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Hive Announces Launch of HiveMind to Boost Project Planning With AI

Hive Announces Launch of HiveMind to Boost Project Planning With AI

Hive, a provider of productivity platforms, announced that HiveMind is now available to the public. HiveMind uses artificial intelligence (AI) to quickly and automatically generate a project plan in seconds.

Hive is the leader in using models' ability to keep learning and make logical decisions based on extensive data.

Based on data from six years of successful customer projects, HiveMind automatically lays out the steps required to achieve any goal, and this speeds up project planning and execution. For example, it can create project tasks based on simple suggestions, set upcoming actions based on emails received, and respond based on the content of the incoming email.

In addition to making project planning more efficient, HiveMind can speed up market research by giving facts, statistics, information about competitors, and new ideas for brainstorming without using the internet. Hive customers who used HiveMind said they experienced benefits right away.

Action Cards, Hive Mail, and Hive Notes all work well with HiveMind. You can use HiveMind in Notes to create content, such as business proposals, media releases, job descriptions, meeting agendas, and public speeches. All the materials can be checked for spelling errors, transliterated into many different languages, and summed up to make it easier to understand. HiveMind can also create customized images and illustrations that can be used royalty-free.

About Hive

Co-founded by John Furneaux and Eric Typaldos in New York City, Hive, whose mission is to improve workplace productivity, is the world's first community-built project management and productivity tool, assisting teams of all sizes in moving quicker and collaborating more effectively from anywhere. Companies such as Comcast, Toyota, Electronic Arts, and Starbucks use the Hive productivity tool. In addition, Hive has raised funding from leading venture capital firms like Rembrandt Venture Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, Vocap Investment Partners, and Zoom Technology.

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