A Betaworks Accelerator Program
In our brainstorming around this theme, we ended up with quite a few scribbles to depict the gap between the underlying technology capabilities, the infrastructure, and the applications we actually want to use.
At Betaworks, we see AI as a phase change in technology akin to the birth of the internet. And, just like the internet, the services and products built on top of it can form wave-like patterns — replicating existing workflows, augmenting those workflows, and ultimately paving the way for truly native experiences.
This camp is for people who are building at the application layer of AI to deliver net new experiences and highly valuable, engaging products for end users.
timeline
August 5, 2024
October 30, 2024
October 30, 2024
Cohort Demos
Alice Camera
Alice Camera is a AI-native camera built to make everyone a professional creator. Alice Camera is an AI-native Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera that attaches to the users phone. It allows everyone to capture professional quality content and has an easy to use interface via your smartphone’s screen. And, it’s built for the AI era – it’s the only professional camera on the market with a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon chip and a TPU from Google.
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Autoplay
Autoplay is solving the problem of product adoption and user engagement for software. The core issue is that users often don’t know what they don’t know, meaning they struggle to fully utilize the software because they are unaware of key features or how best to use them. Autoplay utilizes AI that understands user intent and UI to power AI agents that help users navigate and master software in real-time.
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Dessn
Dessn enables product designers to contribute to product building, without coding. The Dessn Chrome extension overlays on top of your live app (staging or prod), and enables you to make UI changes. Dessn’s AI takes on the “burden” of writing the code, and pushing straight to the codebase. Devs just have to approve the code to get it live.
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ESAI
ESAI empowers Gen Z to craft their personal narrative for college apps and beyond. ESAI democratizes personal narrative building with ethical, AI-powered tools that help students spark, sculpt, and showcase their authentic story. Starting with college applications, the platform automates the expensive advising experience by helping students uncover unlikely connections across their experiences, transform raw materials into compelling narratives, and adapt their story for different opportunities.
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Hopscotch Labs
Hopscotch Labs is building a City Guide for Airpods. It’s called BeeBot. BeeBot is an example of “an app you don’t have to use”. Once you install the app on your iPhone, BeeBot “turns on” whenever you put Airpods / headphones on. Once it’s on, it’ll occasionally augment your walk with info about what’s nearby — places, people, events, etc. It’s not a walking tour (as it’s not telling you where to go), but more of a “walking assistant”.
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Sarama
Sarama has built the first system that uses dog vocals to give the deepest insights about their health, behavior, and preferences.
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Tato
Tato simplifies complex IT projects with auto documentation & AI powered insights. Tato is added to project interactions like meetings, emails, documents, and project management apps. It auto documents the project and gets the right insights to the right people at the right time.
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Unternet
Unternet is working on a new type of intelligent, contextual, and personal internet. They are currently building Operator, a new, intelligent client for the web.
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Ursula
Meet Ursula, an AI character built upon a proprietary cognitive architecture of agentic LLM behavior and The Sims-inspired symbolic AI. Ursula is an artificial life lab.
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cohort
Alice Camera
Autoplay
Dessn
ESAI
Hopscotch Labs
Sarama
Tato
Unternet
Ursula
