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We asked Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, and Cortana 800 questions each. This time, Google Assistant was able to answer 86% of them correctly vs. Siri at 79%, Alexa at 61%, and Cortana at 52%. As part of our ongoing effort…

iRobot reported a phenomenal Jun-18 quarter with results exceeding Street expectations across the board. The stock is currently up 15% on the results. These results further demonstrate iRobot’s dominance in the home robotics space. Following another quarter of higher than…

AMS AG, a 3D sensor provider to Apple, issued guidance ~9% higher than the Street for the Sep-18 quarter. This is further evidence that advanced 3D sensing and AR will be key features in the new iPhones coming this fall,…

Shares of GOOGL are trading up ~3.5% after hours as the company is defying the law of large numbers, growing revenue by 26% y/y vs. 26% in Mar-18, 23% in FY17, and 20% in FY16. AI, for the first time,…

At Loup Ventures, research is in our blood. The spirit of our team has always lived on the curiosity to discover new insights that yield investment opportunities. For years we did this on Wall Street, focused on public tech companies.…

A year ago, we published AI Portfolio: Non-Tech Companies Making AI Investments. We’re following up to see how the portfolio performed over the last year. As a quick refresher, to build our portfolio we scraped the text of the most recent…

Dr. Matt Angle is the CEO and founder of Paradromics, a brain-computer interface company developing high-bandwidth implantable neural interfaces. Matt completed his B.S. in Biology at Carnegie Melon University and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute. Top…

Amazon Prime Day — one of Amazon’s greatest inventions — starts on Monday, June 16th at 12 PM PT. Prime Day 2018 will last 36 hours (+6 hours y/y) and will be available in 17 countries (4 more than last…

Yesterday, Techcrunch reported that Apple’s head of AI, John Giannandrea, will take responsibility of Siri from Craig Federighi. This formalizes our April expectation that Apple’s voice program should be moved into its AI group. Voice is currently one of the…

We’re investing in Bumblebee Spaces as a play on AI and robotics helping to solve the problem of escalating housing costs. The company has a modular ceiling system to address storage needs. Bumblebee users can store a desk, bed, closet,…

Bioelectronic medicine is like a medical supplies aircraft flying close to the surface of the sea: significant promise, and under the radar. As a field, bioelectronic medicine (BEM) is a paradigm shift from existing medicine: instead of treating patients by…

Security tokens will enhance the liquidity of private security offerings, provided there is sufficient on-going information about those companies available to investors, but this liquidity will also have another effect: real-time mark to market. In today’s private securities markets, mark…