The tenth yr of the Disney Accelerator Program has been introduced, with a robust deal with AI as 4 out of the 5 chosen firms are within the synthetic intelligence house.
Announced on Wednesday (Feb. 21) through a press launch, the Walt Disney Company shares the way it’s ‘exploring how emerging technologies can be used as tools to foster human creativity and imagination and help shape the future of media and technology.’
The Accelerator Program ends in an funding of time, cash, and assets, normally right into a choose group of start-ups and entrepreneurs. Disney has related greater than 60 world firms via this scheme, together with the likes of Epic Games, Kahoot!, Illumix, and Inworld.
This yr, the next firms have been chosen to participate:
AudioShake: They use AI to separate layers of recorded sound with the intention to make audio interactive, editable, and customizable.
ElevenLabs: A voice AI analysis and deployment firm that creates life like, versatile, and contextually conscious AI audio.
We are thrilled to be part of the 2024 Disney Accelerator.
Disney is without doubt one of the world’s most globally recognizable manufacturers and has held a particular place in our hearts since childhood.
This kind of unprecedented entry to the creativity and creativeness of Disney will likely be… pic.twitter.com/4rAtuovkCW
— ElevenLabs (@elevenlabsio) February 22, 2024
Nuro: An autonomous car firm that builds customized, electrical, zero-occupant automobiles for the supply of products.
PrometheanAI: They present a collection of instruments for digital world creation and digital asset administration utilizing pure language prompts.
StatusPro: Immersive leisure that leverages digital and augmented actuality to create first-person sports activities gaming experiences.
The press launch additional touches on the collection of AI companies, “the companies in the 2024 Disney Accelerator share in Disney’s commitment to exploring the benefits that artificial intelligence may offer to enable human imagination and creativity in a responsible and ethical way.”
Marking their first decade, the leisure conglomerate goals to proceed to search out methods to innovate and use expertise within the service of storytelling. Just a few weeks in the past, information got here of a $1.5 billion funding into Epic Games from Disney, serving to the gaming firm construct out a metaverse-like Disney immersive universe.
Featured picture: Image by Gary Ullah
