The no-code development platform previously focused its outreach on robotics firms.
They were like, ‘we’re not a robotics company — we do food processing, we do PLC automation, we do boats, we’re not robots.’”Further complicating messaging was the fact that — while the company is simply named “Viam” — its various social media platforms are “Viam Robotics,” owing to the fact that it was unable to secure the four-letter word.
Viam’s large office overlooking New York City’s Lincoln Center has a lab space, where members of the local robotics community are invited in to use its platform to develop automation applications.
“When people ask me what I do and what [Viam’s software] does, I usually use an example from their life.
We are a platform that lives at the intersection of real-world hardware and real-world software and the cloud and machine learning.
“So much of the AI conversation has been dominated by … large language models,” Jones said, “but the reality is that no one model can do everything.
Pienso believes that any domain expert, not just an AI engineer, should be able to do just that.”Pienso guides users through the process of annotating or labeling training data for pre-tuned open source or custom AI models.
“Pienso’s flexible, no-code interface allows teams to train models directly using their own company’s data,” Jones said.
“This alleviates the privacy concerns of using … models, and also is more accurate, capturing the nuances of each individual company.”Companies pay Pienso a yearly license based on the number of AI models they deploy.
It’s fostering a future where we’re building smarter AI models for a specific application, by the people who are most familiar with the problems they are trying to solve.”
Sunnyvale-based Brevian wants to make it easier for business users to build custom AI agents.
“When I saw ChatGPT and other things, for me, it was just: how is this applicable in the enterprise?
Then he went to LinkedIn, where he headed up the AI trust team before leaving in late 2022 to join Wagh in founding Brevian as its CTO.
“Our vision was to enable business users in the enterprise to be able to use AI to simplify their daily tasks.
2024 is the year of AI apps — and we just felt like they were so far ahead,” he told me.
This is especially important for startups, who often have limited resources and must focus on specific goals. Enterprises, in contrast, can often devote more resources to areas that are essential…
