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NAVER D2SF Invests in Clone Labs, an AI Startup That Predicts User Intent and Decisions
NAVER D2SF, the corporate venture capital arm of NAVER, has made a new investment in Clone Labs(CEO, Minchan Kim), an AI startup focused on understanding user intent and context. Clone Labs develops a User Model that learns computer and agent usage patterns to predict and execute next actions on behalf of users. NAVER D2SF decided to invest in the team based on its ability to quickly identify emerging problems in the AI era and pursue them relentlessly through experimentation.
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