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AI Innovators

Rob May & HalfCourt Ventures

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AI Innovators Podcast interviews technical leaders, investors, and business executives about the impact AI is having on business models, markets, products, and consumer behavior. We investigate impacts on public and private markets, from startups, to large companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook. If you invest at any level and are looking to understand how AI will impact your world, please subscribe. Presented by HalfCourt Ventures
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Welcome to the AI Innovators podcast with your host, Rob May. Today, we're joined by Margaret Quigley from Cohere, a pioneering company in the AI space. Margaret has a unique role that involves sourcing unconventional and valuable data sets for training AI models. From rural villages in Nigeria to complex face recognition apps, her journey through …
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Competera enables retailers to increase customer trust by setting and maintaining optimal price positions on a real-time basis by leveraging the power of AI. Competera’s deep learning algorithms enable their enterprise clients’ to rebound on average 6% of gross margin by continuously calculating and re-quantifying billions of possible price combina…
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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.a…
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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 mor…
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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 …
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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 optim…
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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 busin…
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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 …
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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 t…
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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 mol…
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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 p…
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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 Intellige…
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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-Smal…
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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 Gonczar…
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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 …
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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 …
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Anno.ai is a machine learning platform that started in the government sector but expanded into commercial use for other customers needing security and privacy around data labeling and model management. Ashley Antonides, VP of Data Science at Anno, joins me here to discuss data labeling, government requirements around machine learning models, and ma…
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In this episode I interview James Cham from Bloomberg Beta. We discuss the book "The Man Who Lied to His Laptop" and the book "Prediction Machines" about the economics of AI. We discuss how startups compete with big companies when it comes to AI and the data sets needed, and we have a spirited debate about whether or not AI is the new electricity.…
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Heath Terry, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, discusses AI in public markets. We talk about why Goldman started paying attention to AI, how it is changing how public companies compete with each other, and how AI is touching some surprising areas of business. Note that Heath has since left GS for Third Point Capital.…
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In this episode I talk to Rob Toews, from Highland Capital about his 2021 predictions for AI. We cover federated learning, synthetic media and deepfakes, and the ramifications of political content made with these tools. We also touch on MLOps and why Rob and I both expect some consolidation in the space, and the intersection of AI and biology.…
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