with Ronni Zehavi, CEO and co-founder of HiBob. They explored the challenges faced by early-stage startups over the past seven months and discussed how tough times foster resilience. Dive into their conversation through the link in the comments. Guy Katsovich | Yair Vardi | Poalim Tech #growth #PortfolioCompany #startups

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Drowning in cloud costs and multi-cloud chaos? On November 25th, meet us at Pavilion 10, Expo Tel Aviv, during Google Cloud Day Tel Aviv. Profisea has got the solution you’ve been searching for! 💡 Here’s why you should meet us: - Manage all your clouds in one place with Uniskai’s real-time cost optimization and AI-powered insights. - Minimize your cloud costs while maximizing efficiency and performance. - Simplify multi-cloud operations and stay ahead with our expert support as a trusted cloud reseller. Let’s transform cloud chaos into clarity and results. 🚀 Don’t miss the chance to explore the future of FinOps—we’re here to make it happen! #CloudDayTelAviv #MultiCloud #FinOps #Uniskai #AI #CloudOptimization

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🎮 How Pokémon GO Revolutionized.. AI Navigation 🌍 My latest report for 9 TV Channel Israel / 9tv.co.il dives into how Niantic turned player data into one of the most advanced geospatial AI models of our time. A huge thank you to Anastassiya Yezekhel my co-author, for her incredible collaboration on this story. Stay tuned—there’s more to come! Roman Yanushevsky

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My friend 🎗️Yuval Avidani is so talented 🫶🏻 This weekend he worked on a code that allows him to type on a note by blinking only. How? Using a Python CV suite (computing vision) + using a pre-trained model on detecting head movements and eye movements + logic that detects blinking. Baby steps. Well done, Yuval! 🥳✌️🏻 #machinelearning #python #innovation

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DEC 4: Here are today's leading news headlines in the Israeli high-tech industry, coming to you from CTech: (Links to the full articles in the comments)

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Cybersecurity giant Wiz has announced a deal to buy Israeli-founded cybersecurity startup Dazz for $450 million, marking its third acquisition in a year. - by Frederic Eger - Photo: Founders of Israeli-founded startup Dazz (from left to right): Yuval Ofir (VP R&D), Merav Bahat (CEO), and Tomer Schwartz (CTO). (Courtesy) - Dazz, headquartered in Palo Alto with offices in Tel Aviv and New York, has developed a remediation platform that uses generative AI technologies for root-cause analysis of fast-evolving security threats. The AI platform is geared to automate the process of detecting, prioritizing, and fixing security vulnerabilities for businesses that use cloud services "in hours instead of weeks." Wiz said that the acquisition is part of its strategy to become a multi-product cybersecurity firm. With the integration of the startup's AI-driven risk prioritization and remediation software, Wiz seeks to bolster its cloud security platform to help security and engineering teams trace cloud issues back to their origin and mitigate breaches with a short response time. Wiz has raised a total of $110 million from investors, including Greylock Partners, Insight Partners, Index Ventures, and Cyberstarts. The startup employs 115 people, of whom 60 are based in Israel. The acquisition marks Wiz's third in a year, following its acquisition of Israeli cloud detection and response startup Gem Security in early 2024 and Tel Aviv cloud-based developer collaboration platform Rafft at the end of 2023. Wiz raised $1 billion in its latest private funding round in May to expand its cloud security platform through mergers and acquisitions, talent recruitment, and product development. The four-year-old unicorn was recently valued at a staggering $12 billion. In July, Wiz made big headlines as it walked away from a $23 billion acquisition offer by Google parent company Alphabet. Instead, the company is embarking on a growth path to double its annual recurring revenue (ARR) to $1 billion by 2025 and is eyeing plans for an initial public offering (IPO).

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A screenless AR laptop is a revolutionary device that uses augmented reality (AR) to create a virtual display, eliminating the need for a physical screen. This cutting-edge technology projects digital content directly into the user's field of vision through AR glasses or headsets. Users interact with holographic interfaces and virtual keyboards, enhancing portability and flexibility. The screenless AR laptop offers a more immersive and expansive workspace, as virtual screens can be resized and positioned freely. It also reduces eye strain and adapts to various lighting conditions. This innovation is ideal for professionals who need a versatile and portable computing solution, transforming how we work, collaborate, and consume digital content in a more integrated and interactive environment. Explore More Insight: https://lnkd.in/g9XH3n7V #ai #tech #vr #ar #screenlessloptops #allied_market #innovation #AI #tech #IoT #GenAI #GenerativeAI #technology #TechForGood #MachineLearning #EmergingTech #marketing #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #Robotics #smartcities #digital Chat With US : https://bit.ly/4a8LXA3

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DEC 2: Here are today's leading news headlines in the Israeli high-tech industry, coming to you from CTech: (Links to the full articles in comments)

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🚀 Alison Ai has been named one of the top 10 GAI startups in Israel! Discover how Alison Ai and other visionary companies are harnessing artificial intelligence to drive innovation and reshape industries. Dive into the future with us. Link in the comments.

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Today I broke the biggest companies and cooperations in Israel at google rank in just 4 weeks ! How I did it ? With the help of artificial intelligence we are ready to copy this system to every company or cooperations in the world #rank #sell #sold #google #ai #business #marketing #trending #content #fyp #money #work #leads #data #seo #web

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🚨💸 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 👨‍💻🚨  🚀 𝗟𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗢 𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 $𝟯.𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻. ⭐ 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 : https://www.llumo.ai/ 𝗧𝗟𝗗𝗥 : They have built LLUMO for high-growth SaaS businesses who want to add AI/LLM features to their core product but don’t want to burn a hole into their AI budget. #Startup #100xDevs

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Have you been thinking about your 2025 AdTech strategy? Looking to learn more about AdTech or take your work to the next level? Israel AdTech is a great opportunity for you to mingle with the movers and shakers of the industry while learning best practices and insights from the best of Israel's AdTech experts. Register here ↓ #AdTech #BestPractices #StartupNation

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Get the latest in Israeli tech news and opportunities with our Five Facts for November 2024 from our Finder platform. Follow Startup Nation Finder and stay ahead of the curve with up-to-date info about deal flow and high-value startups. 👉 https://okt.to/E7j8DJ #FinderData #israelitechecosystem #Israelistartups

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🌐🇮🇱 Today in IsraelTech: Snyk Hits $300M ARR as It Prioritizes Sustainable Growth Over a Quick IPO Snyk, the developer security platform that helps coders identify vulnerabilities in real time, has reached a major milestone with $300M in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Despite earlier IPO speculation, CEO Peter McKay says there’s no rush, thanks to $435M in cash reserves and plans to be cash-flow positive by 2025. 🚀 🎉 Congratulations to Peter McKay and the entire Snyk team on this impressive achievement! Their strategy of combining internal growth with acquisitions like Helios and DeepCode is clearly delivering results. 💸 With over $1B in total funding, Snyk is solidifying its role as a leader in developer-first security, especially as the rise of AI-generated code increases demand for its tools. Source: TechCrunch

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