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 […]

Dubformer Raises USD 3.6M to Develop the ‘Photoshop of AI Dubbing’ – slator.com

AI dubbing startup Dubformer has announced that it has raised USD 3.6m in seed funding. The round was led by Almaz Capital, with s16vc, FinSight, and AAL VC as key investors, along with angel investors such as Arul Menezes, a former Research Manager at Microsoft Translator, and Funa Maduka, former Head of International Original Film […]

Live Speech Translator Lingopal.ai Raises USD 14M Series A – slator.com

Having been put to the test during the 2025 US football championship game (Super Bowl LIX), where it provided near-instantaneous speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) of sports commentary into several languages, 18-month old startup Lingopal.ai announced on February 12, 2025 that it had secured USD 14M in Series A funding. Led by DCM, with participation from Scrum […]