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Ex-Apple Engineer Launches Conversational AI Startup

By Kevin McLaughlin
· · Source: The Information

A former Apple engineer who worked on Siri has launched a new startup that aims to compete with conversational AI giants like Amazon and Google. The startup, called Brighten.ai, develops voice recognition software that runs on mobile devices and PCs as opposed to shuttling speech data back and forth to the cloud. That means it can offer faster response times and more controllable costs than...

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