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Intrinsic: Leveraging Y Combinator Support to Revolutionize Trust and Safety Infrastructure

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“Intrinsic is a fully customizable AI content moderation platform,” Mellata said. Intrinsic, he explained, lets customers “ask” it about mistakes it makes in content moderation decisions and offers explanation as to its reasoning. The platform also hosts manual review and labeling tools that allow customers to fine-tune moderation models on their own data. “Most conventional trust and safety solutions aren’t flexible and weren’t built to evolve with abuse,” Mellata said. “The broader slowdown in tech is driving more interest in automation for trust and safety, which places Intrinsic in a unique position,” Mellata said.

How Guac, Powered by Y Combinator, Uses Machine Learning to Forecast Grocery Sales

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Poor grocery demand forecasting is responsible for more waste than you might expect. It’s not only bad for the environment — food waste is a major source of carbon emissions — but costly for grocers. Per Retail Insights, food and grocery retailers lose up to 8% of revenues through inadequate inventory availability. “Food waste and food security are issues that Jack and I care deeply about, and we were really excited about an opportunity to actually address food waste at its core,” Wang said. But Wang says that Guac is differentiated both by its dedication to transparency and its intense fine-tuning of forecasting models.