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AI startup Parsd Secures First Customer

Stockholm, Sweden – December 20th, 2024. Parsd, a Swedish AI startup, has secured its first customer by integrating its AI-enabled Digital Research Platform into a pilot project at the Swedish Defense University (Försvarshögskolan). In addition to delivering its Digital Research Platform, the company will advise teachers, researchers, and students participating in the pilot project on practical… Continue reading AI startup Parsd Secures First Customer

Building Trust in AI Software Products

During this year’s WASP Joint PhD summer school, WARA Media and Language partner Parsd collaborated with WASP Humanity and Society (HS) Lead Professor Ericka Johnson to explore the concept of trust in AI software development. Alexandra Kafka Larsson speaking at the Joint PhD Summer School Session in Norrköping august 2024 Parsd is a startup offering… Continue reading Building Trust in AI Software Products

Upholding the Integrity of Facts in a Post-Truth Society

Blog post by Annica Ryng, member of Parsd team, also published on annicaryng.com. Since ChatGPT, DALL-E, Midjourney and other AI tools entered our homes, we have entertained ourselves with polishing our writing, generating new ideas or creating images. AI has had us both fascinated and frightened, captured and overwhelmed. Some say that AI poses a… Continue reading Upholding the Integrity of Facts in a Post-Truth Society

Nvidia CEO in Sweden, an upgraded AI supercomputer, and a Swedish GPT-3 language model

On stage in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, Jan 24th, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang celebrated that there are 600 AI startups in Sweden. He has spent a few days in Sweden, and last night he held an “AI ecosystem reception” in downtown Stockholm. He was interviewed on stage by Marcus Wallenberg, who chairs companies like SEB and… Continue reading Nvidia CEO in Sweden, an upgraded AI supercomputer, and a Swedish GPT-3 language model

Why connecting with an AI research community is important for Parsd

Some of the members of the WARA Media and Language Research Arena. From the left are Konrad Tollmar, Research Director EA Games and Associate Professor KTH; Alexandra Kafka Larsson, CEO Parsd; Johanna Björkund, Associate Professor Umeå University; Sandor Albrecht from Wallenberg Launchpad and Anastasia Varava, Data Scientist SEB. We are a tech startup, and for… Continue reading Why connecting with an AI research community is important for Parsd

“A pen mightier than ever”, Apple Pencil’s game-changing Scribble just made handwriting relevant

Key takeaways Apple pencil’s input with text conversion now works in almost any application on your iPadOS, enabled by feature “Scribble”. A new e-pencil standard is likely established. You can now include handwriting with an end-to-end digital workflow. Pen in hand reading, highlighting and note-taking in PDFs works great with a digital pencil. How do… Continue reading “A pen mightier than ever”, Apple Pencil’s game-changing Scribble just made handwriting relevant

Dear Powerpoint, I don’t know what you are. But these are your 10 problems

By: Alexandra Kafka Larsson, support by Jonathan Hörnhagen and the community I wrote about Powerpoint 10 years ago on this blog and it is time for a revisit. The slide deck is something most people love to hate and hate to love. It also feels relevant as with more remote workers, sharing screens is becoming synonymous… Continue reading Dear Powerpoint, I don’t know what you are. But these are your 10 problems

Our 11 reasons why innovation for Knowledge Work have stalled

Tales from the intelligence community By: Alexandra Larsson and Jonathan Hornhagen Over the past 20 years, we have seen an explosion of digital information and new amazing pieces of software. During the majority of that time, I (Alexandra) served as an intelligence officer for the Swedish Armed Forces and felt the change to adapt coming… Continue reading Our 11 reasons why innovation for Knowledge Work have stalled

Exercising digital thinking and why Highlighter Pens are really bad

Insights, software showcase, and our manifesto for the transformation of content highlights To fully utilize transformative technologies we have to move beyond our analog habits and our analog mindset. But what does that mean and how can it be practiced? How do you change an analog mindset to be a digitally transformative one? In this… Continue reading Exercising digital thinking and why Highlighter Pens are really bad