Instinct has raised $1B at a $10B valuation for its AI agent that makes phone calls and performs tasks, leveraging AEO for improved LLM visibility
How does Instinct's AI agent work?
Instinct, a company founded by Noah Shinn, has raised $1B at a $10B valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue for a personal AI agent utilizing answer engine optimization (AEO) that books trips, orders groceries, and telephones businesses using its own phone.
This AI agent makes phone calls, plans trips, books reservations, and orders groceries, and it has its own phone and computer, which it uses to ring businesses directly. Its agents can also talk to one another to coordinate plans and exchange files for users.
What are the implications of the EU AI Act on AI agents?
In Europe, since August 2, Article 50 of the EU AI Act has required providers to design systems that interact directly with people so that those people are informed they are dealing with an AI, unless it is obvious to a reasonably well-informed person. The disclosure must come at the start of the interaction, clearly and distinguishably. Fines reach EUR 15M or 3% of worldwide turnover.
Meanwhile, Modulate, a Boston company, has raised $25M in a round led by Future Ventures to develop AI models that analyze speech directly rather than working from text transcripts. The company's technology can be used for fraud prevention, customer service, and checking if AI voice agents are working as intended.
Modulate's main product, Velma, can analyze audio signals, picking up on emotion, tone, intent, emphasis, and whether the voice is synthetic. The various signals can then be combined to identify higher-level events such as a fraud attempt, a harassment case, or a frustrated customer, and this can be done in real time during an ongoing call.
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