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  • S1E2 - Qure.ai : Journey of an Indian Healthtech company going Global | Rohit Ghosh

    Welcome to the CLL Podcast Series where we talk with leading companies and startups disrupting the world with AI and ML. This is the first Episode of the Qure.ai Podcast Series. This week, we take a closer look at health tech startup Qure.ai, which went from using  AI to make diagnostic imaging easier and more affordable to focusing on coronavirus testing globally.


    Qure.ai develops deep learning solutions that automatically read and interpret medical images like X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs. The company's product is an AI-based radiology diagnostic aid. The flagship applications focus on chest X-ray abnormality detection and brain CT analysis for emergency care. The Mumbai-based healthcare startup recently raised $16 million in funding, led by Sequoia India and supported by MassMutual Ventures in Southeast Asia. For the audience, the same investor also invested in technology backed companies such as Byju’s, Zomato, Gojek, CRED, and many more...Now, as the world battles a pandemic, Qure.ai is readying to do its bit to help curb the further spread of coronavirus. Qure.ai is also the winner of the AI Game changer award at the 6th NASSCOM Big Data & Analytics Summit 2018.


    Today we have with us one of the founding members of Qure.ai, Rohit Ghosh.


    Today’s Podcast will walk you through how Qure.ai is tapping deep tech. We’ll hear from Rohit the why, what, and how behind what a tech startup is building. We also get an overview of how Qure.ai disrupted the Healthcare products and dealt with the initial setbacks whilst launching their first flagship product qXR, Along with the first-hand experience from Rohit about the recent funding secured. And to top it all off we will touch upon many ups and downs qure.ai faced on the journey of being recognized as the most accurate algorithm for detecting Tuberculosis on Chest X-rays.

    Let’s dive deep into the Origins of Qure.ai

    53 min
  • S1E1 - Rasa: Journey of Rasa NLU, Rasa Core to Series B funding, Community building | Alex Weidauer

    In this podcast, we spoke with Alex Weidauer, Co-founder and CEO of Rasa. Rasa is a Python-based open-source conversational AI framework powered by Rasa NLU and Rasa Core. We learned the backstory of Rasa, which was thought up in Alex's kitchen while building a chatbot using Dialogflow and other chatbot frameworks - till today with 3M+ downloads, 10K+ members on the global Rasa community forum.

    We also touched upon the story behind naming Rasa, latest GPT-3 NLP research, talent acquisition, product-market fit for startup products, recent Series B funding from Andreessen Horowitz(a16z), Rasa Masterclass on YouTube, and even Alex's favorite Bollywood movie and actor!

    00:00 : Teaser

    00:21 : Welcome to CLL Podcast - Rasa - S1E1 - Intro

    01:00 : Alex Introduction

    01:42 : Namaste Alex

    02:06 : Alex’s daily routines

    04:00 : Shut down of Treev. Learned "How NOT to make the product?"

    06:19 : Tracking the usage of the open-source product

    08:03 : Hiring the first few members of the company.

    11:28 : Biggest challenges the Conversational AI space was facing back then and now?

    14:42 : Rasa NLU's immediate traction on TechCrunch in Dec 2016

    17:28 : Flushed service-based business and started focusing on product

    19:29 : Rasa Contributor Program

    21:51 : Rasa'a terrific community growth

    24:07 : Rasa's funding procurement & Series A 

    28:26 : Series B investment

    30:50 : Rasa Developer summit & L3-AI: Level 3 AI Assistant Conference, 

    33:38 : Rasa growth: Stats

    34:00 : Rapid-fire round 

    35:38 : Chatbots for getting business insights

    37:27 : Why name "Rasa"? and its current focus?

    39:25 : Does Alex watch Indian Movies and his favorite actor?

    40:00 : What ideal vacation looks like for Alex?

    40:50 : Auf wiedersehen


    Connect and follow the speaker:

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aweidauer/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexweidauer


    Join Rasa:

    Mission: https://rasa.com/mission/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rasa_HQ

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0V...

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rasa./

    Website: https://rasa.com

    Forum: http://forum.rasa.com/


    Podcast team: 

    Yogesh Kothiya: https://linktr.ee/YogeshKothiya

    Kunaal Naik: https://linktr.ee/KunaalNaik

    Laisha Wadhwa: https://linktr.ee/laishawadhwa

    Piyush Bhandari: https://linktr.ee/piyushbhandari

    Vinay Sarigoppula: https://linktr.ee/vinaysarigoppula

    Kaushik Byna: https://linktr.ee/kaushikbyna


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    42 min
  • S0E0 - The Data Monk who sold his Porsche(not Ferrari) - Ramsri Goutham (Lead Data Scientist) | Kunaal Naik
    0:00:00 : Welcome to CLL Podcast 
    0:00:23 : What are the Superpower of Ramsri? 
    0:01:37 :How did Ramsri get into Data Science? 
    0:07:14 : How many Data Science Courses did Ramsri complete? 
    0:13:25 : How to plan and learn efficiently? 
    0:17:24 : MOOC's dropout rate? 
    0:20:37 : Where does Ramsri work currently? 
    0:22:20 : What are the applications ML in Cyber Security? 
    0:29:36 : Want to work in Cyber Security? 
    0:33:25 : Generate boolean (yes/no) questions from any content using T5 text-to-text transformer model 
    0:35:11 : Practical AI: Automatically Generate Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) from any content with BERT Summarizer, Wordnet, and Conceptnet 0:37:24 : Paraphrase any question with T5 (Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer) — Pretrained model and training script provided 
    0:39:21 : What does it take to deploy your models to production? 
    0:42:18 : What kind of hardware(GPU) does Ramsri recommend Machine Learning? 
    0:46:32 : How did Ramsri start writing and make his first video? 
    0:49:26 : Why did Ramsri Open Source his AI-based project? 
    0:50:15 : What is your experience in writing Machine Learning articles on Medium? 
    0:57:11 : Check out AiArtist on Google Chrome! 
    1:04:36 : What personal projects are you working on currently? 
    1:06:25 : Rapid fire round
    1 hr 39 min

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