I'm a startup founder who uses AI as a middle manager. It enables my junior employee to produce senior-level work.

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A man with short gray hair and a trimmed beard looks toward the camera while standing against a softly blurred, multicolored brick wall.
Charles Swann uses the help of AI tooling to have his junior-level employee gain years of experience in seconds.

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3 people who pivoted into AI share how they used their college experience to break into the field

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Varun Goyal, Deep Shah, and Kriti Goyal.
Varun Goyal, Deep Shah, and Kriti Goyal share their experiences transitioning from college to the AI industry.

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says some AI startups are wildly overpriced — and a correction is coming

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Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis says some AI startups are raising tons of money before they've built anything — and he warns a correction is likely.

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Meet the young AI startup founders raising millions in the race to build the next big thing

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Christine Zhang and co-founders
Zhang and her team working out of her apartment.

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I'm a female solo founder of an AI startup. It can be lonely, and I have to work hard to be taken seriously, but it's given me mental resilience.

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Annie Liao
Annie Liao says it would be nice to have a cofounder to share the highs and lows with.

Annie Liao

I moved from Australia to San Francisco to build my startup from a hacker house. It's been humanizing and comforting.

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Annie Liao, Build Club founder, sitting with a laptop at a cafe.
Startup founder Annie Liao said she's always wanted to live in San Francisco.

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AI startups are paying people to film themselves folding laundry — and they'll use this data to train robots

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A humanoid robot folding laundry.
Humans are helping robots learn how to do chores.

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I cofounded an app with a teenager, and we make over $1 million in profit a month. You never know who might change your life.

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Man with dark hair sits in white chair and poses in a short sleeve printed shirt and shorts
Jake Castillo cofounded Cal AI with a former intern he worked with.

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I'm a high school dropout who raised $6 million out of Y Combinator. Being a teen founder means you can take more risks.

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Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, standing in front of a white background, wearing a black shirt and jeans, with his hands in his pockets.
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Mariya Harley

Silicon Valley wasn't what it used to be, so I left. I'm now starting an AI company in Tokyo as a foreigner.

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Eric Fung standing on a street in Tokyo with Japanese writing on the signs.
Eric Fung left California to AI startup in Tokyo

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