{"id":74758,"date":"2017-12-30T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T21:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/meet-the-ai-startup-that-wants-to-make-a-digital-copy-of-every-person-in-the-world"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:07:07","slug":"meet-the-ai-startup-that-wants-to-make-a-digital-copy-of-every-person-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/meet-the-ai-startup-that-wants-to-make-a-digital-copy-of-every-person-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Meet the AI startup that wants to make a digital copy of every person in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/13cbF8s68cU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOben,\u201d in German means \u201cabove,\u201d or to be on top. That, in a nutshell, is also the vision Nikhil Jain has for the AI startup <a href=\"https:\/\/oben.me\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ObEN<\/a>, of which he\u2019s CEO and co-founder. The company raised $5 million from a group led by Tencent this summer and has an ambition in keeping with the meaning of its name.<\/p>\n<p>Nikhil is working to advance technology that gives ultimately everyone in the world \u2014 the famous, the infamous, the ordinary and everyone in between \u2014 a 3D avatar that looks and sounds like them. ObEN, in that scenario, would power an AI level that sits, in other words, \u201cabove\u201d physical, face-to-face interactions, opening up a new way of interacting with technology. And each other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2017\/12\/30\/best-cable-modem-for-spectrum-comcast-more\/\"><strong>Don\u2019t Miss : <\/strong> You\u2019ll love this $40 box almost as much as your cable company hates it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2017\/12\/30\/meet-the-ai-startup-that-wants-to-make-a-digital-copy-of-every-person-in-the-world\/\">http:\/\/bgr.com\/2017\/12\/30\/meet-the-ai-startup-that-wants-to-...the-world\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOben,\u201d in German means \u201cabove,\u201d or to be on top. That, in a nutshell, is also the vision Nikhil Jain has for the AI startup ObEN, of which he\u2019s CEO and co-founder. The company raised $5 million from a group led by Tencent this summer and has an ambition in keeping with the meaning of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74854,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74758\/revisions\/74854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}