She said she “decided to end the unproductive call.”īoebert shot back in an Instagram video: “Rejecting an apology and hanging up on someone is part of cancel culture 101 and a pillar of the Democrat Party.” “I believe in engaging with those we disagree with respectfully, but not when that disagreement is rooted in outright bigotry and hate,” Omar said in a statement. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was booted from congressional committees for her inflammatory rhetoric.Īfter Monday’s phone call, Omar and Boebert quickly issued statements condemning each other.
Paul Gosar of Arizona was censured over a violent video. It also offers a test of Democrats’ newfound resolve to mete out punishment to Republicans.Įarlier this month conservative Rep. It’s just the latest example of a GOP lawmaker making a personal attack against another member of Congress, an unsettling trend that has gone largely unchecked by House Republican leaders. 6.īoebert previously apologized “to anyone in the Muslim community I offended,” but not directly to Omar. Instead, it ended abruptly after Boebert rejected Omar’s request for a public apology, amplifying partisan strife that has become a feature, not a bug, of the GOP since a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. The conversation, which Boebert sought after issuing a tepid statement last Friday, offered an opportunity to extend an olive branch in a House riven by tension. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat whom she likened to a bomb-carrying terrorist, the two spoke by phone Monday.īy both lawmakers’ accounts, it did not go well. Lauren Boebert of Colorado was harshly criticized for making anti-Muslim comments about Rep. WASHINGTON - Days after firebrand conservative Rep. By both lawmakers' accounts, the call Monday did not go well. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., just days after likening her to a bomb-carrying terrorist. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., speaks at a news conference held by members of the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, on July 29, 2021. However, Picsart is not acquiring specific IP from DeepCraft as part of this deal, the company told TechCrunch.FILE - Rep. With DeepCraft, Picsart is particularly interested in how the team’s skillset and technology expertise can help it move forward with its support of video, which the company says will be a significant focus in 2022. It now offers thousands of effects and dozens of video editing tools, and plans to grow this lineup as AI and cloud technology evolves, it says.
So far in 2021, Picsart has seen more than 180 million videos edited in its app - a 70% increase year-over-year. Picsart entered the video market in 2018 with the acquisition of EFEKT (previously D’efekt), and has seen usage surge in recent years - particularly as its app has been adopted by social media creators and e-commerce shops which use video.
In total, the full DeepCraft team of eight senior machine learning and video engineers will be joining Picsart as full-time employees as a result of the deal. This work has wrapped up and the team will now begin working from Picsart’s offices in Yerevan.
Meanwhile, Hovhannisyan spent 13 years as a senior R&D engineer at Synopsys.Īt DeepCraft, the team worked with a number of clients on a contract basis, including Krisp, PatriotOne and even the Armenian government.
Abroyan previously held positions as the Deputy Minister for the Ministry of High Tech Industry Republic of Armenia, Lead AI Architect at RedKite and Senior Software Developer at Synopsys. Its co-founders, Armen Abroyan (CEO) and Vardges Hovhannisyan (CTO) have spent more than 20 years in AI and machine learning, and are well-known in their local community for their expertise. The team will also help to complement Picsart’s AI research and development arm, PAIR (Picsart AI Research) with additional senior resources, the company says.įounded in 2017, Armenia-based DeepCraft specialized in video and image processing, while Picsart was the country’s first unicorn. The company believes DeepCraft’s AI technical talent and its breakthroughs in computer vision and machine learning will enhance Picsart’s own AI technology and help the company better support the recent growth of video creation on its service. Picsart today offers a range of digital creation and editing tools aimed at both consumers and professionals alike that make photo and video editing more fun and approachable. The deal is a combination of both cash and stock and is in the seven-figure range, but the exact terms aren’t being disclosed. SoftBank-based digital creation platform Picsart, which recently hit uniciorn status, announced today it’s acquiring the research and development company DeepCraft.