In February 2023, Starship Technologies announced a partnership with Teal to offer unmatched connectivity and reliability for automated delivery robots.

Finalists for Innovation of the Year in the 2024 GeekWire Awards: Protect AI, Teal Communications, Hiya, the Allen Institute for AI, WhyLabs, and ReadAI.It’s a big year for artificial intelligence, telecom advances, and tools designed to make these emerging technologies safe and transparent, judging from the finalists in the category of Innovation of the Year.Continue reading for details on each finalist. Vote here or below in this GeekWire Awards category, which is presented by title sponsor Astound Business Solutions, and join us May 9 to see who wins.Allen Institute for AI is a finalist for its Open Language Model, or OLMo. The Seattle-based institute released the open-source large language model in February along with the underlying data and code, meant to significantly improve understanding of how generative AI actually works. The idea is to enable scientific assessments of AI models, increasing transparency while simultaneously improving energy efficiency by eliminating redundancies.Hiya‘s caller ID, call blocking, and spam protection technologies have become increasingly important in a world where generative AI and robocalls are increasing the risk of fraud. Hiya Protect, with its Adaptive AI spam protection, has been used in the US for more than five years, and globally by Samsung Galaxy devices and in the Hiya mobile app. In 2023, carriers around the world adopted Hiya Protect in a major global expansion of the technology.Teal Communications has seen significant revenue growth for its eSIM technology that can connect devices to any data network around the world, with a focus on robotics, drones, fleet technology, agriculture, smart city technology, and EV charging stations