Brains Behind AI

Apr 12 2023
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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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Atomwise: Abraham Heifets on how AI is redefining drug discovery

Apr 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

GenesisAI: Archie Cheisvili on building an AI Marketplac e & hosting AI Marketing Conference in Miami

May 19 2022 19 mins  
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

Valyant AI: Rob Carpenter on Building and Scaling Conversational AI Platform for Quick Serve Restaurants

Feb 16 2022 34 mins  
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 infrastru

CoRead AI: Dr. Ngo on AI algorithms to monitor for known radiologist blind-spots

Jan 18 2022 39 mins  
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

ArgoDesign : Jared Ficklin on Designing User Experiences for AI Applications

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Oct 28 2021 27 mins  
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Indico: Slater Victoroff on unlocking the value of Unstructured Data

Oct 06 2021 47 mins  
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Aug 18 2021 37 mins  
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Seekar: Kordel France on building a fast - growing AI platform with 3 successful medical products

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SiFive: James Prior on fabless semiconductor enabling modern AI architectures

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