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Earlier this year , Medal , a startup known for its video game clipping features , launcheda cross - platform AI supporter called Highlight . Now the troupe is whirl offHighlightinto a newfangled entity , which has arouse $ 10 million in a backing round .
General Catalyst chair the funding daily round with Valor , SV Angel , and Conviction Embed participating in the round . Medal also put in$3 million in the new entity out of $ 13 million it prove in July .
Medal ’s co - founder , Pim de Witte , is the only common link between Medal and Highlight now , as the latter has its own team , include Haris Butt , who was VP of Design at productivity party ClickUp , Medal co - founder Josh Lipson , and Medal ’s first caput of growth Mark Bond .
“ We started Highlight as a enquiry undertaking within Medal . We wanted to research the translation layer between LLMs ( large language modeling ) and what ’s plump on your projection screen . But we realize to grow quickly and rent engineers for a specific app by offering them equity , Highlight needs to be a separate entity , ” de Witte told TechCrunch over a call .
Highlight is a cross - platform desktop app that lets you confiscate your screen door , a voice note of hand , or a written document as setting and then ask questions to an LLM . The app can also transcribe your calls from system audio , so you could involve question about a particular meeting after .
you’re able to do actions that have become somewhat common with AI assistants , such as summarizing , rewriting , highlighting , and explaining the context of use attached to the app at the time of querying .
In July , the fellowship had spread out its program for developers to construct apps on top of Highlight . However , the startup earn that this approach would limit custom actions to a smattering of developers . With the latest version , the troupe will countenance users to instigate their way to a custom action mechanism like summarizing the first 10 minutes of a coming together . Highlight also wants to open up prompts to the residential district of user , help one individual learn a utilitarian automation someone has created .
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For developers with computer programming noesis , the fellowship plans to open up an agentic framework that will allow them to use parts of your organization and do small tasks — such as summarizing documents in a special folder — in the desktop .
“ Our melodic theme is to create virtual employees so you could start delegating some of your task to them and have more time on your handwriting , ” de Witte said .
With today ’s annunciation , the ship’s company is releasing a get-up-and-go - to - talk shortcut and new conversation app that records your meetings .
Niko Bonatsos , managing director at General Catalyst , told TechCrunch over email that Highlight is well-to-do to understand for user because of the on - screen context and the lack of complex prompts .
“ I ’ve been underwhelmed by the fact that most consumer - face AI companies only countenance you interact with them via confabulation interfaces … This demonstrate a deficiency of imagery and frankly specify what is possible with this brawny new engineering science . We are very encouraged with the bold intention option that Pim and his team have made so far , ” Bonatsos said , designate out that Highlight ’s combining of automation and on - screen context allows user to utilize AI better .
Highlight AI is free to use for now , but the company wants to follow a pricing program based on the word counting process by the assistant down the line .
