Impact AI

Updated: 24 Mar 2025 • 121 episodes
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Learn how to build a mission-driven machine learning company from the innovators and entrepreneurs who are leading the way. A weekly show about the intersection of ML and business – particularly startups. We discuss the challenges and best practices for working with data, mitigating bias, dealing with regulatory processes, collaborating across disciplines, recruiting and onboarding, maximizing impact, and more.

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AI tools for healthcare are becoming more prevalent than ever before, and today, we explore how this could help usher in a future of democratized healthcare for all. I am joined by the neurocritical stroke and epilepsy specialist Junaid Kalia, MD, founder of NeuroCareAI – an innovative enterprise utilizing artificial i

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Radiologists face a growing demand for imaging analysis, yet existing AI tools remain fragmented, each solving only a small part of the workflow. Today, we continue our series on domain-specific foundation models with Paul Hérent, Co-Founder and CEO of Raidium. He joins us to discuss how foundation models could revolut

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What if a routine endoscopy could do more than just detect disease by actually predicting treatment outcomes and revolutionizing precision medicine? In this episode of Impact AI, Matt Schwartz, CEO and Co-Founder of endoscopy video management and AI analysis platform Virgo, discusses how AI and machine learning are tra

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Zelda Mariet, Co-Founder and Principal Research Scientist at Bioptimus, joins me to continue our series of conversations on the vast possibilities and diverse applications of foundation models. Today’s discussion focuses on how foundation models are transforming biology. Zelda shares insights into Bioptimus’ work and w

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What if the hidden patterns of time series data could be unlocked to predict the future with remarkable accuracy? In this episode of Impact AI, I sit down with Max Mergenthaler Canseco to discuss democratizing time series data analysis through the development of foundation models. Max is the CEO and co-founder of Nixtl

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In this episode, I'm joined by Ron Alfa, Co-Founder and CEO of Noetik, to discuss the groundbreaking role of foundation models in advancing cancer immunotherapy. Together, we explore why these models are essential to his work, what it takes to build a model that understands biology, and how Noetik is creating and sourc

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