Douwe Kiela, CEO and Co-Founder of Contextual AI: $20 Million Raised to Build the Future of Enterprise Language Models

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Douwe Kiela, CEO and Co-Founder of Contextual AI, an enterprise large language model company that's raised $20 Million in funding.

Topics Discussed: 

• Why Douwe thinks Nvidia’s Jensen Huang deserves far more credit than he gets


• The challenges Douwe has met when working in a multicultural environment


• Problems with language models today, and how Contextual is addressing them


• Why Fortune 500 companies are asking Contextual for help with their AI


• The dangers of prematurely regulating a market, and what advice Douwe would give to other founders starting out

Favorite book: 

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business