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We sat down with Patricia Thaine to talk about the current state of the privacy space, identifying PII with high accuracy, generating synthetic personal information, and what’s the right culture for building a privacy-focused company.

Patricia is the co-founder and CEO of Private AI. Started by privacy and machine learning experts from the University of Toronto, Private AI’s mission is to build the privacy layer for software. 

We sat down with Jiminny’s Tom Lavery to talk about building a product loved by customers (Jiminny is rated 4.7), applying AI to analyze sales calls, customer success as a key differentiator, mortgaging a home to fund the business, and why it makes sense for the CEO to spend 60% of your time talking with your customers.

Tom is the CEO and founder of Jiminny. Jiminny is the conversation intelligence platform that records, tran...

In this conversation with Adam, we managed to combine 3 of my favorite topics - AI, energy, and investing. We talked about applying AI to solve the oil wells’ productivity surge puzzle, building an ML system in the environment of an investment firm, Adam’s views on the solar, wind, and nuclear, as well as the future energy supply breakdown in the US, Europe, China, and India.

Adam is a Managing Partner of Goehring & Rozenc...

We caught up with Tomas Vykruta (founder at EvolutionIQ, ex. Machine Learning @ Google) to talk about GPT-4 & Plugins. We discuss vision, input vector size, plugins, and the path to fostering a competitive environment with multiple options of foundation models for developers to choose from.

0:00 - How GPT-4 is different from previous generations. What changed and what stayed the same.

6:40 - GPT-4 vision

9:00 - Expanding the s...

We sat down with Dave DeCaprio to talk about predicting preventive interventions in healthcare, designing for explainability, bias and fairness, as well as building a domain-specific language to operate the platform, working on the human genome project and the forthcoming healthcare data revolution.

Dave is the CTO & Co-founder at ClosedLoop.ai. Purpose-built for healthcare, ClosedLoop is a data science platform built speci...

We sat down with Plotlogic’s Andrew Job to talk about mining industry challenges, strategic reserves of key green metals, mixing advanced sensors with AI to boost mining productivity, and extending the life of existing mines.

Plotlogic has taken the mining industry by storm over the last 12 months - signing four of the world’s top five mining companies, completing a $25 million capital raise backed by BHP (its first investment in a...

We sat down with Sorcero’s extraordinary Dipanwita Das to talk about working with T-1 Pharma and early-stage biotechs, building the largest open-access scientific literature database, 10x-ing productivity, and surfacing strategic signals with the medical analytics platform powered by the latest advances in NLU.

Dipanwita Das is the CEO and founder of Sorcero. Sorcero is on a mission to improve patient outcomes by empowering life sc...

We sat down with CloseFactor’s Leena Joshi to talk about boosting GTM efficiency with tailored data sources and machine learning, partnering with Sequoia Capita (seed/A), doubling LaunchDarkly reps productivity, and building a team at your startup.

Leena is the CEO and co-founder of Closefactor. CloseFactor is the world’s first GTM operating system for revenue teams. Using machine learning to automatically curate unstructured ...

We sat down with Deci’s Yonatan Geifman to discuss applying AI to build better AI - at the edge and in the cloud and boosting inference performance by 3x-10x. We also talked about NAS, dealing with uncertainty in AI, how 22-23 environment is better for AI startups than 21, recruiting design customers, and more.

The audio version is available everywhere you listen to podcasts.

https://anchor.fm/forward-by-dawn/

Yonatan is the CEO an...

We sat down with Fiddler’s founder and CEO Krishna Gade to talk about explainable AI, lessons from Microsoft, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Bing vs. Google, raising $45M and what should entrepreneurs building in AI today focus on.

Fiddler is a pioneer in enterprise Model Performance Management. Data Science, MLOps, and LOB teams use Fiddler to monitor, explain, analyze, and improve their solutions and build trust into AI.

The unifi...

We caught up with Ankur to talk about all things ChatGPT.  

Ankur’s note: https://www.ankursnewsletter.com/p/nine-chatgpt-products-we-can-expect 

0:00 CGPT advantages over the previous generations of LLMs 

3:30 RLHF as the optimization method behind CGPT 

7:13 Products to expect 

12:55 CGPT challenges  

18:33 LLM landscape 

21:43 Will the number of parameters continue to grow 

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Mikela is the co-founder & CEO of Greyparrot, the leading AI waste analytics platform for the circular economy on a mission to increase transparency and automation in waste management and unlock the financial value of waste. Greyparrot’s vision is to create a world where every piece of waste is valued as a resource.  Greyparrot is recognized as one of “Europe's 100 Hottest Startups” by WIRED in 2021 and “100 most promising...

Our guest today is Daniela Braga, the CEO and founder of Defined AI, the world’s leading online marketplace, where AI professionals can commission, buy, or sell AI training data, tools, or models.

We sat down with Daniela to talk about building the largest data marketplace in the world, GDPR, China/US vs. the rest of the world, raising $80M+, partnering with IBM, working with IBM, Microsoft, and a “Cupertino-based company”, Wo...

We sat down with Glean AI’s Ankur Patel to discuss managing business costs with AI, running an AI-powered hedge fund, culture at Bridgewater, building the remote-first company, and the future generative AI. 

Ankur is a co-founder and head of data at Glean AI. Glean uses natural language processing to deliver vendor spend intelligence within an accounts payable solution. Before founding Glean, Ankur was the vice president of da...

We sat down with Aaron to talk about building bots to compete in games, Raising a $4M seed in a week from NEA and A16z, building an AI-powered company, and the future of AI in gaming.  

Aaron is the Founder and CEO of Regression Games, a company making artificial intelligence in games and esports accessible and enjoyable for everyone. He was previously an early engineer at Instabase, working on low-code machine-learning produc...

Our guest today is Saman Farid, the CEO and founder of Formic. Formic is accelerating the adoption of automation across small to mid-sized U.S. manufacturers and boosting productivity by removing the risk, complexity, upfront capital, and expertise that typically exist as barriers to onboarding this technology.

The company’s “Robotics-as-a-Service” model delivers customized robots at a low hourly rate, with guaranteed uptime. With ...

Our guest today is Tomas Vykruta, the CEO and founder of EvolutionIQ. EvolutionIQ created the world's first fully AI-driven claims guidance platform for the most sophisticated insurance carriers in the world, making insurance more fair, transparent, and affordable.

They raised more than $26M from Brewer Lane Ventures, FirstRound Capital, FirstMark Capital, and Foundation Capital, among others.

0:00 How does insurance claims gu...

Our guest today is Mark Angel, the CEO of Amira Learning.  Amira is the first intelligent reading assistant that listens, assesses & coaches to accelerate reading mastery. Proven to double the pace of learning, Amira helps K-3 students become motivated, masterful readers.

The company recently debuted StoryCraft - a new reading game app for kids ages 5 to 10, which uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalized readin...

Our guest today is Ittai Dayan the Founder and CEO of Rhino Health.  Rhino Health provides AI/data-science developers and medical researchers with a platform that unlocks data collaborations without sharing data or compromising data privacy. The Rhino Health Platform is powered by Federated Learning and distributed computing technologies and uniquely adapted to deal with 'Real World Data' from clinical data systems.

In this ep...