London-based startup Unitary has successfully secured $15 million in a Series A funding round as it expands its AI-driven visual content moderation platform. The company employs contextual AI to automate content moderation, effectively keeping inappropriate or NSFW content at bay.

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With this investment, Unitary has expanded its team to 41 members and significantly increased its daily video classification capacity to 6 million videos. .Leveraging the power of AI, Unitary's platform can discern the context of user-generated videos, differentiating between content like a white supremacist rally and documentary footage illustrating the dangers of such actions, all without human intervention.

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Unitary's CEO, Sasha Haco, envisions their AI technology contributing to a safer and more empathetic online experience, aiming to enhance how visual content is consumed on the internet. The recent funding will enable them to continue advancing their research in video understanding and work toward their mission of improving the internet.

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