BPEA EQT is one of the largest private alternative investment firms in Asia, with total committed capital of over USD 20 billion. The firm runs a private equity investment program, sponsoring buyouts and providing growth capital to companies for expansion or acquisitions with a particular focus on the Asia Pacific region, as well as investing into companies globally that can benefit from further expansion into the Asia Pacific region. BPEA also manages dedicated funds focused on private real estate and private credit. The firm has a 23-year history and over 180 employees located across offices in Hong Kong, China, India, Japan, Australia, and Singapore. BPEA currently has approximately 43 portfolio companies active across Asia with a total of over 224,000 employees and sales of approximately USD 39 billion. For more information, please visit www.bpeasia.com

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Wearhaus develops wireless headphones for social music sharing. These headphones are capable of broadcasting music to other headphones around a user, enabling them to listen to music with others in real time. Wearhaus is based in Berkeley, California.

TELUS International offers a digital customer experience that designs, builds, and delivers digital solutions. Their clients include companies across verticals, including tech and gaming, eCommerce and fintech, banking, financial services, and insurance, communications and media, and travel and hospitality. Their services include digital experience, customer experience, advisory services, back office, and automation.

<div>TELUS International, rebranding to TELUS Digital Experience (TELUS Digital) in the third quarter of 2024, is a global provider of digital solutions focused on enhancing customer experience (CX) for global and disruptive brands. The company offers a comprehensive range of services that support the full lifecycle of its clients' digital transformation journeys. These services include digital strategy, innovation, consulting and design, IT lifecycle solutions, intelligent automation, and end-to-end AI data solutions including computer vision capabilities. TELUS Digital also provides omnichannel CX and trust and safety solutions such as content moderation.</div>

TELUS International (TIXT) Rebrands to TELUS Digital Experience

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TELUS International (rebranding to TELUS Digital Experience) will release second quarter 2024 results and host an investor call on August 2

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<div>
 
 TELUS International, rebranding to TELUS Digital Experience (TELUS Digital) in the third quarter of 2024, is a global provider of digital solutions focused on enhancing customer experience (CX) for global and disruptive brands. The company offers a comprehensive range of services that support the full lifecycle of its clients' digital transformation journeys. These services include digital strategy, innovation, consulting and design, IT lifecycle solutions, intelligent automation, and end-to-end AI data solutions including computer vision capabilities. TELUS Digital also provides omnichannel CX and trust and safety solutions such as content moderation.
 
 
 
 
 The company's expertise spans various strategic industry verticals, including tech and games, communications and media, ecommerce and fintech, banking, financial services and insurance, healthcare, and others. TELUS Digital's offerings are designed to help clients more quickly embrace next-generation digital technologies to deliver better business outcomes. The company has developed proprietary AI solutions, including the GenAI Jumpstart accelerator, which can build a virtual assistant prototype in eight weeks, and Fuel iX, an enterprise-grade AI engine that accelerates the process of putting generative AI applications into production.
 
 
 
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Unitary is a London-based AI company specializing in visual content moderation. Founded in 2019, the company has developed proprietary machine learning algorithms that analyze multiple signals to understand the contents and contexts of videos, images, audio, and text. Unitary's technology mimics human moderation by simultaneously analyzing visual, aural, and textual content, allowing it to comprehend video and image content similar to humans. This approach helps digital platforms quickly identify inappropriate or illegal material at scale, addressing the challenge of exponentially growing online content that makes manual review unrealistic.
As of October 2023, Unitary was analyzing six million videos daily across multiple languages. The company's AI offers a scalable solution for content classification, empowering human moderators and helping platforms navigate nuanced content. Unitary's products have been used to classify billions of online images and videos. The company also maintains an open-source AI tool called Detoxify, which has been downloaded over 7 million times. Unitary's technology is designed to help platforms adapt to new regulations like the UK's Online Safety Bill and the EU's Digital Services Act, which require more proactive moderation and action against illegal content. In October 2023, Unitary reported seven figures in annual recurring revenue, demonstrating significant growth in its early stages.

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Smart Moderation is an AI-powered comment moderation service designed to protect brands' social media profiles and online communities. The company's technology automatically detects and removes inappropriate content, including hate speech, spam, trolls, and bullying across platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Smart Moderation's proprietary AI system utilizes machine learning and natural language processing to understand text holistically, going beyond simple keyword matching. The technology was initially trained using Facebook's official community standards and continues to learn from users' preferences and past actions, creating a customized moderation approach over time.
The company offers a subscription-based B2B SaaS solution that operates 24/7 in real-time, providing continuous protection without human intervention. Smart Moderation's setup process is designed to be quick and straightforward, requiring only three steps: signing up with a Facebook account, connecting to social networks, and adding profiles. This streamlined approach allows brands to implement the service in less than a minute, offering immediate protection for their online presence.

Smart Moderation

Sightengine is an AI-powered content moderation platform that specializes in analyzing and filtering visual and textual content across digital platforms. The company offers APIs for image, video, and text moderation, utilizing advanced machine learning and natural language processing technologies to detect and filter unwanted content in real-time. Sightengine's capabilities include nudity detection, weapons identification, alcohol and drug recognition, as well as deepfake detection. The platform is designed to be scalable, handling up to tens of millions of images per month. Sightengine's technology also extends to optical character recognition (OCR), allowing for text extraction and analysis from images and videos. The company's solutions are applicable across various industries, including social media, ecommerce, news organizations, and online communities.

Sightengine

CyberPurify is a company focused on providing solutions for online safety and digital well-being, particularly for children. The company's technology aims to address concerns regarding inappropriate content exposure and excessive screen time among young users. CyberPurify's product offerings are designed to create a safer internet environment for children and promote healthier online habits. The company's solutions are positioned as alternatives to existing, more complex options in the market, suggesting a focus on user-friendly and accessible tools for parents and guardians.

CyberPurify

Hive is a project management software company that offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline team collaboration and workflow management. The platform provides various features to visualize project scopes, track progress, and simplify stakeholder communication. Hive's interface includes multiple views such as Gantt charts, Kanban boards, calendars, and portfolio overviews, allowing users to manage tasks and projects according to their preferences. The software also incorporates functionalities like forms for creative requests, document proofing and approval processes, and integrated chat for team communication. Hive emphasizes customization, offering a range of add-ons and integrations through Hive Apps to tailor the workspace to specific needs. The company positions itself as a cost-effective solution, providing a "no-risk Hive Adoption Guarantee" and offering discounts to registered non-profit organizations.
Key customers and partnerships
Hive's content moderation services, which utilize artificial intelligence to identify and block unwanted content, are used by prominent companies including Visa, Netflix, and Reddit. The company has also collaborated with corporations such as GE, Dell/EMC, eBay, and McKesson to co-create startups. Additionally, Hive has partnered with various corporations like IBM, SAP, Intuit, TIBCO, CSAA, Microsoft, Cloudera, and Visa as sponsors for its innovation ecosystem and thought leadership forum.

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Platforms that analyze and filter text-based content, including comments, chat messages, and forum posts, to detect and block hate speech, offensive language, harassment, and spam

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Platforms that analyze and moderate a variety of media channels including text, images, audio, or video, to determine whether the content is inappropriate or violates guidelines

Platforms that offer specialized content moderation for industries like gaming, ecommerce, healthcare, and social media

Firms that offer content moderation services that combine automated AI-based content analysis with human experts’ analysis

Uses NLP to assess text, detecting policy violations such as hate speech and personal information

Generative AI can aid in policy creation and tools for summarizing large user-generated content volumes

AI and ML algorithms automatically assess user-generated content on digital platforms

The technology enables personalized policy and guideline adherence

Employs Foundation models like GPT-3 to analyze text and detect policy violations

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<div>
 
 TELUS International, a company specialized in IT services, has launched a new tool called "Fine-Tune Studio". This tool is aimed at generating precise and relevant datasets for large language models (LLMs) and GenAI models.
 The studio, which is incorporated into TELUS International’s AI Data Platform, delivers a variety of services such as supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and direct preference optimization for different domains. It supervises labeling tasks for diverse data types including text, audio, images, and videos. Some key attributes of this platform are real-time plagiarism detection, intonation analysis, spell and grammar check, along with a workflow for task management and quality assurance.
 According to TELUS International, the Fine-Tune Studio can better model performance, flexibility, and safety. The product is known to effectively handle intricate data tasks using a mix of unique and specialized workforce.
 
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 This launch by TELUS International comes in the wake of firms like <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/23767"> Open AI </a> and <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/28424"> Alphabet </a> having introduced and popularized mass dataset creation for LLMs. This key development aligns with the shift towards multimodal AI use cases by enabling the labeling of tasks across various data types, ranging from texts to videos.&nbsp;

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