AI Tech Consulting Firm Quansight Acquires Cobalt Speech and Language – slator.com
On May 6, 2025, open source technology consulting firm Quansight announced that it had acquired Cobalt Speech and Language, a provider of automatic speech recognition (ASR), transcription, natural language understanding, and other voice technologies in multiple languages. The deal closed April 10, 2025. According to Quansight CEO Travis Oliphant, the purchase was for cash, earn-out, […]
Experts React to Mistral OCR, a New Multilingual Text Processing Tool – slator.com
AI startup Mistral has announced the release of Mistral OCR — a multilingual, advanced optical character recognition (OCR) API that allows users to accurately convert any PDF to a text or markdown file. The ability to accurately convert scanned or digitized PDFs to editable text files remains a challenge for language service providers that require […]