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Our guest today is Pawel Osterreicher, the CEO and founder of ReSpo.Vision. ReSpo.Vision disrupts sports with the help of Artificial Intelligence. Their Computer Vision algorithms capture detailed 3D positional data from sporting events and turn it into practical insights & visualizations, providing sports clubs, and sports media with an unmatched depth of knowledge. They work with elite football clubs such as Paris Saint-Germain; as well as the top Media Companies. Before founding ReSpo Pawel was Chief Revenue Officer & Board Director of Deepsense.ai; before that, he spent 7 years at The Boston Consulting Group.

In this episode we talk about the evolution of sports analytics in a relentless pursuit of excellence, new powers enabled by AI, and ReSpo breakthrough work in computer vision.

Website: https://respo.vision/

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

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Our guest today is Ganesh Gandhieswaran, the CEO and founder of ConverSight. ConverSight offers a conversational intelligence platform that uses Natural Language Processing and machine learning to converge the distance between humans and data. ConverSight’s AI business assistant, Athena, connects distributed databases (ERPs and CRMs), delivering on-demand insights to direct your next move through three key functions: Information on Demand, Proactive Insights and Dashboards, and Recommended Actions.

In this episode, we talk about Conversight’s journey to bring visibility to siloed enterprise data and bring the AI-powered analytics assistant to every employee in the organization. We also talk about why healthy arguments between co-founders are important to the company’s success and why starting a company reminds Ganesh of jumping into a well.

ConverSight’s website: https://conversight.ai/

Ganesh’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganeshgandhieswaran/

Jump into a well: https://youtu.be/uPf6mXFxwdY

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We sat down with Eldad to talk about boosting sales teams' win rates with real-time AI guidance, approaching 200 sales leaders to build the product, and lessons from the Israeli Navy. Real-time guidance is the future of professional communications and Winn is an excellent case study on starting a vertical AI company.

Eldad Postan-Koren is the CEO and founder of Winn AI. Winn offers a real-time AI assistant that helps sales teams win more deals with less hassle. The Winn.AI real-time assistant acts as an extra pair of hands during meetings, giving salespeople the freedom to focus their attention entirely on the customer. For account executives, this means a stronger, more authentic conversation with their prospects and less administrative hassle. For sales leaders, it means more passionate AEs, stronger brand voices, faster onboarding, and, most importantly - increased sales.

Before starting Winn with his co-founder Bar Haleva, Eldad was the COO of DreaMed Diabetes, responsible for the company’s initial commercialization efforts, and worked at OurCrowd - a company enabling accredited investors to invest in startups. Eldad also founded two NGOs (Shavot and The Sky is the Limit) and is a proud veteran Naval Officer.

In this episode, we talk about Winn’s approach to helping sales teams win more deals, and make salespeople happier. We also talked about how reaching out to 200 people for customer development before starting Winn helped Eldad in unforeseen ways, and what lessons from the Israel Navy he currently applies as a founder.

Winn AI: https://winn.ai/

Eldad on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eldad-postan/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/winn_sales/

Jobs: https://www.linkedin.com/company/winnai/jobs/

Shavot: http://shavot.org

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Our guest today is Naveen Rao, the CEO and founder of Mosaic ML. The MosaicML Cloud makes it easy to train models of any size on any number of GPUs, helping teams achieve more accurate results faster and seamlessly scale workloads with distributed training methods. Naveen previously built the first AI-chip company Nervana Systems, which was acquired by Intel in 2016. He then joined Intel and started and ran Intel’s AI division.

What we discussed (with timestamps):

8.12 It really came down to, I want to find my purpose in life, in this world… - on returning to academia.

9.50 I came with a focus, I didn’t meander. - on completing a Ph.D. ahead of time while having one of the most amazing times of his life.

15:15 We started seeing hints that this was something much bigger than just a new toy. - on Neural Networks.

17.01 Entrepreneurs and founders are zealots. -  on the difference between the founders and professional managers.

19.50 He made this company an AI company by his sheer will… - on Nvidia’s Jenson.

24.01 I was like, man… that’s having your back - on venture investors.

24.47 It hurt, it felt like I got dumped by my girlfriend… as a young engineer, when this stuff happens to you, it leaves a mark - on living through the dot-com bubble.

28.03 We came in and it was like, we’re on pause. - on building at Intel.

33.23 Oh shoot, they’re going to kill us - on Nvidia’s reaction on Nervana's acquisition by Intel.

35.44 I think they tried to reach too far… and couldn’t hit it. - on Intel vs. TSMC.

42.00 The H100 - it uses 2x the power, has 2x the performance and it costs 2x the price. We’re not seeing More’s Law. - Why focus on efficiency at Mosaic?

56.52 - You get something that performs way better - on training a model on PubMed and testing against the Medical Licensing Exam.

1.02.13 - Do I want to be in the foxhole with this person? - on partnering with a co-founder.

1.04.00 - I’m not doing anything, just thinking about this problem… - on getting a term sheet from LUX.

1.09.07 - You have to be irrational! - on building a team

1.17.26 - Trying your best to not have to fire someone should be what you really looking for… - on hiring execs.

1.23.36 - There will be a thing, where you generate stuff for various industries… and it’s completely untouched! - on opportunities in AI today.

1.33.46 - Building synthetic intelligences capable of processing vast amounts of data is how we’re going to make future scientific breakthroughs. - on the future of AI.

Links:

Twitter: @NaveenGRao

Twitter: @MosaicML

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mosaicml/

The lottery ticket hypothesis https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05671

Opensource composer https://github.com/mosaicml/composer

GPT-3 training https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/gpt-3-quality-for-500k

MLPerf Image Classification https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mlperf-2022

MLPerf NLP https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mlperf-nlp-nov2022

A newsletter with the AI papers summaries https://dblalock.substack.com/

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Our guest today is Pierre Baqué, the CEO and founder of Neural Concept. Neural Concept uses Deep Learning to provide industrial companies with lightning-fast numerical simulations and radically innovative designs. Where traditional physical solvers would take days or weeks to evaluate a single design, their neural network-based predictive models allow engineers to test and optimize design ideas in real time.

Pierre received an engineering degree in Applied Mathematics and a Master's degree in Operations Research from Ecole Polytechnique in France. Before co-founding Neural Concept he worked as an optimization and machine learning engineer at Credit-Suisse in London, and as a researcher at the Computer Vision Laboratory at EPFL.

In this episode, we talk about the evolution of simulation techniques in industrial design, and how the design cycle can be completely transformed with AI-powered simulations and design generation. We also talk about the future of human-machine collaboration in design and how to break world records with AI.

Website: https://www.neuralconcept.com/

Blog: https://www.neuralconcept.com/resources

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

Open positions: https://www.neuralconcept.com/careers

Bike: https://www.neuralconcept.com/post/speed-bicycle-our-optimized-aero-bike-broke-two-world-records

Boat: https://www.neuralconcept.com/post/on-the-quest-to-break-the-world-record-sp80-and-neural-concept-are-collaborating-to-optimize-ventilated-hydrofoils-profiles

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Our guest today is Amit Ben, the CEO and founder of One AI. One AI is an API-first Language AI service built for developers. Their product-ready APIs, no-code Language Studio, and vertically pre-trained models allow every developer to deliver the power of NLP inside their applications in no time.

Amit’s passion for language technologies started at age 5, coding on an XT machine. Since then he’s been on a mission to make human-level language AI accessible to all. Amit co-founded NanoRep, sold it to LogMeIn (LOGM), and then joined LogMeIn to lead its AI lab, developing the AI tech that powers products such as GoToMeeting and LastPass. When Francisco Partners acquired LogMeIn it was time to hit the entrepreneurial road again and continue to fulfill his mission to make Language AI integral and natural in everyday life, founding One AI.

In this episode we talk about the evolution of Natural Language Processing, the impact of the transformers on the field, the challenges of building enterprise-ready AI systems, and the importance of understanding the limitations of modern AI when applying it in critical areas.

Try out One AI Language Studio at Oneai.com

Join One AI community - oneai.com/discord

Follow One AI on Twitter -  twitter.com/OneAiLabs

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Our guest today is Rakesh Yadav, the CEO and founder of Jarvis ML. Jarvis ML’s mission is to be the most accessible and easy-to-use end-to-end machine learning platform. As a fully managed MLaaS solution, Jarvis ML enables companies to deploy a revenue-generating intelligence engine to their businesses and products within minutes.

Before founding Jarvis Rakesh led Machine Learning Operations platform development for Google Ads and Payments. Jarvis is funded by Dell Technologies Capital, SHAKTI, and more than a dozen veteran Silicon Valley technologists and business leaders.

In this episode we talk about boosting revenues at ecommerce and hospitality businesses, applying the lessons Rakesh learned at Google, building a horizontal platform vertical by vertical, and combining deep learning with other techniques to maximize business results.

We also talk about the reasons why Jarvis' team is spread across the globe, and why finding time to paint is important to Rakesh.

For hospitality or eCommerce companies looking to learn more about Jarvis ML, the products, and request information, visit  www.jarvisml.com

For people looking to build and evangelize world-class technology as part of an amazing team, see open positions at www.jarvisml.com -> [Careers]

Jarvis ML on Social media: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jarvis-ml

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jarvismlinc 

Lessons learned: https://yadavrakesh.com/2021/08/01/lessons-learnt/

Data Commons: https://www.datacommons.org/

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Our guest today is Casper Wilstrup, the CEO and founder of Abzu. Abzu was born in 2018 in Barcelona and Copenhagen when seven co-founders set out to challenge the paradigm of traditional black-box AI. Today, Abzu has customers among the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, biotech enterprises, and academic institutions.

Casper is an AI researcher with 25 years of experience building high-performance systems for data processing, analysis, and AI. At Abzu, Casper applies his passion for advanced data analysis and adaptive systems to achieve his dream of revolutionizing artificial intelligence.

In this episode, we discuss Abzu's ability to address use cases generally considered unsuitable for modern AI - where data is scarce or causality must be established. We also talk about their work with life science and healthcare organizations, how to teach the machine System 1 and System 2 thinking, and Abzu's path to general artificial intelligence.

Abzu: https://www.abzu.ai/

Casper’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/cwilstrup

Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman:

https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555

Galileo's error by Philip Goff:  https://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Error-Foundations-Science-Consciousness/dp/1524747963

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Our guests today are co-founders of Nuclia. Eudald Camprubí, the CEO of the company and Ramon Navarro, the CTO. Nuclia is an easy-to-use API service to build AI-powered search engines capable of processing every type of data in multiple languages. Eudald and Ramon have been working together for more than a decade, and Nuclia is their third company.

In this episode, we talk about the breakthroughs that happened over the last few years and enabled organizations to build much more powerful search engines - both for internal needs and commercial products. We also talk about how their approach to building a business changed over the years, and what excites and concerns them about the future of the large language models.

Nuclia’s website (access to Beta): https://nuclia.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nucliaAI

Open positions: https://nuclia.com/careers/

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Our guest today is Adam Oliner, the CEO and founder of Graft. Graft is a cloud-native platform that empowers organizations to leverage the most advanced AI techniques to unlock the value of text, images, video, audio, and graphs. 

Before co-founding Graft, Adam was a Head of Machine Learning at Slack and Director of Engineering at Splunk. Before that Adam co-founded Kuro Labs, which commercialized battery analytics technology. He was a postdoctoral scholar in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, working in the AMP Lab, which specialized in cloud computing and Big Data. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and a Master of Engineering from MIT, where he also earned degrees in computer science and mathematics.

In this episode, we talk about Modern AI and how Graft empowers organizations to build AI systems in a way it is done by the top technology companies, cutting the time to value from months to days or even minutes. We also talk about what to look for in your future co-founder, why failing is an essential part of entrepreneurship, and how generative AI will change the way we treat video content on the internet.

Adam’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajoliner/

You can also reach Adam at: adam /at/ graft.com

Graft website: https://graft.com/

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