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Israel’s CogniFiber is developing DeepLight photonic processors that utilize multi-core optical fibers to process data at the speed of light. It means processing speeds can increase up to 1,000 times, while using only 1% of the energy.

Israel’s Heyoosh is the world’s first AI-based personal matchmaker. The founders’ main goal was to make the digital dating environment safer. Currently only available on iPhone, it allows users to get to know each other’s personalities, rather than appearance. Images are not shared and privacy is a priority.

Israel’s EyeKnow.AI has developed a safety platform with cameras and artificial intelligence to predict hazardous and violent incidents such as falls, slips and physical violence, in hospitals and care facilities. It can raise an alert before a situation spirals into a full crisis involving patients or staff.

Israel’s Shield has developed a generative AI (GenAI) platform to help financial services companies maintain legal compliance and avoid issues such as misconduct and market manipulation by their employees. Shield analyzes communications from emails, messages and voice calls.

Israel’s TrueMedia.org helps people discern real from fake content. TrueMedia has developed about 15 models to identify AI-created audio, video, and images, achieving around 90% accuracy.   

Israel’s Corsound (a subsidiary of Israel’s Cortica – see previously) has developed AI technology to detect a cloned voice – if a recording of your voice was digitally manipulated to impersonate you. It can also check that a voice matches a photo of the speaker. Voted FinovateEurope 2024’s Best of Show.

Israel’s Revealense Technology has unveiled illuminator – an AI platform to identify the behavioral DNA of individuals using video analysis. It could transform decision-making processes for managers, investigators, psychologists, researchers, and more. Useful for recruitment, banking, doctors, etc.

Israel’s Verbit (see previously) provides automated captioning and transcription services to over 2,000 businesses worldwide. It is now launching Legal Real-Time, providing reliable real-time transcriptions for legal proceedings at a fraction of the cost of traditional stenography.

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have manufactured a new type of glass made from peptides. It is recyclable, self-healing, optically transparent, and can also act as a glue. If cracked, it will repair itself on contact with moisture. It can be used for spectacle lenses and much more.

Israel’s Wonder Veggies has found a way to make fruit and vegetables even healthier. They have developed a spray that infuses fresh produce with probiotics. The process protects the probiotics from stomach acids until they are released inside the microbiome of the intestines to generate “good bacteria”.