Dear Community:

Stepan Aslanyan launched a new project on Product Hunt and needs our support ❤️

Text Reader AI is a free text-to-speech generator with realistic AI voices. Generate lifelike audio in seconds, ideal for podcasts, video voice-overs, personal greetings, IVR phone systems, and more.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/text-reader-ai

Please support the Text Reader AI by upvoting, commenting, and sharing news about their Product Hunt launch.

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#textreaderai #texttospeech #ai #producthunt #upvote #share #comment #callforcommunitysupport

Picsart partners with Getty Images! 🦄

Picsart, the photo-editing startup backed by SoftBank, is teaming up with Getty Images to develop a custom AI model for its 150 million users! 🌟

🔹 Exclusive AI Imagery: Unique and commercially usable images with Picsart's new AI model, built from Getty Images' licensed content.

🔹 Safety & Innovation: The new AI model ensures safe creative tools, addressing concerns around AI-generated images and copyright issues.

🔹 API Access: Built by Picsart's AI lab, PAIR, and accessible via Picsart's API services.

"This partnership enables commercially usable AI-generated imagery from a world-class brand," said Picsart CEO Hovhannes Avoyan.

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#picsart #gettyimages #ai #innovation #successstory

🚀 Flagship Pioneering Raises $3.6B! 🧬

Flagship Pioneering has expanded its capital base by $3.6B to support the creation of 25 breakthrough companies in human health, sustainability, and AI. This brings their total capital raised since 2021 to $6.4B!

🔬 “Our focus is on pioneering original science to invent transformative technologies that improve human health and our planet,” says Flagship Pioneering Founder & CEO Noubar Afeyan.

🏢 Flagship has expanded globally with hubs in London and Singapore, through collaborations and partnerships with industry giants like Pfizer and Samsung.

👥 Flagship's portfolio includes innovative companies like Moderna, Generate Biomedicines, Indigo Agriculture, Foghorn Therapeutics, and Tessera Therapeutics.

This news and this one demonstrate the strength and power of the Diaspora. Its potential in transforming Armenia into an innovation hub is obviously underused.

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#biotech #ai #flagshippioneering #investment #healthtech #noubarafeyan

🚀 Join the Google Hackathon: Build with AI for Sustainable Growth!

🔍 What’s it About?

Google and StrategEast, invite you to participate in the Google Hackathon, where you’ll use AI to tackle pressing sustainability challenges like air quality, water management, and food security.

The final event will be in Astana, fall 2024, where you'll showcase your solutions!

💡 Why Participate?

- Learn advanced AI skills with Google's Gemini model
- Build a real-world portfolio
- Network with industry experts and peers

🏆 Price Fund
- 1st Place: $5000
- 2nd Place: $2500
- 3rd Place: $500

📅 Key Dates:
- Application Deadline: August 15, 2024
- Final Event: September 15, 2024 (date may change)

✈️ Travel and accommodation are covered for selected participants!

For any questions please contact Lika Merabishvili, Regional Director in the Caucasus, StrategEast, lika.merabishvili@strategeast.org

🔗 Apply Now: https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/.../bw-ai-central-asia-2024/home

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#googlehackathon #strategeast #ai #sustainability #startups #ideation #competition #prizes

🚀AI Conf 2024

Following WCIT in Armenia, we now have another major AI event on the way. 

AI Conf Armenia was launched in 2022 by Krisp, and has become the country’s largest annual conference on Artificial Intelligence, focused on exploring the latest trends and advancements. This year’s theme, Building with AI.

What to Expect:
• 🌟 Discover the latest AI trends transforming the world
• 💡 Explore AI research and projects taking place in Armenia
• 🎙️ Hear from top-tier AI experts and industry leaders
• 🛠️ Participate in interactive workshops led by AI professionals
• 🔥 Engage in panel discussions on the future of AI
Who Should Attend?
Whether you’re an AI expert, data scientist, machine learning engineer, researcher, student, or just someone fascinated by AI, this conference is for you.

📅 Date: October 12, 2024
📍 Venue: Sundukyan Theater
⏰ Time: 10:00 - 18:00 🎟️ Admission: Free (Registration Required)

#AIconf2024 #AI #Krisp

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🚀 Krisp Unveils SDK to Enhance AI Voice Agent Communication

Krisp has launched its Noise Cancellation SDK, designed to enhance turn-taking, speech recognition accuracy, and interrupt-handling for AI voice agents. By eliminating background noise and secondary voices, this SDK ensures seamless, uninterrupted conversations between humans and AI.

Key Features:
- Real-time background noise & voice removal
- Improved voice activity detection (VAD)
- Server-side & on-device deployment options
- Integrations available for Python, Node.js, JavaScript/WASM & more

Already powering Vodex, Fixie (Ultravox), Daily, LiveKit, Fluidworks, and Synthflow, Krisp’s technology is setting a new standard for AI-driven voice interactions.

📢 Learn more & request a demo: krisp.ai/developers

The press release was published on March 20 - what a perfect birthday gift for Krisp’s co-founder Davit Baghdasaryan! 🎉 Happy birthday, Davit, and congratulations to the Krisp team! 🙌

#AI #VoiceTech #KrispAI #Innovation #SuccessStory

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a16z speedrun: Up to $1M for Founders Building the Future of AI & Entertainment!

a16z speedrun backs global startups innovating in AI, creative tools, gaming, XR, streaming, and next-gen entertainment.

Why Apply?
- Up to $1M in funding
- 12-week program with expert guidance
- Exclusive community & connections
- Demo Day during SF Tech Week
- $10K reimbursement for hosting an event at Tech Week

Early Access Deadline: March 30, 2025
Program Dates: July 28 – October 10, 2025 (Los Angeles)

Apply now for a fast-track review & priority consideration: https://sr.a16z.com/techweek/

#AI #Startups #Funding #a16z #Speedrun #TechInnovation

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🚀 Please support Podcastle's campaign on Product Hunt!

Podcastle is live with their Asyncflow v1.0 - a proprietary AI model designed to deliver high-quality AI voices with lower training & inference costs.

What’s New?
1000+ AI Voices – Convert text to speech in seconds with diverse accents & styles
Voice Cloning – Create a high-quality voice clone in just 10 seconds
AI Voice API – Premium, expressive voice quality at an optimized cost

👉 Upvote, comment and share - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ai-voices-by-asyncflow-v1-0

#AI #VoiceTech #Podcastle #CallForCommunitySupport

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📢 Armenia’s AI leap: how open access and strategic alliances could supercharge a small country’s high-tech future

Armenia is prioritizing AI and deep tech, having in mind there is no barrier to innovation. Here are the key takeaways from the article by Suzanna Shamakhyan, executive director of FAST:

Notable Developments:
• Armenia initiated a partnership with Mistral AI, aligning with Europe’s AI ecosystem.
• ServiceTitan, a unicorn co-founded by Armenian-Americans, IPO-ed in Dec 2024.
• NVIDIA operates in Armenia, while SpaceX’s Starlink is set for nationwide deployment.

Education:
• FAST’s Generation AI program aims to reach 85% of high school students by 2026.
• TUMO’s success model has expanded globally to Paris, Berlin, and beyond.

The Global Context:
• Armenia ranks 63rd in the Global Innovation Index.
• The country attracts tech talent from Russia, much like Israel did in the ‘90s.
• AI-driven education and diaspora-led funding are fueling the rise of new startups.

Read the full article here: https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/03/25/armenias-ai-leap-how-open-access-and-strategic-alliances-could-supercharge-a-small-countrys-high-tech-future/

#AI #TechEcosystem #ArmeniaTech #DeepTech #Innovation

🚀 New Investment Alert

Alchemist Doha announced investment in Denovo Sciences — a deep tech startup transforming drug discovery with reinforcement learning-based molecule generation. Their AI platform unlocks breakthroughs where traditional data-driven models fail, with potential to redefine how we tackle complex diseases.

Congrats to the entire Denovo Sciences team and all their early supporters!

#AI #DeepTech #DrugDiscovery #DenovoSciences #Investment #SuccessStory

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🚀 Applications Open: INSEAD AI Founder Sprint 2025!

INSEAD’s AI Founder Sprint 2025 is calling early-stage founders ready to build with artificial intelligence at the core.

What’s in it for you?
- 8-week global online program, Aug 25 – Oct 2025
- Access to top AI mentors from INSEAD, Harvard, MIT & leading investors
- No cost, no equity taken – plus prize opportunities & investor network
- Final Demo Day to pitch in front of investors & AI leaders

Who should apply?
- Solo founders or teams building AI-first startups
- Projects in ideation, MVP or early traction stages
- Startups from any industry using AI for a competitive edge

Apply now 👉: https://www.venture-lab.ai/apply-now
Application Deadline: July 30, 2025

#AI #Startups #INSEAD

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🚀 New Opportunity: Health x AI Accelerator

Building something in health + AI? This could be the nudge you need.

A global accelerator is looking for 10 teams to help shape the future of healthcare using chat and AI.

What’s in it for selected teams?

– Access to their tech suite (AI-powered chatbots, health desk, voice tools)
– Mentorship from experts in digital health, AI, behavior change, and growth
– Real-world pilot launches
– Support to build scalable, investment-ready solutions
– Scale strategy

If you’ve got the idea, the drive, and a user-first mindset, this accelerator is built to push you forward.

🕓 Duration: 24 weeks
🌍 Global (remote)
🔗 Learn more and apply

This is a great opportunity for Armenian teams building in digital health to go global.

#Healthcare #AI #Accelerator #DigitalHealth

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SuperAnnotate’s Series B Hits $50M

Dell Technologies Capital has joined SuperAnnotate’s Series B with a fresh $13.5M investment, pushing the round total to $50M adding to the previously announced $36M investment.

Founded by brothers Vahan and Tigran Petrosyan, SuperAnnotate started with R&D in Armenia, now building one of the most complete platforms for managing and labeling training data across vision, text, and audio, a key layer of today’s AI infrastructure.

With major backers like NVIDIA, Databricks, and Cox Enterprises already in, this latest move reinforces SuperAnnotate’s spot in the global AI data stack, competing with giants like Scale AI and Surge.

👉 A big moment for the Armenian-born startup pushing boundaries in deep tech.

Congrats to the team.

#SuperAnnotate #InvestmentNews #AI

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Join PyData Yerevan’s September Meetup

That day of the month!
This month’s PyData Yerevan meetup will dive into the very first generative AI task — translation — and what it takes to verify AI when it gets things wrong.

Speaker: Adam Bittlingmayer, once part of the Google Translate team, now building verification systems used by global companies.

He’ll cover: ✅ Lessons from building real-world verification systems ✅ Unsolved challenges in translation quality ✅ What this means for generative AI tasks beyond translation

📅 Date: September 18 📍 Location: AUA Najarian Building, 101N (Dzoraghyugh 11, 11th St.) 🕒 Time: 19:00 🔗 Registration: https://forms.gle/Bkx39X5xP2ihE7E86

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🧩 PyData Yerevan is calling for speakers!

Been experimenting with data, machine learning, or AI? This is your chance to bring it to the stage.

Each month, PyData Yerevan gathers Armenia’s data scientists, engineers, and researchers to share knowledge, exchange ideas, and discuss the latest in AI and machine learning. The initiative is part of the global PyData network, which promotes open-source tools and community learning.

The meetups often feature practical case studies, research insights, and fresh approaches that reflect the growing depth of Armenia’s data community.

So if you’ve got something interesting, don’t keep it to yourself. The PyData crowd loves a good story, question, or discovery.

💡 Submit your 45-minute talk proposal here (takes 5 min):
👉 https://forms.gle/YpYaqppHZqTvhrz78

#PyDataYerevan #Speakers #AI #ML

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Join PyData Yerevan’s October Meetup

How can we predict events that have never happened before?

At this month’s PyData Yerevan meetup, Nikolai Semiachkin will explore how LLMs and prediction markets can help estimate probabilities for rare, high-impact events.

Join the session to explore new ways of thinking about forecasting and uncertainty.

📅 Date: October 30
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: 213w, PAB, American University of Armenia
🔗 Register here: https://forms.gle/Cr7g2CCkGB9w9dD19

#PyDataYerevan #AI #LLM

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IBM Researcher to Speak at PyData Yerevan

What happens when small language models are asked the same question twice — and don’t give the same answer?

That’s the question Dr. Claudio Pinhanez, Principal Research Scientist at IBM, will explore at the upcoming PyData Yerevan meetup. 

His talk, “The Non-Determinism of Small LLMs,” dives into how smaller models (2B–8B parameters) handle repeated multiple-choice tests, and what that reveals about their accuracy and reliability.

📅 Date: November 6
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Venue: Room 213W, PAB, American University of Armenia
🔗 Register here

#PyDataYerevan #AI #machinelearning #LLMs #AUA

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BANA Angels Invested in CaseLens!

Source: BANA Angels

BANA Angels announce investment in CaseLens - a purpose-built AI platform designed to automate case preparation for international arbitration and complex litigation.

From chronologies and document summaries to semantic search and witness statement checks, CaseLens transforms scattered case materials into accurate, verifiable, and secure preparation assets - all from day one.

Powered by advanced AI and LLMs, the platform helps legal teams spend less time on manual tasks and more time on building strong, well-supported strategies.

Congratulations to investors and the startup team on this milestone! 🙌

#BANAAngels #Investment #CaseLens #LegalTech #AI

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AICA Angels invested in Kartes Analytica!

Source: AICA

Kartes Analytica is addressing a core challenge in geospatial intelligence by turning large-scale EO, SAR, and RF data into connected, analysis-ready systems through a graph-powered platform.

Founded by seasoned professionals Kartes is transforming how industries use Earth observation with a plug-and-play geospatial platform as a service. As climate risk, regulatory demand, and AI adoption reshape global markets, Kartes delivers the first complete geospatial stack built for scale, helping customers reclaim billions in value while activating a huge geospatial market opportunity.

Congratulations to the investors and the startup team on this milestone 🙌

#AICA #KartesAnalytica #GeoInformatics #AI #DataAnalytics

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New Investment Deal from AICA

As the year winds down, Armenia’s tech and innovation ecosystem continues to deliver good news.

AICA has announced a new investment in BeeSync, an AI-powered smart beehive system designed to help beekeepers, growers, and pollination service providers monitor hive health and reduce colony losses.

BeeSync combines hardware with an AI-driven platform that delivers real-time insights into hive conditions, enabling earlier intervention and more informed decision-making. The system aims to shift beekeeping practices from reactive responses to predictive management.

BeeSync is one example of how applied AI can address tangible environmental and economic challenges, with relevance extending far beyond local markets.

Congratulations to the investors and the startup team on this milestone 🙌

Source: AICA

#AICA #BeeSync #AI #Agriculture

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