Generative AI WhatsApp Chatbot Startup Luzia Raises $10M – Voicebot.ai

on October 20, 2023 at 1:00 pm Generative AI chatbot assistant startup Luzia has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures. Luzia embeds its eponymous assistant in WhatsApp and Telegram, aiming to draw users who might not seek out ChatGPT or other standalone chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) but who are comfortable interacting with a chatbot on existing messaging services. Hola Luzia The Spain-based Luzia’s free AI assistant operates like many chatbots on WhatsApp and Telegram. The difference is the mix of LLMs, including OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, Meta’s Llama 2, and Kandinsky 2.1, fueling the completion of tasks through natural voice and text interactions. The AI responds in Spanish or Portuguese, depending on the language written or spoken by the user. That’s a smart move when voice assistants tailored to Spanish and Portuguese speakers are relatively rare. The startup plans on building up the AI’s English understanding as it pursues a bigger presence in the U.S. with the new investment. Luzia has several features familiar to users of ChatGPT, Claude, or other chatbots, such as transcription, translation, and image generation. Because it operates on the encrypted WhatsApp and Telegram messaging channels
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