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Nylas and AE Studio Speed Up Development With Large Language Models

Business Wire — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:25:40 +0000

New partnership allows businesses to build faster across various coding languages while also exploring large datasets and the possibilities of generative AI within their tech stack

Nylas, the state-of-the-art communications platform giving developers universal access to email, calendar, and contacts providers through a single API integration, has announced a strategic partnership with AE Studio, whose development, design, and data science teams work closely with founders and executives to create custom software and AI solutions. Under the terms of the partnership, organizations will be able to leverage both Nylas’ best-in-class communications APIs alongside AE Studio’s top-tier development resources to accelerate development cycles and time-to-market. Additionally, companies will have access to resources and technology aimed at building workflows and products rich with intelligence and automation.

Finding top developer talent remains immensely important yet incredibly challenging. In a recent survey from Reveal, more than a third of respondents cited hiring and retaining skilled developers as their most difficult job to fill. The combination of Nylas and AE Studio will help businesses and their development teams build and maintain complex email and scheduling integrations, and leverage this rich data for AI applications, without needing to reallocate additional internal developer resources. Through Nylas and AE Studio, development teams can:

Add additional development resources combined with easy-to-use APIs to prioritize developer speed without compromising on efficiency or quality.
Leverage SDKs across major coding languages to speed up integration processes and reduce the effort and code required, such as AE Studio’s recent use of Nylas to reduce delivery by 3 weeks with entertainment project management client Filmik.
Begin exploring generative AI use cases such as workflow automation and LLM training with secure access to large email datasets.

“The importance and value placed on developer experience and the ability to infuse AI into product roadmaps and workflows are mission-critical tasks that companies of all sizes and industries are faced with,” said Jesse Ervin, Chief Revenue Officer at Nylas. “Our strategic partnership with AE Studio allows companies to prioritize both without needing to significantly increase developer workloads, coding efforts, or shift resources away from existing product roadmaps.”

Additionally, developers want to see their organizations invest more heavily in AI and workflow automation tools. In their 2023 State of Developer Experience report, Nylas found that two out of three developers want to harness AI and automation to create better user experiences.

“The currency for building AI with impact is data. Nylas makes data integrations easy while AE Studio’s team of top-tier developers and Ph.D. data scientists turn data into software that drives lasting ROI,” said Jevan Fox, Chief Revenue Officer at AE Studio. “Nylas is a core partner for our client work as they help us to drive efficiency and speed at scale.”

The partnership comes on the heels of Nylas being named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ for the second consecutive year and being recognized as a Gartner^® Cool Vendor in Composable Customer Engagement Platforms, while AE Studio was recently named a Clutch Top Artificial Intelligence Company for the year.

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Blackrock Neurotech Collaborates with AE Studio to Advance Training and Calibration in the First Commercial BCI Platform, MoveAgain

AIT News Desk — Fri, 27 May 2022 14:56:10 +0000

Collaboration will develop improved machine learning models and algorithms to improve user experience for paralyzed patients.

Blackrock Neurotech, a leader in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, announced a collaboration with AE Studio, a group of world-class data scientists, developers, and designers who specialize in launching products that increase human agency. AE Studio recently placed first in the Neural Latents Benchmark Challenge with their AE Decoder Solution. AE Studio will bring their passion for BCI to the MoveAgain program at Blackrock, which seeks to improve the lives of patients with paralysis, and will contribute to expanding on Blackrock’s patented MoveAgain BCI system with a focus on user-friendly interfaces for clinicians and care team members.

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“AE Studio and Blackrock share the goal of improving patient lives. To do that, we need robust, reliable, and deployable software that will scale to a large population of patients. Working with the extraordinary team at AE Studio will accelerate our efforts to improve patient lives,” said Marcus Gerhardt, Blackrock co-founder and CEO.

Since 2008, implantable BCIs have been used in research studies around the world to restore function in people with paralysis and other neurological disorders. Of the 36 people with intracortical BCIs around the globe, 32 have been implanted with Blackrock technology. These implants have been shown to restore mobility, communication, and touch, with the longest chronic implant still active after seven years.

Earlier this year, Blackrock announced its aim to release the first commercial BCI platform, MoveAgain, in 2023. Built on more than fourteen years of human research, MoveAgain will enable patients with spinal cord injuries to interact with digital devices simply by thinking. One such application is communication, wherein patients imagine themselves writing letters with a pen in hand, and their brain signals are decoded in real time and sent to digital devices.

One challenge faced by researchers is that patients’ brain signals change over time, resulting in significant time spent by patients in recalibration and training sessions. To minimize these calibration and training requirements for neural decoding, AE Studio is developing improved machine learning models and algorithms to meet Blackrock’s objective of creating a BCI that is easy to learn, flexible, responsive, and robust. The end result aims to decrease friction for patients and caretakers — while remaining performant at the prescribed BCI task.

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According to AE Studio’s CEO Judd Rosenblatt, “Increasing human agency with technology requires a synergy of hardware and software. AE delivers the best of development, data science, and design.” He goes on to state, “Blackrock sits at the forefront of neurotechnology. This collaboration is an opportunity to restore motion to paralyzed limbs and unlock the potential of the human mind. We are excited and humbled to play our part.”

AE Studio CRO, Jevan Fox added, “We’re honored to collaborate with Blackrock to decrease friction for end-users and contribute to, ultimately, the pinnacle of human agency increasing technology — enabling patients the ability to communicate and interact with digital devices through thought alone. AE, along with Blackrock, believe what’s good for the end user is good for business.”

Blackrock received a Breakthrough Designation from the FDA in 2021, which is expected to accelerate the FDA review process of the MoveAgain platform. Blackrock aims to have the MoveAgain product commercially available to a broader patient population in 2023.

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AE Studio and Edge Of NFT Launch Edge of AE Studio at NFT LA

AIT News Desk — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 12:40:29 +0000

Partnership creates the building blocks for creators and investors to take control of web3, blockchain, and NFT projects

AE Studio, a leading product and venture studio made up of developers, engineers and data scientists, has partnered with Edge Of NFT to create the Edge of AE brand – designed to support growth in the NFT space by empowering creators, investors, and builders to launch their own cutting-edge projects.

Edge of AE Studio is a joint partnership among leading community-minded thinkers, builders, and strategists with a passion for web3: we are a boutique creator studio amplifying human agency, community and connection using NFT smart contract and blockchain technology.

The partnership is focused on guiding traditional brands and web3 startups alike through the challenges of developing and deploying a blockchain strategy while not only maintaining their existing user base but aiming to gain more traction, growing their total addressable market through two distinct users-groups, crypto-natives and existing, more traditional fans, followers, customers, and believers.

“The, at times, Byzantine world of web3 can be daunting for entrepreneurs and even more so for large, legacy brands with a lot to lose,” said Jevan Fox, EVP of AE Studio. “We are uniquely qualified to service enterprise partners, and startups, seeking to go where their future growth is, in the blockchain space, where things like increased utility inherently drive brand affinity, traction, community engagement, revenue, and a range of other metrics that many companies are just now exploring.”

Edge of AE will bring services, tools, community and media engagement to entrepreneurs and brands who want to invest in web3 projects. This means a more robust strategy through their advisory service, better and faster technology solutions, a built-in media outlet through the Edge of NFT podcast along with growth strategies and tactics for Discord, Twitter, and other channels. AE Studio and Edge of NFT share the belief that technology has the ability to increase human agency, rather than decrease it. The partnership is focused on providing market efficiency through less expensive and more streamlined web3 technology solutions to decrease project costs and increase output, enabling entrepreneurs to go-to-market faster, and guiding the world’s largest brands on how to best utilize blockchain technology driving deeper community connections, involvement, and ownership.

“NFTs are truly the bridge to mainstream adoption of blockchain technology,” said Joshua Kriger, Co-Founder of Edge Of Company, “They are digital wrapping paper for stories, connectivity, experiences, access, affinity, authentication, and commerce.”

Catch AE Studio CTO Melanie Plaza on March 30th and EVP Jevan Fox on March 31 at the Main Stage for a conversation on How To Execute Amazing NFT Projects.

Edge of AE offers several offerings:

Ninja Track: Providing specific, clearly defined NFT technical (i.e. smart contract building) and marketing services in a supporting role.
Enterprise Track: NFT-equipped solutions to make businesses have richer relationships with their stakeholders and achieve their corporate vision with greater finesse.
Impact Track: Full on Partnerships with the top 1% of creators on social good projects with global reach.

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AE Studio Creates First NFT Collection for South China Morning Post on Flow

AIT News Desk — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:47:06 +0000

AE Studio, a leading product and venture studio driven by world-class developers, data scientists, and designers, has partnered with Hong Kong-based news organization South China Morning Post (SCMP) to launch the first-of-its-kind NFT collection called ‘ARTIFACTs by SCMP’. The first drop on Flow, the blockchain designed to be the foundation of Web3 and the open metaverse, includes historically significant events such as the Handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule.

ARTIFACTs are NFTs (non-fungible tokens) of accounts of history or historical assets that capture their context and significance with the ARTIFACT metadata standard and smart contract. AE Studio built the entirety of the web3 functionality on Flow, where users can purchase NFT packs that include a set of NFTs, allowing them to open packs to reveal and obtain the NFT assets included in their packs.

“AE Studio is thrilled to partner with SCMP to launch ARTIFACTs by SCMP that will drive the preservation of history on the Flow blockchain,” said Jevan Fox, EVP of AE Studio. “Along with our partners, we’re bringing the intellect to NFTs, tapping on SCMP’s 100+ years of historical assets.”

ARTIFACT’s metadata structure will be built on the Flow blockchain originally created by Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot video collectibles and the partner of choice for world-renowned digital collectibles and consumer-facing decentralized applications. Flow is designed as the foundation for a new generation of digital collectibles and consumer-facing decentralized applications.

“It’s incredible to see how AE Studio is leveraging Web3 and NFTs to help SCMP bring ownership to digital historical assets,” said Mickey Maher, SVP of Partnerships at Dapper Labs. “SCMP is turning history into digital collectibles while also tapping into the vibrant Flow ecosystem to create a community of historical collectors.”

‘ARTIFACTs by SCMP’ are collectible NFTs from the Post’s 118 years of archives. This unique NFT collection allows anyone to discover and own moments in history and join a community that is preserving historical milestones on the blockchain.

Said SCMP CEO Gary Liu, “We’re pleased to collaborate with AE Studios to launch our inaugural collection of NFTs, the ‘1997 Premium Series’. We look forward to growing a community of collectors and eventually produce an ecosystem around the preservation of historical accounts and assets and make history more discoverable, connected, and collectable through the ARTIFACT metadata standard.”

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SMS Subscription Management Tool, ElectricSMS, Acquired by Recharge in Multi-Million Dollar Deal

AIT News Desk — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:07:04 +0000

Created by AE Studio, Electricsms Empowers Customers With Real-Time, Text-Based Subscription Management and Dramatically Improves Kpis for Leading Ecom Brands.

ElectricSMS, the leading product enabling customers to manage their subscription preferences through a simple SMS chat, announced the acquisition of the company by ReCharge in a multi-million dollar cash and equity deal. ElectricSMS is the brainchild of AE Studio, the Venice-based development, data science, and design studio that creates custom software solutions that increase human agency. ReCharge, the leading provider of subscription management software for ecommerce, will rebrand ElectricSMS to ReChargeSMS. ElectricSMS gives customers agency over their subscription preferences in real-time, allowing them to skip, revise, renew, and reschedule their orders through a simple SMS chat and is currently used by leading brands like Olipop, Super Coffee, and GEM.

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Only two years into the product’s deployment, ElectricSMS has already helped 220,000 unique users manage their subscriptions and processed over $25 million in revenue for 56 merchants. The platform dramatically reduces customer service needs through automated customer engagement and has saved merchants over 7,800 billable hours to date. For brands using the product, customer retention metrics have improved by as much at 18% when users opt-in for ElectricSMS compared to those that don’t.

“The acquisition of ElectricSMS furthers our mission to provide best-in-class tooling for the world’s leading commerce brands,” said Oisin O’Connor, CEO & co-founder of ReCharge. “ReCharge is focused on reducing friction around payments and subscription management for our customers. With ElectricSMS, the talented team at AE Studio built a tool that dramatically improves customer retention and LTV, reduces customer service costs by an average of $25,000 per year, and increases MRR by 10%. We believe that transactional SMS will become one of the key communication channels between merchants and consumers. We’re thrilled to partner with the AE Studio team and offer such a compelling service to our customers.”

AE Studio builds world-class software for consumer, fintech, AI, media, healthcare, and B2B clients, including Samsung, Berkshire Hathaway, Draper Venture Network, Chance the Rapper’s Chicagoist, and Ritual. AE’s team specializes in taking startups to scale, operationalizing machine learning, and launching companies as a studio. The firm incubates internal startup ideas through their skunkworks model, a pioneering technology space designed around four key concepts: Hire incredibly talented individuals from diverse backgrounds and enable them to do world-class development work for the firm’s clients, empower them to develop human agency increasing ideas of their own simultaneously, validate them without the live-or-die pressure of early-stage startup life, tap into all the talent at AE to continually grow and invest more and more into building out category-leading ideas.

“AE Studio believes their teams should be empowered with the opportunity and resources to grow into successful entrepreneurs with their own startups,” said Wesley Magness, former AE entrepreneur-in-residence & employee and now Product Manager at ReCharge, “With the partners at AE Studio, I was given the freedom and opportunity to create my own process, which empowered me to turn an idea into a successful product used by hundreds of thousands of consumers. With this acquisition, I’m excited to join ReCharge in the next phase of ElectricSMS’s journey.”

The firm’s unique model and thesis around human agency deliver outsized value to clients and society more broadly while fostering and empowering exceptionally talented designers, developers, and data scientists. AE continues to influence a new wave of high-impact startups that massively drive innovation, increase agency, and gain outsized returns that otherwise wouldn’t exist.

Today, AE is hard at work on multiple skunkworks projects, including work in the psychedelics space, video fitness, and travel. By doubling down on hiring, AE is growing dramatically and attracting the best talent to its now 65-person team. This year, AE will continue to launch projects with various startups, enterprise companies, and charities like United Way and continue to grow revenues as it did in 2020 when it grew top-line revenue by 75%. Recently, the firm began investing in brain-computer interfaces, one of the company’s founding aspirations, and has already hired full-time BCI researchers and data scientists to lead the firm’s innovative new research.

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