Beyond DeepSeek, other DeepSomething.

3 innovation and digital news in 1 minute. Every Monday. Episode 415.

Instinct, Deep Instinct

Deep Instinct is a specialist for cyber security, based in New York and 10 years old. A prominent company with prominent investors like Blackrock and recently PayPal ventures. The core is a deep learning cyber security programme, stemming from the pre-LLM time. It “prevents and explain unknown threats in real time”. Opinion: Deep Instinct positions itself as a “zero-day” data security. Zero-day describes a vulnerability in a software that is unknown to the developer, hence there is no patch for that yet. Zero-day exploit, the term for those who exploit this vulnerability. Deep Instinct claims to be the only software for Zero-day.

Understood √. But why “instinct”?

Gram, Deepgram

Deepgram is a voice AI suite with APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech and full speech-to-speech voice agents. A platform for developer, and Deepgram just claimed 200.000 developers on their platform. Opinion: The development of LLM and AI agents is very favourable for a specialist like Deepgram (financed with $86m). Already 10 year-old and started at Y Combinator. Yes, the LLM wave gives a “second chance” for this kind of specialist.

A line of Python code for a voice!

Brain, DeepBrain AI

DeepBrain AI provides a tool called AI Studio to build avatars and voice over of any kind. There are three kinds of avatars — the photo avatar (static), the personalised avatar (of one self) and a full body avatar. DeepBrain AI puts forward one use case: educational videos. Opinion: US based DeepBrain was financed in 2021 with over $50m and has a running profitable business (over 2m customers so far). Recently two new contenders in the avatar production category. HeyGen with $69m and London based champion Synthesia with a recent round of $180m (total $330m).

A championship ahead of us. DeepBrain being the historic player.