The tenth 12 months of the Disney Accelerator Program has been introduced, with a robust concentrate on AI as 4 out of the 5 chosen corporations are within the synthetic intelligence area.
Introduced on Wednesday (Feb. 21) through a press launch, the Walt Disney Firm shares the way it’s ‘exploring how rising applied sciences can be utilized as instruments to foster human creativity and creativeness and assist form the way forward for media and know-how.’
The Accelerator Program ends in an funding of time, cash, and sources, often right into a choose group of start-ups and entrepreneurs. Disney has related greater than 60 international corporations by way of this scheme, together with the likes of Epic Video games, Kahoot!, Illumix, and Inworld.
This 12 months, the next corporations have been chosen to participate:
AudioShake: They use AI to separate layers of recorded sound as a way to make audio interactive, editable, and customizable.
ElevenLabs: A voice AI analysis and deployment firm that creates lifelike, versatile, and contextually conscious AI audio.
We’re thrilled to be part of the 2024 Disney Accelerator.
Disney is without doubt one of the world’s most globally recognizable manufacturers and has held a particular place in our hearts since childhood.
Any such unprecedented entry to the creativity and creativeness of Disney shall be… pic.twitter.com/4rAtuovkCW
— ElevenLabs (@elevenlabsio) February 22, 2024
Nuro: An autonomous car firm that builds customized, electrical, zero-occupant automobiles for the supply of products.
PrometheanAI: They supply a set of instruments for digital world creation and digital asset administration utilizing pure language prompts.
StatusPro: Immersive leisure that leverages digital and augmented actuality to create first-person sports activities gaming experiences.
The press launch additional touches on the number of AI companies, “the businesses within the 2024 Disney Accelerator share in Disney’s dedication to exploring the advantages that synthetic intelligence might supply to allow human creativeness and creativity in a accountable and moral approach.”
Marking their first decade, the leisure conglomerate goals to proceed to seek out methods to innovate and use know-how within the service of storytelling. Simply a few weeks in the past, information got here of a $1.5 billion funding into Epic Video games from Disney, serving to the gaming firm construct out a metaverse-like Disney immersive universe.
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