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