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Glenn Ko: Boosting Productivity with Personal AI

Glenn Ko: Boosting Productivity with Personal AI
Glenn: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! Stochastic aims to provide everyone with personal AI, boosting productivity. We employ technology to make AI cheaper and faster, ensuring tailored responses for each user. Our products include xChat, a conversational chatbot based on Large Language Models (LLM), customized for individual users and contexts, and xCloud, a cloud platform simplifying LLM training and deployment with enhanced performance efficiency.

Ethan Pierce: Helping Students Build Their Reading Skills

Ethan Pierce: Helping Students Build Their Reading Skills
Ethan: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! By the time they reach high school, students are expected to have switched from learning to read to reading to learn. Reading shifts from ‘free choice’ books to standardized curriculum organized around stories like Romeo and Juliet. For the millions of students who are behind in reading, grade-level texts are not only arduous, but inaccessible. Research shows that if a reader understands less than 98% of the vocabulary in the text, their reading comprehension plummets. Just like you can’t go from running a mile directly to running a marathon, students need to build up their reading skills with progressively harder texts in order to build vocabulary and confidence.

Nazgol Tavabi: Improving the Care of Joint Disorders through AI

Nazgol Tavabi: Improving the Care of Joint Disorders through AI
Nazgol: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! Our mission is to improve the care of joint disorders with the help of big data and AI. The problem is that the current tools for diagnosis and treatment planning of joint disorders do not provide sufficient and clear insight into patients’ joint abnormalities. This requires the orthopedic care team to rely on their experience, which can become problematic for patients with rare and complex joint disorders or those without access to experienced specialists. We are here to change that!