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Dude, Where’s My Neural Net? An Informal and Slightly Personal History

Lexalytics

Fast-forward a couple of decades: I was (and still am) working at Lexalytics, a text-analytics company that has a comprehensive NLP stack developed over many years. Around this time (early 2016), our management team realized that to maintain relevance as a company, we would need to be able to incorporate even more ML into our product.

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Birago Jones, Co-Founder and CEO of Pienso – Interview Series

Unite.AI

We always knew that this technology could provide value beyond the use case we built, but it wasn’t until 2016 that we finally made the jump to commercialize it, when Karthik completed his PhD. Could you share the genesis story of how Pienso was then spun out of MIT into its own company?