Jain: Major Insurers Enacted Blanket Bans on Incoming AI Phone Calls
Ankit Jain · He bet on voice AI when no one else did. Now he has $1M+ customers & $100M raised. | Ankit Jain, ... · PMF Show · Dec 23, 2024 · at 28:24
Ankit Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Infinitus, a voice AI platform automating healthcare operations, discussing regulatory and institutional pushback to voice AI.
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“Turns out about a year ago some of the biggest ones blocked it, and that was because there was a handful of companies that started calling them, and they were terrible, and they were like, we can't have different policies for different AI agents.”
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