Unbabel’s new technology looks like telepathy. “And that is increasingly what it will be, in fact”
Vasco Pedro, founder of Unbabel, explains how Halo works, one of the big artificial intelligence attractions at this year’s Web Summit. Money from the PRR accelerated the project.
He went on stage on Web Summit’s opening night and, on the summit’s first full day, gave one of the presentations with the most impact at this year’s edition. At the Altice Arena, Vasco Pedro, founder and CEO of Unbabel, demonstrated a new technology that, broadly speaking, makes it possible to communicate by thought using generative artificial intelligence and large natural language models.
In an interview with ECO, the entrepreneur explains how the solution, which he has called Halo, works, and reveals that it was only possible to present the technology at this Web Summit because the project was accelerated by European funds from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR). The intention is to spin this business off in 2024 and, to do so, it is expected to bring in new investors. The conference, which ends this Thursday in Lisbon, was the ideal place to find them.
AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 16 November 2023.