Episodes
Anyw.ai sells a fully packaged business solution by helping businesses stay in touch with their users. The company gives businesses actionable and quantitative packaged feedback from their users. In this podcast, CEO, Manuel Zahariev, talks about the LLM wave and the premise of their company in the latest wave of AI technology. Learn more at anyw.ai
Published 10/13/23
Published 10/13/23
Lovelace uses AI to bring worlds to life as a generative 3D content/experience platform. In this podcast Kayla Comalli, co-founder and CEO, talks about what can be created in these worlds and some of the challenges the company has faced. By leveraging avant-garde 3D generation, players can seamlessly create bespoke, photorealistic worlds. Learn more at lovelacestudio.com
Published 09/24/23
CalypsoAI gives organizations the ability to trust their AI through validation, monitoring, and ongoing security. The company empowers enterprises to leverage the immense potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) confidently and without risk. In this podcast CEO, Neil Serebryany, talks about the personal security implications of using LLMs such as cyber threats and the production of false information. Learn more at calypsoai.com
Published 09/15/23
Centaur Labs provides skilled data annotation services for companies that are building AI, specifically in the medical and life science industries. The company’s scalable and high quality data annotation platform continuously measures the accuracy of data annotators, whose annotation quality is motivated by pay-for-performance incentives, and optimized by collective intelligence. In this podcast Co-founder and CEO, Erik Duhaime, talks about how Centaur Labs uses AI in data labeling and...
Published 08/04/23
Central Casting AI provides game developers with pre-trained non-player characters (NPCs) for games. These characters come with intelligence, behaviors and dialogue that can interact with objects in the real world. In this podcast Co-Founder Jeff Orkin talks about how Central Casting encodes the rules of common sense in to the characters, the business of the video game industry and the gaming community’s future with AI. The company uses the generative models at the developers’ authoring time...
Published 07/20/23
Consensus is a product led, product first company with a mission to make science accessible and consumable for all using AI. Consensus uses natural language processing to ingest research papers and understand what the consensus is on any type of scientific issue. The Consensus product is essentially a search engine, powered by language models that allows one to search a natural language research question. In this podcast, Co-Founder Eric Olson talks about his athletic but non-scientific...
Published 07/20/23
Radical Ventures is the largest AI focused VC fund in North America. From healthcare and financial services to infrastructure and manufacturing, Radical Ventures partners with founders who understand the transformational power of AI. In this podcast partner Parasvil Patel talks about the culture behind the company and where he expects to see long term moats emerge for AI companies. Rob also gives Parasavil the chance to argue for or against the points Rob made in his Substack article called...
Published 07/02/23
In this podcast Founder, Alex Wiltschko, talks about how Osmo is adding a new sensory modality to machines by teaching them to smell through reading, mapping and writing smell. He also talks about the company’s findings on the difference between vision and smell when represented by machines. Alex has solved the core problem of predicting what a molecule smells like through super human scent prediction performance. Osmo envisions a future where computers will capture and understand the...
Published 06/18/23
Piction Health uses AI to identify skin diseases to streamline their virtual care delivery. Piction Health provides immediate help and support for the patient’s hair, skin, and nail issues. In this podcast, Cofounder, Susan Conover talks about the use of AI as it relates to images of skin. Susan talks about how the company was formed from her own personal experience being diagnosed with melanoma. Learn more at pictionhealth.com
Published 05/17/23
Intelligent Relations combines the latest AI technology with deep PR industry expertise to democratize access to the media. In this podcast, Chairman, Rob Shavell talks about how he started an AI first PR company and where PR is going in a world of generative AI and large language models. Rob talks about where one can use AI in PR and how Intelligent Relations applies AI to PR. Learn more at intelligentrelations.com
Published 05/03/23
Untether AI helps companies execute AI workloads to run neural networks faster and more cost-effectively using at-memory computing. In this podcast, CEO, Arun Iyengar talks about why GPUs are still holding us back, regardless of their success and how Untether came to fruition. Learn more at untether.ai
Published 04/24/23
MemoryWell combines the power of storytelling with innovative data insights to help care providers provide more empathetic and personalized care to their patients. MemoryWell also launched PlanAllies, which helps health plans onboard and engage new members so that they get the most out of their plans. In this podcast, Founder & CEO Jay Newtown-Small talks about the importance of delivering person-centered care within the long-term care, hospitals and home care space. Jay talks about the...
Published 04/10/23
Akooda is the world's first Ops Intelligence platform, providing true insights on top of existing SaaS tools used across the digital footprint. Akooda gives managers and leadership visibility and insights into their customers, projects, and resource allocation to boost revenue and improve productivity. In this podcast, CEO and Founder Yuval Gonczarowski defines the rising category of Ops Intelligence, explains the tools the company has built using semantic analysis and describes the company’s...
Published 04/05/23
Synthetic Users is service that uses LLMs for user feedback. Their goal is to make product discovery faster, more affordable and more efficient than ever before for customers. In this podcast, CEO and Founder, Kwame Ferreira talks about the concept of synthetic data while defining what synthetic users are, where they came from, and where synthetic data is going in the future. Learn more at syntheticusers.com
Published 03/19/23
TermScout is an AI tool that highlights key components of common business contracts and informs the user if they are standard market terms or outliers.  In this podcast founders Otto Hanson and Evan Harris talk about the challenges of doing NLP on contracts, why contracts are more commerce tech than legal tech, and how they wish someone would build an asynchronous workplace communication super app.  Learn more at termscout.com
Published 02/08/23
Tommy Weir is the CEO of Enaible, a company focused on enterprise AI productivity tool.  Hear Tommy talk about lessons learned measuring productivity, how to sell AI into large companies, and how generative visualizations are the one piece of tech Enaible would love someone to build to help improve their tool.
Published 01/31/23
Mady Mantha is the Co-Founder and CTO at HappyPillar - an app that uses NLP to help coach parents through better interactions with their children.  Hear Mady talk about the trends in NLP and how they led to the possibility of creating apps like HappyPillar, and the impact they are having on families.
Published 10/20/22
Hear Benjamin Cohen, CEO of Proton.ai, talk about how to apply artificial intelligence to the distribution business - a large sector of the economy currently underserved by AI.  Benj talks about how he stumbled on the idea, and how to recruit AI talent for companies in sectors that are less commonly tech-enabled.
Published 11/19/21
In this episode, I talk to Michelle Zhou about chatbots, natural language processing, and why teaching AI to listen is as important as teaching AI to speak.
Published 10/15/21
In this episode I interview Amy Webb from the Future Today Institute, and we discuss her book on technology - The Big Nine, and all the issues AI/ML create for the world that we need to address.
Published 10/03/21
In this episode, I talk to Rob Aitken from ARM about AI hardware and the future of edge AI.  Rob explains the differences between CPUs and GPUs, what we mean when we say AI accelerators, and the future of AI hardware.  
Published 08/20/21
In this episode, Ash Fontana discusses his book "The AI-First Company:  How to Compete and Win With Artificial Intelligence".  We discuss the role of data network effects, how data learning effects are bigger and more important, and many other AI related topics.
Published 07/16/21
In this episode, Karim Lakhani, a professor at Harvard Business School,  discusses his book "Competing in the Age of AI."  We talk about how vectors of competition change in an AI world, and how traditional business strategy has to adapt.
Published 06/26/21
Upstart is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ:  UPST) that provides AI powered loan approvals for banks.  Listen as Dave talks about why there is a huge gap in approvals, and thus an opportunity for Upstart, and how to build competitive advantage in AI related spaces.
Published 06/13/21