22 min

Douwe Kiela, CEO and Co-Founder of Contextual AI: $20 Million Raised to Build the Future of Enterprise Language Models Category Visionaries

    • Entrepreneurship

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Douwe Kiela, CEO and Co-Founder of Contextual AI, an enterprise large language model company that's raised $20 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed: 
Why Douwe thinks Nvidia’s Jensen Huang deserves far more credit than he gets
The challenges Douwe has met when working in a multicultural environment
Problems with language models today, and how Contextual is addressing them
Why Fortune 500 companies are asking Contextual for help with their AI
The dangers of prematurely regulating a market, and what advice Douwe would give to other founders starting out
 
Favorite book: 
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Douwe Kiela, CEO and Co-Founder of Contextual AI, an enterprise large language model company that's raised $20 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed: 
Why Douwe thinks Nvidia’s Jensen Huang deserves far more credit than he gets
The challenges Douwe has met when working in a multicultural environment
Problems with language models today, and how Contextual is addressing them
Why Fortune 500 companies are asking Contextual for help with their AI
The dangers of prematurely regulating a market, and what advice Douwe would give to other founders starting out
 
Favorite book: 
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

22 min