One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., has raised $10 million in a funding round. The startup is building an Amazon-like platform to help brands quickly find relevant influencers for their marketing campaigns. It touts having more than 7 million content creators on the platform that brands ranging from FMCG to e-commerce can access. These creators include the micro-ones developing content from villages and tier-2 and tier-3 towns, as well as large celebrities and even Bollywood actors that generate more than 100,000 content pieces for more than 500 brands in over 10 languages. The platform is also not limited to influencers from a particular genre and has creators in comedy, beauty, fashion and DIY, among other fields.

Mitiga, a cloud security firm that offers a subscription-based service to help companies prepare for cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) attacks, has raised $45 million in a Series A. Mitiga takes a “modern” approach to cloud incident response. The service analyzes cloud forensics data for investigation, storing forensics data from various clouds and software-as-a-service apps. Using a library of cloud attack scenarios, Mitiga hunts for attacks in the forensics data, managing and orchestrating the response in real time. Of course, there’s no shortage of rival vendors offering services to secure organizations’ cloud assets: Wiz, Sentra, Dig Security, Laminar and Opus Security - also raised funding recently.

Microsoft has announced that ChatGPT is generally available through the Azure OpenAI Service, the company’s fully managed, corporate-focused offering designed to give businesses access to OpenAI’s technologies with added governance and compliance features. ChatGPT joins the range of other OpenAI-developed systems already served through the Azure OpenAI Service, including the text-generating GPT-3.5, the code-generating Codex and the image-generating DALL-E 2. Microsoft has a close working relationship with OpenAI, having invested billions into the startup and inking an exclusive agreement to commercialize OpenAI’s AI research.

Discord is launching a set of new AI experiences to a number of servers. The messenger is updating its Clyde bot with OpenAI ChatGPT technology that will allow users to have extended conversations with the bot. You can type @Clyde in a server to chat with Clyde in any channel. You also can ask Clyde to start a thread for a group of your friends to hang out. Discord notes that Clyde can recommend playlists, and access GIFs and emojis like any Discord user. You can ask Clyde to do things like send you a gif or share five interesting facts about cats. The company is testing and iterating the product and believes that it will become a fundamental part of the Discord experience.

Еmployee mentoring software MentorcliQ has closed an “over-$80 million” growth investment. This platform helps companies solve exceedingly common and expensive employee engagement, development and retention challenges. MentorcliQ occupies the increasingly crowded space of upskilling vendors. For example, GrowthSpace recently raised $25 million for its platform that leverages algorithms to match individual employees and groups of employees with experts for development sprints. What sets MentorcliQ apart, is that it guides customers through the entire mentoring process. This includes designing and executing mentoring strategies, building and running mentoring programs, engaging mentoring participants and measuring the impact.

Soci, a marketing automation platform with customers including Ace Hardware, Jersey Mike’s, Pet Supplies Plus and Ford, today announced that it raised $120 million in a financing round. This year, Soci began to roll out what it calls “Genius,” an AI layer of services that do local data analysis on behalf of brands and deliver recommendations and suggestions for automating aspects of brands’ marketing strategies. For example, Soci’s Review Genius — powered by OpenAI’s tech — collects reviews and analytics across review networks (e.g. Yelp) and then automatically responds to those reviews. Soci has also developed compliance features and other safeguards such as approval processes to ensure that certain terms and phrases are never used and flagged prior to distribution.

Microsoft is launching a new AI tool Copilot, that aims to automate some of the more repetitive sales and customer service tasks. For example, in Dynamics 365 Sales and Viva Sales, Copilot can help write email responses to customers and create an email summary of a Teams meeting in Outlook. The meeting summary pulls in details from the seller’s CRM, such as product and pricing information and combines them with insights from the recorded Teams call. Over in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Copilot can draft “contextual answers” to customer queries via chat or email and provide an “interactive chat experience” for customer service agents that draws from knowledge bases as well as case history. In turn, conversation boosters complements a new “GPT” model in Microsoft’s AI Builder tool that lets organizations embed text-generation features into their Power Automate and Power Apps solutions.

Wunderkind, a platform that enables brands to target web visitors through emails, texts and other digital advertising formats, has raised $76 million in a Series C. Wunderkind aims to scale brands’ abilities to foster customer relationships through digital channels. How? By analyzing smartphone and desktop web visitors’ real-time and historical behaviors to match value to intent. Wunderkind claims it can determine who visitors are based on the web page that referred them and the content that they’re interacting with. For example, the platform can figure out who’s most likely to purchase a paid subscription and sign up for a newsletter — or so Ingram claims.