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”, Working on the US Govt Taskforce to democratize AI, and building an AI hub in Portugal.
0:00 - Defined AI - the largest marketplace of data
09:25 - Is there a competitive advantage in data
12:20 - Leveraging marketplace strategy to double customer count, 6x revenue in a year
14:05 - Simulated vs synthetic vs live data
18:40 - How to crowdsource high-quality data
23:52 - The future of simulated data
28:03 - Challenges of using real data
32:35 - Powering IBM Watson, working with Microsoft and a “company based in Cupertino”
36:00 - From majoring in literature and linguistics to building AI systems and entrepreneurship
47:00 - Living in the US/Portugal/China
54:00 - What language is closest to math
55:30 - Working with the US Govt Taskforce to democratize AI
1:01:00 - Building an AI hub in Portugal
Links:
Portugal AI Hub - Accelerat.ai: https://portugal.postsen.com/news/159065/Daniela-Braga-will-have-345-million-euros-to-put-Portuguese-AI-on-the-world-map.html
Main website: https://www.defined.ai/
Neevo platform: https://www.neevo.ai/
Daniela on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielabragaspeech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbraga51?lang=en
Careers: https://www.defined.ai/careers/
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