CANADA – Inverted AI, a Vancouver, BC, Canada-based generative AI company for AV/ADAS development, secured over USD$4m in seed funding.
The round was led by Yaletown Partners, with participation from Blue Titan Ventures, Dasein Capital, Inovia Capital, Defined, and WUTIF. The company intends to use the funds to further accelerate and expand its product offerings, including those based on its ITRA (Imagining the Road Ahead) technology. as the leader in providing behavioral models accelerating safe commercial deployment of autonomous solutions including advanced ADAS, autonomous vehicles and robots, and a full range of realistic, simulation-based systems. ITRA enables longer and more complex simulation scenarios that can be used to test the ADAS/AV system against the full range of behaviors displayed by the human road users around it. Our technology helps ensure the safety of ADAS and AV systems while significantly reducing development costs and time by enabling a full range of diverse and realistic testing scenarios.Led by Frank Wood, CEO, Inverted AI builds AI agents that behave like humans. The company provides world class predictive human behavioral models that are learned from massive quantities of video data. They use proprietary techniques to transfer these models into simulated environments where they use them to drive human-like NPCs that are statistically accurate in terms of reactivity, realism, and diversity. Inverted AI currently offers API access to DRIVE, with a human-like non-playable character (NPCs) driving behaviors that are diverse, realistic, and reactive, and INITIALIZE, with realistic and diverse agent placements. The company has begun beta testing new products including BLAME, which can automatically determine which agent(s) caused a collision and why from logs to efficiently validate simulations, and SCENARIO, enabling whole-scene scenario generation with realistic, reactive, and diverse agents inc. pedestrians, bikes, cars, buses, and lights. The company recently launched a new site with an interactive demo of the API and the ability for researchers and developers to sign-up for a trial API key.14/12/2023
