AI Innovators Podcast interviews technical leaders, investors, and business executives about the impact AI is having on business models, markets, products, and consumer behavior. We investigate impacts on public and private markets, from startups, to large companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook. If you invest at any level and are looking to understand how AI will impact your world, please subscribe. Presented by HalfCourt Ventures
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Finding the Next Big AI Success with Kevin Novak
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Welcome to another exciting episode of the AI Innovators Podcast! I'm your host, Rob May, and today we have a truly special guest joining us: Kevin Novak. Kevin is a former data scientist at Uber and now a venture capitalist with Rackhouse VC. In this episode, we dive deep into fascinating topics surrounding the transformative power of AI in early-…
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Boosting Underwriter Productivity with Alex Schmelkin of Sixfold AI
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Welcome to another exciting episode of the AI Innovators Podcast! I'm your host, Rob May, and today we're diving into a truly unique domain as we explore the intersection of AI and the insurance industry. Our guest is Alex Schmelkin, CEO of Sixfold AI, a company that's revolutionizing how insurance companies underwrite policies. In this episode, Al…
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Predictive Analytics and AI with Pawel Zimoch of Featrix.AI
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Welcome back to another episode of AI Innovators with Rob May, the podcast that deep dives into how AI is reshaping industries and the groundbreaking minds behind it. In today's episode, we're joined by Pawel Zimoch, co-founder of Featrix AI, a company known for pioneering vectorization solutions for the enterprise. As we explore the world of vecto…
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Unlocking New Frontiers with Generative AI with Kojo Osei
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Welcome to another exciting episode of AI Innovators with Rob May! In today's episode, we are thrilled to have Kojo Asai from Matrix Capital as our guest. Kojo dives deep into his intriguing thesis on why inference costs are plummeting towards zero and its massive implications for the AI industry. We’ll explore how dropping costs can unlock groundb…
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Feedback Now’s Real-Time Feedback Evolution with Steve Peltzman and Sam Koch
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Welcome to another exciting episode of 'AI Innovators with Rob May.' This is the podcast where we dive deep into the transformative world of artificial intelligence and its impacts across various industries. I'm your host, Rob May, and today, we have a fascinating episode lined up for you. In today's episode, we're thrilled to be joined by two incr…
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From Email Clients to AI Agents: Insights on Building AI-Powered Sales Tools with Jason Patel of OpenForge
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Welcome to AI Innovators podcast with your host, Rob May. In this episode of the AI Innovators podcast, I chat with Jason Patel, founder of Openforge. Jason shares his intriguing journey of building an AI-powered email sales tool, highlighting the dynamic decision-making process about the right level of AI integration into their tech stack. Openfor…
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Introducing AI Innovators : How AI is Reshaping Future Markets
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I'm your host, Rob May, a seasoned entrepreneur and investor in over 100 AI startups. In this series, we dive deep into candid conversations with the trailblazers at the forefront of AI technology. From technical leaders to business executives and academics, we uncover how AI is reshaping everything from startup ecosystems to global giants like Ama…
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Overcoming Search Challenges in E-Commerce with Alex Gunnarson and Zach Hudson of Onton
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Welcome to AI Innovators podcast with your host, Rob May. In this episode of the **AI Innovators podcast**, I chat with Alex Gunnarson and Zach Hudson, co-founders of Onton (formerly known as Deft). Onton was born out of Alex's frustration when he spent 30 hours searching for a specific couch, an experience shared by many online shoppers. The duo i…
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Solving The Right Problems Using AI with Derek Larson
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Welcome to AI Innovators podcast with your host, Rob May. In today's episode, we're excited to delve into the dynamic landscape of AI with Derek Larson, a seasoned entrepreneur and founder of multiple AI ventures. Derek also leads the New York AI group, a thriving community for AI enthusiasts and professionals. Together, Rob and Derek explore Derek…
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AI Startups and Enterprise Adoption: with Jaclyn Rice Nelson from Tribe AI
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Welcome back to another episode of the AI Innovators podcast! I'm your host, Rob May, and today we have a fascinating conversation lined up with an extraordinary guest, Jaclyn Rice Nelson, co-founder and CEO of Tribe AI. In this episode, we delve into Jaclyn’s exhilarating journey from the world of venture capital to founding Tribe AI. We'll explor…
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Breaking Down AI Myths with Arthur Tisi and Harold Goldstein from Hunova
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Welcome to back to another episode of the AI Innovators podcast! I'm your host, Rob May, and today we're diving into the intersection of AI and human psychology with two incredible guests, Arthur Tisi and Harold Goldstein from Hunova. In this episode, we'll uncover the journey behind Hunova's innovative use of AI to enhance workplace performance an…
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Innovative Ways to Acquire Data for AI with Margaret Quigley
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Welcome to the AI Innovators podcast with your host, Rob May. Today, we're joined by Margaret Quigley from Cohere, a pioneering company in the AI space. Margaret has a unique role that involves sourcing unconventional and valuable data sets for training AI models. From rural villages in Nigeria to complex face recognition apps, her journey through …
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Competera enables retailers to increase customer trust by setting and maintaining optimal price positions on a real-time basis by leveraging the power of AI. Competera’s deep learning algorithms enable their enterprise clients’ to rebound on average 6% of gross margin by continuously calculating and re-quantifying billions of possible price combina…
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AI Innovator's Podcast: Manuel Zahariev from anyw.ai
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Anyw.ai sells a fully packaged business solution by helping businesses stay in touch with their users. The company gives businesses actionable and quantitative packaged feedback from their users. In this podcast, CEO, Manuel Zahariev, talks about the LLM wave and the premise of their company in the latest wave of AI technology. Learn more at anyw.a…
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AI Innovator’s Podcast: Kayla Comalli from Lovelace Studios
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Lovelace uses AI to bring worlds to life as a generative 3D content/experience platform. In this podcast Kayla Comalli, co-founder and CEO, talks about what can be created in these worlds and some of the challenges the company has faced. By leveraging avant-garde 3D generation, players can seamlessly create bespoke, photorealistic worlds. Learn mor…
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AI Innovator’s Podcast: Neil Serebryany from CalypsoAI
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CalypsoAI gives organizations the ability to trust their AI through validation, monitoring, and ongoing security. The company empowers enterprises to leverage the immense potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) confidently and without risk. In this podcast CEO, Neil Serebryany, talks about the personal security implications of using LLMs such as …
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AI Innovator’s Podcast: Erik Duhaime from Centaur Labs
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Centaur Labs provides skilled data annotation services for companies that are building AI, specifically in the medical and life science industries. The company’s scalable and high quality data annotation platform continuously measures the accuracy of data annotators, whose annotation quality is motivated by pay-for-performance incentives, and optim…
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AI Innovator’s Podcast: Jeff Orkin from Central Casting AI
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Central Casting AI provides game developers with pre-trained non-player characters (NPCs) for games. These characters come with intelligence, behaviors and dialogue that can interact with objects in the real world. In this podcast Co-Founder Jeff Orkin talks about how Central Casting encodes the rules of common sense in to the characters, the busin…
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AI Innovator’s Podcast: Eric Olson from Consensus
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Consensus is a product led, product first company with a mission to make science accessible and consumable for all using AI. Consensus uses natural language processing to ingest research papers and understand what the consensus is on any type of scientific issue. The Consensus product is essentially a search engine, powered by language models that …
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AI Innovator’s Podcast: Parasvil Patel from Radical Ventures
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Radical Ventures is the largest AI focused VC fund in North America. From healthcare and financial services to infrastructure and manufacturing, Radical Ventures partners with founders who understand the transformational power of AI. In this podcast partner Parasvil Patel talks about the culture behind the company and where he expects to see long t…
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AI Innovator's Podcast: Alex Wiltschko from Osmo
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In this podcast Founder, Alex Wiltschko, talks about how Osmo is adding a new sensory modality to machines by teaching them to smell through reading, mapping and writing smell. He also talks about the company’s findings on the difference between vision and smell when represented by machines. Alex has solved the core problem of predicting what a mol…
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AI Innovator's Podcast: Susan Conover from Piction Health
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Piction Health uses AI to identify skin diseases to streamline their virtual care delivery. Piction Health provides immediate help and support for the patient’s hair, skin, and nail issues. In this podcast, Cofounder, Susan Conover talks about the use of AI as it relates to images of skin. Susan talks about how the company was formed from her own p…
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AI Innovator's Podcast: Rob Shavell from Intelligent Relations
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Intelligent Relations combines the latest AI technology with deep PR industry expertise to democratize access to the media. In this podcast, Chairman, Rob Shavell talks about how he started an AI first PR company and where PR is going in a world of generative AI and large language models. Rob talks about where one can use AI in PR and how Intellige…
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AI Innovator's Podcast: Arun Iyengar from Untether AI
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Untether AI helps companies execute AI workloads to run neural networks faster and more cost-effectively using at-memory computing. In this podcast, CEO, Arun Iyengar talks about why GPUs are still holding us back, regardless of their success and how Untether came to fruition. Learn more at untether.ai…
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AI Innovator's Podcast: Jay Newton-Small from MemoryWell
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MemoryWell combines the power of storytelling with innovative data insights to help care providers provide more empathetic and personalized care to their patients. MemoryWell also launched PlanAllies, which helps health plans onboard and engage new members so that they get the most out of their plans. In this podcast, Founder & CEO Jay Newtown-Smal…
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AI Innovator's Podcast: Yuval Gonczarowski from Akooda
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Akooda is the world's first Ops Intelligence platform, providing true insights on top of existing SaaS tools used across the digital footprint. Akooda gives managers and leadership visibility and insights into their customers, projects, and resource allocation to boost revenue and improve productivity. In this podcast, CEO and Founder Yuval Gonczar…
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AI Innovator's Podcast: Kwame Ferreira from Synthetic Users
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Synthetic Users is service that uses LLMs for user feedback. Their goal is to make product discovery faster, more affordable and more efficient than ever before for customers. In this podcast, CEO and Founder, Kwame Ferreira talks about the concept of synthetic data while defining what synthetic users are, where they came from, and where synthetic …
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AI Innovator's Podcast: Otto Hanson and Evan Harris from Termscout
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TermScout is an AI tool that highlights key components of common business contracts and informs the user if they are standard market terms or outliers. In this podcast founders Otto Hanson and Evan Harris talk about the challenges of doing NLP on contracts, why contracts are more commerce tech than legal tech, and how they wish someone would build …
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AI Innovator's Podcast: Tommy Weir From Enaible
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Tommy Weir is the CEO of Enaible, a company focused on enterprise AI productivity tool. Hear Tommy talk about lessons learned measuring productivity, how to sell AI into large companies, and how generative visualizations are the one piece of tech Enaible would love someone to build to help improve their tool.…
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Investing in AI: Mady Mantha From HappyPillar
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Mady Mantha is the Co-Founder and CTO at HappyPillar - an app that uses NLP to help coach parents through better interactions with their children. Hear Mady talk about the trends in NLP and how they led to the possibility of creating apps like HappyPillar, and the impact they are having on families.Autor: Rob
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Investing in AI: Benjamin Cohen from Proton.ai
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Hear Benjamin Cohen, CEO of Proton.ai, talk about how to apply artificial intelligence to the distribution business - a large sector of the economy currently underserved by AI. Benj talks about how he stumbled on the idea, and how to recruit AI talent for companies in sectors that are less commonly tech-enabled.…
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Investing in AI Episode 15: Michelle Zhou on Chatbots
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In this episode, I talk to Michelle Zhou about chatbots, natural language processing, and why teaching AI to listen is as important as teaching AI to speak.Autor: Rob
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Investing in AI Episode 14: Amy Webb From The Future Today Institute
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In this episode I interview Amy Webb from the Future Today Institute, and we discuss her book on technology - The Big Nine, and all the issues AI/ML create for the world that we need to address.Autor: Rob
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Investing in AI Episode 13: Rob Aitken From ARM
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In this episode, I talk to Rob Aitken from ARM about AI hardware and the future of edge AI. Rob explains the differences between CPUs and GPUs, what we mean when we say AI accelerators, and the future of AI hardware.Autor: Rob
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Investing in AI Episode 12: Ash Fontana and The AI-First Company
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In this episode, Ash Fontana discusses his book "The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win With Artificial Intelligence". We discuss the role of data network effects, how data learning effects are bigger and more important, and many other AI related topics.Autor: Rob
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Investing in AI Episode 11: Karim Lakhani on Competing in the Age of AI
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In this episode, Karim Lakhani, a professor at Harvard Business School, discusses his book "Competing in the Age of AI." We talk about how vectors of competition change in an AI world, and how traditional business strategy has to adapt.Autor: Rob
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Investing in AI Episode 10: Dave Girouard from Upstart
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Upstart is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: UPST) that provides AI powered loan approvals for banks. Listen as Dave talks about why there is a huge gap in approvals, and thus an opportunity for Upstart, and how to build competitive advantage in AI related spaces.Autor: Rob
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Investing in AI Episode 9: Matt Jones from Sourse AI
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In this episode, Matt Jones from Sourse discusses a common challenge among AI companies - how much to focus on a horizontal platform vs a vertical integration play. It comes up a lot in the AI companies I see, so listen in to hear Matt's take on how they worked through the process and found a solution.…
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Investing in AI Episode 8: Rana El Kaliouby of Affectiva
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Rana is computer science PhD, an expert in AI for emotions, and CEO of Affectiva. Listen in to hear her discuss emotional computing, using AI to detect emotions, the MLOps tech stack, the role of synthetic data in training models, and more.Autor: Rob
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Investing in AI Episode 7: Ashley Antonides of Anno.ai
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Anno.ai is a machine learning platform that started in the government sector but expanded into commercial use for other customers needing security and privacy around data labeling and model management. Ashley Antonides, VP of Data Science at Anno, joins me here to discuss data labeling, government requirements around machine learning models, and ma…
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Investing in AI Episode 6: Davis Sawyer From Deeplite on Edge AI
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Edge AI is one of the most explosive areas of growth for AI, and Deeplite is a market leader in compressing AI models so that they work on the edge. Hear Davis talk about the technology and how it will impact edge devices as that market approaches the size of the cloud computing market.Autor: Rob
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Investing in AI Episode 5: Kevin Roose From the New York Times on Jobs and Automation
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Kevin Roose recently released a book called Futureproof - about how to stay relevant in a world of increasingly automated work. In this episode Kevin and I discuss AI and automation and relevant topics from the book.Autor: Rob
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Investing in AI Episode 4: Synthetic Data with Yashar Behzadi and Sergey Nikolenko
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In this episode, Yashar and Sergey from Synthesis.ai discuss the uses of synthetic data. This topic is becoming increasingly important for AI, and we discuss how it enables companies to expand smaller data sets, run AI simulations, and more.Autor: Rob
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Investing in AI Episode 3: James Cham - Bloomberg Beta
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In this episode I interview James Cham from Bloomberg Beta. We discuss the book "The Man Who Lied to His Laptop" and the book "Prediction Machines" about the economics of AI. We discuss how startups compete with big companies when it comes to AI and the data sets needed, and we have a spirited debate about whether or not AI is the new electricity.…
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Investing in AI Episode 2: Heath Terry from Goldman Sachs
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Heath Terry, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, discusses AI in public markets. We talk about why Goldman started paying attention to AI, how it is changing how public companies compete with each other, and how AI is touching some surprising areas of business. Note that Heath has since left GS for Third Point Capital.…
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Investing In AI Episode1: Rob Toews From Highland Capital
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In this episode I talk to Rob Toews, from Highland Capital about his 2021 predictions for AI. We cover federated learning, synthetic media and deepfakes, and the ramifications of political content made with these tools. We also touch on MLOps and why Rob and I both expect some consolidation in the space, and the intersection of AI and biology.…
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