Pichai to Google staff👨🏻💻, B2B startups raised $8.5 Bn💰, 2,767 complaints against influencers🤳🏻
Spend four hours with Bard: Pichai , B2B startups cornered $8.5B over past 8 yrs, 2,767 complaints against influencers, Funding Deals and more.
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Spend four hours with Bard: Pichai to Google staff👨🏻💻
Days after Google’s AI chatbot Bard made a factual error in a demo video, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai asked employees to spend two to four hours testing its responses.
Meanwhile, Prabhakar Raghavan, Google’s vice president for search, asked staffers in an email on Wednesday to help the company ensure Bard gets answers correct.
“Bard learns best by example, so taking the time to rewrite a response thoughtfully will go a long way in helping us to improve the mode,” the document to staff said.
B2B startups cornered $8.5B over past eight years: Matrix report💰
Indian B2B (business-to-business) startups have cornered over $8.5 billion in equity funding from investors across 500 funding rounds since 2015, according to a report from venture capital firm Matrix Partners India.
In the past eight years, six unicorns – privately held startups valued at $1 billion or more – have been created in the segment, including Ofbusiness, Moglix, Zetwerk, and Elasticrun.
The total investment in B2B startups has grown 46% annually since 2015 to stand at $3.5 billion in 2021, the report said.
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Bengaluru-based EV bus startup FreshBus has raised Rs 26 crore in a seed round from travel tech platform ixigo.
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Edtech startup Melvano has raised Rs 1.3 crore from Tyke Invest.
2,767 complaints against influencers processed: ASCI🤳🏻
The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) on Thursday said it has processed 2,767 complaints since it came up with influencer guidelines in May 2021.
More than half of the violations were found on Meta-owned Instagram, followed by YouTube which contributed a third of them, the self-regulatory organisation for the advertising industry said. Modifications are needed in over 90% of the cases, it added.
The body also conducted a survey of 820 respondents. As much as 79% of them said they trust influencers and 90% said they have made purchases based on influencer endorsements.
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