When Jordan Nathan launched his DTC nontoxic cookware company, Caraway, in 2019, he knew he was not the only founder trying to sell a new brand of pots and pans to millennials scrolling through Instagram.
When Caraway launched, it joined companies like Our Place, Great Jones and Made In Cookware in an increasingly crowded category of online cookware startups.
Caraway’s competitors also helped Caraway decide to start talking to retailers early in the process.
You can now find Caraway sets at Target and Costco, among others.
While being a later entrant helped Caraway in many ways, it did hurt them in one area, Nathan said.
As conversational AI begins to take over the world, chatbots are being given a new lease of life.
Parcel delivery giant DPD recently had to disable part of its online support chatbot after it swore at a customer.
The demand for conversational AI is skyrocketing, and is set to explode to a mind-boggling $38 billion globally by 2029.
However, regulated sectors are still grappling with Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Large Language Models (LLMs).
While an LLM might be able to sound like a human and understand context, regulated industries need high guard rails on an AI-driven approach.
Generally, I’m an extremely active person who primarily enjoys weight training, and it’s a key component of my mental well-being as well as my physical health.
What I didn’t expect was finding relief by way of virtual boxing.
I had been using Supernatural on my Meta Quest 3 headset since picking one up at launch, and found it surprisingly compelling even before my injury — despite my long-held opinion that no one wants to work out in a sweaty headset.
Supernatural is also helping with my rehabilitation as I build back range of motion and flexibility in my now mostly healed wrist.
The injury just made me realize at a very accelerated pace what the company saw in Supernatural in terms of lasting, sticky appeal for home VR use.
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