Douwe Kiela: Deep Tech AI Startups Must Build Data Flywheels
Douwe Kiela · 20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents · Sep 15, 2023 · at 19:34
Douwe Kiela, co-founder of Contextual AI, addresses how AI startups can create defensibility.
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“If you want to build a deep tech AI startup, then you really want to get a big data flywheel going. You want to start with a lot of data and then have a way to generate lots more data and that data is going to be your moat.”
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