So proud of this partnership 🇯🇵 I personally onboarded CMIC, the first & largest CRO in Japan, last year, and watching their unmatched domain expertise & craft meet Bluenote's AI has given us a real glimpse of what's possible for this industry. Excited to go deeper together!
🎉🎉Today, we are announcing a strategic partnership with @CMIC_Group, one of the largest CROs in Asia-Pacific. 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇸🇬🇦🇺
CMIC pioneered the CRO industry in Japan 30 years ago. They have built their reputation as one of the most trusted CROs in the world, running thousands of clinical trials globally for biopharma sponsors.
Now, CMIC is becoming the first major CRO to deploy AI agents across clinical development, delivering a fundamentally better way to run clinical programs for patients and biopharma sponsors worldwide.
We are proud to be their AI partner, and usher in a new era of drug development together.
More on our 15+ AI agent workflows, and building for the life sciences industry:
bluenotehealth.com/news/lux-…
We're seeing huge demand and expanding our eng team. Bluenote automates complex workflows with AI agents and accelerates bringing medical breakthroughs to patients - far beyond the incremental gains of chatbots. Come build with us! (DM me)
Today my company Bluenote @bluenote_ai is announcing our $10M raise from @deenashakir @Lux_Capital, @eladgil, @avichal, @othman, @KatieS, @fidjissimo and leaders in AI & biopharma to transform workflows in life sciences
Thank you to @eladgil and @avichal for their incredible support from day zero. Their advice and help have been instrumental in getting Bluenote off the ground.
Excited to partner with @deenashakir at Lux Capital and the incredible investors participating in this round.
Talking to animals (or babies) using AI is happening fast…
The wildest company pitch I've ever heard? 🤔
I told @katelin_cruse it's gotta be an app that allows us to communicate with babies before they can talk... or even dolphins 👶🐬
And someday, we might actually get there thanks to AI ↓
Apoorva on how to evaluate businesses as a founder:
"The things that I'm looking at are sort of threefold. Number one, is it a good business? Obvious to say as an investor, but you'd be surprised. Number two, is it going to be something I'm going to enjoy doing? I'm going to have fun? And number three, is it a mission that I can get behind?
The advice that you normally get is the opposite of that. Oh, is it a good mission? Is it going to be something fun? And is it a good business? Right. But the reality is that if it's not a good business, you're not going to have fun doing it and you're not going to achieve the mission. So you sort of need to sort of reverse it as a founder."
Exciting w @apoorva_mehta, cofounder & original CEO @Instacart
Topics
*How to parse startup ideas
*Early things Instacart did that couldnt scale, got them in business
*Hypergrowth at startup & people
*Why start another co / act 2 in life?
Video:
youtube.com/watch?v=fUeVRcCu…
"The errors found and commented on, are not enough to hinder the version’s linguistic integrity." - a professional Spanish translator.
AI translation is getting really good.
Tested translating an English article to Spanish and had it blindly evaluated by a professional translator.
Results:
- Google Translate: 70/100
- GPT-4: 85/100
- Zeebra: 95/100 🏆
The key takeaway: Zeebra excels in capturing formality, grammatical gender, cultural references, and overall readability.
Tested translating an English article to Spanish and had it blindly evaluated by a professional translator.
Results:
- Google Translate: 70/100
- GPT-4: 85/100
- Zeebra: 95/100 🏆
The key takeaway: Zeebra excels in capturing formality, grammatical gender, cultural references, and overall readability.
More test on Elevenlabs vs OpenAI TTS
- Elevenlabs is more engaging which is important for entertainment use cases.
- OpenAI TTS occasionally doesn't follow the exact text (similar to tortoise/bark)
For video translation, Elevenlabs generally sounds better for now. OpenAI is still great for use cases such as LLM chat and accessibility because of the quality vs cost tradeoff.
Here's a quick test of OpenAI vs. Elevenlabs TTS:
- In English, Eleven sounds more animated and has studio quality (44.1kHz vs. 24kHz); however, OpenAI is also very good and would make sense for many use cases, especially given its 10x cheaper price point.
- In Japanese, OpenAI personally sounds better and makes fewer mistakes in Kanji readings. Eleven makes quite a few Kanji mistakes but hallucinates less than OpenAI.