The Tunisia-born and UAE headquartered company ClusterLab has raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding. The round was led by early backers of InstaDeep, Karim Beguir, and regional angel investors.
The funding will aid ClusterLab’s research and development efforts, and also push towards a focus on advancing their next-generational large language model (LLMs). The startup stated these advanced LLMs will further enhance the company’s NLP capabilities. The team aims to refine the user experience with their products like Elm and Reedz.
The company has a mission to revolutionise how Arabic content is created, and consumed by using LLMs and AI. The idea is to make it more accessible and engaging for users across the world.
The startup is behind the Arabic audiobook summarisation app Reedz. The team’s expertise is recognised through their collaboration with InstaDeep on a national AI initiative for Tunisia’s Ministry of Higher Education, and their selection in the Nvidia Inception Program for AI startups.
Haithem Kchau, Co-founder and CEO, ClusterLab said, the team’s expertise in technology goes beyond the current wave of large language models. Kchau added they have been pioneers in utilising NLP to revolutionise content summarisation before it became mainstream.
The company’s Co-founder and CTO added the coming few months holds significant potential, and the team is eager to showcase the depth of its technological advancements to the public, through the large-scale deployment of AI solutions.
