Brains Behind AI

Brains Behind AI

Ari Yacobi meets the brains behind some of the most successful AI startups and dives into their journey from coming up with the idea to finding the product-market fit and from their experience draw a set of principles that we can take away to ours.

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April 12, 2023 29 mins

On this episode of Brains Behind AI, Ari had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Abraham Heifets, the CEO and Co-Founder of Atomiwse, where he invented the use of deep convolutional neural networks for drug discovery. Abe’s doctoral work applied machine learning and classical AI techniques to organic synthesis planning, which is a long-standing challenge in chemistry. His vision of Artificial Intelligence bringing better, safe, and mo...

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On this episode of Brains Behind AI, Ari sat down with Archie Cheisvil, the founder and CEO of GenesisAI. GenesisAI is an Artificial Intelligence marketplace that allows companies to buy or sell AI products and services. Archie has basically founded the Amazon for Artificial Intelligence.  Only in his 20s, Archie is taking over the world of AI and has recently been listed as Forbes 30 under 30. A Harvard graduate and frequently pub...

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On our 35th episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari had the chance to chat with Rob Carpenter, the CEO and Founder of Valyant AI. Valyant AI is an enterprise grade conversational AI platform for the quick serve restaurant industry. In this episode, we learn how Rob has developed a proprietary software application that integrates within a restaurant's existing hardware infrastructure and allows the AI software to take the vast major...

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On this episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari had the opportunity to speak with Lawrence Ngo, a practicing radiologist with a PhD in neurobiology. Lawrence is also the Co-founder and CEO of CoRead.AI, a start-up that has developed machine learning algorithms that analyzes the images and reports from radiology exams, and flags studies with high probability for peer review. We dive into Dr. Ngo’s ride from earning his PhD, working throu...

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On our 33rd episode of ‘Brains Behind AI’, Ari spoke with designer Jared Ficklin, the Chief Creative Technologist of product design company Argo Design. Jared possesses two decades of experience creating products and visions for major companies, contributing to the visions, strategy, intellectual property, and products of clients that include HP, Microsoft, AT&T, & Motorola. On this episode, discover Jared’s creative journe...

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On our 32nd Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari had the opportunity to speak with Patrick Lucey, the Chief Scientist at Stats Perform. Stats Perform is an award-winning Artificial Intelligence team that maximizes the value of global sports coverage dating back over 40 years by coupling it with machine learning technology to generate insights. As an athlete originally from Australia with a deep love for sports, Patrick worked for Dis...

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Slater Victoroff is the Founder and CTO of Indico, an enterprise AI solution for unstructured content that emphasizes document understanding. Slater has been building machine learning solutions for startups, governments, and Fortune 100 companies for the past seven years and is a frequent speaker at AI conferences. Indico’s framework requires 1000x less data than traditional machine learning techniques, and they regularly beat the ...

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On our latest Episode of “Brains Behind AI” Ari had the opportunity to speak with Daniel DeMillard, the CTO of Foodspace, an AI company that helps eCommerce teams increase online sales and brand loyalty by building underlying product data foundations. Foodspace uses vision AI to derive scanned product data into shopper-centric attributes needed for online grocery discovery. Throughout this episode, learn how Foodspace is revolution...

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On our 29th Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari and Natalie sat down with CEO and Co-Founder of Seekar Technologies, KordelFrance. Seekar Technologies is a technology startup that builds Artificial Intelligence products for a variety of industries. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, learn how Seekar contributed two products free of charge to physicians to help ease demand on medical staffing and screening for the virus faster, ma...

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On this episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari and Natalie have a chat with James Prior, the Senior Director of Product Marketing Communications at SiFive. SiFiveis known to be an industry leader in RISC-V processors and silicon solutions. SiFive is also first hardware in Artificial Intelligence startups that have been on the show. In this episode, we discuss what has made SiFive so successful, especially working in the hardware space,...

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On this Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, we had Jonathon Morgan on the show, the founder and CEO of Yonder. Yonder is an AI company that helps Fortune 500 communications teams identify and counteract online disinformation about issues that matter to their organization. Prior to Yonder, Jonathon developed AI to combat social media radicalization with DARPA and served as an advisor to the US State Department. Throughout this episode, l...

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On this episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari sat down to chat with Marc Stevens, the President & CEO of Zorroa. Zorroais a Gradient Ventures-backed machine learning-startup that has recently launched Boon AI, a machine learning integration platform that is modernizing media management pipelines for the media & entertainment industry. Marc is a global technology executivewith over three decades of experience driving tech and b...

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On this Episode of “Brains Behind AI” Ari and Natalie had the opportunity to sit down with the CEO and co-founder of Comet.ml, Gideon Mendels. Comet.ml is a leading provider of machine learning operations solutions that accelerate getting machine learning models into production. Gideon has a wide range of expertise, previously founding GroupWize where he trained and deployed over 50 NLP models in 15 different languages. Comet.ml no...

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On this episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari and Natalie had the opportunity to speak with Peter Ma, the Co-Founder of MixPose, a live streaming yoga platform that uses AI pose detection in real time. By downloading the MixPose app, participants can train with top yoga and fitness instructors from the comfort of their own homes. Peter explains how the Artificial Intelligence pose tracking is used to virtually monitor the posturesof s...

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On this Episode of Brains Behind AI, Ari and Natalie had the chance to sit down and speak with John-Isaac Clark, “JC”, the CEO of Arturo. Arturo is an AI property analytics company that helps insurance carriers improve the accuracy and speed of decision making across claims, underwriting, pricing, and renewals. JC possesses more than ten years in geographical and location-based analytics with a start-up background and experience. I...

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On this Episode of Brains Behind AI, Ari and Natalie sit down to chat with Mike Betzer, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Khoros. Khoros is a digital customer care service with AI-powered workflows and operational analytics. Starting off in sales and marketing, Mike has over 30 years of experience building software to help brands engage with their customers. Throughout this episode, we learn firsthand how Khoros uses Artifici...

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We had the opportunity to speak with the CEO of Aryballe, Sam Guilaumé. Aryballeis a unique Artificial Intelligence company that combines biochemistry, advanced optics and machine learning to mimic the human sense of smell, one of the more complicated, if not the toughest, sense to duplicate. Aryballe is also using Artificial Intelligence technologies to allow certain senses to convey a particular emotion, which assists brands and ...

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On thisepisode of “Brains Behind AI”, we had the privilege of speaking with Mark Bainbridge, one of the founders of Dragonfly AI. Dragonfly AI is a predictive visual analytics platform that uses cutting edge neuroscience to accurately predict how the design of anycontent or experience influences what your audience sees first, across any channel. Based in the UK, Mark has over 30 years of experience as an award-winningsenior leader ...

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On our 18th Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari and Natalie had the pleasure of speaking with Daeil Kim, the technical founder of AI.Reverie. AI.Reverie is a simulation platform that trains AI to understand the world, and was ranked by Forbes as one of the top 25 Machine Learning companies to look out for in 2020. With a PhD in computer science from Brown University, Daeil focused on the development of scalable machine learning algo...

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On this Episode of “Brains Behind AI”, Ari sat down with Andrew Sellers, the founder and CTO at QOMPLX, where he leads the development of next-generation operational risk management and situational awareness tools and information - sharing in multi-spatial, multi-temporal distributed systems. Andrew is a thought leader in cyber and data management with specific expertise in large-scale heterogeneous network design, deep-web data ex...

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