AI in NYC Show

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

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

‍BrandGuard ensures brand consistency across various AI platforms by teaching machines to understand brands. In this podcast, Eric Koziol, Head of AI, and George Lin, Head of Research, talk about how BrandGuard differs from other types of AI from the architecture perspective, why we can teach machines to understand branding and the misconceptions surrounding teaching those machines to understand brands. Learn more at brandguard.ai

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

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 addresses the fears people have regarding the idea that AI will take people’s jobs away. He also talks about the nature of data annotation changing as the AI space keeps improving and the impact on demand for data labeling. Learn more at centaurlabs.com

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 to assist designers to then output a traditional structured model of behavior called a planning domain in a hierarchal task network planner. Learn more at centralcasting.ai

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 background and how he entered the AI space through his career. Eric came up with the idea for Consensus after spending years as a die-hard amateur science consumer and wanting access to better evidence-based information at the click of a button. In the podcast, Eric also talks about how the business was affected when Chat GPT was launched and his future predictions for Chat GPT. Learn more at consensus.app

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 “5 Contrarian AI Theses For Early Stage Investors.” Learn more at radical.vc

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 chemical world to help us enjoy new smells and tastes, recall memories, forecast opportunities and danger, and make life-saving decisions. Learn more at osmo.ai

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