Breathing Life
Into Virtual Beings
Our human-centric AI technology brings seeing and sociable digital assistants to life.
Virtual Beings that See, Hear, and Remember You
We make virtual assistants that are more than virtual: they are animated and alive! Our characters see, hear, and interact with you in realtime, creating a working relationship that is compassionate, energetic, and always helpful.
Interactive
What does it take to create an AI that’s truly interactive? Our virtual assistants are powered by multimodal AI that understands spoken words and physical movement.
Intelligent and Empathetic
Most of us work harder in the presence of others. Our AI interacts with you naturally and understands social cues, so you have the sense of interacting with a real person.
Personal
We aim to breathe context awareness into our virtual assistants so that they remember and forge personal relationships with their clients (that’s you!)
Virtual Beings are the next step in the evolution from smart speakers to robots
We build virtual robots who are perceptive and social. Consumer robots today are merely bodies without brains. Our virtual beings are brains awaiting a physical body.
The first platform for building visual, interactive AI
We provide the foundational technology layer to power virtual assistants on consumer devices.
Crowd-Acting™ Platform
Fast, on-demand data collection to train neural networks.
We teach our AI with videos recorded by “crowd-actors” all over the world, from Berlin to Bangladesh.
We’ve collected over 5 million video clips— with more coming in every day.
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AI Model
Neural networks that recognize thousands of human actions and interactions, from jumping jacks to spilling a glass of water.
New concepts and interactions are constantly added.
We use reasoning by analogy to keep our AI model updated: every interaction can be applied to other interactions.
Real-Time Stack
Our AI models are optimized to be real-time capable with high responsiveness, which makes them suitable for consumer devices.
All data is kept on the device: no streaming to the cloud means no latency, no recording — and no chance of a breach of privacy.
Consumer End Products
All this powers the world’s finest digital assistants.
No more talking to a line or a circle — our characters look, sound, and feel human.
Try It OutWe are at the Heart of the World’s Deep Learning Ecosystem
Our journey began in Toronto, where our founding CEO Roland Memisevic studied under the supervision of Turing Award laureate Geoffrey Hinton. From 2012 to 2016, Roland co-led the Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms (MILA) with Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, and Pascal Vincent. Bengio, also a Turing Award laureate, is the founding advisor of 20BN.
Yoshua Bengio
Founding Advisor
TwentyBN
Turing Award 2018
Scientific Director
MILA Institute
Roland Memisevic
CEO & Co-Founder
TwentyBN
Former Professor
MILA Institute
Peter Yianilos
Board Chairman & Investor
TwentyBN
CEO & Founder
Edgestream
Former President
Franklin Electronic Publishers
Our data has been leveraged by these industry leaders
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