Alias Technologies is officially out of stealth mode with the launch of BeFake, an AI-driven, zero-pressure social media app that gives users the power of AI to creatively transform everyday moments with their friends. In only a few weeks since its launch, BeFake is already exploding in popularity and ranking in the App Store’s Top Free charts in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.

BeFake offers a fun alternative to existing social media platforms and allows users to give their photos an ‘AI lift’. With BeFake, users can level up their photos with style prompts, transport themselves to curated locations, or explore their creativity with custom text prompts. “BeFake introduces AI to people in a fun and simple way. It’s the antidote to overly curated social media. Anyone, from anywhere, can now have fun with social media, and the focus is rightfully on creativity and creative expression rather than real-world appearance. Turns out, being fake is incredibly liberating,” said Kristen Garcia Dumont, co-founder and CEO of BeFake.

And it’s catching on, with BeFake spreading across high schools and college campuses, through BeFake’s campus ambassador program. “We have had such an incredibly positive response to our launch and are collaborating with students and business clubs at premier universities. That is our ideal demographic, and their excitement about BeFake makes them truly the best evangelists for the app," said co-founder and COO Tracy Lane.

Alias also officially announced that it raised a $3 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures, and joined by Next Coast Ventures, Maveron, Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, and WS Investments, among others. “With BeFake growing so quickly, we are lucky to have the problem of needing to find more powerful servers to make sure our users have a seamless and fast experience in the app, so another fundraiser is definitely in sight,” said Ms. Garcia-Dumont.

• Innovative AI driven plug-and-play protocol set to introduce the concept of ‘Chat&Earn’ to the Web3 ecosystem

• Chappyz has joined forces with leading Web3 communications firm Luna PR and Web3 specialists Nfinity Labs to cement their status in Web3 communities

Chappyz, the AI plug-and-play protocol has today announced a strategic partnership with Dubai based Luna PR and French entity Nfinity Labs. 

Central to its mission, Chappyz equips community leaders and projects with the tools to seamlessly craft tasks and rewards across a range of integrated social media platforms. This protocol introduces a dynamic shift in how communities connect, cooperate, and thrive in the digital era. Driven by the synergy of AI and blockchain, Chappyz unlocks an unparalleled user experience that's both interactive and rewarding, setting the bar for innovation within the web3 landscape by innovating and introducing the concept of ‘Chat&Earn’.

Luna PR, a leader in Web3 communications and consulting, will join hands with Chappyz to amplify its mission of connecting individuals through AI-powered inclusivity and rewarding interactions. Additionally, Nfinity Labs, renowned for its strategic prowess in growing communities, will play a pivotal role in propelling Chappyz to new heights, leveraging its expertise to drive engagement and awareness to the innovative platform.

Daniel Pal, Founder and CEO of Chappyz said, "We are thrilled to work alongside Luna PR and Nfinity Labs, both of which have excellent track records in their respective fields.” Pal added, “This collaboration signifies a powerful convergence of vision and expertise, amplifying our mission to create a dynamic and rewarding web3 environment for users worldwide."

Nikita Sachdev, Founder and CEO of Luna PR, emphasised,“We recognise the growing need for Web3 companies and projects to innovate in regard to community incentivization and community engagement”. Sachdev stated that, "Our collaboration with Chappyz is a testament to our shared vision of reshaping the web3 landscape and creating a more inclusive and engaging digital future for users in the Web3 community.”

Thomas Salgues, CEO of Nfinity Labs said, “At Nfinity Labs, we see immense potential in this partnership with Chappyz. We strongly believe our expertise will assist Chappyz with their goal of reaching new audiences, as they seek to introduce their innovative protocol to the adopting Web3 ecosystem.”

As Chappyz continues to foster connections and innovation, the partnership with Luna PR and Nfinity Labs solidifies its commitment to delivering value-driven experiences to its growing community. This transformative collaboration sets the stage for a future where individuals, projects, and technologies converge to redefine the web3 landscape.

New revolutionary IP video transport technology, poised to reshape the landscape of cloud-based live video signal management. As the first AI driven video transport, this cutting-edge advancement pushes the boundaries of innovation and delivers unparalleled solutions to the industry.

Experienced EUC and Security Marketing Leader to Mobilize New Industry-Focused Marketing Strategy Across Key Verticals Including Healthcare, Government, FinServ and Retail

IGEL, provider of the managed endpoint operating system for secured access to any digital workspace, today announced the appointment of James Millington to the newly created position of Vice President, Product and Vertical Marketing. With a strong track record of global product and industry marketing success from VMware, Imprivata and Citrix, Millington brings strong leadership in the end user computing (EUC) and security markets to develop IGEL's new vertical marketing strategies to drive the adoption of IGEL COSMOS platform in key industries including healthcare, government, FinServ and retail.

"While the need for IGEL COSMOS as a secure platform to manage agile access to any digital workspace is prolific across industries, the use cases in each vertical industry are unique," said Klaus Oestermann, CEO, IGEL. "James brings valuable expertise into the successful partnering, marketing strategies and programs that best engage vertical markets to effectively penetrate each industry. We look forward to his guidance as we double-down on our vertical marketing programs and further IGEL's adoption in core target markets."

Leading IGEL's product and vertical marketing strategies, Millington will play a key role in accelerating the adoption of IGEL's COSMOS platform. Prior to joining IGEL, Millington held key leadership roles at VMware, Imprivata and Citrix. Millington holds an MBA from Oxford Brooks University.

"Industries such as healthcare, government and financial services are faced with enormous security risks and have very unique requirements, priorities and use cases," said Millington. "I am eager to help IGEL accelerate market penetration by evangelizing the critical value IGEL brings to these core vertical industries as they rely on IGEL OS to solve security and accessibility challenges in the evolving hybrid work environment."

The fully redesigned website offers richer insights into Realist’s diverse offerings and Ai enablement paths.

Realist, a leading technology solutions provider and Google Cloud Partner, is thrilled to announce the launch of its new and improved website, designed to offer visitors a pleasant online experience and comprehensive insights into the company's offerings.

"We are excited to introduce our new website, which reflects our commitment to innovation and customer-centricity," said James Wakelin, CRO at Realist.

Realist is dedicated to continuously enhancing user experience, and the launch of the new website is just one of the many initiatives aimed at achieving this goal. The company remains committed to providing innovative solutions and exceptional service to its clients, and the new website serves as a reflection of this commitment.

quantilope has announced the upcoming release of multiple AI solutions and tools across the entire consumer research process from survey creation to data analysis, project summaries, and more - all within their end-to-end platform. With the announcement, quantilope solidifies its position as a company with AI truly built into its core.

Well known for offering the largest suite of automated advanced research methodologies, quantilope's commitment to delivering high-quality research at the speed required by modern businesses is now being elevated to a level unimaginable one year ago through its new applications of AI. Through these solutions, quantilope is becoming the only research platform blending market leading advanced methods and AI to enable researchers to unlock data they can trust easier and faster than ever before.

"Over the short and long term, quantilope is reshaping market research through practical applications of AI that finally solve the age-old research paradigm of having too many requests for projects & insights with too few hands or resources to complete them," explained quantilope Co-Founder and CEO, Peter Aschmoneit. "Among all of the buzz and anticipation around AI, it's our commitment to seamlessly weave AI tools into our existing platform that naturally fit into the market research workflow and make advanced research methods even easier for researchers to implement into their processes."

In the short term, quantilope's platform will offer AI capabilities for survey creation and insight summaries allowing researchers to instantly build new projects and analyze results with a click of a button. Long term, AI will become the nervous system of quantilope's platform, driving capabilities around fielding, data analysis, and reporting to become your own personal AI co-pilot for conducting research. As a result, researchers are expected to get 50% of their time back on each project; time researchers can leverage for additional projects or to support other business needs.

"Regardless of your expertise working with AI, quantilope's new AI-driven tools are designed to support researchers' productivity in an intuitive and approachable fashion. We look forward to partnering with our clients to find new AI use cases together and to continue reshaping the market research industry by making advanced consumer insights accessible to all," noted quantilope's Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Lucas Bremer.

quantilope client Kwame Wireko, Growth Marketer at Nestlé R&D US Accelerator, reiterates the value of quantilope's AI solutions in saying: "At Nestlé R&D Accelerator, we always aim to leverage digital transformation to drive consumer centricity. As such, we see AI as critical in enabling quicker and more agile consumer research to unlock high-quality insights. It's exciting to see quantilope double down on building practical use cases of AI in consumer research with such tools built seamlessly into their platform, enabling our team to deliver even more value to our stakeholders and build stronger, consumer-focused products."

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• Dell Technologies and Denvr Dataworks offer cloud solutions for LLM training and inference for organizations using generative AI
• Organizations can manage datasets containing hundreds of billions of parameters with Denvr Dataworks' solution on Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers

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Dell Technologies and Denvr Dataworks, an emerging provider of high-performance cloud infrastructure, are working together to help organizations tap the capabilities of generative AI (GenAI).

By combining the security and reliability of the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 server with Denvr Dataworks' delivery of high performance cloud computing optimized for AI, organizations can spend less time on configuring their environments and start producing groundbreaking AI results faster. The solution can train large language models by managing GenAI datasets that contain hundreds of billions of parameters. With preconfigured tools and templates, organizations can speed the development and deployment of large language models. 

"Generative AI has the potential to improve productivity, changing how we use and consume information, professionally and personally," said Jeff Boudreau, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies. "As initiatives like GenAI increase the complexity and strategic value of IT, organizations need trusted technology partners that prioritize security and scalability. Dell and Denvr Dataworks have created a solid foundation for customers to accelerate enterprise-wide adoption of GenAI to drive meaningful growth across their businesses."

The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 can handle the large language models of GenAI. Built for extreme acceleration for AI, ML and deep learning training, the system is equipped to deploy AI computing initiatives and ensure high GPU memory, bandwidth and security. The latest PowerEdge servers' smart cooling features offer greater performance while using less power and reducing the overall carbon footprint.

"Our passion is to pioneer AI infrastructure with a focus on unmatched performance and sustainability," said Dave King, cofounder and chief revenue officer, Denvr Dataworks. "We believe in simplifying the AI journey for organizations, making it faster, more efficient and environmentally responsible. Working with Dell Technologies, a renowned technology leader, will further accelerate our impact by combining our expertise in AI cloud infrastructure with Dell's global reach and resources. Together, we are poised to revolutionize the AI landscape and empower businesses worldwide to harness the true power of AI for a brighter, more sustainable future."

PagerDuty Operations Cloud’s AI-generated runbooks accelerate automation efforts to drive cost optimization and efficiency for customers

PagerDuty, Inc., a global leader in digital operations management, today announced the introduction of AI-generated runbooks in early access, as well as powerful new analytics capabilities for the PagerDuty Operations Cloud^SM. Using PagerDuty Runbook Automation from the Operations Cloud, customers replace manual procedures with automated self-service workflows, potentially saving hundreds of working days per year. With PagerDuty’s new generative AI capabilities, customers could realize hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual operational cost savings by using natural-language prompts paired with prompt-engineering automation–high quality prompts iteratively guiding users–to initiate low-code autonomous runbooks for frequently deployed workflows and procedures within a company's IT operations process.

“Autonomous runbooks are a huge leap towards safe auto-remediation of critical applications and infrastructure when time really matters to a business,” said Jennifer Tejada, Chairperson and CEO at PagerDuty. “For large enterprises, this human-in-the loop, generative AI application can reduce operating costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, mitigate risk and also support teams in protecting and growing revenue through ensuring more reliable customer-facing applications.”

According to Gartner, “By 2028, the combination of humans and AI assistants working in tandem could reduce the time to complete coding tasks by 30%.”¹ By democratizing automation creation within engineering teams and speeding up the onboarding of new users, customers could reduce the time to develop new automated runbooks by 75-80%, moving from hours to minutes. With more runbooks automated, customers could quickly save hundreds of thousands of dollars per year by alleviating repetitive work and significantly improving productivity, all while keeping humans in the loop of AI deployment.

This new feature in PagerDuty Runbook Automation is the latest in a series of PagerDuty’s GenAI capabilities, which will be available across the PagerDuty Operations Cloud to help organizations automate time-critical, high-impact work, improve productivity and meaningfully reduce operating costs in uncertain economic times.

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Today’s CIOs and CTOs are responsible for driving cost optimization, service performance and customer as well as employee experience. Leveraging analytics to achieve visibility and operational excellence to fulfill the promise of digital transformation, business and technology executives can make swift, data-driven investments and resource allocation decisions to improve service quality. PagerDuty Insights Reports help engineering and IT leadership act with greater confidence and advance operational maturity with data that predicts and prevents issues.

Additionally, PagerDuty's newly generally available analytics capabilities are available to all paying customers. The PagerDuty Insights Reports have been designed to provide teams with more granular visibility and control over operational health and maturity. Customers can now glean critical insights into the state of their operations, including which services are most impacted, SLA achievement, and team health including how many sleep/off-hour interruptions responders are receiving.

Customers leveraging PagerDuty analytics improved mean time to acknowledge (MTTA) incidents by 28%, as well as more equitable distribution of work and consistent response hours, equating to saving 100 hours of work time per year, per team.² PagerDuty users can also utilize the Recommendations Report for potential noise compression, and a User Onboarding Report (early access) to help Admins and Managers understand which of their responders have activated, set up and are using their PagerDuty account properly.

“Both automation and data-driven, actionable insights are imperative for today’s organizations to succeed amidst a constantly evolving environment, lower barriers to entry and the accelerating pace of innovation,” said Sean Scott, Chief Product Development Officer at PagerDuty. “By leaning into the power of GenAI and the democratization of analytics, PagerDuty customers can speed up and ameliorate their operations, reduce costs and redeploy resources to delivering innovative solutions for their customers.”

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• “With PagerDuty’s analytics reports, we’re able to tailor them to specific teams, specific ranges, specific anything, to make them bespoke to our needs to make sure we can turn insights into action.” - Financial services customer
• “PagerDuty’s analytics reports allow us to have greater visibility and control over our operational health, which leads to [us] driving greater business value.” - Enterprise technology customer