Victoria Hong Kong leads! Soul Machines Completes $7.5 Million Series A Financing

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Beijing time Nov. 23 news, led by Li Ka-shing's Changjiang Hutchison Industrial Co., Ltd.'s Horizons Ventures and Iconiq Capital, smart emotional response virtual avatar developer Soul Machines announced today that the company will complete 7.5 million US dollars A round of financing.

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With the rapid development of virtual reality and augmented reality, artificial intelligence AI has begun to take shape. Apple's Siri, Waze and Spotify products have been widely used in the early days. This is also the earliest batch of artificial intelligence, Li Ka-shing’s investment in Victoria Hong Kong ( Horizons Ventures and Iconiq Capital have taken a look at this fast-changing AI market, in particular, to promote the use of emotional avatars in everyday life.

Soul Machines is based on the incarnation of Baby X technology, the company’s founder and executive director, Dr. Mark Sagar, and his engineering research at the Animate Technology Laboratory at the Institute of Bioengineering, Auckland. Created by the team.

Soul Machines developers stated that the funds will be used in the future to create a virtual avatar for emotional response, enhance and enhance the user experience of artificial intelligence platforms, and provide a vision of human-like technology.

Dr. Andy Shenk, CEO of Oakland University Commercialization Company Auckland UniServices, stated: "Mark Sagar and his research team use Baby X to bring surprises to leading technologies around the world." Horizons Ventures recently visited the company, Horizons Ventures is in the artificial intelligence With the perfect investment partner for AR/VR, when investing in Soul Machines, he visited the virtual avatar, Soul Machines, and immediately finalized it.

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Li Ka-shing of Horizons Ventures stated: "Mark's research on Baby X is leading the development of a new interactive model between humans and machines. With the acceleration of intelligent assistants and the use of deep learning technology to produce applications, Mark Sagar and his team are AI-industry. It provides a platform for emotional and social reasoning.

This time, after Soul Machines completed the A round of financing of US$7.5 million, Dr. Sagar and his research team newly established the Soul Machines brand, and Auckland UniServices has re-allocated ownership of all intellectual property and related research contracts to Soul Machines in exchange for Equity in the new company.

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