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As the digital age matures, content moderation remains I think really an evergreen concern.

Every company is kind of looking at right now.

I think striking the perfect balance between free expression and also public safety continues

to be quite difficult for a lot of companies and corporations.

Even the biggest names in tech are obviously grappling with this.

Some of them admittedly are doing a poor job.

Some of them may be better than others, but in any case, people are giving these things

criticism from both sides.

It's kind of like in America anyways, I don't know how this is in the rest of the world,

but in America it's definitely become kind of like a political issue, right?

It would appear that right-leaning people are saying make these things more, you know,

give them more free speech and leniency.

It would appear that progressives and left-leaning people are saying, you know, make sure that

these things are a little bit stricter and better identifying biases and whatnot.

So there's like definitely different perspectives on this and people are criticizing it from

both sides for different reasons.

But amid evolving regulations and increased social scrutiny, one startup believes that

it can reinvent the wheel by focusing on video content in this space specifically.

The most complex of them all, I would say, is probably video content.

This is a lot harder than text moderation that, you know, we're seeing other players

do.

And so that's really where Unitary AI comes in.

This is a Cambridge-based startup that has developed a multi-modular approach to simplifying

the complexity of video content moderation.

So today, Unitary AI announced a Series A funding round.

Like I mentioned, they raised $15 million.

And they're spearheaded by some leading European VC firms.

They have Crandom and they're featuring some contributions from Paladin Capital Group and

Plural.

So I think this new influx of capital comes at a very pivotal moment for Unitary as its

business is experiencing remarkable growth.

So while the company hasn't disclosed its customer list, it did confirm that its annual

recurring revenue has crossed into the millions.

The startup plans to allocate the new funds towards regional expansion and talent acquisition.

So really just hiring and building up the team.

With prior fundraising, I think that they've done totaling less than $10 million from investors

including they have the ex-meta executive, Carolyn Everson.

I think this round really signifies a key moment for Unitary's scaling strategy.

So given the explosive growth in the amount of data being generated, especially in the

form of video, conventional moderation approaches involving human interventions have proven

insignificant platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, they produce zettabytes of

video content.

It's not a hyperbole to say that human moderators would be overwhelmed with all of this.

Video makes up more than 80% of all online traffic right now.

And I think this really is kind of underscoring the enormity of this challenge.

So in an online world, there is an immense need for a technology-driven approach to identifying

content that could be harmful, illegal, et cetera.

And that is, you know, according to Christopher Steed, who's the Chief Investment Officer

at Paladin Capital Group.

So although the content moderation landscape is crowded, right, this isn't, they're not

inventing, they're not the first people to tackle this problem.

So it's definitely crowded with solutions from tech giants like OpenAI, Microsoft Hive,

and Amazon's recognition.

Unitary AI asserts that existing tools miss the mark when it comes to video.

So traditional models typically focus on text, audio, or images in isolation, often leading

to false positives or overlooked content.

I think what is something that we heard recently, the CEO, I think, you know, Sasha Haco, who

co-founded the company with their CTO, James Telloas, said, what is innovative about unitary

is that we have genuine, multi-modular models, rather than analyzing just a series of frames

in order to understand the nuances and whether a video is, for example, artistic or violent.

You need to be able to simulate the way a human moderator watches the video.

We do that by analyzing text, sound, and visuals.

So it's kind of interesting because they're looking at this from multiple different ways,

text, sound, visuals, and I think looking at it from all of these different perspectives

can help them essentially moderate much better than something that would, for say, just read

the script and tell you where the issue was or watch the track and tell you where it is.

So unitary AI isn't kind of your run-of-the-mill startup, just based off of what I've seen

before dedicating herself to the problem of content moderation.

Their CEO, which is Sasha Haco, was involved in black hole research alongside the late

Stephen Hawkins, and her decision to kind of focus on earthbound problems, as she calls them,

I think reflects a broader change of heart in the tech industry as it's, you know, slowly

kind of moving away from theoretical pursuits to address more immediate issues.

So Turalus, on the other hand, brings his expertise in computer vision from Oxford,

where he specialized in, quote, methods for visual understanding with less manual annotation.

So I think really kind of looking at the bigger picture here, the complexities of online

content and human behavior aren't just an academic pursuit.

They pose real-world challenges that companies are scrambling to solve.

So as, you know, multi-modular AI research becomes increasingly prevalent, even with

meta recently alluding to its applications, unitary sits at a fascinating kind of intersection

of emerging tech and also tangible demand. And, you know, talking about this Gemma Bloman,

who's a principal at Crandom, and she's also a board member, said, quote,

we first met Sasha and James two years ago and have been incredibly impressed.

Unitary has emerged as clear early leaders in the important AI field of content safety,

and we're so excited to back this exceptional team as they continue to accelerate and innovate

in content classification technology. So I think in a space where challenges are,

you know, really high, and the stakes are also very high, Unitary's latest funding round puts

on a very promising path. I think it kind of adds another layer to this kind of evolving

narrative of AI driven solutions attempting to tackle one of the internet's most enduring

challenges, which is safe, effective content moderation, you know, without being overbearing.

So it's going to be very interesting to see how this rolls out, and definitely a company

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