Future Of British Business
Inventor Behind Amazon’s Alexa Raises Funds for AI Startup
- Unlikely AI is based in UK cities of Cambridge and London
- Startup raised $20 million from Amadeus Capital, Octopus
William Tunstall-Pedoe
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The inventor of several key technologies used by Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa service raised $20 million to fund a new startup in the UK.
William Tunstall-Pedoe said his Cambridge- and London-based company, Unlikely AI, needed the money to start hiring developers of a new type of artificial-intelligence software.