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

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

Broadcast on:
28 Dec 2023

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