{"id":234257,"date":"2026-01-12T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234257\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:13:08","slug":"ai-startups-tasq-ai-and-blend-merge-to-tackle-the-industrys-trust-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234257\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startups Tasq AI and BLEND merge to tackle the industry\u2019s trust problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli startups Tasq AI and BLEND have merged and will now operate under the name Tasq AI. The merger, completed as a deal of equals, values the combined company at tens of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s solution combines proprietary \u201cData Refinery\u201d technology with a global network of millions of contributors, including 25,000 vetted content experts. The companies said the merged entity is expected to generate revenues of tens of millions of dollars by 2026.<\/p>\n

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Erez Moscovich (right) and Yoav Ziv. <\/p>\n

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Yoav Ziv, formerly CEO of BLEND, will lead the combined company as CEO, while Erez Moscovich, founder of Tasq AI, will serve as president.<\/p>\n

Despite the enormous potential of artificial intelligence, a persistent \u201ctrust gap\u201d remains one of the main barriers to enterprise adoption. The companies say the merger is designed to address that challenge by creating a unified platform focused on improving the accuracy, reliability and governance of enterprise-grade AI systems.<\/p>\n

The combined company employs 120 people worldwide and already generates revenues in the tens of millions of dollars. Its customer base includes major global brands such as Reddit, PayPal, Meta, Puma, iHerb and Payoneer.<\/p>\n

\u201cData has become the critical defensive layer in the $1.5 trillion AI market, that safeguards the quality and reliability of AI models,\u201d said Ziv, formerly a top executive at Amdocs and Checkmarx. \u201cWe are establishing a single entity that combines technology and people to tackle the greatest challenge in AI implementation: trust, at speed and quality levels no one thought possible. Tasq AI\u2019s technology enables AI models to be trained up to 10X faster than existing approaches.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli startups Tasq AI and BLEND have merged and will now operate under the name Tasq AI. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-234257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}