Ofir Zuk is the cofounder and CEO of Datagen, a platform that provides synthetic data to train and test AI models. They have raised more than $70M in funding so far with Scale Venture Partners leading their latest round. He was previously the cofounder of Click Frauds and has held engineering roles at Check Point and Squeeck.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- The need for synthetic data
- Different methods that are used to generate synthetic data
- What role does AI play in generating synthetic data
- Generative Adversarial Networks
- Synthetic data vs simulated data
- Measuring the performance of synthetic data
- Fidelity vs privacy

Ofir's favorite book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Author: Ben Horowitz)

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