Drive business growth through social platforms with Blaze

Welcome back to The Daily Update — here’s today’s lineup:

🗞️ The Latest in AI: AI wildfire detection startup secures another $17M in funding

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Drive business growth through social platforms with Blaze

📸 Business Spotlight: AI-powered smart glasses will help deaf people communicate

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🗞️ The Latest in AI: AI wildfire detection startup secures another $17M in funding

Pano AI just raised a $17M Series A extension to help save lives by detecting the early stages of wildfires.

Just last week the company sent early warnings of the Kutch Road Fire, which broke out near Kutch Mountain in Yamhill County, Oregon. Pano AI detected the fire and issued a warning 14 minutes before the first 911 call.

The company mounts high-definition remote-controllable cameras in high-risk areas. Video footage is monitored by AI, which raises alarm if it sees signs of smoke or fire. The cameras can be operated manually by a human operator, or go into scanning mode and rotate at about one rotation per minute.

Pano AI’s technology can start moving first responders toward a fire hours before they would be able to without the system. The company’s extension round of funding was led by Valor Equity Partners. T-Mobile Ventures and Salesforce joined as strategic investors.

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🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Drive business growth through social platforms with Blaze

Blaze is a modern acquisition platform designed to help companies and agencies drive growth through Twitter. The platform has a few key features that will make Blaze worth your while:

Lead Generation

Build your perfect target audience with AI. In the example below I filtered results to only show users with over 500 followers. I then used the Ask AI button to find “founders located in the U.S.” You can save your leads as a new audience and launch a Twitter DM campaign right from Blaze.

AI Tweet Templates

Choose from Blaze’s array of tweet templates to find the format that fits your needs. Blaze offers templates for product launch, ads, testimonials, lists, polls and more. Simply choose a template, tone and topic and Blaze will construct a tweet primed to go viral.

Twitter DM Campaign

Use Blaze to create an audience and a message template and you’ll be able to launch a Twitter DM campaign right from the platform. This automates a task that could otherwise take up hours of your time. Blaze also tracks the number of DMs sent and response rates.

Blaze offers a 7-day free trial. Try it out here.

📸 Business Spotlight: AI-powered smart glasses will help deaf people communicate

AI-powered smart glasses give deaf or hard-of-hearing people a display of real-time subtitles of their conversation. Users can also rewind the chat to read it again.

“Imagine Alexa for your eyes,” said Mitchell Feldman, co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of XRAI.

XRAI Glass uses augmented reality glasses that are tied to a smartphone app with AI-driven software. The technology was inspired by co-founder Dan Scarfe’s 97-year-old grandfather’s hearing loss, which made it hard for him to join in at family gatherings.

As of November, the app had the ability to translate nine different languages. The app is compatible with the Nreal Air Augmented Reality glasses, but XRAI hopes to work with all AR and XR glass makers in the future.

The basic live caption app is free to download with the assistant.

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